Best Mystery Audiobooks Over 20 Hours

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

Narrated by Sean Barrett, Neville Jason, Nicholas Rowe

Eco's medieval monastery mystery is a dazzling intellectual puzzle — a monk investigates a series of deaths in a labyrinthine library full of forbidden books.

In the Woods

Dublin Murder Squad • Book 1

by Tana French

Narrated by Steven Crossley

French's Dublin Murder Squad debut is as literary as crime fiction gets — an evocative, unreliable narrator investigating a case eerily connected to his own buried past.

The Complete Stories and Poems

by Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble

Poe's complete works — the inventor of the detective story, the master of gothic horror, all in one essential collection.

The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by Bill Homewood

Dumas's revenge epic is one of literature's great page-turners — a man wrongly imprisoned who emerges years later with a fortune and a plan for perfect vengeance.

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

Narrated by Ian Holm

Collins's Victorian sensation novel invented many of the mystery genre's conventions — two women, an asylum, and a conspiracy that unfolds with masterful suspense.

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Narrated by Anthony Heald

Dostoevsky's psychological masterwork follows a man who commits the 'perfect' murder and is destroyed not by justice but by his own conscience.

The Historian

by Elizabeth Kostova

Narrated by Justine Eyre, Paul Michael

Kostova's debut is a scholarly vampire novel — a daughter uncovers her father's obsessive research into Vlad the Impaler in a gothic mystery spanning centuries.