Audiobooks Like In the Woods

10 audiobooks for fans of In the Woods

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   The Alienist

   Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore • Book 1

   by Caleb Carr

   Narrated by George Guidall

   Both audiobooks deliver immersive, atmospheric mysteries anchored by deeply flawed protagonists investigating dark crimes that blur the line between past trauma and present danger. Steven Crossley's and George Guidall's narrations similarly excel at building psychological tension, making the detective work feel like a slow descent into moral ambiguity rather than a straightforward puzzle to solve.

   ★ 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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   The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

   by Stuart Turton

   Narrated by James Cameron Stewart

   ★ 3.84 ABR Score (496.3K ratings)

   ★ 3.78 Goodreads (488.7K) ★ 4.1 Audible (7.6K)

   16h 39m listening time • Released 2026

   Turton's debut is the most inventive locked-room mystery in decades — a man must solve a murder by reliving the same day inside different guests' bodies.

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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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   Lethal White

   Cormoran Strike • Book 4

   by Robert Galbraith

   Narrated by Robert Glenister

   ★ 4.67 ABR Score (203.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.25 Goodreads (188.1K) ★ 4.69 Audible (15.0K)

   22h 31m listening time • Released 2018

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   Murder on the Orient Express

   A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 10

   by Agatha Christie

   Narrated by Dan Stevens

   Both audiobooks deliver immersive mystery experiences through exceptional narration, though Christie's classic offers a more contained, puzzle-focused investigation compared to French's psychological depth. The intricate plotting and unreliable investigation tactics present in In the Woods find their counterpart in the clever deception and hidden motives layered throughout Murder on the Orient Express, making it an ideal choice for listeners who appreciate mysteries built on misdirection rather than procedural detail.

   ★ 4.67 ABR Score (755.1K ratings)

   ★ 4.2 Goodreads (741.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (13.8K)

   6h 37m listening time • Released 2013

   Christie's most celebrated Poirot case — a murder on a snowbound train, a cast of suspects with no apparent motive, and a solution so audacious it shouldn't work but does.

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   Career of Evil

   Cormoran Strike • Book 3

   by Robert Galbraith

   Narrated by Robert Glenister

   ★ 4.62 ABR Score (248.8K ratings)

   ★ 4.22 Goodreads (231.1K) ★ 4.64 Audible (17.7K)

   17h 57m listening time • Released 2015

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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 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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