Nona the Ninth
The Locked Tomb • Book 3
by Tamsyn Muir
Narrated by Moira Quirk
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
You'll spend 17 hours genuinely worried about a woman who just wants to meet dogs and have a birthday party — and that's the whole trap.
- Great if you want: emotional gut-punches wrapped in slice-of-life warmth
- Listening experience: deceptively cozy at first, then quietly catastrophic
- Narration: Quirk makes Nona's childlike wonder feel distinct and genuinely tender
- Skip if: you haven't read books one and two — there's no entry point here
About This Audiobook
Nona doesn't know who she is — she woke up in someone else's body six months ago and has been living cautiously ever since, helping her found family survive in a city under siege while trying not to discover too much about the body she inhabits. The third Locked Tomb novel is structurally unlike its predecessors, abandoning the grisly mystery format for something closer to a domestic survival story set against a planetary apocalypse. Hugo Award and Nebula Award winner for its year.
Moira Quirk has narrated all three Locked Tomb entries, and her performance here demonstrates the range the series demands — Nona's gentleness and bewilderment, Camilla's tactical precision, Pyrrha's age-worn complexity. The shift to Nona's perspective gives Quirk material entirely unlike Gideon or Harrowhark, and her handling of the new register is complete and confident. At just under 18 hours, Nona the Ninth is the most surprising and human entry in an already surprising series.
