Audiobooks Like One for the Money

10 audiobooks for fans of One for the Money

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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 clever mystery plots with engaging narration that brings their protagonists to life, though Christie's classic offers a more intricate puzzle and nearly double the runtime for deeper immersion into the investigation. Dan Stevens' refined performance contrasts with Petty's snappy delivery, providing a more sophisticated listening experience while maintaining the same satisfying blend of wit and suspense.

   ★ 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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   Rebecca

   by Daphne du Maurier

   Narrated by Anna Massey

   Both audiobooks feature captivating female protagonists navigating dark mysteries with sharp wit and psychological depth, though Rebecca's Gothic atmosphere and longer runtime offer a more immersive, suspenseful listening experience than One for the Money's lighter detective work. Anna Massey's narration brings the same engaging character-driven storytelling that Lori Petty provides, but with the added richness of a classic mystery that builds tension through atmosphere rather than humor.

   ★ 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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   In Cold Blood

   by Truman Capote

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   Both audiobooks deliver immersive investigations into criminal worlds, though Capote's gripping true-crime narrative offers a darker, more psychologically complex exploration compared to Evanovich's lighter mystery-comedy. Scott Brick's masterful narration captures the book's meticulous reporting with the same page-turning momentum that makes Lori Petty's performance so engaging, making the extended runtime feel effortless.

   ★ 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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   The Alienist

   Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore • Book 1

   by Caleb Carr

   Narrated by George Guidall

   Both audiobooks feature resourceful protagonists investigating dark crimes in gritty, atmospheric settings, though *The Alienist* offers a more immersive listening experience with its sprawling historical mystery and George Guidall's masterful narration that deepens the psychological complexity Lori Petty brought to Evanovich's snappier detective work.

   ★ 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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   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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   The Woman in White

   by Wilkie Collins

   Narrated by Ian Holm

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (168.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.01 Goodreads (167.1K) ★ 4.59 Audible (1.4K)

   24h 37m listening time • Released 2010

   Collins's Victorian sensation novel invented many of the mystery genre's conventions — two women, an asylum, and a conspiracy that unfolds with masterful suspense.

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   The Mysterious Affair at Styles

   A Hercule Poirot Mystery • Book 1

   by Agatha Christie

   Narrated by Hugh Fraser

   ★ 4.29 ABR Score (515.5K ratings)

   ★ 4 Goodreads (514.2K) ★ 4.55 Audible (1.3K)

   5h 57m listening time • Released 2012

   Christie's first Poirot novel — written during WWI, still one of her best-plotted — introducing the fastidious Belgian detective who would define the golden age of mystery.

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    Shutter Island

    by Dennis Lehane

    Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

    ★ 4.28 ABR Score (232.8K ratings)

    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (229.2K) ★ 4.42 Audible (3.6K)

    9h 35m listening time • Released 2008

    Lehane's psychological thriller is a masterwork of atmosphere — a psychiatric island, a missing patient, and a detective whose grip on reality slowly loosens.

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