Audiobooks Like Simply Lies

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If you loved Simply Lies by David Baldacci, these audiobooks share similar qualities — same genre, sometimes the same narrator, comparable length, and the kind of ratings that signal a great listen. Fans of Lisa Flanagan's narration will find familiar voices here too.

10 audiobooks for fans of Simply Lies

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    The Last Mile

    Amos Decker • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Kyf Brewer

    ★ 4.59 ABR Score (127.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (105.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (21.8K)
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    Hours before execution, convicted killer Melvin Mars gets a reprieve when another man confesses to murdering Mars's parents. Baldacci's plot draws parallels between Mars and detective Amos Decker's tragic backgrounds throughout this FBI thriller.

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    The Guilty

    Will Robie • Book 4

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Kyf Brewer, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (77.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (64.2K) ★ 4.54 Audible (12.9K)
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    Kyf Brewer and Orlagh Cassidy alternate as Will Robie returns to his Mississippi hometown to investigate murder charges against the father who shaped his deadly skills.

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    The Innocent

    Will Robie • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.51 ABR Score (143.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (122.3K) ★ 4.49 Audible (20.9K)
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    Government assassin Will Robie's perfect record shatters when a mission goes sideways, forcing him to protect the very target he was sent to eliminate. Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy handle the shifting perspectives with precision throughout this cat-and-mouse thriller.

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    The Hit

    Will Robie • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.50 ABR Score (92.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (79.7K) ★ 4.54 Audible (12.6K)
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    Government assassin Will Robie faces off against Jessica Reel, a fellow killer who's gone rogue, in Baldacci's cat-and-mouse thriller that McLarty and Cassidy handle with professional precision.

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    The Forgotten

    John Puller • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.50 ABR Score (81.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (70.2K) ★ 4.56 Audible (11.0K)
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    John Puller's personal case in paradise turns into his deadliest investigation yet, with Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy building tension in every chapter.

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    The Target

    Will Robie • Book 3

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.50 ABR Score (80.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (66.0K) ★ 4.53 Audible (14.3K)
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    Presidential assassination orders and impossible missions get the tension they deserve with McLarty and Cassidy alternating perspectives as Will Robie faces his most dangerous assignment yet.

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    Memory Man

    Amos Decker • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.47 ABR Score (191.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.13 Goodreads (160.2K) ★ 4.43 Audible (31.2K)
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    A detective with perfect recall investigates his family's murder in this thriller where dual narrators Ron McLarty and Orlagh Cassidy handle shifting perspectives.

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    The Whole Truth

    A. Shaw • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    ★ 4.39 ABR Score (49.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (43.4K) ★ 4.51 Audible (5.8K)
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    Defense contractor Nicolas Creel pays specialists to manufacture international incidents and media campaigns that will create the profitable wars he desperately needs.

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    The Simple Truth

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Jonathan Marosz

    ★ 4.34 ABR Score (44.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (42.4K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2.2K)
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    Convicted murderer Rufus Harms realizes twenty-five years too late that he's innocent, filing a secret Supreme Court appeal while the real killers hunt him down in this legal thriller.

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    Split Second

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell • Book 1

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (95.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (83.5K) ★ 4.33 Audible (12.4K)
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    Former Secret Service agent Sean King's moment of inattention led to a candidate's assassination eight years ago. Scott Brick handles Baldacci's procedural thriller with steady pacing as King faces a parallel case.

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