Audiobooks Like Moonflower Murders

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Lesley Manville and Allan Corduner divide the dual timeline between them — Manville's measured, slightly guarded delivery anchoring the present-day investigation, Corduner's warmer register stepping back into the embedded mystery — and together they make Horowitz's intricate puzzle feel less like a novel you're reading and more like a case you're overhearing. At eighteen hours, the structure demands patience, but the narrators earn every minute of it by keeping the tonal registers distinct enough that when the two timelines begin to converge, you feel it before you understand it. Manville returns to narrate one of these recommendations, most of them run close to the same length, and several carry the kind of critical recognition that tends to follow mysteries this precisely constructed.

10 audiobooks for fans of Moonflower Murders

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    The Man Who Died Twice cover

    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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)
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    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

    4.33 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (182.1K) ★ 4.49 Audible (7.9K)
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    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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