The best mystery audiobooks, ranked by the data
Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best mystery audiobook in our dataset is Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo: 4.54★ across 90 ratings and 15.1 estimated listening hours. We scored every published mystery audiobook in our dataset: 256 qualify (mystery-shelved titles with full pages here), carrying 9,732 listener ratings between them. The top 20 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.
The top 20
Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
About 16 days at an hour a day, 37% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi
About 6 days at an hour a day, 48% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 34 days at an hour a day, 286% longer than the average mystery audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Lost Letters by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 40% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Green Mile by Stephen King
About 14 days at an hour a day, 12% longer than the average thriller audiobook.
Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
About 8 days at an hour a day, 17% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Chocolate Sabotage by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 38% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 9 days at an hour a day, 30% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
About 16 days at an hour a day, 79% longer than the average mystery audiobook.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
About 12 days at an hour a day, 5% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
About 13 days at an hour a day, 43% longer than the average mystery audiobook.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories] by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 8 days at an hour a day, 10% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
About 25 days at an hour a day, 192% longer than the average romance audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Great Tulip Heist by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 38% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
About 7 days at an hour a day, 46% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
About 16 days at an hour a day, 44% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
About 6 days at an hour a day, 36% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Mystery in Paris by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 31% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 5 days at an hour a day, 47% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Leviathan Falls by James S. A. Corey
About 18 days at an hour a day, 57% longer than the average fantasy audiobook.
How this ranking works
Every published mystery audiobook in our dataset qualifies: 256 books. Each is scored by its Open Library listener rating weighted by its rating count: score = (v·R + 50·C) ÷ (v + 50), where R is the book's rating, v its number of ratings, and C = 4.03★ the mean across all 2,178 published books we measured. Fewer ratings pull a score toward that mean, so a high rating on a handful of votes can't outrank a slightly lower one backed by hundreds. A book ranks here only when its own Open Library subject data confirms the mystery shelf; surfacing in a mystery search alone doesn't qualify it. Children's titles, memoirs and autobiographies are excluded from these rankings; they keep their regular book pages. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-08-17; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All mystery audiobooks we measured
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