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I'll admit, I read them, rather than listened to them, although I did purchase them from Audible for a future re-read/listen. I subscribed to the author's blog newsletter, and she did intend for it to be a longer series, but life (or rather "new life") happened.
Have you looked into Ben Aaronovich's Rivers of London series? I've only listened to the first book, but I really loved the narrator. Folks on the ongoing Dresden thread here at Mobileread mention this series (and the Alex Vera series by Benedict Jacka) as series to read while waiting for another Dresden book.
Someone on that thread also posted that the Michael Connolly series (which sounded like a mystery/police procedural) was very good - but I didn't check into it. It was something like 30+ books, and I wasn't interested in starting another long-term series!
One more series that is fantasy that I very much enjoy is Michelle Sagara's "Chronicles of Elantra" series. I'm not sure about the narrator, though....the main character is 20 or so, but IMO emotionally immature (not childish, more stunted development because of the way she grew up). I think she sounds like a quirky young adult. But I think the voice fits the character well.
I'd give a caveat to say I don't actually read a lot of standard fantasy, and sometimes there are portions of this series that I feel are going over my head because I'm not versed in the standard fantasy tropes. I don't quite know how to label this - the lead character is a young female in the emperor's guards....she wears leather pants and is skilled with knives. But it's a pre-industrial revolution world with magic. So to me, that puts it more in the standard fantasy line than "urban fantasy" (although it's set in a city, not the country side).
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