Audiobooks Like Don't Let Him In

Richard Armitage leads a full BBC cast that includes Joanne Froggatt, Gemma Whelan, and Louise Brealey through this multi-perspective psychological thriller — the full-cast format means each character's POV has a genuinely distinct voice, which sharpens the dramatic irony when the audience knows things individual characters don't. Nine of the recommendations feature the same cast or narrator configuration, making this a list built around the Lisa Jewell-adapted full-cast thriller format for listeners who want that particular kind of audio experience.

10 audiobooks for fans of Don't Let Him In

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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 2018

    Jewell'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 2023

    Jewell'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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    Three Hours

    by Rosamund Lupton

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan

    4.06 ABR Score (24.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (24.2K) ★ 4.08 Audible (25)
    10h 1m listening time • Released 2020
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    The Other Mothers

    by Katherine Faulkner

    Narrated by Louise Brealey, Dakota Blue Richards

    Louise Brealey's distinctive narration brings the same atmospheric tension to *The Other Mothers*, a psychological mystery that explores maternal paranoia and domestic unease with the same propulsive storytelling that made *Don't Let Him In* so gripping. Both audiobooks leverage their ensemble casts to deepen the sense of psychological dread and unreliable perspectives that define this brand of contemporary domestic thriller.

    4.05 ABR Score (38.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.83 Goodreads (38.1K) ★ 4.31 Audible (422)
    12h 25m listening time • Released 2023

    Louise Brealey and Dakota Blue Richards split this psychological thriller into perfectly matched perspectives, turning what could be a familiar premise into a genuinely unsettling descent into maternal isolation and class anxiety.

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    Let Me Lie

    by Clare Mackintosh

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan, Clare Mackintosh

    3.98 ABR Score (44.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (44.0K) ★ 4.16 Audible (808)
    11h 57m listening time • Released 2018
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    The Retreat

    Detective Elin Warner • Book 2

    by Sarah Pearse

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan

    3.80 ABR Score (44.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.62 Goodreads (44.7K) ★ 4 Audible (5)
    10h 6m listening time • Released 2022
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    The Sanatorium

    Detective Elin Warner • Book 1

    by Sarah Pearse

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan

    3.70 ABR Score (204.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.36 Goodreads (204.9K) ★ 3.52 Audible (58)
    11h 53m listening time • Released 2021
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    The Blue Hour

    by Paula Hawkins

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan, Paula Hawkins

    3.68 ABR Score (77.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.26 Goodreads (77.2K) ★ 4.43 Audible (7)
    10h 17m listening time • Released 2024
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    The Girl on the Train

    by Paula Hawkins

    Narrated by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher

    4.49 ABR Score (3.5M ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (3.3M) ★ 4.36 Audible (140.9K)
    10h 58m listening time • Released 2015

    Hawkins's debut rode the Gone Girl wave and deserved every bit of it — three unreliable female narrators, a missing woman, and a twist that genuinely lands.

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    They Thought I Was Dead: Sandy's Story

    Roy Grace #19.5

    by Peter James

    Narrated by Gemma Whelan

    4.06 ABR Score (4.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.02 Goodreads (4.1K)
    12h 10m listening time • Released 2024

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