Most Popular Mystery Audiobooks

The most-read mystery audiobooks ranked by total number of reader reviews — a measure of how widely each title has been discovered and discussed.

Unlike our top-rated list, which ranks by star rating, this page ranks by sheer readership. These are the mystery audiobooks that the most people have actually listened to and reviewed — the titles you're most likely to find recommended in forums, book clubs, and "where do I start?" threads.

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    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder cover

    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

    4.60 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.28 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.2K)
    10h 53m listening time • Released 2020
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    And Then There Were None cover

    And Then There Were None

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Dan Stevens

    4.69 ABR Score (1.7M ratings)
    ★ 4.27 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.63 Audible (20.5K)
    6h 1m listening time • Released 2013

    Christie's masterpiece — ten strangers on an island, one by one eliminated, with no possible solution. The best-selling mystery novel of all time, and it earns every copy.

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    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time cover

    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

    by Mark Haddon

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman

    4.21 ABR Score (1.6M ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (1.6M) ★ 4.35 Audible (16.4K)
    6h 2m listening time • Released 2004

    Haddon's mystery narrated by an autistic boy is one of literature's most original voices — funny, heartbreaking, and a perfect meditation on truth and perspective.

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    One of Us Is Lying cover

    One of Us Is Lying

    One of Us Is Lying • Book 1

    by Karen M. McManus

    Narrated by Kim Mai Guest, MacLeod Andrews, Shannon McManus, Robbie Daymond

    4.30 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.47 Audible (8.2K)
    10h 43m listening time • Released 2017
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    The God of the Woods cover

    The God of the Woods

    by Liz Moore

    Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

    4.29 ABR Score (870.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (856.0K) ★ 4.35 Audible (14.7K)
    14h 35m listening time • Released 2024

    Saskia Maarleveld's nuanced performance anchors Moore's intricate mystery across decades and class divides, making the audio format essential to untangling a family's buried secrets.

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    The Thursday Murder Club

    Thursday Murder Club • Book 1

    by Richard Osman

    Narrated by Lesley Manville

    4.18 ABR Score (812.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (802.1K) ★ 4.38 Audible (9.9K)
    12h 26m listening time • Released 2020

    Lesley Manville's warm, wry narration transforms a cozy mystery into something genuinely moving—she nails the banter between four retirees so perfectly you'll forget you're listening to a performance.

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    Good Girl, Bad Blood cover

    Good Girl, Bad Blood

    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Book 2

    by Holly Jackson

    Narrated by Bailey Carr, MacLeod Andrews, Donte Bonner, James Fouhey, Neil Hellegers, Cary Hite, Amy Landon, Raymond J. Lee, Keylor Leigh, Maggi-Meg Reed, Shezi Sardar

    4.52 ABR Score (799.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (796.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (3.7K)
    10h 48m listening time • Released 2021
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    Murder on the Orient Express cover

    Murder on the Orient Express

    A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 10

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Dan Stevens

    4.67 ABR Score (755.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (741.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (13.8K)
    6h 37m listening time • Released 2013

    Christie's most celebrated Poirot case — a murder on a snowbound train, a cast of suspects with no apparent motive, and a solution so audacious it shouldn't work but does.

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    In Cold Blood cover

    In Cold Blood

    by Truman Capote

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.37 ABR Score (751.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (735.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.6K)
    14h 27m listening time • Released 2006

    Capote invented the true crime genre with this account of a Kansas family's murder — reported with a novelist's precision and a profound moral weight.

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    Rebecca

    by Daphne du Maurier

    Narrated by Anna Massey

    4.57 ABR Score (741.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (730.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.7K)
    14h 48m listening time • Released 2014

    Du Maurier's gothic masterpiece — an unnamed narrator marries a widower and is haunted by his perfect first wife, in the most atmospheric mystery ever written.

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    The Paris Apartment

    by Lucy Foley

    Narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, Charlie Anson

    3.97 ABR Score (740.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.64 Goodreads (728.0K) ★ 4.27 Audible (12.5K)
    12h 53m listening time • Released 2022

    Foley's twisty thriller is set almost entirely in a Parisian building that slowly reveals its secrets — atmospheric, propulsive, and full of unreliable witnesses.

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    The Lost Symbol cover

    The Lost Symbol

    Robert Langdon • Book 3

    by Dan Brown

    Narrated by Paul Michael

    3.97 ABR Score (681.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.77 Goodreads (661.2K) ★ 4.19 Audible (20.6K)
    17h 47m listening time • Released 2009
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    The Only One Left cover

    The Only One Left

    by Riley Sager

    Narrated by Christine Lakin, Dawn Harvey

    4.45 ABR Score (645.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (635.0K) ★ 4.52 Audible (10.8K)
    12h 32m listening time • Released 2023

    Sager's best novel — a nurse caring for the sole survivor of a historical massacre discovers the old woman may be hiding the truth about what really happened.

