Audiobooks Like The Only One Left

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Christine Lakin and Dawn Harvey alternate narration across the story's dual timeline — Lakin handles the contemporary caregiver with a quiet wariness, Harvey gives voice to the confession itself, and together they build the gothic mansion's atmosphere across 13 hours without ever letting the uncertainty resolve too early. Eight award-winning titles appear in the recommendations, and the list gravitates toward gothic mystery and locked-location suspense where the past's refusal to stay buried is the engine.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Only One Left

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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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    The Waiting

    Renée Ballard • Book 6

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz

    4.61 ABR Score (76.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (71.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (4.7K)
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    A serial rapist resurfaces after twenty years, pulling Ballard and Harry's daughter into a cold case that turns personal. Christine Lakin's narration captures Ballard's methodical determination perfectly.

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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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    Rebecca

    by Daphne du Maurier

    Narrated by Anna Massey

    4.56 ABR Score (741.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (730.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.7K)
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    A shy bride arrives at her husband's estate, Manderley, only to find herself competing with the ghost of his deceased first wife. Massey's haunting narration perfectly captures the Gothic atmosphere.

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    In Cold Blood

    by Truman Capote

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.37 ABR Score (751.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (735.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.6K)
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    Capote meticulously reconstructs the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and tracks the killers' capture in this pioneering work of true crime. Brick's gravitas matches the material's weight.

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    Daisy Darker

    by Alice Feeney

    Narrated by Stephanie Racine

    4.12 ABR Score (286.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (282.5K) ★ 4.44 Audible (3.5K)
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    Family members start dying one by one during a birthday party on a tidal island, with each death mirroring a line from a twisted nursery rhyme. Feeney's trademark unreliable narration gets extra layers of menace through Stephanie Racine's careful vocal choices.

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    The Boy from the Woods

    Wilde • Book 1

    by Harlan Coben

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.10 ABR Score (123.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (113.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (9.3K)
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    Scott Brick follows Wilde, the feral child found thirty years ago, as he uses his unique perspective to track another missing teenager in Coben's latest mystery.

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    The Wrong Side of Goodbye

    Harry Bosch • Book 19

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Titus Welliver

    4.72 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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    Threshold • Book 1

    by Peter Clines

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.20 ABR Score (88.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.35 Audible (49.1K)
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    Nate's cheap LA apartment comes with padlocked doors, strange fixtures, and mutant cockroaches that hint at reality-bending secrets. Ray Porter guides listeners through mounting cosmic dread with perfect pacing.

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    O homem que morreu duas vezes

    Thursday Murder Club • Book 2

    by Richard Osman, Jaime Biaggio

    Narrated by Daniel de Mello, Sônia Schaeffer

    4.05 ABR Score (360.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (360.6K) ★ 4.5 Audible (2)
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    The Thursday Murder Club residents investigate a mystery involving stolen diamonds, Cold War secrets, and a man who appears to have died twice. This second installment maintains Osman's perfect balance of humor and genuine intrigue through its elderly protagonists' sharp observations.

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