Fancy Yourself A Sleuth? Try Solving These Murder Mystery Audiobooks!
The murder mystery genre is a thrilling and captivating category of literature that has captivated readers for generations. From classic whodunits to gritty crime thrillers, murder mysteries offer suspenseful, nail-biting stories that keep you guessing until the very end. Follow detectives, amateur sleuths, and even the killers themselves as they navigate the twists and turns of complex investigations. With their captivating plots, unforgettable characters, and unrelenting suspense, murder mysteries have become a staple of the literary world. So if you're looking for a heart-racing read that will keep you on the edge of your seat, dive into the world of murder mysteries today.
Murder/Mystery Audiobooks Statistics
Total Audiobooks in this Category:
34,444 audiobooks
Total Authors in this Category:
36,402 authors
Average Audiobook Length:
8.36 hours
Average Audiobook Rating:
3.58/5
Audiobooks in the Top 50:
4
Author: Karin Slaughter
Narrator: Kathleen Early
Audio Length:
@1x speed 20.00 hours
@1.5x speed 13.33 hours
@2x speed 10.00 hours
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Pretty Girls Audiobook
Lee Child says it’s “stunning… certain to be a book of the year.”
Kathy Reichs calls it “extraordinary… a major achievement.”
Jeffery Deaver says that “fiction doesn’t get any better than this.”
Gillian Flynn says of Karin Slaughter: “I’d follow her anywhere.”
See for yourself what these #1 New York Times-bestselling authors are talking about.
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors.
More than twenty years ago, Claire and Lydia’s teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that’s cruelly ripped open when Claire’s husband is killed.
The disappearance of a teenage girl and the murder of a middle-aged man, almost a quarter-century apart: What could connect them? Forming a wary truce, the surviving sisters look to the past to find the truth, unearthing the secrets that destroyed their family all those years ago … and uncovering the possibility of redemption, and revenge, where they least expect it.
Powerful, poignant, and utterly gripping, packed with indelible characters and unforgettable twists, Pretty Girls is a masterful novel from one of the finest writers working today.
Included with this gripping thriller is Karin Slaughter’s chilling short story “Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes.”
“Great book! This book is very suspenseful. I listen to audio books on my car rides to and from work and this book definitely kept my attention and made me look forward to my commutes. This story is brilliantly written. It caught my interest right off the start and i was never bored.”
— Charla
Author: C. J. Box
Narrator: David Chandler
Audio Length:
@1x speed 11.25 hours
@1.5x speed 7.50 hours
@2x speed 5.63 hours
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The Disappeared Audiobook
“This is my first C.J. Box novel and I loved it. I have tried to think of something negative to say about this book and its narration, but I have not come up with anything--particularly the narration. David Chandler did an outstanding job with this story and I will be searching for other novels that he has performed. Eagerly awaiting the next in the series. One word of caution: read this series in order; I wish I had known to do that before ordering this particular book.”
— lisa
Author: Nita Prose
Narrator: Lauren Ambrose
Audio Length:
@1x speed 9.50 hours
@1.5x speed 6.33 hours
@2x speed 4.75 hours
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The Maid: A Novel Audiobook
“This is a wonderful novel and the narration by Lauren Ambrose is truly outstanding. Her voice is warm and inviting as she manages to make even the darkest moments sound hopeful and uplifting. She lends such warmth and complexity that you can really feel her emotions when difficult moments arise in this story. Nita Prose and Lauren Ambrose have created an incredibly powerful listening experience that I literally could not stop listening to until it was over!”
— Mandy B13
Author: Agatha Christie
Narrator: Dan Stevens
Audio Length:
@1x speed 6.00 hours
@1.5x speed 4.00 hours
@2x speed 3.00 hours
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And Then There Were None Audiobook
A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick
One of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie.
""Ten . . .""
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious ""U. N. Owen.""
""Nine . . .""
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead.
""Eight . . .""
Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one . . . as one by one . . . they begin to die.
""Seven . . .""
Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?
“This was probably the best book I have ever read. I enjoyed it a lot because it simply was brilliant and marvellously well planned. I doubt that another book will be my favourite one since And Then There Were None is a masterpiece.”
— Hugo
Author: Robert Galbraith
Narrator: Robert Glenister
Audio Length:
@1x speed 17.25 hours
@1.5x speed 11.50 hours
@2x speed 8.63 hours
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The Silkworm Audiobook
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days -- as he has done before -- and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, he discovers that Quine's disappearance is no coincidence. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published, it would ruin lives -- meaning that almost everyone in his life would have motives to silence him.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, Strike must race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any he has encountered before . . .
A compulsively readable crime novel with twists at every turn, The Silkworm is the second in J. K. Rowling's highly acclaimed series featuring Cormoran Strike and his determined young assistant, Robin Ellacott.
“This is a wonderful listen! Once again, talented narrator Robert Glenister brings detective Cormoran Strike from the printed page to full life…Glenister captures the likable but flawed Strike with a voice as gritty and heavily accented as London’s North End. Yet he transitions easily to more refined accents and softer tones to convincingly portray all the memorable characters…and gives each character a distinct voice by merely varying tone and pace. Fans of Rowling’s previous works and listeners who simply like a good mystery will be hoping Rowling and Glenister continue their partnership. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
Author: Michael Connelly
Narrator: Len Cariou
Audio Length:
@1x speed 9.50 hours
@1.5x speed 6.33 hours
@2x speed 4.75 hours
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Lost Light Audiobook
The vision has haunted him for four years: a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he's on his own. And even in the face of an opponent more powerful and ruthless than any he's ever encountered, Bosch is not backing down.
