Rob Rinder Audiobooks

The Defence: crime fiction from the courtroom, and a firm listener favourite

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.7/5 average

1,232 listener ratings

Who is Rob Rinder?

Twelve hundred listener ratings and an average of 4.7 is not a soft launch. It is a story that found its audience quickly. The Defence sits in our crime and thriller section, and the figures around it tell you plenty about how it has landed.

The title points to where the story lives. Legal crime fiction is a demanding corner of the genre because the listener already knows the rules of the room, and a writer working in it has to make procedure feel like pressure rather than paperwork. On the evidence of the reception here, Rob Rinder manages exactly that.

Expect the pleasures of the form: an argument that tightens, a version of events that keeps shifting, and a verdict you spend the whole story trying to predict.

Rob Rinder in audiobooks

The Defence runs eleven hours and thirty-eight minutes in the reading by Josh Dylan, whose delivery has to carry both the cadence of testimony and the quieter passages between hearings.

It is the obvious place to start, and among the better rated crime listens on the site: 4.7 stars from well over a thousand voices is a rare degree of agreement. Good across a week of commutes, better still across a weekend when you can let the case build without interruption.

Take a listen below and see where the argument leads you.