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 are listed first each year and are highlighted in green.
| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | (2006) | Blackstone Audio | Winner | [1] | ||
| Night of the Jaguar (2006) | BBC Audiobooks America | Finalist | ||||
| Surrender (2005) | Bolinda Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2006) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2006) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2008 | Heart-Shaped Box (2007) | HarperAudio | Winner | |||
| Daddy's Girl (2007) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| (2007) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| No Time for Goodbye (2007) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2007) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| What the Dead Know (2007) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| 2009 | Child 44 (2008) | Hachette Audio | Winner | [2] | ||
| Blue Heaven (2008) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2008) | Isis Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| Sweetheart (2008) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2008) | HarperAudio | Finalist | [3] |
| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Darling Jim (2007) | and Justine Eyre | Tantor Audio | Winner | [4] | |
| (2009) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2009) | and Duane Swierczynski | Penguin Audiobooks | Finalist | |||
| (2009) | , Gideon Emery, Rosalyn Landor, and Angela Goethals | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Road Dogs (2009) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| 2011 | (2009) | Random House Audio | Winner | |||
| Interface by | and J. Frederick George | Audible, Inc. | Finalist | |||
| Blackstone Audio, Inc. | Finalist | |||||
| Vengeance | , Stephanie Zimbalist, and Don Leslie | Griffyn Ink | Finalist | |||
| Dead Aim | Tantor Media | Finalist | ||||
| 2012 | (2012) | Brilliance Audio | Winner | [5] | ||
| Adrenaline (2010) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2011) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (1953) | AudioGO | Finalist | ||||
| Silent Scream (2010) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Out of My Head (2003) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2013 | Red, White, and Blood: The President's Vampire (2012) | Blackstone Audio | Winner | [6] | ||
| (2011) | and Agnete Friis | AudioGO | Finalist | |||
| (2012) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Odd Apocalypse (2012) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Rise Again (2010) | Tantor Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2014 | (2013) | and Orlagh Cassidy | Hachette Audio | Winner | [7] | |
| (2010) | Cherry Hill Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| (2013) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Suspect (2013) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Sycamore Row (2013) | Random House Audio/Books on Tape | Finalist | ||||
| 2015 | Those Who Wish Me Dead (2014) | Hachette Audio | Winner | [8] | ||
| "Hot Snow" in The Avengers Lost Episodes (Vol. 1) (2014) | Full cast | Big Finish Productions | Finalist | |||
| Dead Six (2013) | and Mike Kupari | Audible | Finalist | |||
| In the Morning I'll Be Gone (2014) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2014) | and J. T. Ellison | and MacLeod Andrews | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||
| Wayfaring Stranger (2014) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2016 | (2015) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [9] | ||
| Blue Labyrinth (2014) | and Lincoln Child | Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2015) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Season of Fear (2015) | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Signal (2015) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2017 | Cross Justice (2015) | and Jefferson Mays | Hachette Audio | Winner | [10] | |
| (2016) | Dreamscape | Finalist | ||||
| Hidden Bodies (2016) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Home (2016) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2015) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2018 | (2017) | and Graham Winton | Recorded Books | Winner | [11] | |
| (2017) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Don't Let Go (2017) | Brilliance Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2016) | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2017) | Penguin Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Mississippi Blood (2017) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| 2019 | Crimson Lake (2017) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [12] | ||
| (2018) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Macbeth (2018) | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2018) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2018) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Their Lost Daughters (2017) | Audible | Finalist |
| Year | Audiobook | Author(s) | Narrator(s) | Publisher | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | (2019) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [13] | ||
| Blood in the Water (2016) | Recorded Books | Finalist | ||||
| Freefall (2019) | , Karissa Vacker, and MacLeod Andrews | HarperAudio | Finalist | |||
| Lady in the Lake (2019) | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Winter Dark (2020) | Audible Originals | Finalist | ||||
| 2021 | When No One Is Watching (2020) | and Jay Aaseng | HarperCollins Publishers | Winner | [14] | |
| If It Bleeds (2020) | , Danny Burstein, and Steven Weber | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||
| (2020) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| (2020) | and Andrew Child | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||
| Yard Work (2020) | Audible Originals | Finalist | ||||
| 2022 | Local Woman Missing | , Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, and Jesse Vilinsky | HarperAudio | Winner | [15] | |
| (2021) | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Never Far Away | Hachette Audio | Finalist | ||||
| Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist | |||||
| Razorblade Tears (2021) | Macmillan Audio | Finalist | ||||
| 2023 | Greenwich Park | Simon & Schuster Audio | Winner | [16] | ||
| Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | |||||
| Hachette Audio | Finalist | |||||
| , Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, and Charlie Anson | HarperAudio | Finalist | ||||
| Snowstorm in August | and Michael Manuel | Blackstone Audio | Finalist | |||
| Where Secrets Live | Dreamscape Media | Finalist | ||||
| 2024 | All the Sinners Bleed (2023) | Macmillan Audio | Winner | [17] | ||
| CamCat Books | Finalist | |||||
| Bad Cree | Penguin Random House Audio | Finalist | ||||
| I Will Find You | Brilliance Publishing | Finalist | ||||
| None of This Is True (2023) | , Louise Brealey, and a full cast | Simon & Schuster Audio | Finalist |