“This is the story where haunted by one of the un solved murders, Harry sets out to investigate the case on his retirement from LAPD. The book has all the elements which makes it fast paced like LAPD politics, FBI, FBI counter terrerist division and a Movie set robbery.Fast paced,and good read.”
— Ashvini
Author: Michael Connelly
Narrator: Len Cariou
Audio Length:
@1x speed 11.75 hours
@1.5x speed 7.83 hours
@2x speed 5.88 hours
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The Closers Audiobook
He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker beckons, and Harry must battle to fit all the pieces together. Shaking cages and rattling ghosts, he will push the rules to the limit -- and expose the kind of truth that shatters lives, ends careers, and keeps the dead whispering in the night . . .
“This book is a prime example of just how brilliant the mystery genre has become. Characters here are vividly brought to life. The descriptions provide true-to-life portrayals of Los Angeles and its often-troubled police department. The internal political battles ring true, and the suspense keeps readers turning pages.”
— Forbes
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Narrator: Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
Audio Length:
@1x speed 15.75 hours
@1.5x speed 10.50 hours
@2x speed 7.88 hours
Magpie Murders: A Novel Audiobook
Narrated by Samantha Bond
Don’t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's MASTERPIECE Mystery!
""A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don’t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers."" —Janet Maslin, New York Times
New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book of the Year | Esquire Best Book of the Year
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
Conway’s latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she’s convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.
Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
“Samantha Bond begins enticingly with her husky vibrato and fully realized performance as a contemporary book editor who’s been given a murder-mystery manuscript. Soon, we’re in the midst of that book, set in 1955 and performed by Allan Corduner with a delightful bow toward the storytellers of old…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
Author: Robert Galbraith
Narrator: Robert Glenister
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@1x speed 16.00 hours
@1.5x speed 10.67 hours
@2x speed 8.00 hours
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The Cuckoo's Calling Audiobook
Published under a pseudonym, J. K. Rowling's brilliant debut mystery introduces Detective Cormoran Strike as he investigates a supermodel's suicide in "one of the best books of the year" (USA Today).
After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, creditors are calling, and after a breakup with his longtime girlfriend, he's living in his office.
Then John Bristow walks through his door with a shocking story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry -- known to her friends as the Cuckoo -- famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man.
You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.
Fast-paced and sharply drawn, this dazzling detective novel inspired Strike, the BBC crime drama series that has captivated millions of viewers worldwide.
“I''m normally not into detective novels much an rarely read them. I walk three hours a day so need something to keep my bind off the boredom. This book sounded good so I thought I'd try it. It is a GREAT book. It was only when I was looking for the next book in the series (audiobookstore would be smart to show the series for all such books - have the same problem with Dune) that I found out that Robert Galbraith is in reality JK Rowling. No wonder it was so well written. I've purchsed the second book in the series and am looking forward to it.”
— Agent
Author: Alex Garland
Narrator: Michael Page
Audio Length:
@1x speed 11.25 hours
@1.5x speed 7.50 hours
@2x speed 5.63 hours
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The Beach Audiobook
“This book was amazing. I have been reading things for school all year and finally had a chance to read something for pleasure and for myself, and i am so glad i chose the beach. Not only does this make me want to run out and get anything Alex Garland has written, but I appreciate the movie (2000 with leonardo dicaprio) much more now. I do not even like travel writing, but this book's story was so intense that it did not read as a travel novel. I've heard this called a cult classic and that is exactly what it is, and i am more than happy to have finally joined the cult :)”
— Colleen
Author: Louise Penny
Narrator: Ralph Cosham, Geoffrey Howard
Audio Length:
@1x speed 11.75 hours
@1.5x speed 7.83 hours
@2x speed 5.88 hours
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The Cruelest Month: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Audiobook
The Cruelest Month is the third book in Louise Penny's award winning Three Pines mystery series featuring the wise and beleaguered Inspector Armand Gamache. "Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder mystery made famous by Agatha Christie ... " -Sarah Weinman Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat. It's spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . . When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil---until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along? Brilliant, compassionate Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is called to investigate, in a case that will force him to face his own ghosts as well as those of a seemingly idyllic town where relationships are far more dangerous than they seem.
“Louise Penny writes magical books that make you want to read the next one. You are about the people and want to see what happens next in their lives and the mysteries are complicated and believable. Highly recommend her to one and all. PS: read them in order from first published to last.”
— Erin
Author: Agatha Christie
Narrator: Dan Stevens
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@1x speed 6.50 hours
@1.5x speed 4.33 hours
@2x speed 3.25 hours
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Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Audiobook
THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT!
“The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .”
Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer.
Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.
“What more . . . can a mystery addict desire?”—New York Times
“Love Agatha Christie. She just has a way of presenting all of these colorful characters, and throwing them together in an impossible situation. Each one of the personalities is someone I would like to have dinner with, even the evil ones! They're still very cool. Hecule Poirot is a bit of a snob, but I still love him. Agatha has such a way of throwing you on a scent, convincing you that you know who the killer is, and flipping the tables on you, over and over and over again! Everytime I think I know, it changes...it's almost like she is the writer AND reader at the same time....she makes effortless changes that have a huge impact on the outcome, and half the time you don't even realise that something has changed...very good listen!”
— Marie