From the author of MURDER IN MY BACKYARD comes this mystery where a vicar's wife has done her last good deed... Vicars' wives do not usually get themselves murdered....especially when they are as vibrant and caring as beautiful Dorothea Cassidy. But murdered she unquestionably was; and from the outset Inspector Stephen Ramsay is hard put to figure out why, let alone who. And though he did not know her in life, she charms him in her death.
A Day in the Death of Dorothea Cassidy, Ann Cleeves
I've been dipping into this series on audio as and when there's time, and the books are available at the library. This is the third in the Inspector Simon Ramsay series, set in small village England. In this case, Dorothea Cassidy is the wife of the local vicar, who spends her Thursday's doing her own thing, away from the routine duties of a small village vicar's wife. Which leads to a bit of a multifaceted mystery, firstly why Dorothea married the very different vicar, why she thought her respite would involve visiting people was so different from the routine duties, and how she ended up strangled out in the open after not coming home on Thursday night.
Painstaking police work is at the heart of this series, with Inspector Ramsay a good, dedicated, and quiet sort of a cop, with a few personal problems of his own, and a community he's coming to know but not quite understand yet.
They are a good option in audio with the pace being slightly slower, the investigations being quite methodical and meticulous, it's possible to listen without having to have a laser like focus on intricate details. Which makes then sound a bit wishy-washy, which the series is anything but, it's just one of those that works as an audio, is entertaining without being overly distracting and the narrator has one of those voices that holds attention without overwhelming everything else.