Audiobooks Like The Summons

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Michael Beck narrates The Summons with an unhurried Southern quality that suits Grisham's slow-burn inheritance mystery — nine hours of family secrets and unexpected cash in a Mississippi setting where the pace of revelation mirrors the reluctance of the characters to face what they know. One other recommendation features Beck, and the remaining titles stay inside Grisham's world, where courtrooms and family legacies are the sites of moral reckoning.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Summons

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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)
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    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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    Caminhos Da Lei - Ford County: Stories - John Grisham

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by John Grisham

    3.76 ABR Score (30.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.73 Goodreads (29.2K) ★ 4.17 Audible (1.5K)
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    Grisham ventures into short fiction with seven legal tales set in fictional Ford County, Mississippi. The author narrates his own collection of courthouse dramas featuring small-town lawyers and unexpected justice.

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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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    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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    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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    The Longmire Defense

    Walt Longmire • Book 19

    by Craig Johnson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.68 ABR Score (12.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.54 Goodreads (11.0K) ★ 4.8 Audible (1.8K)
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    Fresh from confronting his past and questioning justice itself, Walt faces an unprecedented crime scene in Wyoming's countryside that challenges everything he believes about law enforcement.

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    Holiday in Death

    In Death • Book 7

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.63 ABR Score (50.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.34 Goodreads (45.9K) ★ 4.73 Audible (4.3K)
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    Lieutenant Eve Dallas tracks a ritualistic killer targeting clients of New York's most exclusive dating service during the holiday season. Susan Ericksen's performance captures both the futuristic setting and holiday atmosphere of this seventh In Death novel.

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    The Dark Horse

    Walt Longmire • Book 5

    by Craig Johnson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.54 ABR Score (28.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (21.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (7.1K)
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    Sheriff Walt Longmire goes undercover to investigate a woman who allegedly shot her horse-burning husband six times in the head. George Guidall captures Longmire's dry wit and the dusty desperation of rural Wyoming perfectly.

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    A Serpent's Tooth

    Walt Longmire • Book 9

    by Craig Johnson

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.54 ABR Score (24.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.3 Goodreads (17.1K) ★ 4.65 Audible (7.2K)
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    Walt Longmire investigates a highway shooting involving a polygamist compound while navigating family secrets and federal complications in Wyoming's high country.

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    Deadly Secrets

    Detective Erika Foster • Book 6

    by Robert Bryndza

    Narrated by Jan Cramer

    4.45 ABR Score (18.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (16.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (1.5K)
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    Detective Erika Foster investigates when a daughter is found frozen in her own blood on her mother's doorstep, uncovering a pattern of local assaults.

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