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    The Cuckoo's Calling cover

    The Cuckoo's Calling

    Cormoran Strike • Book 1

    by Robert Galbraith

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    4.33 ABR Score (668.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.89 Goodreads (630.7K) ★ 4.45 Audible (37.8K)
    15h 54m listening time • Released 2013
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    One for the Money

    Stephanie Plum (abridged) • Book 1

    by Janet Evanovich

    Narrated by Lori Petty

    3.87 ABR Score (581.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (580.5K) ★ 4.04 Audible (1.2K)
    2h 53m listening time • Released 2000

    Evanovich's debut Stephanie Plum novel is irresistible comedy-mystery — a lingerie buyer turned bounty hunter tracking down her ex-boyfriend in New Jersey.

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    The Mysterious Affair at Styles cover

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles

    A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 1

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.29 ABR Score (515.5K ratings)
    ★ 4 Goodreads (514.2K) ★ 4.55 Audible (1.3K)
    5h 57m listening time • Released 2012

    Christie's first Poirot novel — written during WWI, still one of her best-plotted — introducing the fastidious Belgian detective who would define the golden age of mystery.

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    A Study in Scarlet

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    4.17 ABR Score (499.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (499.1K) ★ 4.63 Audible (73)
    4h 5m listening time • Released 2018

    Simon Vance nails the Victorian eccentricity and deductive swagger that makes Holmes irresistible—he transforms the origin story into pure narrative propulsion, making it feel less like a historical artifact and more like the invention of modern detective fiction itself.

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    A Study in Scarlet

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 1

    by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    4.19 ABR Score (498.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (498.5K) ★ 4.46 Audible (260)
    5h 17m listening time • Released 2009

    The novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes — Watson meets the most famous detective in fiction in a story that established every convention of the genre.

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    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle cover

    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    by Stuart Turton

    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart

    3.84 ABR Score (496.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (488.7K) ★ 4.1 Audible (7.6K)
    16h 39m listening time • Released 2026

    Turton's debut is the most inventive locked-room mystery in decades — a man must solve a murder by reliving the same day inside different guests' bodies.

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    In the Woods cover

    In the Woods

    Dublin Murder Squad • Book 1

    by Tana French

    Narrated by Steven Crossley

    3.88 ABR Score (460.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (442.3K) ★ 4.11 Audible (18.3K)
    20h 24m listening time • Released 2007

    French's Dublin Murder Squad debut is as literary as crime fiction gets — an evocative, unreliable narrator investigating a case eerily connected to his own buried past.

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    The Hound of the Baskervilles cover

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Sherlock Holmes • Book 5

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Akash Chauhan

    Narrated by Simon Prebble

    4.17 ABR Score (393.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (392.2K) ★ 4.36 Audible (873)
    6h 41m listening time • Released 2009

    Simon Prebble transforms this Gothic mystery into something genuinely unsettling—his performance makes the supernatural dread feel real, and the moorland becomes a character as menacing as any villain Holmes has faced.

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    The Prince cover

    The Prince

    by Niccolò Machiavelli

    Narrated by Grover Gardner

    4.03 ABR Score (392.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (386.8K) ★ 4.29 Audible (5.3K)
    4h 47m listening time • Released 2013

    Grover Gardner's measured, deliberate delivery transforms this ruthless political manual into something genuinely gripping—he makes Machiavelli's cynicism sound less like doctrine and more like hard-won wisdom from someone who's seen power destroy better men.

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    The Man Who Died Twice cover

    The Man Who Died Twice

    Thursday Murder Club • Book 2

    by Richard Osman

    Narrated by Lesley Manville

    4.83 ABR Score (369.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (361.0K) ★ 4.82 Audible (8.6K)
    11h 49m listening time • Released 2021
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    O homem que morreu duas vezes cover

    O homem que morreu duas vezes

    Thursday Murder Club • Book 2

    by Richard Osman, Jaime Biaggio

    Narrated by Daniel de Mello, Sônia Schaeffer

    4.05 ABR Score (360.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (360.6K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2)
    13h 40m listening time • Released 2023
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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie - HINDI Book 1) (Hindi Edition)

    Hercule Poirot • Book 4

    by Agatha Christie

    Narrated by Hugh Fraser

    4.64 ABR Score (359.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.26 Goodreads (354.0K) ★ 4.69 Audible (5.6K)
    6h 54m listening time • Released 2012

How We Rank Audiobooks

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