Audiobooks Like Broken Harbor

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Stephen Hogan reads *Broken Harbor* with a calibrated restraint that makes Scorcher Kennedy's slow psychological unraveling feel genuinely dangerous — the narration opens clipped and procedural, and Hogan lets the cracks spread underneath long before Scorcher will admit they're there. At twenty hours, French gives the investigation room to breathe in ways a shorter book couldn't, and Hogan holds the haunted atmosphere of that ghost estate like a sustained bass note across the entire runtime. Most of these picks run close to the same length, and whether it's another novel from French herself or one of the award-winners in the mix, they share *Broken Harbor*'s conviction that the real crime scene is always somewhere inside the detective's head.

10 audiobooks for fans of Broken Harbor

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    The Keeper

    Cal Hooper • Book 3

    by Tana French

    Narrated by Roger Clark

    ★ 3.95 ABR Score (917 ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (870) ★ 4.68 Audible (47)
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    Cal Hooper returns for the final installment in French's acclaimed rural Ireland trilogy. Roger Clark's narration captures both the lyrical prose and underlying menace that make French's work so compelling.

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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

    by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine

    Narrated by Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik

    ★ 3.88 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (22.7K) ★ 3.96 Audible (736)
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    Twenty-five years of the best Holmes short fiction gets collected, featuring Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and other masters reimagining the detective across genres. Simon Vance and Anne Flosnik handle the varied styles with appropriate range.

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    Lethal White

    A Cormoran Strike Novel • Book 4

    by Robert Galbraith

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    ★ 4.66 ABR Score (203.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (188.1K) ★ 4.69 Audible (15.0K)
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    Career of Evil

    Cormoran Strike • Book 3

    by Robert Galbraith

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    ★ 4.61 ABR Score (248.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (231.1K) ★ 4.64 Audible (17.7K)
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    Strike and Robin investigate a package containing a severed leg, leading them through four suspects from the detective's violent past. Robert Glenister returns to voice Galbraith's gripping procedural.

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  5. 5
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    We Are All Guilty Here

    North Falls • Book 1

    by Karin Slaughter

    Narrated by Kathleen Early

    ★ 4.59 ABR Score (144.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (133.0K) ★ 4.67 Audible (11.1K)
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    Two teenage girls vanish during a small-town fireworks celebration, igniting secrets in North Falls where everyone knows everyone. Early's narration captures officer Emmy Clifton's desperation as her past collides with the investigation.

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    Sycamore Row

    Jake Brigance • Book 2

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Michael Beck

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (170.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (141.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (29.5K)
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    Jake Brigance returns to defend a controversial will that leaves a fortune to a black housekeeper instead of the deceased's white family—Grisham's sequel to his breakout novel.

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    The Silkworm

    Cormoran Strike • Book 2

    by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (319.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (296.4K) ★ 4.49 Audible (23.2K)
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    Private detective Cormoran Strike hunts for a missing novelist whose latest manuscript viciously attacks everyone he knows. Robert Glenister's gruff voice perfectly suits Strike's methodical investigation through London's bitter literary world.

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    Brimstone

    Pendergast • Book 5

    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (48.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (43.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.1K)
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    Bodies appear burned from the inside with claw marks on walls and brimstone in the air, pulling FBI Agent Pendergast into a case that seems supernatural.

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    Moonflower Murders

    Susan Ryeland Series • Book 2

    by Anthony Horowitz

    Narrated by Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner

    ★ 4.36 ABR Score (71.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (66.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (4.5K)
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    The Punishment She Deserves

    Inspector Lynley • Book 20

    by Elizabeth George

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (21.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (19.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.1K)
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    A beloved deacon's mysterious death in police custody unravels decades of buried secrets in medieval Ludlow. Simon Vance expertly handles George's intricate plotting and the complex psychology driving both her investigators and suspects.

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