10 audiobooks for fans of Career of Evil
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The Black Echo
Harry Bosch • Book 1
by Michael Connelly, Titus Welliver
Narrated by Titus Welliver
★ 4.65 ABR Score (224.1K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (218.4K) ★ 4.78 Audible (5.7K)More about this pick
Vietnam tunnel rat turned LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates when a fellow veteran turns up dead in a drainage pipe. Titus Welliver, who plays Bosch on screen, inhabits the character's war-haunted cynicism and stubborn moral code with authentic grit.
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We Are All Guilty Here
North Falls • Book 1
by Karin Slaughter
Narrated by Kathleen Early
★ 4.60 ABR Score (144.1K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (133.0K) ★ 4.67 Audible (11.1K)More about this pick
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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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by Anna Massey
★ 4.56 ABR Score (741.5K ratings)★ 4.25 Goodreads (730.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.7K)More about this pick
A shy bride arrives at her husband's estate, Manderley, only to find herself competing with the ghost of his deceased first wife. Massey's haunting narration perfectly captures the Gothic atmosphere.
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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)More about this pick
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 Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series)
Harry Bosch #1-3 • Book 3
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 4.41 ABR Score (15.7K ratings)★ 4.37 Goodreads (3.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (11.8K)More about this pick
The first three Bosch mysteries establish the Vietnam vet detective's obsessive pursuit of justice, from tunnel rat flashbacks to serial killer hunts across Los Angeles.
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Brimstone
Pendergast • Book 5
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.38 ABR Score (48.7K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (43.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.1K)More about this pick
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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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.37 ABR Score (751.4K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (735.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.6K)More about this pick
Capote meticulously reconstructs the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and tracks the killers' capture in this pioneering work of true crime. Brick's gravitas matches the material's weight.
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The Lake House
by Kate Morton, Unknown Author
Narrated by Caroline Lee
★ 4.34 ABR Score (152.9K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.45 Audible (21.1K)More about this pick
A child vanishes during a 1933 midsummer party, and seventy years later a detective discovers the abandoned estate where the Edevane family's tragedy began.
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The Alienist
Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore • Book 1
by Caleb Carr
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.34 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (182.1K) ★ 4.49 Audible (7.9K)More about this pick
Set in 1896 New York, a psychologist and reporter hunt a serial killer targeting boy prostitutes using revolutionary criminal psychology methods.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
Narrated by Jeff Woodman, Will Damron, John Berendt
★ 4.32 ABR Score (305.5K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (8.3K)More about this pick
John Berendt chronicles Savannah's eccentric characters during a real-life murder trial involving the city's antique dealer elite. The multiple narrators capture the Southern Gothic atmosphere and colorful local personalities that made this nonfiction read like fiction.
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