# Audie Award for Thriller or Suspense

The Audie Award for Thriller or Suspense is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a thriller or suspense audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 2007.

## Winners and finalists

Winners are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.

### 2000s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2007 12th | The Dead Yard (2006) | Adrian McKinty | Gerard Doyle | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2007 12th | Night of the Jaguar (2006) | Michael Gruber | Jonathan Davis | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | Surrender (2005) | Sonya Hartnett | Humphrey Bower | Bolinda Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Foreign Correspondent (2006) | Alan Furst | Alfred Molina | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2007 12th | The Wall (2006) | Jeff Long | Grover Gardner | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | Heart-Shaped Box (2007) | Joe Hill | Stephen Lang | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2008 13th | Daddy's Girl (2007) | Lisa Scottoline | Barbara Rosenblat | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Judas Strain (2007) | James Rollins | Peter Jay Fernandez | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | No Time for Goodbye (2007) | Linwood Barclay | Christopher Lane | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | The Secret Servant (2007) | Daniel Silva | Phil Gigante | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2008 13th | What the Dead Know (2007) | Laura Lippman | Linda Emond | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Child 44 (2008) | Tom Rob Smith | Dennis Boutsikaris | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2009 14th | Blue Heaven (2008) | C. J. Box | John Bedford Lloyd | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Dying Breed (2008) | Declan Hughes | Stanley Townsend | Isis Publishing | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | Sweetheart (2008) | Chelsea Cain | Carolyn McCormick | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2009 14th | The Graveyard Book (2008) | Neil Gaiman | Neil Gaiman | HarperAudio | Finalist |

### 2010s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2010 15th | Darling Jim (2007) | Christian Moerk | Stephen Hoye and Justine Eyre | Tantor Audio | Winner |
| 2010 15th | The Devil's Punchbowl (2009) | Greg Iles | Dick Hill | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Level 26: Dark Origins (2009) | Anthony E. Zuiker and Duane Swierczynski | John Glover | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | The Price of Love (2009) | Peter Robinson | John Lee, Gideon Emery, Rosalyn Landor, and Angela Goethals | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2010 15th | Road Dogs (2009) | Elmore Leonard | Peter Francis James | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) | Stieg Larsson | Simon Vance | Random House Audio | Winner |
| 2011 16th | Interface by | Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George | Oliver Wyman | Audible, Inc. | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | The Book of Spies | Gayle Lynds | Kate Reading | Blackstone Audio, Inc. | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Vengeance | AJ Scudiere | Kristoffer Tabori, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Don Leslie | Griffyn Ink | Finalist |
| 2011 16th | Dead Aim | Thomas Perry | Michael Kramer | Tantor Media | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Nightmare Thief (2012) | Meg Gardiner | Susan Ericksen | Brilliance Audio | Winner |
| 2012 17th | Adrenaline (2010) | Jeff Abbott | Kevin T. Collins | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | The Bone House (2011) | Brian Freeman | Joe Barrett | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | A Kiss Before Dying (1953) | Ira Levin | Mauro Hantman | AudioGO | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Silent Scream (2010) | Karen Rose | Marguerite Gavin | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2012 17th | Out of My Head (2003) | Didier Van Cauwelaert | Bronson Pinchot | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Red, White, and Blood: The President's Vampire (2012) | Christopher Farnsworth | Bronson Pinchot | Blackstone Audio | Winner |
| 2013 18th | The Boy in the Suitcase (2011) | Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis | Katherine Kellgren | AudioGO | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | The Chalk Girl (2012) | Carol O'Connell | Barbara Rosenblat | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Odd Apocalypse (2012) | Dean Koontz | David Aaron Baker | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2013 18th | Rise Again (2010) | Ben Tripp | Kirsten Potter | Tantor Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Hit (2013) | David Baldacci | Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2014 19th | The Book of Obeah (2010) | Sandra Carrington-Smith | Dave Fennoy | Cherry Hill Publishing | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | The Fifth Assassin (2013) | Brad Meltzer | Scott Brick | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Suspect (2013) | Robert Crais | MacLeod Andrews | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2014 19th | Sycamore Row (2013) | John Grisham | Michael Beck | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014) | Michael Koryta | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2015 20th | "Hot Snow" in The Avengers Lost Episodes (Vol. 1) (2014) | John Dorney | Full cast | Big Finish Productions | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Dead Six (2013) | Larry Correia and Mike Kupari | Bronson Pinchot | Audible | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | In the Morning I'll Be Gone (2014) | Adrian McKinty | Gerard Doyle | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | The Lost Key (2014) | Catherine Coulter and J. T. Ellison | Renee Raudman and MacLeod Andrews | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2015 20th | Wayfaring Stranger (2014) | James Lee Burke | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The Patriot Threat: Cotton Malone (2015) | Steve Berry | Scott Brick | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2016 21st | Blue Labyrinth (2014) | Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child | René Auberjonois | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | The President's Shadow (2015) | Brad Meltzer | Scott Brick | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Season of Fear (2015) | Brian Freeman | Joe Barrett | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2016 21st | Signal (2015) | Patrick Lee | Ari Fliakos | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Cross Justice (2015) | James Patterson | Ruben Santiago Hudson and Jefferson Mays | Hachette Audio | Winner |
| 2017 22nd | The Fall of Moscow Station (2016) | Mark Henshaw | Eric G. Dove | Dreamscape | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Hidden Bodies (2016) | Caroline Kepnes | Santino Fontana | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | Home (2016) | Harlan Coben | Steven Weber | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2017 22nd | The Short Drop (2015) | Matthew FitzSimmons | James Patrick Cronin | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Fourth Monkey (2017) | J. D. Barker | Edoardo Ballerini and Graham Winton | Recorded Books | Winner |
| 2018 23rd | The Breakdown (2017) | B. A. Paris | Georgia Maguire | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Don't Let Go (2017) | Harlan Coben | Steven Weber | Brilliance Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | The Chemist (2016) | Stephenie Meyer | Ellen Archer | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | A Legacy of Spies (2017) | John le Carré | Tom Hollander | Penguin Audio | Finalist |
| 2018 23rd | Mississippi Blood (2017) | Greg Iles | Scott Brick | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Crimson Lake (2017) | Candice Fox | Euan Morton | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2019 24th | The Death of Mrs. Westaway (2018) | Ruth Ware | Imogen Church | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Macbeth (2018) | Jo Nesbø | Euan Morton | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Outsider (2018) | Stephen King | Will Patton | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | The Terminal List (2018) | Jack Carr | Ray Porter | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2019 24th | Their Lost Daughters (2017) | Joy Ellis | Richard Armitage | Audible | Finalist |

