Recs if you like The Night Swim...

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

a list of problematic authors that you should boycott

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

Ah yes, this ol' issue that has plagued librarians and bookstore clerks for decades.

And sometimes you find the right book, but... can you even call that shade blue?

fiction that features podcasts and podcasters, whether they're following a crime, investigating a cold case, or something else entirely

Ethical murder solving from your couch without joining your local police department.

Your Pip-shaped hole deserves nothing less than full-blown mystery mayhem. This list is a survival guide for readers who've finished A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and are hunting for their next high-stakes obsession with amateur sleuth energy, buried secrets, unlikely sidekicks and adrenaline-fueled twists that demand binge-reading.

Thrillers that unspool through episodes and transcripts—true-crime hosts, missing tapes, and secrets that sound worse in the dark. Binge like a podcast, panic like a page-turner.

Mixed media mysteries and thrillers. Featuring emails, photos, podcasts, etc as part of the mystery

Books that pack a punch! Solid storylines, great plots, descriptive characters and the lot!

9 out of 10 times I finish a thriller (or horror), the plot immediately leaves my brain. these are the ones that left a lasting impression.