Audiobooks Like Then She Was Gone

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Helen Duff narrates Then She Was Gone with the grief-worn quality of someone trying to hold themselves together — the mother at the center of Lisa Jewell's novel has been living alongside her daughter's disappearance for a decade, and Duff's performance never lets you forget the weight of that. The list is rich with similarly paced psychological suspense — nine award-winners across the group, two other Lisa Jewell titles — where the emotional terrain is as unsettling as any plot twist.

10 audiobooks for fans of Then She Was Gone

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    I Found You

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Helen Duff

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (200.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.93 Goodreads (177.6K) ★ 4.42 Audible (22.9K)
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    Two mysteries converge—a man with amnesia on a Yorkshire beach and a missing groom in Surrey—as single mother Alice becomes drawn into a dangerous web of secrets.

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    The Family Upstairs

    The Family Upstairs • Book 1

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn

    Why this book?

    Lisa Jewell crafts another gripping psychological thriller with unreliable narrators and twisted family secrets that unfold through multiple perspectives, delivering the same page-turning tension as Then She Was Gone. The ensemble narration here creates an equally immersive listening experience, pulling you deeper into a darkly compelling mystery with stunning reveals.

    ★ 4.41 ABR Score (589.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.95 Goodreads (574.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (15.0K)
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    Jewell's cult-thriller slowly reveals how a normal London family became entangled with a charismatic stranger — built on dread, masterfully paced.

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    The Night She Disappeared

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Joanne Froggatt

    ★ 4.57 ABR Score (348.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (333.3K) ★ 4.63 Audible (14.8K)
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    Jewell crafts a layered mystery where a young couple vanishes after a party, investigated a year later by a writer who discovers sinister clues in nearby woods.

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    Invisible Girl

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Donna Banya, Katherine Kelly, Connor Swindells

    ★ 4.30 ABR Score (202.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (193.2K) ★ 4.47 Audible (9.0K)
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    A suspended teacher's descent into incel forums collides with a teenage girl's mysterious disappearance in contemporary London. Three narrators bring distinct perspectives to this timely thriller, exploring online radicalization and the invisibility of certain kinds of victims.

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    Watching You

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Gabrielle Glaister

    ★ 4.27 ABR Score (238.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.86 Goodreads (232.1K) ★ 4.39 Audible (6.7K)
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    In the posh Bristol neighborhood of Melville Heights, everyone has secrets and everyone is watching each other until murder disrupts their surveillance. Gabrielle Glaister voices the multiple suspicious residents.

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    Don't Let Him In

    The Family Upstairs Series

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Richard Armitage, Joanne Froggatt, Tamaryn Payne, Gemma Whelan, Louise Brealey, Patience Tomlinson

    ★ 4.23 ABR Score (207.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (201.4K) ★ 4.41 Audible (5.7K)
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    The full cast, led by Richard Armitage and Joanne Froggatt, creates distinct voices for three women caught in Nick's web of manipulation and deceit.

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    The Girls in the Garden

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Colleen Prendergast

    ★ 3.90 ABR Score (116.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.54 Goodreads (113.4K) ★ 4.12 Audible (3.3K)
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    Colleen Prendergast navigates the shifting suspicions among London neighbors when a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in their supposedly safe communal garden square.

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    The Third Wife

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Joe Jameson

    ★ 3.77 ABR Score (77.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.44 Goodreads (73.5K) ★ 3.99 Audible (3.8K)
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    Maya's apparent suicide doesn't add up to her devastated husband Adrian, who digs into their seemingly perfect blended family. Jameson navigates the shifting perspectives as Adrian's investigation reveals disturbing secrets.

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    In the Blood

    Terminal List • Book 5

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.87 ABR Score (52.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (27.6K) ★ 4.87 Audible (24.8K)
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    Ray Porter's relentless delivery transforms Carr's geopolitical thriller into something almost unbearably gripping—his voice makes Reece's obsession feel like your own.

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    Verity

    by Colleen Hoover

    Narrated by Vanessa Johansson, Amy Landon

    ★ 4.74 ABR Score (4.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (3.9M) ★ 4.51 Audible (137.0K)
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    Vanessa Johansson and Amy Landon create distinct voices for a psychological thriller where manuscript pages reveal whether Verity Crawford is victim or monster.

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