Audiobooks Like Career of Evil

Robert Glenister narrates Career of Evil with a gritty, textured voice that handles the book's dark subject matter without flinching — at 18 hours, the investigation has room to develop its procedural rhythms, and Glenister's understanding of British working-class registers gives the supporting cast real specificity. Six of the recommendations are award-winning titles, and the full list is built around similar-length crime fiction with the same unsentimental tone.

10 audiobooks for fans of Career of Evil

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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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    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 Harry Bosch Novels: The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch Series)

    Harry Bosch #1-3 • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Dick Hill

    4.42 ABR Score (15.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.37 Goodreads (3.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (11.8K)
    14h 26m listening time • Released 2008

    Dick Hill's gravelly, world-weary performance makes these three crime novels feel like a veteran detective confessing directly to you. Connelly's Los Angeles obsession paired with Hill's narration creates something rare: a procedural that's genuinely hard to stop listening to.

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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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    In Cold Blood

    by Truman Capote

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.37 ABR Score (751.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (735.8K) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.6K)
    14h 27m listening time • Released 2006

    Capote invented the true crime genre with this account of a Kansas family's murder — reported with a novelist's precision and a profound moral weight.

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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 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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    The Alienist

    Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore • Book 1

    by Caleb Carr

    Narrated by George Guidall

    4.34 ABR Score (190.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (182.1K) ★ 4.49 Audible (7.9K)
    20h listening time • Released 2012

    Carr's Victorian New York procedural follows a criminal psychologist before the word existed — richly researched, genuinely creepy, and compulsively readable.

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    Mystic River

    by Dennis Lehane

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.32 ABR Score (170.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (166.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (3.2K)
    15h 24m listening time • Released 2012

    Lehane's best novel — three childhood friends, a murder, and a community's wounds laid bare in a story that plays out with the inevitability of Greek tragedy.

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