>>>I am a big Will Patton fan.
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>>>If you have never heard him read the James Lee Burke novels on audiobook you are in for a treat. New Orleans detective Dave Robicheaux. Absolute poetry and Patton's reading is like listening to Olivier do Shakespeare.
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>>>He starred in a far too short-lived TV series "The Agency" about 10 years ago too.
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>>>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0285332/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_31
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>>I've never tried audio books, I will see if I can find one of Burke's audio books in the library and try out, thanks.
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>I got completely hooked on audiobooks on long care rides and now have my phone loaded up with them for when I'm at the gym or out in the woods. They even read me to sleep at night. I'm finding some books are actually better that way - especially some British and Scottish crime fiction. Like Patton doing the New Orleans patois, the reader can ad a lot with the right accent.
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>Derek Jacobi ( of I Claudius fame) does some good ones., The reader of all the John LeCarre books is very good.

Have you read or listened to any of Ian Rankin's books? If not you are in for a treat. Jo Nesbo is another one with a similar lead character.