Riley Sager writes thrillers that live in the space between gothic dread and razor-sharp plot twists, and audiobooks are honestly the best format for them. The tension builds sentence by sentence, and a good narrator locks you into that mounting unease in a way that’s hard to shake. His 2017 debut, “Final girls,” set the tone for everything that followed: unreliable narrators, isolated settings, and endings that reframe everything you thought you knew.

If you’re the kind of listener who enjoys feeling genuinely unsettled on a commute, Sager delivers that consistently. His books reward close attention, which makes audio a surprisingly sharp choice over print.