Patricia Santomasso has a gift for tension — the kind that makes you turn up the volume instead of putting your earbuds down. Her performance in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder brings an understated urgency to Holly Jackson's twisty YA mystery, matching the protagonist's obsessive intelligence without ever tipping into melodrama. She handles Freida McFadden's The Intruder with the same steady-but-unsettling quality that makes psychological thrillers work: you never quite feel safe. What sets Santomasso apart is her range across dark material — from horror anthologies like The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror to romantic suspense — without losing her grounded, naturalistic delivery. Her voice is clear and controlled, somewhere between warm and wary, which is exactly right for stories where the threat is always just offscreen. Listeners who like their suspense quiet and creeping will find her a reliable guide.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder • Book 1
by Holly Jackson
Narrated by Bailey Carr, Marisa Calin, Michael Crouch, Gopal Divan, Robert Fass, Kevin R. Free, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Carol Monda, Patricia Santomasso, Shezi Sardar, Amanda Thickpenny, Various
Narrated by Joe Hempel, Patricia Santomasso, Tina Wolstencroft
The multiple narrators nail the shifting perspectives in this locked-room thriller, making the unreliable motivations feel immediate and genuinely unsettling. McFadden's twist lands harder when you hear it unfold across different voices.
Pacific Northwest K-9 Unit • Book 7
by Maggie K. Black, Dana Mentink, Katy Lee, Sharee Stover
Narrated by Abby Craden, Eva Kaminsky, Patricia Santomasso, Jennifer Sun Bell
The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror • Book 3
by Paula Guran - edited by
Narrated by Patricia Santomasso, BJ Harrison
Dual narrators Santomasso and Harrison elevate an already stellar lineup of contemporary horror, each voice perfectly calibrated to the psychological dread and surreal discomfort these 23 stories demand.
by Jonathan Maberry, Full Cast, Various
Narrated by Hillary Huber, Joe Hempel, Nancy Wu, Matt Godfrey, Patricia Santomasso, Robert Fass, James Anderson Foster, James Fouhey, Derek Austin, Liam Gerrard, Ramiz Monsef, Justin Price, Ray Porter, Christopher Tester, full cast
A full-cast production that treats cryptid lore with genuine respect—the rotating narrators nail the eerie atmosphere while essays ground the mythology in real investigation and wonder.