11 Best Thriller Audiobooks That You Need to Hear

8 hours, 38 minutes.

Marisa Kashino’s sharp, darkly funny debut turns the cutthroat housing market into a psychological thriller. Margo Miyake has done everything right—but after endless failed offers, the life she imagined feels just out of reach. When a coveted off-market home appears, she sees her chance, but in a world where the highest bid always wins, bending the rules is just the beginning. As Margo inserts herself deeper into the sellers’ lives, her pursuit of the perfect home becomes something far more dangerous. Twisty, biting, and uncomfortably relatable, Best Offer Wins explores ambition, obsession, and how far someone will go to finally come out on top.

9 hour, 18 minutes.

What if you might have murdered your best friend—and can’t remember a thing about it? When Lucy was found covered in her best friend Savvy’s blood, her small Texas town has decided she was guilty. Now, a true-crime podcast is reopening the case, forcing Lucy back home to face the past she can’t recall. With sharp humor and plenty of twists, this addictive thriller blends podcast transcripts with dual narration to explore memory, media obsession, and the danger of letting others tell your story.

8 hours, 43 minutes.

In his #1 New York Times bestseller, Alex Michaelides introduces us to Alicia Berenson. Alicia is a successful painter living in a high-end London neighborhood. She leads what seems to be a perfect life. Then one night, she shoots her fashion-photographer husband in the face and refuses to say another word. Alicia may now be silent, but this sophisticated thriller resonates loud and clear, as a criminal psychologist is determined to uncover the truth about what happened that bloody night.

9 hours, 38 minutes.

From Alex North, author of The Shadows, The Whisper Man is a startling horror thriller — which is exactly why we love it. This New York Times bestseller has everything you want in a thrilling narrative: a creepy small-town setting, a complicated family relationship, a disappearance, and a menacing serial killer who whispers to his victims through their windows at night. If you love being terrified — and hopefully have locks on all your windows — then queue up this audiobook ASAP.

10 hours, 12 minutes.

Bestselling author Lisa Jewell delivers a beguiling mystery in Then She Was Gone. The novel follows a mother whose teenage daughter goes missing. Years later, she meets a man whose own daughter looks eerily like the one she lost. Suspenseful and a little bit disturbing, this audiobook will keep you riveted from the moment you press play.

12 hours, 13 minutes.

Riley Sager, bestselling author of Lock Every Door and Final Girls, hit the New York Times bestseller list with this 2018 release. The Last Time I Lied centers on Emma Davis, a young woman who returns to the creepy summer camp of her youth. Fifteen years ago, Emma attended Camp Nightingale – where she was the last to see a handful of campers sneak out of their bunks and vanish into the night. The secrets of the past collide with present-day threats to make this an electrifying listen for any thriller fan.

12 hours, 13 minutes.

The Turn of the Key is our favorite gem from famed thriller writer Ruth Ware, the bestselling author behind works like The Woman in Cabin 10 and The Lying Game. In this 2019 story, Ware explores the dark side of technology through the eyes of a nanny named Rowan Caine. At first Rowen loves her new job as a live-in nanny at Heatherbrae House: The family is picture-perfect and the “smart” home is outfitted with the latest gadgets. But things take a sinister turn when a child winds up dead and Rowan is accused of murder.

10 hours, 9 minutes.

In this award-winning thriller from Adrian McKinty, a mother is tasked with committing a crime in order to save her kidnapped daughter’s life. The crime? Kidnap another child — after paying a hefty ransom, of course. The person demanding the kidnapping? The mother of yet another kidnapped child. You see the cruel victim–perpetrator chain now, don’t you? This audiobook will leave you captivated… and also a little terrified.

9 hours, 57 minutes.

The Girl from Widow Hills is the latest thrilling release from Megan Miranda, bestselling author of the wildly popular The Last House Guest. It follows Arden Maynor — yes, the girl from Widow Hills. One night young Arden is sleepwalking and gets swept away by a torrential rainstorm. She remained missing for days, yet despite all odds, she was found alive. Her survival story catapulted her to worldwide notoriety. Twenty years later – with a new name and a new life – she starts sleepwalking again and wakes up to find a corpse at her feet. This is one unnerving and truly imaginative thriller.

11 hours

Simone St. James is an award-winning author of multiple thrilling tales. Her latest, the bestselling The Sun Down Motel, will not disappoint fans of a good (and chilling) mystery. It follows Carly Kirk, a young woman obsessed with the case of the disappearance of her aunt Viv. Carly wasn’t even born when her aunt vanished without a trace from the Sun Down Motel, yet she can’t get the disappearance out of her mind. Naturally, Carly takes a trip to Upstate New York to visit the sinister motel. Thirty-five years have passed, but something is still off. What is it?

10 hours, 47 minutes.

From Blake Crouch, author of Dark Matter, comes a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that asks: what if memory could rewrite reality? When a mysterious condition known as False Memory Syndrome begins infecting people with lives they never lived, a detective and a neuroscientist race to uncover the truth behind it. What they find is far more dangerous than they imagined. Fast-paced and thought-provoking, Recursion pairs high-stakes action with big ideas about time, identity, and love—with dual narration that pulls you even deeper into its twisting, reality-bending world.