Audiobooks Like The President Is Missing

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Dennis Quaid leads a five-voice production cast with celebrity choices that suit the West Wing aesthetic of the novel — his presidential gravitas sits comfortably alongside January LaVoy's more versatile ensemble work, and the political thriller moves at a television-series pace across 13 hours. The authenticity that comes from Clinton's involvement in the writing gives the policy detail a texture that LaVoy in particular seems to understand how to inhabit. Seven of the ten recommendations are also narrated by LaVoy, and the same author appears ten times across the list — listeners who want more from this exact political-thriller combination have a full shelf here.

10 audiobooks for fans of The President Is Missing

  1. 1
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    Guilty Wives

    by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    ★ 4.18 ABR Score (40.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (37.5K) ★ 4.37 Audible (2.6K)
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    Four wives take a no-husbands Monte Carlo getaway that ends in murder charges, and January LaVoy captures their desperation as evidence mounts against them.

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  2. 2
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    22 Seconds

    Women's Murder Club • Book 22

    by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    ★ 4.39 ABR Score (42.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (38.9K) ★ 4.54 Audible (3.2K)
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    Lindsay Boxer hunts weapon smugglers while a killer targets former cops with personal messages, threatening both her badge and her life.

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    Invisible

    Invisible • Book 1

    by James Patterson, David Ellis

    Narrated by January LaVoy, Kevin T. Collins

    ★ 4.36 ABR Score (57.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (49.2K) ★ 4.39 Audible (8.6K)
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    FBI researcher Emmy Dockery connects hundreds of unsolved kidnappings to one invisible killer, but only her ex-boyfriend agent Books will listen before the pattern turns deadly personal.

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    25 Alive (WMC #25): A Women's Murder Club Thriller

    Women's Murder Club • Book 25

    by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    ★ 4.34 ABR Score (30.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (29.0K) ★ 4.52 Audible (1.2K)
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    The Women's Murder Club investigates a former SFPD chief's murder in Golden Gate Park for this milestone twenty-fifth installment. Patterson and Paetro return to San Francisco with familiar characters facing a case that hits close to home.

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  5. 5
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    Unlucky 13

    Women's Murder Club • Book 13

    by James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    ★ 4.16 ABR Score (49.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (48.9K) ★ 4.47 Audible (143)
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    Two corpses on the Golden Gate Bridge launch Lindsay Boxer into her most personal case yet when her ex-colleague becomes a suspect in multiple murders.

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    Private Berlin

    Private • Book 5

    by James Patterson, Mark T. Sullivan

    Narrated by January LaVoy, Ari Fliakos

    ★ 4.15 ABR Score (21.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.98 Goodreads (19.7K) ★ 4.34 Audible (1.6K)
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    Chris Schneider investigates high-profile cases for Private's Berlin office, using secret methods to navigate Europe's most dangerous city with dual narrators capturing the international tension.

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    26 Beauties

    Women's Murder Club • Book 26

    by James Patterson

    Narrated by January LaVoy

    ★ 3.59 ABR Score (11 ratings)
    ★ 4.55 Goodreads (11)
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    January LaVoy returns to voice another Women's Murder Club investigation as beautiful young women vanish across San Francisco. Her familiarity with Lindsay Boxer's voice grounds this chilling pattern-killer thriller.

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    Judge Stone

    by James Patterson

    Narrated by Viola Davis

    ★ 4.51 ABR Score (1.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.63 Goodreads (915) ★ 4.9 Audible (936)
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    Viola Davis both authors and narrates this courtroom drama about small-town Judge Mary Stone, who balances running her family farm with presiding over Alabama's most controversial case.

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    Kiss the Girls

    Alex Cross • Book 2

    by James Patterson

    Narrated by Michael Kramer

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (357.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (355.1K) ★ 4.57 Audible (2.8K)
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    Patterson pits Alex Cross against two serial killers working coast-to-coast in a twisted collaboration that Michael Kramer navigates with chilling precision.

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    Jack & Jill

    Alex Cross • Book 3

    by James Patterson

    Narrated by Ron Butler, Maxwell Hamilton

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (93.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (91.1K) ★ 4.61 Audible (2.4K)
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    Two killers target Washington D.C.'s elite with nursery rhyme calling cards while Alex Cross races to decode their deadly game.

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