The Audie Award for Mystery is one of the Audie Awards presented annually by the Audio Publishers Association (APA). It awards excellence in narration, production, and content for a mystery audiobook released in a given year. It has been awarded since 1997.
Winners and finalists 1990s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.1997 (1920) The Audio Partners Publishing Corp.Winner Cadillac Jukebox (1996) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist "M" Is for Malice (1996) Random House AudioFinalist1998 Vintage Crime Stories (1859–1982) , Ruth Rendell, Margery Allingham, Graham Greene, E. W. Hornung, and Frances Hegarty Tangled Web AudioWinner Cimarron Rose (1998) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist Red Harvest (1929) Isis PublishingFinalist1999 (1949) The Audio Partners PublidhingWinner Black Coffee (1930) (adapted by Charles Osborne) HighBridge AudioFinalist (1998) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist 2000s Year TitleNarrator Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.2000 (1998) Chivers North AmericaWinner "O" Is for Outlaw (1999) Random House AudioFinalist Prayers for Rain (1999) Brilliance AudioFinalist2001 (2000) Recorded BooksWinner Hugger Mugger (2000) Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioFinalist Moment of Truth (2000) Recorded BooksFinalist2002 Tell No One (2001) Random House AudioWinner (2001) Chivers North AmericaFinalist (2001) Recorded BooksFinalist2003 Jolie Blon's Bounce (2002) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner (2002) Bolinda AudioFinalist "Q" Is for Quarry (2002) Random House AudioFinalist Rumpole's Return (1980) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist Tishomingo Blues (2002) HarperAudioFinalist2004 Lost Light (2003) Time Warner AudioBooksWinner A Fine Dark Line (2002) Dick Hill Brilliance AudioFinalist Bangkok 8 (2004) B. D. Wong Random House AudioFinalist Fear Itself (2003) Don Cheadle Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist The Last Detective (2003) James Daniels Brilliance AudioFinalist2005 Twisted (2003) , Michele Pawk, and Fredrick Weller Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Brimstone (2004) and Lincoln Child Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist Double Homicide (2005) and Faye Kellerman and Lou Diamond Phillips Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist Hark! (2004) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2004) Time Warner AudioBooksFinalist2006 (2005) HarperAudioWinner Away with the Fairies (2001) Bolinda AudioFinalist Hidden River (2005) Blacksone AudioFinalist (2005) HarperAudioFinalist One Dangerous Lady (2005) Blackstone AudioFinalist2007 Echo Park (2006) Hachette AudioWinner A Field of Darkness (2006) Blackstone AudioFinalist Dark Tort (2007) HarperAudioFinalistDead Center (2006)Listen & Live AudioFinalist Definitely Dead (2006) Recorded BooksFinalist The Crimes of Jordan Wise (2006) BBC Audiobooks AmericaFinalist2008 (2007) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner (2007)Blackstone AudioFinalist Hollywood Station (2006) Hachette AudioFinalist Thunder Bay (2007) Brilliance AudioFinalistUp in Honey's Room (2007)HarperAudioFinalist2009 (1997) (trans. Stephen Sartarelli) Blackstone AudioWinner (2008) Ulverscroft GroupFinalistCross (2006) Ulverscroft GroupFinalistSwan Peak (2008)Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2007) Macmillan AudioFinalist 2010s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.2010 Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) AudibleWinner Black Money (1966) Blackstone AudioFinalist (2008) Isis PublishingFinalist Revelation (2008) Recorded BooksFinalist , Volume I (1887–1927) Audio ConnoisseurFinalist2011 (2010) Hachette AudioWinner Her Royal Spyness (2008) AudibleFinalist This Body of Death (2010) HarperAudioFinalist Dog Tags (2010) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Our Kind of Traitor (2010) Penguin AudioFinalist (2009) Regina ReaganIsis PublishingFinalist2012 