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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026
A stellar short story collection curated by Megan Abbott showcasing top mystery writing, available as an engrossing multi-narrator audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
My Husband's Wife
Alice Feeney delivers a twisty psychological thriller with a stellar multi-cast audiobook featuring Richard Armitage and Bel Powley.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
Murder at the Spirit Lounge
Jess Kidd blends quirky humor and spooky suspense in a coastal mystery, featuring a stellar audiobook performance by Philippa Dunne.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
The Secrets We Hide
Karin Slaughter returns with a tense small-town mystery exploring dark family secrets, available as an immersive audiobook read by Kathleen Early.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
The French Illusion
John Grisham delivers a gripping international kidnapping thriller following a honeymoon gone wrong in Paris, available widely as an unabridged audiobook narrated by Michael Beck.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
Dial A for Aunties
Jesse Q. Sutanto's debut features a young wedding photographer who accidentally kills her blind date, leading her and her meddling aunties to dispose of the body during a chaotic island wedding.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
The Nothing Man
Catherine Ryan Howard's chilling novel introduces a woman obsessed with true crime podcasts who finds her life irrevocably altered when she discovers the perpetrator of a cold case she's researching is closer than she ever imagined.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
Paradise City
Debut author Wong Sou-yee (writing as Wong Ming-yi) delivers a gripping crime novel set in a near-future Hong Kong, where a series of grisly murders forces a veteran detective and a young hacker into a desperate hunt for a killer in a city on the brink.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
The Plotters
Un-su Kim's inventive debut thriller, now available in English, follows a seasoned assassin in Seoul who begins to question his purpose when a new generation of plotters emerges, challenging the old ways.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite's debut novel offers a darkly humorous and gripping tale of a woman whose devotion to her beautiful, murderous sister complicates her own life and attempts at romance.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
The Constant Gardener
John le Carré's powerful novel follows British diplomat Justin Quayle as he investigates the brutal murder of his activist wife in Kenya, uncovering a vast conspiracy involving corrupt pharmaceutical practices.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
Malice
Keigo Higashino's ingenious mystery presents Detective Kyochiro Kaga with the murder of a celebrated author, where the true puzzle lies not in who committed the crime, but why.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
John le Carré's iconic novel plunges a jaded British spy, Alec Leamas, into one last, morally ambiguous mission in East Germany, exposing the bleak realities of Cold War espionage.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
Gorky Park
Martin Cruz Smith's gripping thriller follows Arkady Renko, a Moscow chief investigator, as he unravels a gruesome triple murder in Gorky Park, forcing him to confront the dark underbelly of Soviet society.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
The Name of the Rose
In Umberto Eco's captivating debut, a Franciscan friar and his novice investigate a series of mysterious deaths at a wealthy Italian abbey in 1327.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
This Story Might Save Your Life
Tiffany Crum’s debut meta-thriller explores what happens when a woman receives a manuscript that seems to predict the terrifying events unfolding in her own life.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
A Plot to Die For
Ardal O'Hanlon, acclaimed for his screen detective roles, makes his literary debut with a cozy crime mystery set in Ireland, introducing the first installment of his A Blooming Murder Mystery series.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
LOOK WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN
Jason Rekulak, an Edgar Award finalist and ITW Award winner, crafts a new suspense novel where a family in a quaint beach town is suddenly plunged into peril.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
We Are All Guilty Here
Karin Slaughter, known for her gripping thrillers, delivers a masterclass in slow-burn suspense as a woman returns to her hometown to find an old, supposedly solved crime is anything but.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
Ironwood
A new detective series from Michael Connelly follows Detective Stilwell working the dark underbelly of a California coastal town, investigating a missing person case that quickly turns sinister.
