10 audiobooks for fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley
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Then She Was Gone
by Lisa Jewell
Narrated by Helen Duff
★ 4.61 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (1.0M) ★ 4.56 Audible (84.7K)10h 12m listening time • Released 2018Jewell's missing-girl thriller has one of crime fiction's most shocking reveals — a mother reconnects with a man whose daughter eerily resembles her missing child.
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None of This is True
by Lisa Jewell
Narrated by Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, Alix Dunmore, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Jewell, Thomas Judd, Dominic Thorburn, Nicola Walker, Jenny Walser
★ 4.53 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.53 Audible (15.4K)10h 31m listening time • Released 2023Jewell's latest is a true-crime-podcast thriller — a woman who befriends a podcaster becomes the subject of the story, with terrifying consequences.
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Orphan X
Orphan X • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.50 ABR Score (82.4K ratings)★ 4.14 Goodreads (56.7K) ★ 4.53 Audible (25.7K)11h 15m listening time • Released 2016Scott Brick's relentless delivery transforms this into a page-turner you can't pause—a tight, expertly crafted thriller that proves spy fiction doesn't need sprawl to hit hard.
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Behind Closed Doors
by B.A. Paris
Narrated by Georgia Maguire
★ 4.45 ABR Score (822.5K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (765.1K) ★ 4.41 Audible (57.4K)8h 40m listening time • Released 2016Paris's debut is a slow-burn domestic thriller — a perfect marriage with a terrible secret, told with a patience that makes the reveal all the more devastating.
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The Family Upstairs
The Family Upstairs • Book 1
by Lisa Jewell
Narrated by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn
★ 4.41 ABR Score (589.7K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (574.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (14.8K)9h 36m listening time • Released 2019Jewell's cult-thriller slowly reveals how a normal London family became entangled with a charismatic stranger — built on dread, masterfully paced.
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A Flicker in the Dark
by Stacy Willingham
Narrated by Karissa Vacker
★ 4.36 ABR Score (627.9K ratings)★ 3.97 Goodreads (613.6K) ★ 4.38 Audible (14.3K)11h 6m listening time • Released 2022Willingham's debut is a tightly wound psychological thriller about a criminal psychologist whose past resurfaces when girls start disappearing near her hometown.
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The Informant
Butcher's Boy • Book 3
by Thomas Perry
Narrated by Michael Kramer
★ 4.36 ABR Score (7.2K ratings)★ 4.32 Goodreads (5.5K) ★ 4.51 Audible (1.6K)10h 36m listening time • Released 2011Michael Kramer's narration transforms this into a taut cat-and-mouse game where every conversation crackles with tension. Perry's prose already cuts like a blade, but Kramer's measured delivery and sharp character work make the moral ambiguity between killer and cop absolutely magnetic.
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The Wrong Sister
by Claire Douglas
Narrated by Eleanor Tomlinson
★ 4.27 ABR Score (56.0K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (54.1K) ★ 4.51 Audible (1.8K)8h 55m listening time • Released 2025Eleanor Tomlinson's dual narration captures the sisters' fractured trust so effectively that you'll second-guess every revelation. A twisty thriller that actually earns its final turn.
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Lock Every Door
by Riley Sager
Narrated by Dylan Moore
★ 4.24 ABR Score (314.9K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (307.0K) ★ 4.32 Audible (7.8K)10h 26m listening time • Released 2019Sager's gothic thriller about a young woman who takes a mysterious apartment-sitting job in a storied Manhattan building — creepy, clever, and compulsively readable.
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Silent Horizons
Silent Horizons • Book 1
by Chad Robichaux, Jack Stewart
Narrated by Ray Porter
★ 4.19 ABR Score (909 ratings)★ 4.31 Goodreads (415) ★ 4.67 Audible (494)9h 24m listening time • Released 2025Ray Porter's gravelly intensity makes Foster Quinn's solitary descent into Iran feel genuinely claustrophobic—this is a thriller that trusts silence as much as dialogue, and Porter knows exactly when to let it breathe.
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