Mystery & Thriller bestsellers

Listen for the Lie

A Novel

By: Amy Tintera
Narrated by: January LaVoy & Will Damron
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

“Ooooh what a juicy novel! Lucy's family and friends all either have something to hide or just don't believe she didn't kill her best friend. Only podcaster Ben Owens seems unbiased - his motivations being high ratings. Listened on Libro.fm - so well done by the narrators and the podcast segues were really good. Read more

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

A Novel

By: Benjamin Stevenson
Narrated by: Barton Welch
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

“Smartly written by Benjamin Stevenson and enjoyably narrated by Barton Welch. I found my eyes darting left and right with eagerness to know what would happen next, guessing right and guessing wrong, even chuckling at times. Such a fun 'whodunit' listen! Read more

The Thursday Murder Club

A Novel

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery: Book #1

By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Lesley Manville
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

“I adore every second of this story. It felt like Guardians of the Galaxy meets Golden Girls with a dash of Miss Marple. Every member of The Thursday Murder Club brings a different element to the team. Their loyalty to each other never wavers. Reading about their growth and enjoyment of living in the moment was a reminder to not take friendship... Read more

First Lie Wins

A Novel

By: Ashley Elston
Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

“I knew that this would be five stars within an hour of listening. By chapter two, I was already like 'wait, what?!' Truly unpredictable and fully captivating, you won't want to stop listening. Read more

The Frozen River

A Novel

By: Ariel Lawhon
Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer & Ariel Lawhon
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

“Based on the life of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife in Maine, The Frozen River is mesmerizing. Martha is brilliant and strong in a period when women were lucky to read. Throw in a murder mystery with vivid characters? Heaven. Read more

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto
Narrated by: Eunice Wong
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

“Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q Sutanto is a sweet, found family, murder mystery. The main character is a hilarious, bossy woman who finds a dead body in her tea shop one morning. She decides the police are not investigating properly, so she does her own version of detective work. In the process, she helps a group of... Read more

Mexican Gothic

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

“Creepy and romantic, Mexican Gothic is easily one of my favorite books of 2020! Upon receiving a strange letter from her cousin, Noemi Taboada goes to investigate the happenings of High Place, a decaying manor filled with secrets, and is plagued by terrifying dreams and visions. Moreno-Garcia delivers a fresh take on a classic gothic novel that... Read more

Murder Your Employer

The McMasters Guide to Homicide

By: Rupert Holmes
Narrated by: Neil Patrick Harris & Simon Vance
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“I started writing this before I even finished listening. I practically could have written it before I even started to listen, I've been so excited about this book. I have never felt so conflicted over laughing so much. And Neil Patrick Harris...I've not heard his narration before, but I'm pretty sure Cliff Iverson was written for him. Absolute... Read more

None of This is True

A Novel

By: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, Alix Dunmore, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Jewell, Thomas Judd, Dominic Thorburn, Nicola Walker & Jenny Walser
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

“Wow - many of the characters in this book reaffirm my belief that the more people I meet the more I love my dogs! Nasty, dysfunctional, controlling and selfish are the nicest descriptors I can thank of for a member of the Fair clan. I liked the inserts of the fall out of what has not happened yet in the book so that you know something awful is... Read more

All the Sinners Bleed

A Novel

By: S. A. Cosby
Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

“S.A. Cosby has given us an early favorite for the best crime fiction novel of the year with All the Sinners Bleed. We are big fans of his two previous books (Blacktop Wasteland and Razorblade Tears), and Cosby knocks it out of the park as he writes from the perspective of a town’s first black sheriff and his descent into the mid of a serial... Read more

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect

A Novel

By: Benjamin Stevenson
Narrated by: Barton Welch & Megan Smart
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“Benjamin Stevenson, writing as his hapless, true-crime-author protagonist, Ernest Cunningham, is a sharp and humorous observer of clichéd human behavior. In this sequel to Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, Cunningham is invited to a crime-writing festival aboard Australian’s cross-continental luxury train line, where he will rub elbows... Read more

The Guest List

A Novel

By: Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah Ovens & Rich Keeble
Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

“The Guest List kept me hooked through several epic gooseberry processing sessions. (When I hadn't quite finished, I had to quickly pick more berries to carry me through to the end.) When all the guests arrive for a seemingly idyllic wedding, numerous audio narrators quickly reveal that the skeletons in the bride's and groom's pasts–infidelities,... Read more

