10 audiobooks for fans of The Secret Place
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The Keeper
Cal Hooper • Book 3
by Tana French
Narrated by Roger Clark
★ 3.94 ABR Score (917 ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (870) ★ 4.68 Audible (47)More about this pick
Cal Hooper returns for the final installment in French's acclaimed rural Ireland trilogy. Roger Clark's narration captures both the lyrical prose and underlying menace that make French's work so compelling.
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The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine
Narrated by Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik
★ 3.88 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)★ 4.39 Goodreads (22.7K) ★ 3.96 Audible (736)More about this pick
Twenty-five years of the best Holmes short fiction gets collected, featuring Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and other masters reimagining the detective across genres. Simon Vance and Anne Flosnik handle the varied styles with appropriate range.
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Career of Evil
Cormoran Strike • Book 3
Narrated by Robert Glenister
★ 4.61 ABR Score (248.8K ratings)★ 4.22 Goodreads (231.1K) ★ 4.64 Audible (17.7K)More about this pick
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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We Are All Guilty Here
North Falls • Book 1
by Karin Slaughter
Narrated by Kathleen Early
★ 4.60 ABR Score (144.1K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (133.0K) ★ 4.67 Audible (11.1K)More about this pick
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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Sycamore Row
Jake Brigance • Book 2
by John Grisham
Narrated by Michael Beck
★ 4.52 ABR Score (170.6K ratings)★ 4.1 Goodreads (141.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (29.5K)More about this pick
Jake Brigance returns to defend a controversial will that leaves a fortune to a black housekeeper instead of the deceased's white family—Grisham's sequel to his breakout novel.
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The Silkworm
Cormoran Strike • Book 2
by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling
Narrated by Robert Glenister
★ 4.40 ABR Score (319.6K ratings)★ 4.05 Goodreads (296.4K) ★ 4.49 Audible (23.2K)More about this pick
Private detective Cormoran Strike hunts for a missing novelist whose latest manuscript viciously attacks everyone he knows. Robert Glenister's gruff voice perfectly suits Strike's methodical investigation through London's bitter literary world.
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Brimstone
Pendergast • Book 5
by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.38 ABR Score (48.7K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (43.6K) ★ 4.55 Audible (5.1K)More about this pick
Bodies appear burned from the inside with claw marks on walls and brimstone in the air, pulling FBI Agent Pendergast into a case that seems supernatural.
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The Punishment She Deserves
Inspector Lynley • Book 20
Narrated by Simon Vance
★ 4.35 ABR Score (21.0K ratings)★ 4.19 Goodreads (19.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.1K)More about this pick
A beloved deacon's mysterious death in police custody unravels decades of buried secrets in medieval Ludlow. Simon Vance expertly handles George's intricate plotting and the complex psychology driving both her investigators and suspects.
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The Lake House
by Kate Morton, Unknown Author
Narrated by Caroline Lee
★ 4.34 ABR Score (152.9K ratings)★ 4.08 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.45 Audible (21.1K)More about this pick
A child vanishes during a 1933 midsummer party, and seventy years later a detective discovers the abandoned estate where the Edevane family's tragedy began.
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The Alienist
Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore • Book 1
by Caleb Carr
Narrated by George Guidall
★ 4.34 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)★ 4.06 Goodreads (182.1K) ★ 4.49 Audible (7.9K)More about this pick
Set in 1896 New York, a psychologist and reporter hunt a serial killer targeting boy prostitutes using revolutionary criminal psychology methods.
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