This is a round-up of the top ten best mystery audiobooks on Apple books this month, September 2022.
Including crime, thrillers and mysteries!
For more top free murder mystery books, including the best new releases on Audible see my posts listed below.
Best Mystery Audiobooks: Apple – Sept 2022
1. The Ink Black Heart
Author: Robert Galbraith | Released: August 2022.
Plot: When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation.
The co-creator of a popular cartoon, The Ink Black Heart, Edie is being persecuted by a mysterious online figure who goes by the pseudonym of Anomie. Edie is desperate to uncover Anomie’s true identity. Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart…
This is the 6th Cormoran Strike PI book by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling): Cormoran Strike Book Series in Order.
*The Ink Black Heart free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
2. Act of Oblivion
Author: Robert Harris | Released: September 2022.
Plot: 1660, General Edward Whalley and Colonel William Goffe, father- and son-in-law, cross the Atlantic. They are on the run and wanted for the murder of Charles I.
Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, they have been found guilty in absentia of high treason. In London, Richard Nayler, secretary of the regicide committee of the Privy Council, is tasked with tracking down the fugitives. He’ll stop at nothing until the two men are brought to justice. A reward of £100 hangs over their heads – for their capture, dead or alive.
*Act of Oblivion thriller audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
3. The Thursday Murder Club Book 1
Author: Richard Osman | Released: September 2020.
Plot: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?
You might also like: The Thursday Murder Club Book Series in Order.
*The Thursday Murder Club Book 1 free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
4. Charles Paris Mystery: Sicken and So Die
Author: Simon Brett & Jeremy Front | Released: September 2022.
Plot: Bill Nighy stars as the suave thespian sleuth in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. Life is good for Charles Paris. He’s moved back in with his estranged wife, and has landed a plum stage role as Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. But it can’t last.
First his attempts to woo Frances fall flat, then the play’s director is taken ill with gastric trouble. His replacement, Romanian wunderkind Alex Radelescu, is determined to take the play in a radical new direction – with or without Charles. When a second member of the company falls sick, Charles begins to suspect a poisoner is on the loose – and the next victim could be him. Can he unmask the culprit before this comedy turns into a tragedy?
You might also like: Charles Paris Mystery BBC Radio Plays in Order.
*Charles Paris Mystery: Sicken and So Die free mystery audio drama available from Apple Audiobooks.
5. The Thursday Murder Club Book 3
Author: Richard Osman | Released: September 2022.
Plot: It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal… Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned.
You might also like: The Thursday Murder Club Book Series in Order.
*The Thursday Murder Club Book 3 free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
6. The Family Remains
Author: Lisa Jewell | Released: July 2022.
Plot: LONDON. Early morning, June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago. Also inside the bag is a trail of clues, in particular the seeds of a rare tree which lead DCI Owusu back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for someone to pick her up.
The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts. Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can’t stay buried for ever…
*The Family Remains free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
7. The Thursday Murder Club Book 2
Author: Richard Osman | Released: September 2021.
Plot: It’s the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.
As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus? But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can the Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?
You might also like: The Thursday Murder Club Book Series in Order.
*The Thursday Murder Club Book 2 free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
8. The Family Upstairs
Author: Lisa Jewell | Released: August 2019.
Plot: n a large house in London’s fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up. In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note. They’ve been dead for several days. Who has been looking after the baby? And where did they go?
*The Family Upstairs free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
9. The Snow Killer
Author: Ross Greenwood | Released: November 2019.
Plot: ‘Fear the north wind. Because no one will hear you scream…’ A family is gunned down in the snow but one of the children survives. Three years on, that child takes revenge and the Snow Killer is born. But then, nothing – no further crimes are committed, and the case goes cold.
Fifty years later, has the urge to kill been reawakened? As murder follows murder, the detective team tasked with solving the crimes struggle with the lack of leads. It’s a race against time and the weather – each time it snows another person dies. As an exhausted and grizzled DI Barton and his team scrabble to put the pieces of the puzzle together, the killer is hiding in plain sight. Meanwhile, the murders continue…
*The Snow Killer free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
10. The Guilty Couple
Author: C.L. Taylor | Released: June 2022.
Plot: What would you do if your husband framed you for murder? Five years ago, Olivia Sutherland was convicted of plotting to murder her husband. Now she’s finally free, Olivia has three goals. Repair her relationship with her daughter. Clear her name. And bring down her husband – the man who framed her.
Just how far is she willing to go to get what she wants? And how far will her husband go to stop her? Because his lies run deeper than Olivia could ever have imagined – and this time it’s not her freedom that’s in jeopardy, but her life…
*The Guilty Couple free mystery audiobook available from Apple Audiobooks.
Best Free Murder Mystery Books & Audiobooks 2022 – UK Top 10
Checkout my roundup of the Best Audible Thrillers 2022 and my latest picks of the Top Mystery Audiobooks.
For more top mystery audiobooks and new installments in top popular crime and thriller book series, releasing on Audible UK in 2022:
Thursday Murder Club Series in Order.
Peter James – Roy Grace Books in Order.
Elly Griffiths – Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries in Order.
The Vinyl Detective Book Series by Andrew Cartmel, Listed in Order.
Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Short Story Collection.
Radio 4 Bill Nighy Charles Paris Mystery Dramatisations Free Download.
The Rising Tide (New Vera Book #10) by Ann Cleeves.
T E Kinsey – A Lady Hardcastle Mystery Series Order.
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