Audiobooks Like The Silkworm

Robert Glenister narrates the second Cormoran Strike novel with the sardonic dry humor the detective character requires — his voice keeps the literary world's pretensions audible as a background irony even during the investigation's darker turns, across 17 methodical hours. The recommendations are mostly long-running crime series narrated with similar consistency, for listeners who want the same quality of procedural that trusts its detective and its audience in equal measure.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Silkworm

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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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    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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    Concealed in Death

    In Death • Book 38

    by J.D. Robb

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

    4.53 ABR Score (33.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (27.5K) ★ 4.62 Audible (5.8K)
    13h 59m listening time • Released 2014
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    The Fifth Witness

    The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 4

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles

    4.42 ABR Score (104.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (92.3K) ★ 4.48 Audible (12.0K)
    13h 51m listening time • Released 2011

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