Is there an audiobook of All the Colors of the Dark?

Yes. All the Colors of the Dark has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.

How long is the All the Colors of the Dark audiobook?

The All the Colors of the Dark audiobook runs 14 hr 37 min.

Is All the Colors of the Dark on Kindle Unlimited?

No. All the Colors of the Dark was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 25, 2026.

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Our score

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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EDITION PUBLISHEDJune 2024

PublisherHolt & Company, Henry

Genres

Fiction Thriller Mystery

Themes

Obsession as devotion's shadowThe lifelong cost of one heroic actSearching as a way of loving someoneSmall towns and the darkness they absorb

All the Colors of the Dark

Name: All the Colors of the Dark
Price: 14.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Chris Whitaker

Chris Whitaker

Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark starts with girls vanishing from a 1975 Missouri town and a boy named Patch who stops the predator at terrible cost. Across the decades that follow, it grows into a missing-person mystery, a serial-killer hunt, and a lifelong love story between two people the same wound keeps pulling back together.

The Review

Our take

Page to page, this book feels less like riding a thriller and more like carrying one. Chapters are short and the sentences move, but Whitaker makes you hold what happens in them: a girl saved, a boy lost in the saving, a small Missouri town in 1975 learning what has been living beside it. Then the story does something crime novels rarely risk. It keeps going, past the incident, across years, and the case file becomes a life. You measure the pages left, notice how many there are, and slowly understand the length is the point. Some wounds only show their shape over decades.

Patch is the pirate-hearted local boy who saves a wealthy family's daughter and pays for it; Saint is the fierce girl who refuses to stop looking for him, first as a friend, later with a badge. The novel belongs to the two of them. Saint especially is a gift: stubborn, beekeeping, furious at God and the local police in equal measure, and her decades-long refusal to let the case or the boy go gives the book its moral spine. Whitaker plots the mystery honestly, seeds the long game early, and keeps the killer thread taut without leaning on gore, but the suspense that grips hardest is relational: watching two people orbit each other for a lifetime, each rescue slightly out of phase with the other's need. The humor lands in the gaps and keeps the sorrow from going stagnant.

Be clear-eyed about the commitment. At nearly six hundred pages the middle wanders where a leaner crime novel would sprint, and readers keeping score of the investigation may get impatient with chapters that follow grief instead of clues. The wandering feeds the ending. When the final revelations arrive, they pull threads from so deep in the book that the last stretch plays like a settling of accounts decades in the making, and it hits with the force only that much patience can buy. Keep something absorbent nearby.

Why you should read

Fans of We Begin at the End and literary crime epics
Readers who want a mystery married to a lifelong love story
Anyone who likes 1970s small-town Americana with real texture
Patient readers who trust a long game to pay off

What to expect

Short propulsive chapters across a decades-long timeline
A midsection that follows grief as much as clues
Well-placed humor cutting through the sorrow
A convergent ending built from very early seeds

Setup honored, then, and generously. This is a crime epic about obsession that refuses to treat love and detective work as different subjects, and by the last page it has argued its case: both are just refusing to stop searching.

Reviewed by Quinn · Updated June 26, 2026 · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.4/ 5

Excellent

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of All the Colors of the Dark?: Yes. All the Colors of the Dark has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini.
Listen to All the Colors of the Dark free with an Audible trial
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How long is the All the Colors of the Dark audiobook?: The All the Colors of the Dark audiobook runs 14 hr 37 min.
Is All the Colors of the Dark on Kindle Unlimited?: No. All the Colors of the Dark was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 25, 2026.
How much does All the Colors of the Dark cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $14.99, Paperback $12.76, Hardcover $10.91. Prices as of August 26, 2026 at 3:46 AM EDT and may change.

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What is All the Colors of the Dark about?: Page to page, this book feels less like riding a thriller and more like carrying one. Chapters are short and the sentences move, but Whitaker makes you hold what happens in them: a girl saved, a boy lost in the saving, a small Missouri town in 1975 learning what has been living beside it. Then the…
Is All the Colors of the Dark worth reading?: We scored All the Colors of the Dark 4.4 out of 5. Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark starts with girls vanishing from a 1975 Missouri town and a boy named Patch who stops the predator at terrible cost. Across the decades that follow, it grows into a missing-person mystery, a serial-killer hunt, and a lifelong love…