The best thriller & suspense audiobooks, by award record: every Audie Thriller & Suspense winner
Looking for a thriller & suspense audiobook that's actually worth a credit? This is the complete record of the Audie Award's Thriller & Suspense category — 20 winners from 2007 to 2026, the audiobook industry's own pick for the best thriller & suspense production of each year. The most recent winner is Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell, narrated by Richard Armitage, Joanne Froggatt, Tamaryn Payne, Gemma Whelan, Louise Brealey, Patience Tomlinson.
| Year | Narrator | Audiobook | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Richard Armitage, Joanne Froggatt, Tamaryn Payne, Gemma Whelan, Louise Brealey, Patience Tomlinson | Don't Let Him In | Lisa Jewell |
| 2025 | Scott Brick | Lone Wolf | Gregg Hurwitz |
| 2024 | Adam Lazarre-White | All the Sinners Bleed | S. A. Cosby |
| 2023 | Laura Kirman | Greenwich Park | Katherine Faulkner |
| 2022 | Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, Jesse Vilinsky | Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica |
| 2021 | Susan Dalian, Jay Aaseng | When No One Is Watching | Alyssa Cole |
| 2020 | Santino Fontana | The Institute | Stephen King |
| 2019 | Euan Morton | Crimson Lake | Candice Fox |
| 2018 | Edoardo Ballerini, Graham Winton | The Fourth Monkey | J. D. Barker |
| 2017 | Ruben Santiago Hudson, Jefferson Mays | Cross Justice | James Patterson |
| 2016 | Scott Brick | The Patriot Threat: Cotton Malone | Steve Berry |
| 2015 | Robert Petkoff | Those Who Wish Me Dead | Michael Koryta |
| 2014 | Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy | The Hit | David Baldacci |
| 2013 | Bronson Pinchot | Red, White, and Blood: The President's Vampire | Christopher Farnsworth |
| 2012 | Susan Ericksen | The Nightmare Thief | Meg Gardiner |
| 2011 | Simon Vance | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest | Stieg Larsson |
| 2010 | Stephen Hoye, Justine Eyre | Darling Jim | Christian Moerk |
| 2009 | Dennis Boutsikaris | Child 44 | Tom Rob Smith |
| 2008 | Stephen Lang | Heart-Shaped Box | Joe Hill |
| 2007 | Gerard Doyle | The Dead Yard | Adrian McKinty |
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Most-awarded thriller & suspense narrators
Scott Brick (2 wins).
Every Audie Thriller & Suspense finalist (the full nominee record)
The Audie Thriller & Suspense category names finalists alongside each winner. These 86 audiobooks were nominated but didn't win — also sourced; each title's full record is in the A–Z index.
| Year | Finalist | Author | Narrator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Beautiful Ugly | Alice Feeney | Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton |
| 2026 | Everyone Is Lying to You | Jo Piazza | Rachel F. Hirsch, Sarah Reny, Vas Eli, Saskia Maarleveld |
| 2026 | Havoc | Christopher Bollen | Maggi-Meg Reed |
| 2026 | To Die For | David Baldacci | Zach Villa, Mela Lee, Cassandra Morris, Rena Marie Villano, Christine Lakin, Will Collyer, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Erin Bennett |
| 2025 | First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston | Saskia Maarleveld |
| 2025 | The Forest of Lost Souls | Dean Koontz | January LaVoy |
| 2025 | The Little Drummer Girl | John le Carré | Adjoa Andoh |
| 2025 | The Return of Ellie Black | Emiko Jean | Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, full cast |
| 2024 | Bad Cree | Jessica Johns | Tanis Parenteau |
| 2024 | I Will Find You | Harlan Coben | Steven Weber |
| 2024 | None of This Is True | Lisa Jewell | Nicola Walker, Louise Brealey, full cast |
| 2024 | The Woodkin | Alexander James | Alex Knox |
| 2023 | Snowstorm in August | Marshall Karp | Chris Andrew Ciulla, Michael Manuel |
| 2023 | The Boys from Biloxi | John Grisham | Michael Beck |
| 2023 | The Island | Adrian McKinty | Mela Lee |
| 2023 | The Paris Apartment | Lucy Foley | Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, Charlie Anson |
| 2023 | Where Secrets Live | S. C. Richards | Jennifer Jill Araya |
| 2022 | Never Far Away | Michael Koryta | Robert Petkoff |
| 2022 | Razorblade Tears | S. A. Cosby | Adam Lazarre-White |
| 2022 | The Last Thing He Told Me | Laura Dave | Rebecca Lowman |
| 2022 | The Night She Disappeared | Lisa Jewell | Joanne Froggatt |
