Best Karissa Vacker Audiobooks
Karissa Vacker has carved out a niche as a go-to narrator for domestic thrillers and psychological suspense, and her reading of A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham is a perfect showcase of her talents. She brings a taut, controlled energy to every sentence — her voice is clear and contemporary, with an edge of anxiety that mirrors her protagonists' unraveling composure. Her work on All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers and What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall confirms her mastery of the genre's essential trick: making you trust a narrator while simultaneously planting seeds of doubt. Vacker also shows range with George Saunders' Vigil and fantasy anthologies like The Book of Magic, proving she is not limited to one mode. Her pacing is excellent — she knows when to accelerate toward a revelation and when to let tension simmer. Thriller listeners who want a narrator that keeps them on edge will love Vacker.
Where to Start with Karissa Vacker
- New to Karissa Vacker? Start here → A Flicker in the Dark
- What fans keep coming back to → All Good People Here
- Short listen, big payoff → Check & Mate
- Highest rated by listeners → What Lies in the Woods
Best Karissa Vacker Audiobooks
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All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers
★ 4.40 ABR Score (371.5K ratings)★ 3.82 Goodreads (342.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (28.8K)10h 35m listening time • Released 2022 - 2
A Flicker in the Dark
by Stacy Willingham
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 4.36 ABR Score (627.9K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (613.6K) ★ 4.38 Audible (14.3K)11h 6m listening time • Released 2022Willingham's debut is a tightly wound psychological thriller about a criminal psychologist whose past resurfaces when girls start disappearing near her hometown.
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What Lies in the Woods
by Kate Alice Marshall
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 4.31 ABR Score (208.5K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (205.8K) ★ 4.47 Audible (2.7K)11h 29m listening time • Released 2023 - 4
Check & Mate
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 4.20 ABR Score (371.1K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (369.9K) ★ 4.54 Audible (1.2K)9h 31m listening time • Released 2023 - 5
Wicked Wanted Widows
The Widows • Book 3
by Kimberly Belle, Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers, Vanessa Lillie, Cate Holahan
Narrated by Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers
★ 3.99 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (677) ★ 4.47 Audible (915)9h 3m listening time • Released 2025 - 6
Every Vow You Break
by Peter Swanson
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 3.92 ABR Score (64.0K ratings)★ 3.53 Goodreads (62.4K) ★ 4.22 Audible (1.5K)7h 38m listening time • Released 2021 - 7
The Book of Magic
Spiritwalker #Bloom
by Gardner Dozois, K.J. Parker, Megan Lindholm, John Crowley, Matthew Hughes, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Rachel Pollack, Eleanor Arnason, Tim Powers, Liz Williams, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Greg Van Eekhout, George R.R. Martin, Andy Duncan, Kate Elliott, Scott Lynch
Narrated by Elliot Hill, Karissa Vacker, Sile Bermingham, Maxwell Caulfield, Susan Denaker, Scott Brick, Bruce Mann, Holly Palance, Nicholas Guy Smith, Steve West, Various
★ 3.66 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (839) ★ 4.07 Audible (191)24h 38m listening time • Released 2018 - 8
Vigil
by George Saunders
Narrated by Judy Greer, Stephen Root, MacLeod Andrews, Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall, Barrett Leddy, Eric Jason Martin, Karissa Vacker, Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Aaron Goodson, Maggi-Meg Reed, Full Cast
★ 3.65 ABR Score (8.8K ratings)★ 3.54 Goodreads (8.6K) ★ 4.04 Audible (194)5h 32m listening time • Released 2026A full-cast ensemble brings Saunders' darkly funny deathbed vigil to life with such precision that each voice becomes its own character, making this strange, tender horror genuinely unforgettable.
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Shadowed Souls
The Dresden Files #14.5 - Cold Case • Book 14
by Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Lucy A. Snyder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Erik Scott de Bie
Narrated by Jim Butcher, Julia Whelan, Emily Rankin, Justine Eyre, David de Vries, Mia Barron, Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marnò, Karissa Vacker, MacLeod Andrews
★ 3.47 ABR Score (7.0K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 3.86 Audible (2.3K)11h 3m listening time • Released 2016