Audiobooks Like Career of Evil

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Robert Glenister narrates Career of Evil with a gritty, textured voice that handles the book's dark subject matter without flinching — at 18 hours, the investigation has room to develop its procedural rhythms, and Glenister's understanding of British working-class registers gives the supporting cast real specificity. Six of the recommendations are award-winning titles, and the full list is built around similar-length crime fiction with the same unsentimental tone.

10 audiobooks for fans of Career of Evil

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    Troubled Blood

    A Cormoran Strike Novel • Book 5

    by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    4.78 ABR Score (161.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (149.1K) ★ 4.77 Audible (12.4K)
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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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    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)
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    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

    4.59 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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    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)
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    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)
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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 Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series)

    Harry Bosch #1-3 • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    4.41 ABR Score (15.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (3.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (11.8K)
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    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

    4.37 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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    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)
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    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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    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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