Audiobooks Like The Turn of the Key

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Imogen Church narrates Ruth Ware's epistolary thriller with a mounting, barely-contained desperation — reading as a woman writing letters from prison, she layers every recounted memory with a dread the character herself seems unable to fully grasp. Six of these picks feature Church's voice, four are from Ware herself, and the rest orbit the same locked-space, unreliable-narrator territory where the walls close in slowly and the truth arrives late.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Turn of the Key

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    The Woman in Cabin 10

    Lo Blacklock • Book 1

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    4.10 ABR Score (802.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.72 Goodreads (785.3K) ★ 4.13 Audible (16.6K)
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    Travel journalist Lo witnesses a woman thrown overboard from a luxury cruise, but no one believes her story. Imogen Church captures Lo's growing desperation as reality becomes increasingly uncertain.

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    The Lying Game

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    3.99 ABR Score (223.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.52 Goodreads (216.7K) ★ 4.2 Audible (7.1K)
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    Four women return to their boarding school twenty years later when human remains surface near their old playground. The secrets they buried as teenagers threaten to destroy their adult lives in this atmospheric psychological thriller.

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    Zero Days

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    3.74 ABR Score (130.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (129.5K) ★ 3.82 Audible (1.1K)
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    Penetration tester Jack comes home to find her husband murdered and herself framed, launching a desperate race to clear her name and find the real killer.

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    In a Dark, Dark Wood

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    4.19 ABR Score (416.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (402.8K) ★ 4.3 Audible (13.6K)
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    A hen party in a remote English cottage turns deadly when old grudges surface. The claustrophobic woodland setting becomes another character through atmospheric narration.

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    The Hunting Party

    by Lucy Foley

    Narrated by Gary Furlong, Elle Newlands, Morag Sims, Imogen Church, Moira Quirk

    4.11 ABR Score (380.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.6 Goodreads (367.9K) ★ 4.27 Audible (12.4K)
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    Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish estate for their annual New Year celebration, but old resentments and new secrets turn deadly when someone winds up murdered. Multiple narrators handle different perspectives, building tension through shifting viewpoints and growing paranoia.

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    Into the Water

    by Paula Hawkins

    Narrated by Laura Aikman, Sophie Aldred, Rachel Bavidge, Daniel Weyman, Imogen Church

    3.92 ABR Score (435.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.59 Goodreads (421.9K) ★ 3.98 Audible (13.9K)
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    Multiple narrators tackle this complex thriller about women who keep dying in the same cursed river, creating an unsettling chorus of secrets.

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    Savage Son

    Terminal List • Book 3

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.88 ABR Score (65.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (36.5K) ★ 4.87 Audible (28.8K)
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    Ray Porter transforms Carr's revenge thriller into pure adrenaline. His ability to shift between Reece's measured lethality and the chaos around him makes this the best entry in the series yet.

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    Memorial Day

    Mitch Rapp • Book 7

    by Vince Flynn

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.67 ABR Score (64.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (53.1K) ★ 4.71 Audible (11.1K)
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    Rapp races from Afghanistan to Washington as intelligence points toward a nuclear attack during Memorial Day ceremonies, uncovering a plot that threatens the nation's World War II veterans tribute.

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    Act of Treason

    Mitch Rapp • Book 9

    by Vince Flynn

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.67 ABR Score (66.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (54.6K) ★ 4.71 Audible (11.6K)
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    Guidall's authoritative delivery matches Mitch Rapp's investigation of Georgetown assassinations targeting presidential candidates, weaving political intrigue with action-packed espionage.

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    Pursuit of Honor

    Mitch Rapp • Book 12

    by Vince Flynn

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.66 ABR Score (57.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (46.9K) ★ 4.69 Audible (10.5K)
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    Guidall's steady performance anchors the intense aftermath as Mitch Rapp hunts the terrorists who survived their Washington D.C. bombing campaign and plan even deadlier attacks.

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