Best Samuel Gillies Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Samuel Gillies — 7 titles spanning Mystery, averaging 4.07 ABR stars.

Samuel Gillies is an audiobook narrator who has become closely associated with Charles Todd's Inspector Ian Rutledge series, having narrated Wings of Fire, Search the Dark, Watchers of Time, A Fearsome Doubt, A Cold Treachery, A Long Shadow, and A False Mirror. The Rutledge series is set in post-World War One England and follows a Scotland Yard detective haunted by the voice of a dead soldier — Hamish MacLeod — whose presence Rutledge carries as a form of psychological trauma and moral conscience. Gillies handles this unusual narrative device — the interior voice of Hamish, Scottish in accent and often in opposition to Rutledge's own thinking — with careful consistency, maintaining Rutledge's English register and Hamish's distinct Scottish voice as parallel presences. The series' rural English settings and its meditation on shell shock and grief require a narrator attentive to atmosphere and psychological nuance, and Gillies provides both with sustained skill across multiple volumes.

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    A Cold Treachery

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 7

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 4.23 ABR Score (7.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (6.4K) ★ 4.58 Audible (604)
    12h 6m listening time • Released 2014
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    A Long Shadow

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 8

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 4.18 ABR Score (6.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.15 Goodreads (5.8K) ★ 4.58 Audible (485)
    11h 22m listening time • Released 2014
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    A False Mirror

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 9

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 4.06 ABR Score (5.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (5.4K) ★ 4.48 Audible (425)
    13h 10m listening time • Released 2014
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    Watchers of Time

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 5

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 4.04 ABR Score (7.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (7.1K) ★ 4.44 Audible (680)
    13h 49m listening time • Released 2014
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    A Fearsome Doubt

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 6

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 4.03 ABR Score (7.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.04 Goodreads (6.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (510)
    11h 37m listening time • Released 2014
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    Search the Dark

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 3

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 3.98 ABR Score (8.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.05 Goodreads (7.6K) ★ 4.32 Audible (857)
    11h 40m listening time • Released 2008
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    Wings of Fire

    Inspector Ian Rutledge • Book 2

    by Charles Todd

    Narrated by Samuel Gillies

    ★ 3.95 ABR Score (11.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (10.2K) ★ 4.29 Audible (973)
    11h 9m listening time • Released 2012
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