Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile’s editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. We keep our daily episodes short and sweet, with audiobook clips to give you a sample of our featured listens.

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Listen to an audiobook about the ultimate escape room — no one can leave until someone dies. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile’s Michele Cobb discuss this psychological thriller read with intensity by Kate Rudd. Six teens are locked together in a room and have to choose which one must die. Rudd continually turns up the heat—quite literally at a party where the thermostat is stuck on high and a bomb is ticking, and metaphorically as the protagonist has a series of epiphanies about what is actually going on.

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Support for Behind the Mic for AudioFile Magazine comes from Naxos AudioBooks. Neville Jason performs The Periodic Table by Primo Levi, an impassioned response to the Holocaust. It consists of twenty-one short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element.

Behind the Mic

Behind the Mic

Every Monday through Friday, AudioFile Editors recommend the best in audiobook listening. All in 6 minutes or less. It’s short, sweet, and just what your ears need.