Best Ellis Peters Audiobooks
Where to Start with Ellis Peters
- Best entry point → Fallen Into the Pit
- What fans keep coming back to → Death and the Joyful Woman
- Highest rated by listeners → The Knocker on Death's Door (The Felse Investigations #10)
Best Ellis Peters Audiobooks
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The Knocker on Death's Door
The Felse Investigations • Book 10
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.85 ABR Score (992 ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (857) ★ 4.39 Audible (135)7h 15m listening time • Released 2009Simon Prebble's dry precision cuts through Peters' layered mystery like a scalpel—he makes you feel the weight of each clue and false lead as the Gothic curse dissolves into something far more human and sinister.
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Fallen Into the Pit
The Felse Investigations • Book 1
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.83 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)★ 3.79 Goodreads (2.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (176)10h 33m listening time • Released 2009Simon Prebble's crisp narration captures the moral complexity of a postwar English village where a Nazi's murder lands the wrong man in the dock—a debut mystery that trusts its young detective to uncover uglier truths than a simple whodunit.
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City of Gold and Shadows
The Felse Investigations • Book 12
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.82 ABR Score (681 ratings)★ 3.94 Goodreads (571) ★ 4.46 Audible (110)8h 9m listening time • Released 2009Simon Prebble's measured, intelligent narration transforms this archaeological mystery into something genuinely atmospheric—Peters layers Roman history with present-day intrigue so deftly that you won't guess the ending.
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Death and the Joyful Woman
The Felse Investigations • Book 2
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.82 ABR Score (1.2K ratings)★ 3.86 Goodreads (1.0K) ★ 4.44 Audible (131)7h 25m listening time • Released 2009 - 5
Rainbow's End
The Felse Investigations • Book 13
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.82 ABR Score (732 ratings)★ 4.01 Goodreads (645) ★ 4.4 Audible (87)7h 5m listening time • Released 2009 - 6
Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Heart
The Felse Investigations • Book 6
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.81 ABR Score (1.0K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (927) ★ 4.45 Audible (88)7h 30m listening time • Released 2010Simon Prebble's measured, intelligent delivery transforms this folk-music mystery into something genuinely unsettling—he nails the tension between surface civility and simmering violence that Peters weaves through the weekend at Follymead.
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The Piper on the Mountain
The Felse Investigations • Book 5
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.81 ABR Score (804 ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (704) ★ 4.47 Audible (100)6h 59m listening time • Released 2009 - 8
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs
The Felse Investigations • Book 4
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.81 ABR Score (1.1K ratings)★ 3.88 Goodreads (952) ★ 4.38 Audible (164)7h 14m listening time • Released 2009 - 9
The House of Green Turf
The Felse Investigations • Book 8
by Ellis Peters
Narrated by Simon Prebble
★ 3.77 ABR Score (715 ratings)★ 3.98 Goodreads (613) ★ 4.28 Audible (102)7h 9m listening time • Released 2009