Kayte Nunn Audiobooks

The Yacht: a contained thriller where the sea leaves nowhere to run

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.3/5 average

84 listener ratings

Who is Kayte Nunn?

Put a crime story on a boat and the genre does half the work for you. Nowhere to run, a small cast who cannot avoid one another, and water in every direction: Kayte Nunn’s The Yacht takes the locked-room principle out to sea, where it has always worked rather well.

Eight and a half hours is the classic length for suspense of this kind, tight enough to sustain pressure and generous enough for the secrets to surface in the right order. The thriller shelf is where the catalogue places it, and the title promises that particular flavour of menace which comes with money, leisure, and people behaving badly a long way from shore.

Our entry rests on the writing itself, which for a book designed to be consumed quickly and argued about afterwards is entirely fitting.

Kayte Nunn in audiobooks

Beth Lilly reads, and pacing is everything in a confined thriller: the narrator has to hold tension through the quiet stretches, not merely through the reveals.

Getting on for a hundred listeners have weighed in, landing comfortably above four stars, which in suspense is a dependable sign that the ending pays off. It works best across a few long sittings rather than five-minute fragments, because the atmosphere is cumulative. Readers who like their thrillers claustrophobic, glamorous and faintly seasick will need no further encouragement. Browse the audiobooks below.