Audiobooks Like Lethal White

Robert Glenister narrates Robert Galbraith's fourth Strike novel with a consistency of character that has accumulated over hundreds of hours in this series — his Strike is recognizably the same weary, principled investigator across every book, and the 23-hour runtime here, one of the longest in the series, relies on that accumulated trust between narrator and listener. Glenister's voice suits a novel interested in the overlap between political power and personal damage. Most picks run close to that same long-form length, several are in the award-winning detective fiction space, and all carry that quality of slow-burn procedural where the atmosphere is as important as the solution.

10 audiobooks for fans of Lethal White

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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover

    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)
    21h 21m listening time • Released 2010
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  2. 2
    Sycamore Row cover

    Sycamore Row

    Jake Brigance • Book 2

    by John Grisham

    Narrated by Michael Beck

    ★ 4.53 ABR Score (170.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.1 Goodreads (141.1K) ★ 4.6 Audible (29.5K)
    20h 46m listening time • Released 2013
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  3. 3
    Brimstone cover

    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)
    19h 42m listening time • Released 2011

    Scott Brick turns Preston and Child's diabolical locked-room mystery into pure atmospheric dread—his voice oscillates between clinical precision and creeping unease, making the supernatural feel genuinely inevitable.

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    Moonflower Murders

    Susan Ryeland • Book 2

    by Anthony Horowitz

    Narrated by Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner

    ★ 4.36 ABR Score (71.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (66.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (4.5K)
    18h 28m listening time • Released 2020
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  5. 5
    The Likeness cover

    The Likeness

    Dublin Murder Squad • Book 2

    by Tana French

    Narrated by Heather O'Neill

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (187.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (181.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (5.8K)
    22h 17m listening time • Released 2018
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    The Punishment She Deserves cover

    The Punishment She Deserves

    Inspector Lynley • Book 20

    by Elizabeth George

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (21.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (19.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.1K)
    22h 48m listening time • Released 2018
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    The Lake House cover

    The Lake House

    by Kate Morton, Unknown Author

    Narrated by Caroline Lee

    ★ 4.35 ABR Score (152.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.45 Audible (21.1K)
    21h 24m listening time • Released 2015
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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)
    20h listening time • Released 2012

    Carr's Victorian New York procedural follows a criminal psychologist before the word existed — richly researched, genuinely creepy, and compulsively readable.

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    The Woman in White

    by Wilkie Collins

    Narrated by Ian Holm

    ★ 4.31 ABR Score (168.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (167.1K) ★ 4.59 Audible (1.4K)
    24h 37m listening time • Released 2010

    Collins's Victorian sensation novel invented many of the mystery genre's conventions — two women, an asylum, and a conspiracy that unfolds with masterful suspense.

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    The Trespasser

    Dublin Murder Squad • Book 6

    by Tana French

    Narrated by Hilda Fay

    ★ 4.25 ABR Score (108.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (97.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (10.9K)
    20h 6m listening time • Released 2016
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