Audiobooks Like The Secret Place

Stephen Hogan and Lara Hutchinson split the narration of The Secret Place across time periods and perspectives, with Hogan anchoring the detective investigation and Hutchinson carrying the teenage girl friendships that hold the boarding school atmosphere together — across 21 hours the contrast makes both threads feel more real by comparison. Three recommendations are award-winners at similar long runtimes, pointing toward ambitious, atmospheric mystery fiction where the psychological texture of the setting is as important as the crime.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Secret Place

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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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    Lethal White cover

    Lethal White

    Cormoran Strike • Book 4

    by Robert Galbraith

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    ★ 4.67 ABR Score (203.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.25 Goodreads (188.1K) ★ 4.69 Audible (15.0K)
    22h 31m 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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  4. 4
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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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    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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    The Silkworm

    Cormoran Strike • Book 2

    by Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling

    Narrated by Robert Glenister

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (319.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (296.4K) ★ 4.49 Audible (23.2K)
    17h 17m listening time • Released 2014
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    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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    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

    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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