Audiobooks Like The It Girl

Imogen Church narrates Ruth Ware's Oxford murder mystery with the controlled distress of a woman who can't stop pulling at a thread she knows will unravel everything — her voice holds the guilt and the grief together across 17 hours of slow revelation. The recommendations lean into the same psychological suspense rhythm, with several highly rated picks for listeners who want the same quality of female protagonist navigating secrets she was complicit in keeping.

10 audiobooks for fans of The It Girl

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    Portrait in Death

    In Death • Book 16

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.76 ABR Score (46.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (42.3K) ★ 4.83 Audible (4.0K)
    13h 58m listening time • Released 2013
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    Celebrity in Death

    In Death • Book 34

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.52 ABR Score (34.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (30.2K) ★ 4.63 Audible (4.2K)
    13h 53m listening time • Released 2012
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    Forgotten in Death

    In Death • Book 53

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.76 ABR Score (32.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.79 Audible (4.9K)
    14h 7m listening time • Released 2021
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    Golden in Death

    In Death • Book 50

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.67 ABR Score (32.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.38 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.75 Audible (4.8K)
    13h 50m listening time • Released 2020
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    Leverage in Death

    In Death • Book 47

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.65 ABR Score (30.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (24.2K) ★ 4.71 Audible (6.4K)
    13h 44m listening time • Released 2018
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    Career of Evil

    Cormoran Strike • Book 3

    by Robert Galbraith

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    4.62 ABR Score (248.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (231.1K) ★ 4.64 Audible (17.7K)
    17h 57m listening time • Released 2015
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    Payback in Death

    In Death • Book 57

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.61 ABR Score (27.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (26.0K) ★ 4.72 Audible (1.9K)
    13h 54m listening time • Released 2023
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    Kindred in Death

    In Death • Book 29

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.61 ABR Score (31.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (27.9K) ★ 4.71 Audible (3.4K)
    13h 56m listening time • Released 2009
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    We Are All Guilty Here

    North Falls • Book 1

    by Karin Slaughter

    Narrated by Kathleen Early

    4.60 ABR Score (144.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.21 Goodreads (133.0K) ★ 4.67 Audible (11.1K)
    16h 33m listening time • Released 2025
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    Rebecca

    by Daphne du Maurier

    Narrated by Anna Massey

    4.57 ABR Score (741.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (730.8K) ★ 4.57 Audible (10.7K)
    14h 48m listening time • Released 2014

    Du Maurier's gothic masterpiece — an unnamed narrator marries a widower and is haunted by his perfect first wife, in the most atmospheric mystery ever written.

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