Audiobooks Like Every Vow You Break

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Karissa Vacker narrates Every Vow You Break in a tightly controlled register that suits the novel's central tension — a woman who can't tell anyone what's wrong, performed by someone who sounds like she's holding something back. Two of the recommendations return to Peter Swanson's work, and the broader list sits in the same psychological thriller space where the dread builds slowly and the narrator's composure is the engine of suspense.

10 audiobooks for fans of Every Vow You Break

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    Eight Perfect Murders

    Malcolm Kershaw • Book 1

    by Peter Swanson

    Narrated by Graham Halstead

    3.90 ABR Score (98.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (96.1K) ★ 4.08 Audible (2.0K)
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    The Kind Worth Killing cover

    The Kind Worth Killing

    Henry Kimball • Book 1

    by Peter Swanson

    Narrated by Johnny Heller, Karen White, Kathleen Early, Keith Szarabajka

    4.32 ABR Score (249.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (245.9K) ★ 4.45 Audible (3.2K)
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    Wicked Wanted Widows

    The Widows • Book 3

    by Kimberly Belle, Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers, Vanessa Lillie, Cate Holahan

    Narrated by Ariel Blake, Dina Pearlman, Karissa Vacker, Barrie Kreinik, Kevin T. Collins, Helen Laser, Neil Hellegers

    3.99 ABR Score (1.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.56 Goodreads (677) ★ 4.47 Audible (915)
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    Irish art thief Grace Callahan kidnaps Meredith to reclaim stolen treasures, sparking the other widows into action for this high-stakes rescue mission.

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    Enemy at the Gates

    Mitch Rapp • Book 20

    by Kyle Mills, Vince Flynn

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.64 ABR Score (30.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.43 Goodreads (23.8K) ★ 4.67 Audible (7.0K)
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    George Guidall's steady, authoritative narration transforms this Mitch Rapp thriller into pure espionage immersion—he makes every betrayal and mole hunt feel genuinely dangerous.

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    Escape cover

    Escape

    Billy Harney • Book 3

    by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

    4.54 ABR Score (18.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (16.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (2.3K)
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    Detective Billy Harney investigates a billionaire crime boss down to his last twenty million—and currently behind bars. Edoardo Ballerini captures the gritty Chicago atmosphere and Harney's determination perfectly.

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    The Golden Couple

    by Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen

    Narrated by Karissa Vacker, Marin Ireland

    4.50 ABR Score (268.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (240.6K) ★ 4.56 Audible (28.1K)
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    When wealthy suburbanites seek unconventional therapy after an affair, their ten-session limit becomes a countdown to chaos. Dual narrators Karissa Vacker and Marin Ireland reveal each woman's secrets.

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    The Big Empty

    Elvis Cole and Joe Pike • Book 20

    by Robert Crais

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    4.48 ABR Score (16.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.52 Goodreads (15.3K) ★ 4.56 Audible (907)
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    Elvis Cole investigates a father's disappearance in a small town where nothing is what it seems. Luke Daniels captures both Cole's humor and the growing tension as the case turns dangerous.

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    Last Breath

    Detective Erika Foster • Book 4

    by Robert Bryndza

    Narrated by Jan Cramer

    4.47 ABR Score (24.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (22.2K) ★ 4.6 Audible (2.2K)
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    Detective Erika Foster discovers a tortured woman's body and fights to join the investigation team in this fourth series entry. The case involves a killer who poses as the perfect date.

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    Spiraled

    Callahan & McLane • Book 3

    by Kendra Elliot

    Narrated by Nick Podehl, Amy McFadden

    4.42 ABR Score (25.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (23.1K) ★ 4.52 Audible (2.1K)
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    FBI agent Ava McLane gets trapped weaponless in a mall shooting, then must solve an epidemic of mass shootings across Oregon. Nick Podehl and Amy McFadden handle the dual perspectives with appropriate intensity.

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    All Good People Here

    by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers

    4.40 ABR Score (371.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (342.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (28.8K)
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    Crime Junkie host Ashley Flowers crafts a journalist's obsession with two unsolved murders twenty years apart in small-town Indiana, with multiple narrators heightening the investigation's intensity.

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