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Hidden Pictures Audiobook by Jason Rekulak— narrated by Suzy Jackson
Jason Rekulak hands his recovering-addict nanny a five-year-old whose crayon drawings start depicting a murder she could not have witnessed, and builds a supernatural thriller that uses the pictures themselves — printed right on the page — as its scariest device. It is a clever, propulsive horror-mystery that knows exactly when to let an image do the work.
Why the audiobook wins
Hidden Pictures plays a visual trick in print, letting a five-year-old's crayon drawings escalate into evidence of a murder no one witnessed. Stripped of the page, the audiobook has to sell that dread through voice alone, and Suzy Jackson does it by keeping Mallory Quinn's narration steady and grounded even as the story around her stops making sense, a recovering addict's hard-won calm fraying in real time.
That's the case for listening rather than reading: without the drawings to look at, you're leaning entirely on what Mallory hears and senses, which turns out to be the scarier version. Jackson paces the reveals so the horror creeps in sideways, ideal for a night drive or an evening walk when you want to be genuinely unsettled rather than jump-scared.
Rekulak built a horror-mystery that trusts its narrator's ear as much as its images, and Jackson's performance holds that trust. One Audible credit, and you're minding Teddy by nightfall.
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- Who narrates the Hidden Pictures audiobook?
- Suzy Jackson narrates the audiobook edition of Hidden Pictures.
- Is the Hidden Pictures audiobook worth listening to?
- We scored Hidden Pictures 4.4 out of 5. Hidden Pictures plays a visual trick in print, letting a five-year-old's crayon drawings escalate into evidence of a murder no one witnessed. Stripped of the page, the audiobook has to sell that dread through voice alone, and Suzy Jackson does it by keeping Mallory Quinn's…
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- Eligible new Audible members can use a free-trial credit to listen in the Audible app. Eligibility and current offer terms are set by Audible.
