Where to Start with Matt Coyle
- Best entry point → Yesterday's Echo
- What fans keep coming back to → Night Tremors
- Best narrator for Matt Coyle → Dark Fissures
- Highest rated by listeners → Blood Truth (Rick Cahill #4)
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Yesterday's Echo
Rick Cahill • Book 1
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Nick Podehl
★ 3.93 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.24 Audible (70)9h 45m listening time • Released 2013Nick Podehl's gravelly delivery transforms Rick Cahill into a man haunted by ambiguous guilt, making this noir detective story feel genuinely dangerous and intimate at once.
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Blood Truth
Rick Cahill • Book 4
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 3.92 ABR Score (915 ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (864) ★ 4.61 Audible (51)10h 21m listening time • Released 2018Travis Baldree's gravel-voiced narration makes this hard-boiled PI mystery feel like noir straight from the source, turning Coyle's family-haunted detective into someone you'd follow anywhere, even into darkness.
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Dark Fissures
Rick Cahill • Book 3
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 3.84 ABR Score (985 ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (922) ★ 4.4 Audible (63)9h 48m listening time • Released 2017Travis Baldree's narration transforms this noir mystery into a psychological thriller—his weathered delivery makes Rick Cahill's paranoia feel suffocating, and the tension between the cop closing in and the case that won't let go becomes genuinely unshakeable.
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Blind Vigil
Rick Cahill • Book 7
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Keith Jedlicka
★ 3.82 ABR Score (649 ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (634) ★ 4.73 Audible (15)9h 8m listening time • Released 2021 - 5
Night Tremors
Rick Cahill • Book 2
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Timothy McKean
★ 3.81 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (1.2K) ★ 4.16 Audible (56)9h 42m listening time • Released 2015 - 6
Lost Tomorrows
Rick Cahill • Book 6
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Eric A. Shelman
★ 3.79 ABR Score (860 ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (843) ★ 4.47 Audible (17)8h 40m listening time • Released 2020 - 7
Wrong Light
Rick Cahill • Book 5
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Travis Baldree
★ 3.78 ABR Score (703 ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (685) ★ 4.56 Audible (18)8h 38m listening time • Released 2019Travis Baldree captures the moral rot at the center of this noir detective series, making Rick Cahill's compromises feel inevitable rather than just convenient. The fifth book's tighter plotting and darker stakes prove Coyle knows exactly how to punish his protagonist.
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Last Redemption
Rick Cahill • Book 8
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Michael Rose
★ 3.75 ABR Score (449 ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (432) ★ 4.06 Audible (17)7h 53m listening time • Released 2022 - 9
Doomed Legacy
Rick Cahill • Book 9
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Michael Rose
★ 3.67 ABR Score (344 ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (337) ★ 3.86 Audible (7)7h 58m listening time • Released 2023 - 10
Odyssey’s End
Rick Cahill • Book 10
by Matt Coyle
Narrated by Evan Lavelle
★ 3.65 ABR Score (275 ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (273) ★ 4.5 Audible (2)8h 55m listening time • Released 2023
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