Summer listening heats up with twisty thrillers, fiction to get lost in, and a romance narrated by Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo. Add these audiobooks to your queue, and stay cool!

CONFIDENCE
by Denise Mina, read by Rona Morison
Hachette Audio 
Release date: July 5

This sequel to CONVICTION finds protagonist Anna McDonald searching for a vanished young YouTube star.

THE IT GIRL
by Ruth Ware, read by Imogen Church
Simon & Schuster Audio 
Release date: July 12

Ten years after one of her friends is murdered, a woman gets swept back into the investigation that she thought was solved. Ruth Ware and Imogen Church are an unbeatable combination.

TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW
by Gabrielle Zevin, read by Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
Random House Audio 
Release date: July 5

Two friends create a video game, and that’s just the start of this sweeping novel.

SISTER MOTHER WARRIOR
by Vanessa Riley, read by Adjoa Andoh, Robin Miles [Note]
Harper Audio 
Release date: July 12

Newly minted Golden Voice Adjoa Andoh gives this novel of the Haitian Revolution an Earphones Award-winning performance. Stay tuned for our upcoming interview with author Vanessa Riley!

THE 6:20 MAN
by David Baldacci, read by Zachary Webber, Christine Lakin, Mela Lee
Hachette Audio 
Release date: July 12

Three narrators take on this standalone thriller set in the world of New York high finance. Stay tuned for our upcoming interview with author David Baldacci!

THE COMEBACK
by Lily Chu, read by Phillipa Soo
Audible, Inc. 
Release date: July 14

A career-focused lawyer ends up accidentally dating a South Korean superstar in this audio original narrated by Hamilton’s Phillipa Soo.

PORTRAIT OF AN UNKNOWN WOMAN
by Daniel Silva, read by Edoardo Ballerini
Harper Audio 
Release date: July 19

Golden Voice narrator Edoardo Ballerini returns for his second outing as Gabriel Allon. A painting, a forgery, and international intrigue ensue.

THE SWEET REMNANTS OF SUMMER 
by Alexander McCall Smith, read by Davina Porter
Recorded Books 
Release date: July 19

Scottish philosopher Isabel Dalhousie attends to new moral dilemmas in the fourteenth installment of this favorite series. Fans will be thrilled that Golden Voice Davina Porter is returning, too.

THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAU
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read by Gisela Chìpe
Random House Audio 
Release date: July 19

Moreno-Garcia (MEXICAN GOTHIC) reimagines The Island of Doctor Moreau, set in nineteenth-century Mexico.

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