| 2021 | If It Bleeds | Stephen King | Will Patton, Danny Burstein, Steven Weber |
| 2021 | The Only Good Indians | Stephen Graham Jones | Shaun Taylor-Corbett |
| 2021 | The Sentinel | Lee Child and Andrew Child | Scott Brick |
| 2021 | Yard Work | David Koepp | Kevin Bacon |
| 2020 | Blood in the Water | Jack Flynn | Dion Graham |
| 2020 | Freefall | Jessica Barry | Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker, MacLeod Andrews |
| 2020 | Lady in the Lake | Laura Lippman | Susan Bennett |
| 2020 | Winter Dark | Alex Callister | Ell Potter |
| 2019 | Macbeth | Jo Nesbø | Euan Morton |
| 2019 | The Death of Mrs Westaway | Ruth Ware | Imogen Church |
| 2019 | The Outsider | Stephen King | Will Patton |
| 2019 | The Terminal List | Jack Carr | Ray Porter |
| 2019 | Their Lost Daughters | Joy Ellis | Richard Armitage |
| 2018 | A Legacy of Spies | John le Carré | Tom Hollander |
| 2018 | Don't Let Go | Harlan Coben | Steven Weber |
| 2018 | Mississippi Blood | Greg Iles | Scott Brick |
| 2018 | The Breakdown | B. A. Paris | Georgia Maguire |
| 2018 | The Chemist | Stephenie Meyer | Ellen Archer |
| 2017 | Hidden Bodies | Caroline Kepnes | Santino Fontana |
| 2017 | Home | Harlan Coben | Steven Weber |
| 2017 | The Fall of Moscow Station | Mark Henshaw | Eric G. Dove |
| 2017 | The Short Drop | Matthew FitzSimmons | James Patrick Cronin |
| 2016 | Blue Labyrinth | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois |
| 2016 | Season of Fear | Brian Freeman | Joe Barrett |
| 2016 | Signal | Patrick Lee | Ari Fliakos |
| 2016 | The President's Shadow | Brad Meltzer | Scott Brick |
| 2015 | "Hot Snow" in The Avengers Lost Episodes (Vol. 1) | John Dorney | full cast |
| 2015 | Dead Six | Larry Correia and Mike Kupari | Bronson Pinchot |
| 2015 | In the Morning I'll Be Gone | Adrian McKinty | Gerard Doyle |
| 2015 | The Lost Key | Catherine Coulter and J. T. Ellison | Renee Raudman, MacLeod Andrews |
| 2015 | Wayfaring Stranger | James Lee Burke | Will Patton |
| 2014 | Suspect | Robert Crais | MacLeod Andrews |
| 2014 | Sycamore Row | John Grisham | Michael Beck |
| 2014 | The Book of Obeah | Sandra Carrington-Smith | Dave Fennoy |
| 2014 | The Fifth Assassin | Brad Meltzer | Scott Brick |
| 2013 | Odd Apocalypse | Dean Koontz | David Aaron Baker |
| 2013 | Rise Again | Ben Tripp | Kirsten Potter |
| 2013 | The Boy in the Suitcase | Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis | Katherine Kellgren |
| 2013 | The Chalk Girl | Carol O'Connell | Barbara Rosenblat |
| 2012 | A Kiss Before Dying | Ira Levin | Mauro Hantman |
| 2012 | Adrenaline | Jeff Abbott | Kevin T. Collins |
| 2012 | Out of My Head | Didier Van Cauwelaert | Bronson Pinchot |
| 2012 | Silent Scream | Karen Rose | Marguerite Gavin |
| 2012 | The Bone House | Brian Freeman | Joe Barrett |
| 2011 | Dead Aim | Thomas Perry | Michael Kramer |
| 2011 | Interface | Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George | Oliver Wyman |
| 2011 | The Book of Spies | Gayle Lynds | Kate Reading |
| 2011 | Vengeance | AJ Scudiere | Kristoffer Tabori, Stephanie Zimbalist, Don Leslie |
| 2010 | Level 26: Dark Origins | Anthony E. Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski | John Glover |
| 2010 | Road Dogs | Elmore Leonard | Peter Francis James |
| 2010 | The Devil's Punchbowl | Greg Iles | Dick Hill |
| 2010 | The Price of Love | Peter Robinson | John Lee, Gideon Emery, Rosalyn Landor, Angela Goethals |
| 2009 | Blue Heaven | C. J. Box | John Bedford Lloyd |
| 2009 | Sweetheart | Chelsea Cain | Carolyn McCormick |
| 2009 | The Dying Breed | Declan Hughes | Stanley Townsend |
| 2009 | The Graveyard Book | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman |
| 2008 | Daddy's Girl | Lisa Scottoline | Barbara Rosenblat |
| 2008 | No Time for Goodbye | Linwood Barclay | Christopher Lane |
| 2008 | The Judas Strain | James Rollins | Peter Jay Fernandez |
| 2008 | The Secret Servant | Daniel Silva | Phil Gigante |
| 2008 | What the Dead Know | Laura Lippman | Linda Emond |
| 2007 | Night of the Jaguar | Michael Gruber | Jonathan Davis |
| 2007 | Surrender | Sonya Hartnett | Humphrey Bower |
| 2007 | The Foreign Correspondent | Alan Furst | Alfred Molina |
| 2007 | The Wall | Jeff Long | Grover Gardner |
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See also: Audiobook of the Year · Best Narrator winners · Grammy audiobook winners.