Audiobooks Like The Silkworm

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Robert Glenister narrates the second Cormoran Strike novel with the sardonic dry humor the detective character requires — his voice keeps the literary world's pretensions audible as a background irony even during the investigation's darker turns, across 17 methodical hours. The recommendations are mostly long-running crime series narrated with similar consistency, for listeners who want the same quality of procedural that trusts its detective and its audience in equal measure.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Silkworm

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    Troubled Blood

    A Cormoran Strike Novel • Book 5

    by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    4.78 ABR Score (161.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (149.1K) ★ 4.77 Audible (12.4K)
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    Lethal White

    A Cormoran Strike Novel • Book 4

    by Robert Galbraith

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    4.66 ABR Score (203.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (188.1K) ★ 4.69 Audible (15.0K)
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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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    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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