Audiobooks Like In Cold Blood

10 audiobooks for fans of In Cold Blood

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   Mystic River

   by Dennis Lehane

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   Both novels deliver a dark, methodical exploration of crime's ripple effects through a community, with Scott Brick's narration bringing the same gritty intensity to Lehane's Boston setting as he does to Capote's Kansas investigation. The audiobook experience is equally immersive, combining psychological depth with propulsive storytelling across similar runtimes that keep listeners engaged through morally complex mysteries.

   ★ 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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   The Boy from the Woods

   Wilde • Book 1

   by Harlan Coben

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (123.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.95 Goodreads (113.9K) ★ 4.31 Audible (9.3K)

   12h 31m listening time • Released 2008

   Scott Brick's gravelly delivery makes Wilde feel like a man shaped by damage and isolation—he transforms a revenge thriller into something far more human and unsettling.

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   Squeeze Me

   Skink • Book 8

   by Carl Hiaasen

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   Scott Brick's measured, methodical narration captures the dark underbelly of American crime in both works, though Hiaasen trades Capote's true-crime gravity for satirical mystery with equally sharp social commentary. The 12-hour runtime offers a similarly immersive listening experience while maintaining that same sense of investigative tension beneath the surface narrative.

   ★ 4.15 ABR Score (44.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.03 Goodreads (39.6K) ★ 4.38 Audible (4.5K)

   11h 40m listening time • Released 2020

   Scott Brick's deadpan delivery transforms Hiaasen's Florida satire into comedy gold—every absurd character and political jab lands harder when spoken aloud.

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   White Jazz

   L.A. Quartet • Book 4

   by James Ellroy

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 3.77 ABR Score (10.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.92 Goodreads (10.1K) ★ 4.09 Audible (264)

   15h 33m listening time • Released 2007

   Scott Brick's rapid-fire delivery cuts like a razor through Ellroy's fragmented prose, making this brutal LA noir feel less like reading and more like being trapped inside a corrupt cop's unraveling mind.

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   The Big Sleep

   Philip Marlowe • Book 1

   by Raymond Chandler

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.10 ABR Score (170.4K ratings)

   ★ 3.94 Goodreads (169.7K) ★ 4.44 Audible (649)

   6h 33m listening time • Released 2020

   Chandler's debut Marlowe novel is the template for every hard-boiled detective story that followed — rain-soaked, morally ambiguous, and endlessly quotable.

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   Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction

   by Andrew F. Gulli - editor, Lamia J. Gulli - editor

   Narrated by January LaVoy, Gerard Doyle, Simon Vance, Dion Graham, Dan Bittner, Roger Clark, Edoardo Ballerini, Grover Gardner, Christopher Tester, Jean Brassard, Scott Brick, Tim Campbell, Robin Miles, Joel Froomkin, full cast

   ★ 3.48 ABR Score (7 ratings)

   ★ 4.67 Goodreads (3) ★ 3.75 Audible (4)

   14h 24m listening time • Released 2025

   A stellar ensemble cast transforms this curated mystery anthology into pure listening theater—each narrator becomes the perfect voice for their story, making 14 hours fly by.

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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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   The Only One Left

   by Riley Sager

   Narrated by Christine Lakin, Dawn Harvey

   ★ 4.45 ABR Score (645.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.13 Goodreads (635.0K) ★ 4.52 Audible (10.8K)

   12h 32m listening time • Released 2023

   Sager's best novel — a nurse caring for the sole survivor of a historical massacre discovers the old woman may be hiding the truth about what really happened.

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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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    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    by John Berendt

    Narrated by Jeff Woodman, Will Damron, John Berendt

    ★ 4.32 ABR Score (305.5K ratings)

    ★ 3.92 Goodreads (297.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (8.3K)

    15h 11m listening time • Released 2005

    Berendt's true crime classic about a Savannah murder is as much a portrait of a city as a mystery — seductive, funny, and deeply strange.

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