Audiobooks Like The It Girl

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Imogen Church narrates Ruth Ware's Oxford murder mystery with the controlled distress of a woman who can't stop pulling at a thread she knows will unravel everything — her voice holds the guilt and the grief together across 17 hours of slow revelation. The recommendations lean into the same psychological suspense rhythm, with several highly rated picks for listeners who want the same quality of female protagonist navigating secrets she was complicit in keeping.

10 audiobooks for fans of The It Girl

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    Portrait in Death

    In Death • Book 16

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.75 ABR Score (46.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (42.3K) ★ 4.83 Audible (4.0K)
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    A killer photographs victims after death, sending professional portraits to the media in this chilling entry where Eve Dallas hunts a murderer obsessed with capturing souls through his lens.

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    Celebrity in Death

    In Death • Book 34

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.52 ABR Score (34.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (30.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (4.2K)
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    Hollywood glamour turns deadly when an actress portraying Eve Dallas winds up murdered at a film premiere party. Susan Ericksen perfectly captures the meta-fictional weirdness of Dallas investigating her own fictional double's death.

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    Forgotten in Death

    In Death • Book 53

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.74 ABR Score (32.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.79 Audible (4.9K)
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    Golden in Death

    In Death • Book 50

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.66 ABR Score (32.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.75 Audible (4.8K)
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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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    Leverage in Death

    In Death • Book 47

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.64 ABR Score (30.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (24.2K) ★ 4.71 Audible (6.4K)
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    Susan Ericksen's sharp narration matches Eve Dallas investigating a Wall Street executive who strapped on explosives and walked into a board meeting.

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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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    Payback in Death

    In Death • Book 57

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.60 ABR Score (27.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (26.0K) ★ 4.72 Audible (1.9K)
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    Ericksen returns as retired Internal Affairs Captain Martin Greenleaf's apparent suicide becomes Dallas's most personal case in the series' 57th installment.

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    Kindred in Death

    In Death • Book 29

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    ★ 4.60 ABR Score (31.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (27.9K) ★ 4.71 Audible (3.4K)
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    Susan Ericksen handles the brutal subject matter with sensitivity as Eve Dallas investigates the savage murder of a police captain's teenage daughter.

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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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