The Midnight Taxi is a recently released mystery audiobook featuring two dynamic narrators, Isuri Wijesundara and Yosha Gunasekera (yes, the author herself). Siri dreamed of becoming a lawyer, but instead, she’s working as a taxi driver and living with her parents. When she meets public defender Amaya Fernando, she’s excited to have met a new friend who shares her Sri Lankan roots and love for the law. But then someone winds up dead in the back of Siri’s cab, and Siri will have to call upon Amaya for more than friendship. If they don’t figure out who the real murderer is, Siri will be convicted of the crime.

Bestselling thriller author Taylor Adams’ latest novel is narrated by Audie Award and Earphones Award winner Sophie Amoss. In Her Last Breath, two friends—influencer Allie and legal assistant Tess—go caving together. But in the depths of the cave, they’re alarmed to discover they’re not alone. A stranger has followed them and attacked them. At first, it seems to Tess like a random act of violence, but 24 hours later, as police question Tess at the hospital, she learns shocking secrets about her friend that reveal the stranger’s appearance might not have been so random after all.

If you love thrilling audiobooks read by multiple narrators, add Claire Douglas’ The New Neighbors to your queue. The Morgans seem like a harmless retired couple when they first move in next door to Lena. But then Lena overhears a conversation between the couple that has her second-guessing their intentions. Are they planning a crime? Everyone tells Lena she must be mistaken, but she knows she will regret it if she could have prevented any wrongdoings.

Sisters in Yellow, a Japanese noir thriller translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio, is narrated by actress Annie Q. Riegel, whom you might recognize from The Leftovers. Set in 1990s Tokyo, this novel follows 15-year-old Hana, who lives in poverty with her mother in a small apartment. When the mysterious older woman, Kimiko, arrives in their lives, the adult women open a bar together that they call Lemon. All is going well for them until a fire destroys everything they’ve built together, and the women turn to a life of crime to keep themselves afloat.

Tana French is back with another book in the Cal Hooper series, a follow-up to her 2020 novel The Searcher and 2024’s The Hunter. Narrator Roger Clark returns as the audiobook performer. In the small Irish village of Ardnakelty, Rachel Holohan, a young woman who was about to be engaged to a local celebrity of sorts, has been found dead in the river. In a town like this, everyone is tangled up in each other’s lives, making the connections to the murder even harder for Cal to unravel.

Speaking of mystery sequels, How to Cheat Your Own Death, the third book in Kristen Perrin’s Castle Knoll Files series, is out in April. This novel threads together two mysteries, one in 1960s Soho and one in present-day West London. The narrator(s) for this audiobook have yet to be announced. However, the first two books in the series, How to Solve Your Own Murder and How to Seal Your Own Fate, were expertly narrated by Alexandra Dowling, so fingers are crossed that she’s back for number three!

Canwen Xu’s psychological thriller Boring Asian Female will make for a propulsive, unforgettable audiobook listen. Elizabeth Zhang is unremarkable in almost every way. She’s not particularly likable, and she’s extremely plain-looking. But at least she’s smart. Smart enough, she thinks, to get into Harvard Law School. Unfortunately, the admissions office has decided otherwise, finding Elizabeth’s application not remarkable enough to merit Harvard consideration. What’s worse, Elizabeth’s classmate, Laura Kim, somehow makes the cut, and Elizabeth can’t understand why. What makes Laura so special?

Curiosity drives Elizabeth to find out, following Laura as she goes about her life, noting where she goes, what she buys, and how she spends her free time. Why did Laura get the spot that Elizabeth so desperately wanted? And what lengths will Elizabeth go to get it back?