Holly Jackson writes the kind of mysteries that make you forget you have responsibilities. Her books, especially the “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” trilogy, are built on tight plotting and characters you actually root for, and listening to them on audio adds this brilliant layer of tension that reading silently just doesn’t replicate.

Pip Fitz-Amobi feels real in audio form. If you love crime fiction that moves fast but respects your intelligence, narrator Pippa Roper’s performance of the first book is exactly where to start.