Feast Day of Fools (2011) Simon & Schuster AudioWinner Naughty in Nice (2011) AudibleFinalist One Dog Night (2011) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Return to Marshall's Bayou (2010) Full cast Siren Audio StudiosFinalist Rogue Island (2010) AudibleFinalist2013 (2012) Macmillan AudioWinner And When She Was Good (2012) HarperAudioFinalist (2010) AudioGoFinalist Hush Money (2012) AudioGoFinalist (2010) Macmillan AudioFinalist2014 Unleashed (2013) Listen & Live AudioWinner Death and the Lit Chick (2009) DreamscapeFinalist (2011) Richard BardFinalist Heirs and Graces (2013) AudibleFinalist He's Gone (2013) Tantor AudioFinalist Rage Against the Dying (2012) Macmillan AudioFinalist2015 (2014) Hachette AudioWinner (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist Hounded (2014) Listen & Live AudioFinalist Malice (2014) Macmillan AudioFinalist Missing You (2014) Brilliance AudioFinalist Providence Rag (2014) AudibleFinalist2016 Career of Evil (2015) Hachette AudioWinner All the Old Knives (2015) and Juliana Francis Kelly Macmillan AudioFinalist Corrupted (2013) Macmillan AudioFinalist Gun Street Girl (2015) Blackstone AudioFinalist Malice at the Palace (2015) AudibleFinalist (2015) Macmillan AudioFinalist2017 (2015) Titus Welliver Hachette AudioWinner Crimson Shore (2015) and Lincoln Child Hachette AudioFinalist (2016) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2016) , David Colacci, and Amy McFadden Tantor AudioFinalist IQ (2016) Hachette AudioFinalist2018 (2017) Random House AudioWinner Glass Houses (2017) Macmillan AudioFinalist Magpie Murders (2016) HarperAudioFinalist On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service (2017) AudibleFinalist Telling Tales (2005) Macmillan AudioFinalist2019 (2018) Penguin Random House AudioWinner Lethal White (2018) Hachette AudioFinalist (2018) HarperAudioFinalist The Tuscan Child (2018) and Katy Sobey AudibleFinalist Wild Fire (2018) Macmillan AudioFinalist
2020s Year Title Author(s) Narrator(s) Publisher Result Ref.2020 (2018) HarperAudioWinner Along Came a Spider: 25th Anniversary Edition (1993) Hachette AudioFinalist (2018) Brilliance AudioFinalist (2019) Macmillan AudioFinalist (2019) Simon & Schuster AudioFinalist2021 Fair Warning (2020) and Zach Villa Hachette AudioWinner (2020) Macmillan AudioFinalist Confessions on the 7:45 (2020) HarperAudioFinalist (2020) , Olivia Dowd, Sarah Ovens, Rich Keeble, Aoife McMahon, and Jot Davies HarperAudioFinalist Trouble Is What I Do (2020) Hachette AudioFinalist2022LaterSimon & Schuster AudioWinner and Peter NystromRecorded BooksFinalistMurder in Old Bombay Macmillan AudioFinalist with John Lee Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat MediaFinalist and Elliot Fitzpatrick Embla BooksFinalist2023Audible OriginalsWinnerBlackstone AudioFinalistPenguin Random House AudioFinalistPenguin Random House AudioFinalistSuspectHachette AudioFinalist2024Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for MurderersPenguin Random House AudioWinner, Tim Campbell, and Suzanne TorenMacmillan AudioFinalistHachette AudioFinalistMurder Your Employer and Simon VanceSimon & Schuster AudioFinalist (2022)Macmillan AudioFinalist2025Listen for the Lie and January LaVoyMacmillan AudioWinner , Sarah Slimani, Roly Botha, Laurence Dobiesz, and Tuppence MiddletonHarperCollins PublishersFinalistRough Pages Macmillan AudioFinalistStill See You Everywhere Hachette AudioFinalistThis Is Why We Lied HarperCollins PublishersFinalist2026Gone Before Goodbye and Harlan Coben, Chris Pine, Kiff VandenHeuvel, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Peter Ganim, Saskia Maarleveld, and James FouheyHachette AudioWinnerGray Dawn and Walter MosleyHachette AudioFinalistMacmillan AudioFinalistSecret Sister, Sacha Dhawan, Joanne Froggatt, Nathaniel Curtis, and Hopi GraceAudible OriginalsFinalistVera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)Penguin Random House AudioFinalist
References
External links
Audie Award winners Audie Awards official website