Photo: Stephen Leather. Original uploader was Morning277 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Author

Stephen Leather Audiobooks

Jack Nightingale lands in Chicago Night, thriller craft honed on Kindle and television

1 audiobook reviewed
Wikipedia

Main genres

Author series

Jack Nightingale series · 1 book

Who is Stephen Leather?

Stephen Leather, born in 1956, is a British thriller writer published by Hodder & Stoughton, and one of the quiet giants of commercial fiction. The scale of his readership is easiest to grasp through a single statistic: in 2011 he was the second bestselling UK author worldwide on Kindle, and he remains among the platform’s top-selling names.

His storytelling credentials extend to television, where he has written for London’s Burning, The Knock and the BBC’s Murder in Mind – the kind of apprenticeship that teaches a writer to hook an audience within a minute and never let the pace sag.

Stephen Leather in audiobooks

This catalogue carries Chicago Night, and it plays to everything Leather’s track record promises: thriller mechanics from a writer who has spent decades keeping readers and television viewers on the hook. Thrillers are the engine room of audiobook listening – propulsion suits the medium – and writers with screen experience tend to deliver scenes a listener can practically see.

For UK listeners, Leather is a dependable brand in the truest sense: press play knowing broadly what to expect, and getting exactly that is the pleasure. Chicago Night is built for the commute that ends with sitting in the car to hear the chapter out.