He's to Die For

 

He's to Die For is a cute contemporary M/M romance by Erin Dunn written around a murder mystery procedural. Released 3rd June 2025 by Macmillan on their St. Martin's / Minotaur imprint, it's 320 pages and is available in hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. 

This is a nice moderately spicy slow-burn romance wrapped around a murder mystery featuring a stylish, uptight, upper class British homicide detective working for the NYPD who is encountering major problems maintaining objectivity regarding the chief suspect in a very high profile murder. It's cute and whimsical, full of unnecessary *draaaaamaaaaa* where the main characters can't help but make everything worse, but ending with a sweet (if contrived) HFN.

There are a couple graphic physical s*x scenes, so it's not entirely safe-for-work, but there's nothing objectionable.  It's a multi-racial cast, so a little representation is nice to see. (The author is a white woman, MC is British SE Asian, but there aren't any glaring problems with the representation). 

The unabridged audiobook has a run time of 9 hours 55 minutes and is capably read by Sid Sagar. He has a warm, classically trained, precise voice and does creditable job with a wide range of accents from clipped RP British English, to New York(ish). There's a lot of rapid-fire dialogue and the narrator manages to read without major mishaps. He has a pleasant reading style. Sound and production quality are high throughout the read. 

Four stars. 

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.