Best Mystery Audiobook Series

The best mystery audiobook series ranked by average listener rating — detectives and sleuths worth following from case to case.

Mystery series are the genre's greatest strength — the best detectives, investigators, and amateur sleuths get better with every case. This list ranks mystery audiobook series by average listener rating across all books, so a series that maintains quality across every installment outranks one that peaks early and fades.

Every series here has at least 3 books in our catalog. These are the mystery series that audiobook listeners come back to again and again — reliable narration, clever plotting, and characters worth spending dozens of hours with.

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    The Lincoln Lawyer

    by Michael Connelly

    47h 45m total 4 books 4.56 avg
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    Renée Ballard series cover

    Renée Ballard

    by Michael Connelly

    29h 56m total 3 books 4.56 avg
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    Cormoran Strike series cover

    Cormoran Strike

    by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

    118h 4m total 5 books 4.50 avg
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    Detective Erika Foster series cover

    Detective Erika Foster

    by Robert Bryndza

    27h 6m total 3 books 4.39 avg
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    An Andy Carpenter Novel series cover

    An Andy Carpenter Novel

    by David Rosenfelt

    33h 4m total 5 books 4.32 avg
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    Sid Halley Mystery series cover

    Sid Halley Mystery

    by Dick Francis

    41h 19m total 4 books 4.23 avg
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    Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries series cover

    Inspector Ian Rutledge Mysteries

    by Charles Todd

    32h 54m total 3 books 4.20 avg
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    Sam Mason Mysteries series cover

    Sam Mason Mysteries

    by L.A. Dobbs

    16h 32m total 3 books 4.08 avg
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    Thomas Pitt Mystery series cover

    Thomas Pitt Mystery

    by Anne Perry

    63h 58m total 4 books 4.08 avg
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    Charlie Parker series cover

    Charlie Parker

    by John Connolly

    38h 33m total 3 books 4.01 avg