Best Karissa Vacker Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Karissa Vacker — 9 titles spanning Thriller, Romance, Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, averaging 4.00 ABR stars.

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

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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
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    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 2022

    Willingham'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
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    Check & Mate

    by Ali Hazelwood

    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 2026

    A 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
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