The Hunter

A Novel

By: Tana French
Narrated by: Roger Clark
Length: 16 hours 23 minutes

“With sharp dialogue and expert character development, Tana French transports readers to the Irish countryside in The Hunter. Asking what we owe our community, this novel secures French’s place at the top of the literary mystery genre. Read more

The Silent Patient

By: Alex Michaelides
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins & Louise Brealey
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

“When Theo Faber starts his new job at the Grove, a forensic psychiatric hospital, he is determined to work with the famous painter Alicia Berenson, who allegedly murdered her husband. What follows is a tale that will grip you and keep you guessing. With the incredible voice talent of Jack Hawkins, the audiobook elicits the feeling of something... Read more

The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean
Narrated by: Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, Nicole Lewis, Rebecca Lowman, Joy Osmanski, Angel Pean, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Erin Ruth Walker & CJ Wilson
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

“The Return of Ellie Black is a heart wrenching, intense thriller about the abduction of teenage girls. Girls who are not important enough to merit much attention from the press or the police. It is the story of Detective Chelsey Calhoun who is driven to find these girls by the memory of her beloved sister who also disappeared, and it is the... Read more

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires

By: Grady Hendrix
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

“I don’t know about everyone else, but I, for one, am really excited that vampires are making a comeback. I think they’re such a fun trope in pretty much every genre, and this was no exception. True to the Grady Hendrix style, this book was the perfect campy, slightly off-kilter, and moderately gory suburban horror story I didn’t know I needed. Read more

The Man Who Died Twice

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery: Book #2

By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Lesley Manville
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

“A perfect follow up to The Thursday Murder Club. Osman knocks the mystery out of the park again, and balances his characteristic dry wit with a tinge of pathos that gives the book life and depth. Read more

Ninth House

Ninth House Series: Book #1

By: Leigh Bardugo
Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang & Michael David Axtell
Length: 16 hours 22 minutes

“The charter of the Leahy house is to manage and police the secret houses of the veil on the campus of Yale University. When a murder is connected to the magical activities of the houses, Galaxy Stern, Alex, the newest member of the Ninth House must find out what happened even if it means losing her place at Yale or her life. Ninth House grips... Read more

Think Twice

Myron Bolitar

By: Harlan Coben
Narrated by: Steven Weber
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

A man presumed dead is suddenly wanted for murder in this thriller of secrets, lies, and dangerous conspiracies that threaten to cover up the truth.
 
Three years ago, sports agent Myron Bolitar gave a eulogy at the funeral of his client, renowned basketball coach Greg Downing. Myron and Greg had history: initially as deeply personal rivals, and... Read more

The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen

The Doomsday Books: Book #1

By: KJ Charles
Narrated by: Martyn Swain
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels?until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again. Then Gareth's father dies, turning the shabby London clerk into Sir Gareth, with a grand house on the... Read more

The Fury

By: Alex Michaelides
Narrated by: Alex Jennings
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

“This has been a highly anticipated read for me. I went in with such high hopes, and I was not disappointed. It was fun, entertaining and I couldn't put it down. Every time I thought I knew where it was going, I was wrong. I love how unreliable the characters were, Elliot was really the perfect narrator. He had me laughing and he really had me... Read more

Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose
Narrated by: Jeneva Rose, Brittany Pressley, Andrew Eiden, January LaVoy & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

A New York Times and USA Today bestsellerFrom New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here comes a chilling family thriller about the (sometimes literal) skeletons in the closet.After their mother passes, three estranged siblings reunite to sort out her estate. Beth, the oldest, never left home. She... Read more

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

By: Sangu Mandanna
Narrated by: Samara MacLaren
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

“This book is such a cozy, comforting read. If you're looking for a good book to curl up with, this will whisk you away to a safe, magical place filled with characters that will feel like family from start to finish. Read more

Dark Matter (Movie Tie-In)

A Novel

By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

“Dark Matter is equal parts science fiction, thriller, and theoretical self-examination, complete with an overarching love story. Crouch does a fantastic job of keeping readers grounded while traveling through multiple dimensions, and he offers introspection on how each of the life choices a person makes recreates that person in a new and... Read more

The Bullet That Missed

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery: Book #3

By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Richard Osman & Steph McGovern
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

