Best Stacia Kane Audiobooks

The best Stacia Kane audiobooks — 5 titles ranked by listening experience across Fantasy, averaging 4.02 ABR stars.

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Stacia Kane built one of urban fantasy's most distinctive and unsettling worlds with her Downside Ghosts series — a post-apocalyptic noir where the dead came back and a corrupt Church of Real Truth rose to power over the living. What sets Kane apart is her refusal to sand down the edges: her protagonist Chess Putnam is a functioning addict, and Kane writes that reality with unflinching honesty rather than using it as a backdrop quirk. Unholy Ghosts and City of Ghosts have the gritty texture of crime fiction dropped into a supernatural setting — spare, propulsive prose, a claustrophobic underworld, and relationships built on damage rather than wish fulfillment. Readers who want their urban fantasy raw, morally complicated, and genuinely dark rather than just edgy will find Kane delivers something few authors in the genre attempt.

Stacia Kane's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is City of Ghosts, narrated by Bahni Turpin (4.2 ABR stars). Performed by Bahni Turpin. Rankings here weight the listening experience — narrator performance and Audible ratings factor alongside reader scores.

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    City of Ghosts

    Downside Ghosts • Book 3

    by Stacia Kane

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    ★ 4.20 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (9.4K) ★ 4.62 Audible (937)
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    Chess faces rogue spirits and plans to open the gates between worlds in this urban fantasy's third installment. Bahni Turpin handles the gritty atmosphere and Chess's internal struggles with skill.

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    Unholy Magic

    Downside Ghosts • Book 2

    by Stacia Kane

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    ★ 4.04 ABR Score (11.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (10.5K) ★ 4.47 Audible (1.0K)
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    Chess Putnam battles both poisoning and murderous ghosts while exposing fake psychics in a world where the dead won't stay buried. Bahni Turpin captures Chess's gritty determination perfectly.

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    Sacrificial Magic

    Downside Ghosts • Book 4

    by Stacia Kane

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    ★ 4.14 ABR Score (7.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (6.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (825)
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    Bahni Turpin voices Chess Putnam's drug-fueled investigation into ritual murder while romantic tensions explode between her dealer-boyfriend Terrible and crime lord's son Lex.

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    Chasing Magic

    Downside Ghosts • Book 5

    by Stacia Kane

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    ★ 4.12 ABR Score (6.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (5.7K) ★ 4.55 Audible (770)
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    Chess Putnam, magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict, faces customers literally losing their souls when someone tampers with Downside's drug supply using black magic. Turpin's gritty performance matches Kane's harsh urban fantasy world perfectly.

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    Unholy Ghosts

    Downside Ghosts • Book 1

    by Stacia Kane

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin

    ★ 3.62 ABR Score (18.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.66 Goodreads (16.8K) ★ 4.09 Audible (1.5K)
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    Chess Putnam banishes ghosts for the Church in a world where the dead won't stay buried, but her drug addiction complicates everything.

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How We Rank Audiobooks

Rankings are driven by listener ratings and review counts from Audible and Goodreads. Books with high ratings across a large number of listeners rank higher — a 4.5 with 50,000 ratings says more than a 4.8 with 200.

Unlike most book lists, we weight audiobook-specific factors: narrator performance, production quality, and how well a story translates to audio. A great book with a poor narration isn't a great audiobook.

We don't accept paid placements or prioritize new releases. These rankings reflect what listeners actually enjoy, not what's being promoted.

Rankings update periodically as new ratings come in and new titles are added to the collection.

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