10 audiobooks for fans of Rebecca
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The Only One Left
by Riley Sager
Narrated by Christine Lakin, Dawn Harvey
★ 4.45 ABR Score (645.8K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (635.0K) ★ 4.52 Audible (10.8K)12h 32m listening time • Released 2023Sager's best novel — a nurse caring for the sole survivor of a historical massacre discovers the old woman may be hiding the truth about what really happened.
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
Narrated by Scott Brick
Both audiobooks masterfully build psychological tension through meticulous storytelling, with narrators who capture the creeping dread beneath seemingly ordinary circumstances. Scott Brick's measured delivery complements Capote's precise prose just as Massey's haunting performance serves du Maurier's exploration of secrets and suspicion, making In Cold Blood an ideal choice for listeners drawn to mysteries that burrow into the darker corners of human nature.
★ 4.37 ABR Score (751.4K ratings)★ 4.09 Goodreads (735.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.6K)14h 27m listening time • Released 2006Capote invented the true crime genre with this account of a Kansas family's murder — reported with a novelist's precision and a profound moral weight.
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Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
Narrated by Scott Brick
Both audiobooks masterfully build psychological suspense through unreliable perspectives and dark secrets lurking beneath ordinary surfaces, while their excellent narrations—Massey's haunting delivery and Brick's gritty intensity—enhance the atmospheric tension that defines each story. The nearly identical runtime makes Mystic River an equally immersive listening experience for those drawn to mysteries where moral ambiguity and past trauma drive the plot.
★ 4.32 ABR Score (170.1K ratings)★ 4.18 Goodreads (166.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (3.2K)15h 24m listening time • Released 2012Lehane's best novel — three childhood friends, a murder, and a community's wounds laid bare in a story that plays out with the inevitability of Greek tragedy.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
Narrated by Jeff Woodman, Will Damron, John Berendt
Both audiobooks masterfully weave atmospheric mystery with deeply flawed, morally ambiguous characters whose secrets drive the narrative forward. The dual narration in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil mirrors the psychological complexity of Rebecca, creating an immersive listening experience that lingers long after the final reveal.
★ 4.32 ABR Score (305.5K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (8.3K)15h 11m listening time • Released 2005Berendt's true crime classic about a Savannah murder is as much a portrait of a city as a mystery — seductive, funny, and deeply strange.
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The Boy from the Woods
Wilde • Book 1
by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.10 ABR Score (123.2K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (113.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (9.3K)12h 31m listening time • Released 2008Scott Brick's gravelly delivery makes Wilde feel like a man shaped by damage and isolation—he transforms a revenge thriller into something far more human and unsettling.
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The Paris Apartment
by Lucy Foley
Narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, Charlie Anson
★ 3.97 ABR Score (740.4K ratings)★ 3.64 Goodreads (728.0K) ★ 4.27 Audible (12.5K)12h 53m listening time • Released 2022Foley's twisty thriller is set almost entirely in a Parisian building that slowly reveals its secrets — atmospheric, propulsive, and full of unreliable witnesses.
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Jamaica Inn
by Daphne du Maurier
Narrated by Tony Britton
★ 3.87 ABR Score (61.6K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (61.1K) ★ 4.21 Audible (510)10h 28m listening time • Released 2014 -
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton
Narrated by James Cameron Stewart
★ 3.84 ABR Score (496.3K ratings)★ 3.78 Goodreads (488.7K) ★ 4.1 Audible (7.6K)16h 39m listening time • Released 2026Turton's debut is the most inventive locked-room mystery in decades — a man must solve a murder by reliving the same day inside different guests' bodies.
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Broken
by Don Winslow
Narrated by Ray Porter, Kaleo Griffith
★ 4.24 ABR Score (11.0K ratings)★ 4.15 Goodreads (9.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (1.6K)12h 25m listening time • Released 2020Ray Porter and Kaleo Griffith transform Winslow's interconnected crime stories into a masterclass in dual narration, each voice shifting seamlessly between damaged cops, desperate crooks, and broken lives with devastating emotional precision.
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Threshold • Book 1
by Peter Clines
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.20 ABR Score (88.8K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.35 Audible (49.1K)12h 34m listening time • Released 2012Ray Porter's measured, curious delivery transforms this locked-door mystery into something genuinely unsettling—each revelation lands harder because he treats the impossible like a puzzle worth solving.
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