### 2020s

| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result |
| 2020 25th | The Institute (2019) | Stephen King | Santino Fontana | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2020 25th | Blood in the Water (2016) | Jack Flynn | Dion Graham | Recorded Books | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Freefall (2019) | Jessica Barry | Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker, and MacLeod Andrews | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Lady in the Lake (2019) | Laura Lippman | Susan Bennett | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2020 25th | Winter Dark (2020) | Alex Callister | Ell Potter | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | When No One Is Watching (2020) | Alyssa Cole | Susan Dalian and Jay Aaseng | HarperCollins Publishers | Winner |
| 2021 26th | If It Bleeds (2020) | Stephen King | Will Patton, Danny Burstein, and Steven Weber | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Only Good Indians (2020) | Stephen Graham Jones | Shaun Taylor-Corbett | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | The Sentinel (2020) | Lee Child and Andrew Child | Scott Brick | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2021 26th | Yard Work (2020) | David Koepp | Kevin Bacon | Audible Originals | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Local Woman Missing | Mary Kubica | Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, and Jesse Vilinsky | HarperAudio | Winner |
| 2022 27th | The Last Thing He Told Me (2021) | Laura Dave | Rebecca Lowman | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Never Far Away | Michael Koryta | Robert Petkoff | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | The Night She Disappeared | Lisa Jewell | Joanne Froggatt | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2022 27th | Razorblade Tears (2021) | S. A. Cosby | Adam Lazarre-White | Macmillan Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Greenwich Park | Katherine Faulkner | Laura Kirman | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner |
| 2023 28th | The Boys from Biloxi | John Grisham | Michael Beck | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | The Island | Adrian McKinty | Mela Lee | Hachette Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | The Paris Apartment | Lucy Foley | Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, and Charlie Anson | HarperAudio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Snowstorm in August | Marshall Karp | Chris Andrew Ciulla and Michael Manuel | Blackstone Audio | Finalist |
| 2023 28th | Where Secrets Live | S. C. Richards | Jennifer Jill Araya | Dreamscape Media | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | All the Sinners Bleed (2023) | S. A. Cosby | Adam Lazarre-White | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2024 29th | The Woodkin | Alexander James | Alex Knox | CamCat Books | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | Bad Cree | Jessica Johns | Tanis Parenteau | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | I Will Find You | Harlan Coben | Steven Weber | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |
| 2024 29th | None of This Is True (2023) | Lisa Jewell | Nicola Walker, Louise Brealey, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | Lone Wolf | Gregg Hurwitz | Scott Brick | Macmillan Audio | Winner |
| 2025 30th | First Lie Wins | Ashley Elston | Saskia Maarleveld | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The Forest of Lost Souls | Dean Koontz | January LaVoy | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The Little Drummer Girl (1983) | John le Carré | Adjoa Andoh | Dreamscape Media LLC | Finalist |
| 2025 30th | The Return of Ellie Black | Emiko Jean | Mizuo Peck, Tessa Albertson, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |