Geocaching Themed Novels & Audio Books
Updated for 2025
As we start to plan our road trip to Geowoodstock in 2025, I went looking for an audiobook or two, to listen to on the trip. This original post was written in 2017, and long overdue for an update... there have been a lot of books written since then, and some of the originals on the list are now out of print.
I know I'll be buying Cached Out as an audiobook for our trip, and maybe Why Casey Had to Die, too. The series I am most interested in are The Geocaching Mysteries
By Dan Dekoning. Those are not yet available on audiobook, but I'll download the first one as an ebook to read on my phone.
Although not a geocaching series, our favorite audiobooks for past road/caching trips have been the Andy Carpenter series by David Rosenfelt. Light, funny, great characters, and good mysteries.
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Available As Audiobooks
[And as Epubs & Paperbacks too]
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 Cached OutBy Russell Atkinson Book 2 in the Knowles series is the first to feature geocaching, and is the only one in the series available as an Audiobook. The rest of the series can be downloaded for FREE as pdf files - here's how to convert them to epub |
Non Fiction The Caravan Chronicles by Matthew Klem 4 friends 48 States 2 Weeks [Reviews mention that there is not much mention of actual geocaching in the book] |
[Dark Theme - Serial Killer] An Amazon Editors Pick For Best Mystery in 2014 |
 Why Casey Had To Die Harry Bronson Book 1 By L.C. Hayden |
 Cozy Mystery To Cache A Killer Book 5 In Shoemaker Camping Series By Karen Nortman |
 Cozy Mystery Murder On Wheels Tourist Trap Book 6 By Lynn Cahoon |
 Maphead By Kyle Jennings [Of Jeopardy] Has a chapter on geocaching that I'm told is quite good. |
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 YA Moxie & the Art of Rule Breaking By Erin Dionne This is book 1 - book 2 is also about Ollie the Geocacher, but book 2 is not available as an audiobook. |
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 YA Code by Kathy Reichs |
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Available as Ebooks [Kindle, Epub]
These are also almost always available in paperback as well.
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Here's how to download them and convert the pdf's to epub:
 The Lost Frenchman Available as ebook or paperback Published in 2016, Reviews Well |
 There are 4 books in the series so far, and more expected soon. Available for Kindle, and in Paperback. The first 3 books can be purchased as an omnibus for just $10. While many geocaching books make just a brief mention of a geocache, THIS series is about active geocachers. |
A very puzzle cache based, and the ending is a VERY nice touch for puzzle cachers. A 99 cent Novella [Kindle only]
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 A thriller with a geocaching event along the Susquehanna River in Northeastern PA |
 Romance Caching In By Tracy Krimmer a 99 cent read Kindle only. |
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 Thriller/Serial Killer Serial Finder By David Klug Reviews Well Kindle Only - $3 |
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 Murder Mystery |
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YA Book 2 in the series. Book 1 is also about Ollie [a geocacher], and is available as an audiobook.
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 YA |  YA Waypoint Series By Shauna Schober | |
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Series Books
That have ONE book mentioning Geocaching
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Cache 72 – A Jaxon Jennings Thriller Book 2 in the Series |
Book 3 in the Steve Martinez Series |
Virginia K. Bennett is a cozy mystery author. She's also a geocacher - but I don't know if she mentions it in her books
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Physical Books
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OUT OF PRINT
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First To Find by Morgan Talbot Morgan Talbot has written a series of geocaching mysteries.
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 Reviews VERY well in geocaching forums, but is out of print and difficult to find. Single copies run around $30 on Amazon. |
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I read this while at the ASPGB 2017. I would not recommend this if you are looking for a geocaching mystery. It's actually about a town where almost everyone is a registered sex offender, or a victim of an offender. One of the victims is cutting of the, uhm, "male parts" of registered sex offenders, and hiding those parts in geocaches. It's much more about sex offenders than about geocaching, the geocaching is just kind of awkwardly thrown in there and doesn't make much sense.
Geocaching mystery. (Note: This novel is hidden in cache sites around the US and Canada.) Officer Brett Reed will do anything to gain custody of his five-year-old daughter, Quinn. But when a judge grants Brett’s drug-addicted ex-wife custody and slaps him with a protective order for losing his temper, he fears for Quinn’s safety. Who will protect her now?
When Quinn is found abandoned on the streets, the child is placed in a temporary foster home until Child Protective Services can complete an assessment. It should only take a few days. But a lot can happen in a few days.Especially when there’s a deranged psychopath on the loose, someone who’s attacking pedophiles, someone who wants to protect children like Quinn, and someone who’s planting body parts in geocaching sites. M. Weidenbenner plants the emotion of one vigilante's mission into the cache boxes of a gripping tale that will leave readers locking their doors and pedophiles sleeping with their eyes open.
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More Books That Mention Geocaching:
The Book of Lies by Brad Meltzer
The Gorry Brothers: First Leap by Eve McGuire
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