Where to Start with Karissa Vacker
- New to Karissa Vacker? Start here → A Flicker in the Dark
- What fans keep coming back to → All Good People Here
- Highest rated by listeners → The Golden Couple
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The Golden Couple
by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen
Narrated by Karissa Vacker, Marin Ireland
★ 4.49 ABR Score (268.7K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (240.6K) ★ 4.56 Audible (28.1K)More about this pick
When wealthy suburbanites seek unconventional therapy after an affair, their ten-session limit becomes a countdown to chaos. Dual narrators Karissa Vacker and Marin Ireland reveal each woman's secrets.
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All Good People Here
by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester
Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers
★ 4.40 ABR Score (371.5K ratings)★ 3.82 Goodreads (342.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (28.8K)More about this pick
Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers crafts a journalist's obsession with two unsolved murders twenty years apart in small-town Indiana, with multiple narrators heightening the investigation's intensity.
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A Flicker in the Dark
by Stacy Willingham
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 4.36 ABR Score (632.9K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (618.6K) ★ 4.38 Audible (14.3K)More about this pick
Psychologist Chloe Davis, whose father was convicted of killing six girls twenty years ago, faces new disappearances that mirror the original crimes too closely for comfort.
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What Lies in the Woods
by Kate Alice Marshall
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 4.30 ABR Score (208.5K ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (205.8K) ★ 4.47 Audible (2.7K)More about this pick
Twenty-two years after surviving seventeen stab wounds, Naomi returns to question everything about the attack that shattered her childhood friendship triangle.
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The Warehouse
by Rob Hart
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller, Jason Culp, Karissa Vacker
★ 4.03 ABR Score (15.9K ratings)★ 3.84 Goodreads (15.1K) ★ 4.29 Audible (835)More about this pick
Corporate dystopia meets employee surveillance in this chilling Amazon-gone-wrong thriller where workers live inside their workplace compound. The three narrators capture each character's desperation perfectly.
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Wicked Wanted Widows
The Widows • Book 3
by Kimberly Belle, Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers, Vanessa Lillie, Cate Holahan
Narrated by Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers
★ 3.98 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)★ 3.56 Goodreads (677) ★ 4.47 Audible (915)More about this pick
Irish art thief Grace Callahan kidnaps Meredith to reclaim stolen treasures, sparking the other widows into action for this high-stakes rescue mission.
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The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives: A GMA Book Club Pick
by Elizabeth Arnott
Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld, Karissa Vacker
★ 3.79 ABR Score (3.6K ratings)★ 3.63 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 4.1 Audible (77)More about this pick
Three women united by their husbands' crimes decide to hunt a serial killer in 1966. Saskia Maarleveld and Karissa Vacker capture both the period setting and psychological complexity.
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The Book of Magic
Spiritwalker #Bloom
by Gardner Dozois, K.J. Parker, Megan Lindholm, John Crowley, Matthew Hughes, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Rachel Pollack, Eleanor Arnason, Tim Powers, Liz Williams, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Bear, Lavie Tidhar, Greg Van Eekhout, George R.R. Martin, Andy Duncan, Kate Elliott, Scott Lynch
Narrated by Elliot Hill, Karissa Vacker, Sile Bermingham, Maxwell Caulfield, Susan Denaker, Scott Brick, Bruce Mann, Holly Palance, Nicholas Guy Smith, Steve West, Various
★ 3.66 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)★ 3.7 Goodreads (839) ★ 4.07 Audible (191)More about this pick
Eighteen fantasy authors explore magic's dual nature—from Gandalf to Saruman, from Glinda to the Wicked Witch—in stories spanning power, wisdom, and corruption. Multiple narrators including Scott Brick and Karissa Vacker bring distinct voices to each tale's unique magical system.
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Vigil
by George Saunders
Narrated by Judy Greer, Stephen Root, MacLeod Andrews, Kimberly Farr, Mark Bramhall, Barrett Leddy, Eric Jason Martin, Karissa Vacker, Sunil Malhotra, Cassandra Campbell, Kimberly M. Wetherell, Aaron Goodson, Maggi-Meg Reed, Full Cast
★ 3.65 ABR Score (8.8K ratings)★ 3.54 Goodreads (8.6K) ★ 4.04 Audible (194)More about this pick
Saunders' surreal novel unfolds at an oil CEO's deathbed as supernatural forces gather around his final hours. The stellar full cast, including Greer and Root, captures the story's blend of dark humor and otherworldly strangeness with impressive range.
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Shadowed Souls
The Dresden Files #14.5 - Cold Case • Book 14
by Jim Butcher, Kerrie L. Hughes, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, Rob Thurman, Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Lucy A. Snyder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Erik Scott de Bie
Narrated by Jim Butcher, Julia Whelan, Emily Rankin, Justine Eyre, David de Vries, Mia Barron, Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marnò, Karissa Vacker, MacLeod Andrews
★ 3.47 ABR Score (7.0K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 3.86 Audible (2.3K)More about this pick
Multiple narrators including Jim Butcher himself guide you through dark urban fantasy tales that blur moral lines across supernatural worlds. The ensemble cast matches each story's unique voice perfectly.
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