“Part of the beauty of this series is that one book leads into the next without any contrivances. This book is a dash darker and grittier than the previous ones. It examines the imperfect things we do for the people we love, and the sacrifices we make. It reminds us to be true to ourselves, and to not take life for granted. The mystery is full of... Read more

Greenwich Park

By: Katherine Faulkner
Narrated by: Laura Kirman
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“Such a fun and addicting thriller! I was torn between reading slowly to catch all the nuances and speed reading to figure out what happens. The book pulls punches to the very end. Highly recommended for psychological thriller lovers! Read more

Bright Young Women

A Novel

By: Jessica Knoll
Narrated by: Sutton Foster, Imani Jade Powers, Corey Brill & Chris Henry Coffey
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

“WOWZA. Bright Young Women is based on the real murders of a serial killer. If you have any background knowledge of true crime in the 1970s you will know which killer Knoll has used as the basis of the defendant . HOWEVER, unlike the numerous books, TV specials, and movies, Jessica Knoll gives us an intense literary crime novel that focuses on... Read more

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

A Good Girl's Guide To Murder: Book #1

By: Holly Jackson
Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny & Various
Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

“A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is an addictive, impossible to put down crime thriller. Jackson’s debut is tightly plotted and filled with wonderful twists. The format of the novel allows you to feel like you are part of the investigation, alongside the great cast of characters. This is a very fun listen start to finish. Read more

The Last Devil to Die

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

A Thursday Murder Club Mystery: Book #4

By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

“My favorite group of sleuthing retirees is back and as quirky as ever in Richard Osman’s fourth installment in the Thursday Murder Club series The Last Devil to Die. The banter is witty and the case has plenty of twists and turns. But the book is also a heartbreaking reflection on love and aging as it takes us further into ringleader Elizabeth’s... Read more

The River We Remember

A Novel

By: William Kent Krueger
Narrated by: CJ Wilson
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

“Krueger delivers a complex mystery that exposes the attitudes and pain of small town America. Read more

Close to Death

A Novel

A Hawthorne and Horowitz Mystery: Book #5

By: Anthony Horowitz
Narrated by: Anthony Horowitz & Rory Kinnear
Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz’s ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and... Read more

The Peacock and the Sparrow

A Novel

By: I.S. Berry
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

EDGAR AWARD WINNER FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker • NPR • The Diplomatic Courier • Deadly Pleasures • The Cipher Brief • Spybrary

During the Arab Spring, an American spy’s final mission goes dangerously awry in this “crackling debut thriller” (The New Yorker) from a former CIA officer that Joseph Weisberg, creator... Read more

The Five Year Lie

A Domestic Thriller

By: Sarina Bowen
Narrated by: Kathleen Early, Gary Tiedemann & Jason Clarke
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

“I devoured this book in one day, and I guarantee you will too.”—Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell“An expertly woven story of love, revenge, and murder. In a world where so many books feel so similar—this was a refreshingly unique read and an addictive blend of love and mystery that I couldn’t... Read more

Firekeeper's Daughter

By: Angeline Boulley
Narrated by: Isabella Star LaBlanc
Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

“LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this book on Libro.fm, as an audiobook. To hear the Ojibwe words spoken is a treat not to be missed. Great reader in Isabella Star Lablanc! Read more

How to Solve Your Own Murder

A Novel

By: Kristen Perrin
Narrated by: Alexandra Dowling & Jaye Jacobs
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

A Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Finalist for 2024

AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A GMA Buzz Pick!

One of Amazon's Top 10 Best Books of April, One of Jimmy Fallon's favorite books for Spring 2024, The Top LibraryReads pick for March 2024, A Publishers Marketplace 2024 BuzzBook

Named most anticipated by: Barnes & Noble, Goodreads, BookRiot, BookBub,... Read more

The Book of Love

A Novel

By: Kelly Link
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 23 hours 30 minutes

“What can’t Kelly Link do? Seriously, this novel blew me away. It is brimming with magic and surrealism and weirdness (in true Kelly Link fashion), as well as the most heartfelt warmth and intimacy and sincerity. 10s across the board. Read more

The Woman in the Library

By: Sulari Gentill
Narrated by: Katherine Littrell
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

“I'd never thought of the term metafiction before, but in The Woman in the Library, Australian writer Sulari Gentill dives right into a recursive story of a writer, Hannah, writing a book about a writer, Winifred, who is writing a book and during a research trip to the Boston Public Library, becomes enmeshed in a murder investigation, using the... Read more

Fairy Tale

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Seth Numrich & Stephen King
Length: 24 hours 4 minutes

“This book and the performer are equally brilliant! Seth Numrich knocks it out of the park with this not-so-typical Stephen King novel. Read more

The Maid

A Novel

Molly the Maid: Book #1

By: Nita Prose
Narrated by: Lauren Ambrose
Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center” (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit introduces a one-of-a-kind heroine who will steal your heart.
 
FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • “The reader comes to understand Molly’s worldview, and to sympathize with her longing... Read more

The Sicilian Inheritance

A Novel

By: Jo Piazza
Narrated by: Rachel F. Hirsch & Carlotta Brentan
Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted in the author’s own family history about a long-awaited trip to Sicily, a disputed inheritance, and a family secret that some will kill to protect . . .

Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business... Read more

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons

By: Kate Khavari
Narrated by: Jodie Harris
Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

London, 1923. Newly minted research assistant Saffron Everleigh is the first woman to hold the position at University College of London. When she attends a dinner party for the school, she expects to engage in conversations about the university's large expedition to the Amazon. What she doesn’t expect is for Mrs. Henry, one of the professors’... Read more

The Hunting Party

A Novel

By: Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen Church & Moira Quirk
Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

“Lucy Foley’s The Hunting Party is a slick, streamlined murder mystery set on a remote Scottish luxury estate. A group of old friends get together for their yearly New Year’s trip, but after over a decade of closeness, some of them may be near the breaking point. Foley uses the multiple-narrator approach to distort the reader’s perspective and... Read more

The Paris Apartment

A Novel

By: Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi & Charlie Anson
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Don't miss Lucy Foley's new book, The Midnight Feast, coming June 18th!THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.”  — Vogue""[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller."" — PeopleFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The... Read more

Darling Girls

A Novel

By: Sally Hepworth
Narrated by: Jessica Clarke
Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all.

For as long as they can remember, Jessica, Norah, and Alicia have been told how lucky they are. As young girls they were rescued from family tragedies and raised by a loving foster mother, Miss Fairchild, on an idyllic farming estate and given an elusive second chance at... Read more

The Book of M

A Novel

By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: James Fouhey & Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 17 hours 6 minutes

“Peng Shepherd’s The Book of M is as mysterious as it is fantastical. Beginning in India before spreading worldwide, almost like a magical epidemic, people are suddenly losing their shadows. For those that do, it always follows that they begin to forget. Whether slowly or rapidly, the forgetting always befalls those who have become “shadowless.”... Read more

The Cartographers

A Novel

By: Peng Shepherd
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Nancy Wu, Karen Chilton, Ron Butler, Neil Hellegers, Jason Culp & Brittany Pressley
Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

“Perfect for fans of Carlos Ruiz Zafon or Susanna Clarke, this novel takes the classic story of a child curious about a parent's past and adds a dash of magic. Anyone who has ever uncovered a family mystery, anyone who has found a tucked-away shop or unexpected alley hiding some real treasures, will adore Nell's adventures... and anyone who has... Read more

The It Girl

By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 17 hours 8 minutes

“It's been a while since I was so entrenched in a mystery that I stayed up late into the night to finish it. I couldn't put The It Girl down! Ruth Ware is one of my favorite contemporary mystery writers, up there with Tana French and Louise Penny. Hannah Jones was a student at Oxford University ten years ago when her best friend and roommate... Read more

The Bandit Queens

A Novel

By: Parini Shroff
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

“Murder and mayhem abound in a small Indian village, and I couldn’t get enough of it! With a delightful cast of characters and wonderful dark humor (because sometimes you have to laugh to keep from despairing), Parini Shroff paints an in-depth picture of life in 21st-century India. Through the eyes of the main character Geeta, her life and those... Read more

Starling House

A Reese's Book Club Pick

By: Alix E. Harrow
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

“Alix E. Harrow my love, you will always be famous to meeeeeee! I don't know where to begin - this is the infamous house book, the beautiful gothic masterpiece about the haunted, living house. It's perfect. How can I talk about this book besides to weep and throw myself to my knees, rending my hair from my scalp? Starling House will creep beneath... Read more

You Like It Darker

Stories

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Will Patton & Stephen King
Length: 20 hours 11 minutes

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new collection of twelve short stories, many never-before-published, and some of his best EVER.

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of... Read more