The performance is the headline. A single narrator carrying almost ten hours of thriller has to manage suspense as well as character, holding tension across listening sessions rather than across pages, and that is exactly the thing to test in the sample.
No listener ratings have gathered yet, so there is no consensus to lean on, only the recording and your own ear. For listeners who choose their crime audio by voice rather than by author, which is a perfectly sound way to choose, this is an obvious one to try. It is listed below.