Audiobooks Like The Guilty

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Kyf Brewer narrates The Guilty with the kind of steady professional tension that Baldacci's thrillers require — not flashy, but reliable across 12 hours of family secrets and espionage, holding the dual storylines in balance. Five of these picks feature Brewer's narration, and all ten come from Baldacci's world, making this a series completionist's list built around the same familiar voice and the same high-stakes family-and-government thriller territory.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Guilty

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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 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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    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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    Hell's Corner

    The Camel Club • Book 5

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty, Orlagh Cassidy

    ★ 4.38 ABR Score (49.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (44.8K) ★ 4.43 Audible (5.1K)
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    An explosion near the White House draws Oliver Stone into a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of American power.

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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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    Simple Genius

    Sean King & Michelle Maxwell • Book 3

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    ★ 4.29 ABR Score (54.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (49.3K) ★ 4.41 Audible (5.3K)
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    Scott Brick's steady performance anchors this dual mystery as Sean probes a physicist's death while Michelle battles personal demons in psychiatric treatment, both cases involving government secrets.

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    True Blue

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Ron McLarty

    ★ 4.20 ABR Score (39.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (35.4K) ★ 4.35 Audible (4.1K)
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    Former cop Mace Perry rebuilds her life after being framed and imprisoned, but a high-profile Washington murder pulls her back into the dangerous intersection of crime and national security.

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    Saving Faith

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 4.12 ABR Score (34.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (30.3K) ★ 4.21 Audible (4.6K)
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    Washington corruption meets deadly conspiracy when a lobbyist discovers how deep the rot goes. Michael Kramer's steady pacing keeps you hooked through every political twist.

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