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- New to Mystery? Start here → And Then There Were None
- Shortest on this list → A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (10h 53m)
- For a long haul → In the Woods (20h 24m)
- Most popular of all time → The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- Hidden gem → The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2)
- Prefer something shorter? →
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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 -
And Then There Were None
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 2013Christie'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
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 2004Haddon'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
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 -
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 2024Saskia 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 2020Lesley 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
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 -
Murder on the Orient Express
A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 10
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 2013Christie'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
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 2006Capote 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 2014Du 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 2022Foley'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
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 -
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 2023Sager'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
Cormoran Strike • Book 1
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 -
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 2000Evanovich'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
A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 1
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 2012Christie'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
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 2018Simon 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
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 2009The 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
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 2026Turton'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
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 2007French'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
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 2009Simon 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
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 2013Grover 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
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 -
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 -
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie - HINDI Book 1) (Hindi Edition)
Hercule Poirot • Book 4
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
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