novel · crime · gripping · just out · audiobook
Rosemary's Baby
A young wife's joy at her pregnancy turns to terrifying paranoia as she suspects her peculiar new neighbors and even her husband have sinister designs on her unborn child in Ira Levin's iconic 1967 horror-crime novel, offered as an audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
Strangers on a Train
Unravel the chilling proposal of two strangers who meet on a train and contemplate exchanging murders in Patricia Highsmith's suspenseful 1950 psychological thriller, readily available to listen to.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Follow the unsettling ascent of Tom Ripley, a charming yet psychopathic con artist who seizes a life of luxury through impersonation and murder in Patricia Highsmith's chilling 1955 novel, available as an audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
Double Indemnity
Dive into the dark, tangled web of an insurance salesman and a manipulative femme fatale as they plot a perfect crime for a double payout in James M. Cain's seminal 1943 crime novella, widely available in audiobook format.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Experience the raw, illicit passion and desperate schemes of a drifter and a married woman who conspire to commit murder in James M. Cain's groundbreaking and gripping 1934 noir novel, available as an audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping · short · audiobook
Death in Breslau
Marek Krajewski transports readers to pre-war Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) where Inspector Eberhard Mock investigates a brutal murder amidst a city under Nazi influence, offering a dark and atmospheric historical crime novel widely available in translated editions.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
Appointment with Death
Agatha Christie, known as the Queen of Crime, delivers a gripping mystery set in the Middle East where Hercule Poirot must unravel the murder of a tyrannical matriarch, a classic whodunit available globally in print, ebook, and audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
The Pledge
Friedrich Dürrenmatt's chilling novel, subtitled 'Requiem for the Detective Novel,' tells the story of a detective's obsessive quest to find a child murderer, even after an apparent culprit is caught, challenging the genre's conventions in a gripping narrative that can be found in print, ebook, and audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical masterpiece brings the Devil to Moscow, unleashing chaos and dark humor as he and his retinue expose the absurdities of Soviet society, a gripping tale widely accessible in various English translations across all formats.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
The Trial
This unsettling novel by Franz Kafka follows Josef K., a bank official who is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority for an unknown crime, leaving readers gripped by his struggle against an absurd bureaucracy; it's widely available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.
novel · crime · gripping · medium · classic
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris's evocative novel recounts the harrowing true story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau who was forced to tattoo identification numbers on fellow captives and fell in love amidst unspeakable horrors.
novel · crime · gripping
The Silent Ones
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi's suspenseful novel, translated by Nick Caistor, plunges a detective into a series of ritualistic murders connected to an ancient, dark past in the city of Vitoria.
novel · crime · gripping
Red Water
Jurica Pavičić's gripping novel, translated by Matt Robinson, follows a family's agonizing thirty-year quest to uncover the truth behind their daughter's disappearance from a small Croatian town.
novel · crime · gripping
The Eighth Detective
Alex Pavesi's inventive novel presents a retired mathematician who once wrote seven perfect detective stories, now tasked with reviewing a new edition, only to find inconsistencies that might reveal a real-life crime.
novel · crime · gripping
The Devotion of Suspect X
In Keigo Higashino's intricate novel, a brilliant mathematician helps his neighbor cover up a murder, leading a detective into a complex battle of wits.
novel · crime · gripping
Mystic River
Dennis Lehane weaves a dark tale of three childhood friends whose lives are irrevocably connected by a devastating tragedy and a new murder investigation in their working-class Boston neighborhood, a powerful story accessible in print, ebook, and audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping
The Snowman
In this chilling novel by Jo Nesbø, Detective Harry Hole investigates a series of brutal murders in Oslo, where a killer leaves a snowman at each crime scene, and it is available to readers as a print book, ebook, or audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn’s debut novel follows a journalist who returns to her small hometown to report on the murders of two young girls, uncovering dark family secrets and a chilling past, and it can be found as a print book, ebook, or audiobook.
novel · crime · gripping
The Lincoln Lawyer
Follow Mickey Haller, a defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car, as he navigates the morally ambiguous world of Los Angeles's legal system in this gripping novel by Michael Connelly, widely available in print, ebook, and audiobook formats.
novel · crime · gripping
The Maid
Follow the meticulously observant Molly, a hotel maid with a unique way of seeing the world, as she becomes the prime suspect in a wealthy guest's murder in Nita Prose's charming and intricate mystery; pick it up in print or as an ebook from online and physical bookstores in the Netherlands.
novel · crime · gripping
Before I Go to Sleep
S. J. Watson's gripping novel follows a woman who wakes up each day with no memory of her past, relying on a secret journal that slowly reveals a chilling truth she can't trust; available in print and as an ebook, with Dutch translations also in libraries.
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The Plot
Jean Hanff Korelitz crafts a story about a struggling writer who steals a brilliant plot from a deceased student, only to find himself entangled in a terrifying real-life mystery; you can get this in print or as an ebook from bookstores in the Netherlands.
novel · crime · gripping
The Guest List
Lucy Foley's suspenseful novel traps guests on a remote Irish island for a high-profile wedding that quickly turns deadly, with everyone a suspect; find it in print, ebook, and audiobook through various Dutch booksellers.
novel · crime · gripping
The Silent Patient
Unravel the unsettling mystery in Alex Michaelides' debut novel, where a famous painter shoots her husband and then never speaks another word, captivating a psychotherapist determined to uncover the truth; available in print, ebook, and audiobook from major retailers and libraries in the Netherlands.
novel · crime · gripping