I haven't read any of the "In Death" books, but I listened to four of them and was quite addicted. Too bad you've read them all. :-) You might enjoy other mystery/suspense audio books. I liked anything by Robert B. Parker, especially the Spenser series narrated by Joe Montegna. Lots of dialogue, and funny banter between Spenser and Hawk. Jeffrey Deaver's books are quite different from Parker's, but quite engrossing and well done in audio form. Whatever you get, be sure to get UNabridged versions!

I like them a lot. I'm always in the middle of one and have 2 to 4 others on deck and ready to go. My pace is about 3-4 books a month, depending on the length of the books. Real long ones can take several weeks. I listen when exercising, on solo drives of >15 minutes, and (less frequently) on plane flights. I'm pretty indifferent who the reader is or how good or bad they are. Author and content are much more important to me. I abandon maybe one out of every five books I start, always because of the story or writing style. I can't remember once doing so because of the narrator. I'm not sure how one could say one particular reader "is Jack Reacher". As I recall, all or almost all the Reacher books are written in the third person, so the written words being spoken belong to a narrator, not the character, except for direct quotes.

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A narration shouldn't sound as dramatic as a radio play but different vocal tones are used so that a listener can distinguish when a different person is speaking in a conversation (and who that person is). I found that I had to "learn" through practice how to effectively listen to an audio book. It wasn't automatically easy or comfortable for me, but that came with more time and experience. I generally agree that authors often make poor readers for their own books. An exception I recently came upon was the author David McCullough reading his book "The Wright Brothers". Most of you know him from his longtime association with shows on Public TV, though his main gig through the years has been writing award winning non-fiction books. His exceptional voice and intonation put most audio readers to shame, it was as good a book to listen to as I can remember. As for living and retired authors and estate managers who authorize ghost writers and "co-authors" to continue the production of books in another's name, I think the practice is outrageous. It's an inexcusable demonstration of greed. I stop reading any work of an author who begins that practice, I don't care who it is. Imagine what the reaction would be if it were announced that new books from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens would be written by Bob Robertson and released next year. Or four new paintings by Van Gogh, or by Renoir, or by whomever, were to be produced by Fred Funk and released in the spring. People would be outraged by that. Why is it an acceptable practice for authors?