6 New & Not-to-Miss Audiobook Mysteries

Once listeners start Karin Slaughter's new mystery, stopping won't be an option. How well do we ever know our parents? Best-selling author, Slaughter, who starts a new mystery by thinking of a crime and wondering how her protagonists will respond, has written a doozy about a young woman who thinks she knows her mother—then something awful happens. Early's deftness at defining characters and her remarkable skill at revealing well-hidden emotions make the woman’s discoveries both stunning and satisfying.

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Lauren Fortgang gives a supple and quietly dazzling performance of this gripping high-stakes family drama set in the world of competitive gymnastics. A family will do anything for their hugely talented gymnast-daughter, until an apparent hit-and-run accident shifts everyone’s perspective. The hidden costs of ambition and the messiness of parent-child relationships are addictively rendered in this edgy audiobook.

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This timely and superb audiobook focuses on the efforts of Andrei Turov, a Russian who masterminds a plot to undermine democracy by faking the death of Vladimir Putin at the hands of American operatives. Journalist Max Karpov has fashioned an all-too-believable plot that a former acting director for the CIA calls a ‘must read’. Narrator Todd McLaren has made it a must listen by mixing accents, inflection, and intensity to provide unique personas for each character.

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Milo Weaver, a former CIA spy, is trying to get his life together when he’s strong-armed back into service to wreak revenge on the Chinese spy agency.  But will he?  Full of twists and turns made clear by Earphones Award-winning narrator David Pittu, who never lets the listener get lost in this labyrinthian, fascinating tale.

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