Audiobooks Like Good Girl, Bad Blood

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The full-cast production deploys more than ten voices across this 11-hour YA mystery, with Bailey Carr anchoring Pip's investigation while the ensemble builds out a world that genuinely feels populated rather than performed. Two shared narrators carry into the recommendations, and most of the list is highly rated, so if that podcast-within-a-novel format — where the investigation is both lived and narrated in real time — is what kept you engaged, these follow the same documentary instinct.

10 audiobooks for fans of Good Girl, Bad Blood

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    One of Us Is Lying

    One of Us Is Lying • Book 1

    by Karen M. McManus

    Narrated by Kim Mai Guest, MacLeod Andrews, Shannon McManus, Robbie Daymond

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 3.91 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.47 Audible (8.2K)
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    Five students enter detention, but only four leave alive when the creator of a gossip app dies mysteriously. The multi-narrator cast gives each suspect their own voice.

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    We Are All the Same in the Dark

    by Julia Heaberlin

    Narrated by Jenna Lamia, Catherine Taber, MacLeod Andrews, Kirby Heyborne

    ★ 4.12 ABR Score (71.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.77 Goodreads (57.5K) ★ 4.41 Audible (13.9K)
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    An abandoned girl resurfaces a decade after a local beauty's bloody disappearance rocked this Texas town. The full cast captures each character's secrets as past and present collide.

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    The Man Who Died Twice

    A Thursday Murder Club Mystery • Book 2

    by Richard Osman

    Narrated by Lesley Manville

    ★ 4.82 ABR Score (369.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (361.0K) ★ 4.82 Audible (8.7K)
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    Desert Star

    Renée Ballard • Book 5

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles

    ★ 4.80 ABR Score (96.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (86.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (10.4K)
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    Ballard and Bosch pursue the family killer who's haunted Harry for decades in this return to LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit. Titus Welliver and Christine Lakin anchor the dual narration with familiar authority.

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    The Wrong Side of Goodbye

    Harry Bosch • Book 19

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Titus Welliver

    ★ 4.71 ABR Score (101.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (80.3K) ★ 4.71 Audible (21.5K)
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    Private investigator Bosch hunts for an aging billionaire's potential heir while moonlighting with a small police force, and Welliver's weathered voice perfectly captures the detective's dual loyalties.

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    The Dark Hours

    Ballard and Bosch • Book 4

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin

    ★ 4.64 ABR Score (94.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (83.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (10.7K)
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    The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

    by Jelani Cobb, David Remnick

    Narrated by JD Jackson, Adjoa Andoh, January LaVoy, Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Copland, Kaleo Griffith

    ★ 3.82 ABR Score (271 ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (244) ★ 4.63 Audible (27)
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    A century of The New Yorker's essential essays on race in America, from Baldwin to Coates, elevated by six narrators who bring distinct voices to each piece. The audio format transforms these arguments into intimate conversations.

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    Resurrection Walk

    The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 7

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles, Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin

    ★ 4.84 ABR Score (84.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (77.5K) ★ 4.81 Audible (6.9K)
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    Mickey Haller takes on impossible innocence cases while Harry Bosch sorts through prison letters, their partnership crackling through multiple narrators.

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    Survivor in Death

    In Death • Book 20

    by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.74 ABR Score (40.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.42 Goodreads (35.7K) ★ 4.81 Audible (4.6K)
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    Eve Dallas investigates the military-precision murder of an entire family, but the sole survivor—a traumatized nine-year-old—may be the only witness to an impossible crime.

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    Innocent in Death

    In Death • Book 24

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.70 ABR Score (37.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.4 Goodreads (34.6K) ★ 4.8 Audible (3.2K)
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    A history teacher dies from poisoned coffee while Eve investigates and Roarke reconnects with a dangerous ex-lover. Susan Ericksen captures the domestic tension between Eve and Roarke alongside the methodical police procedural elements.

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