Listening to The Cold City on the commute
Where the audiobooks live, where to start, and the one rule for listening on a boat.
Yung-Lung Chen
The Cold City was written for the hours when people are in transit: the ride home, the platform, the deck of a boat. So it makes sense that a lot of readers meet it with their ears.
Where the audiobooks are
Books One and Two are on ElevenReader. You can find Blood Under the Lights and Blood Across the River there, and the audiobooks page on this site keeps the current links. Blood Beneath the Harbor is not in audio yet. I would rather say that plainly than let you hunt for it. The reader list hears the moment it is.
Where to start
Start with Book One if you want the city in order, Book Two if a blood bank in Queens sounds like your kind of night. Each is a complete story. The audiobooks are long enough for a week of commutes, which is roughly the pace I would recommend: one chapter each way, and the cliffhanger at the end of a chapter is a reasonable thing to carry up the subway stairs.
The one rule for listening on a boat
One earbud. I mean it. On a ferry deck at night you want one ear on the narrator and one on the water, the crew, and the announcement you did not expect. Zack would tell you the same, and he has been doing this longer than anyone.
If you prefer to read
All three novels are on Kindle and in Kindle Unlimited, and the free prequel is a signup away. The reading guide lays out the whole map.