Audiobooks Like The Black Echo

Dick Hill gives Bosch a voice that sounds like someone who's been ground down by the city and still shows up — the flatness in his delivery is doing work, making the Vietnam flashbacks and the corrupt-department procedural land in the same register of exhausted competence. The recommendations pull in more Connelly titles with several different narrators, and the runtimes cluster in that same 14-hour range where a detective novel has room to develop its case without padding it.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Black Echo

  1. 1
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    The Dark Hours

    Renée Ballard • Book 4

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin

    4.65 ABR Score (94.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (83.6K) ★ 4.65 Audible (10.7K)
    11h 4m listening time • Released 2021
  2. 2
    The Reversal cover

    The Reversal

    The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles

    4.51 ABR Score (105.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (93.0K) ★ 4.57 Audible (12.1K)
    11h 35m listening time • Released 2010
  3. 3
    The Gods of Guilt cover

    The Gods of Guilt

    The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 5

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles

    4.49 ABR Score (87.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.23 Goodreads (73.6K) ★ 4.56 Audible (13.6K)
    11h 49m listening time • Released 2013
  4. 4
    The Fifth Witness cover

    The Fifth Witness

    The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 4

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles

    4.42 ABR Score (104.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (92.3K) ★ 4.48 Audible (12.0K)
    13h 51m listening time • Released 2011
  5. 5
    The Scarecrow cover

    The Scarecrow

    Jack McEvoy • Book 2

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles

    4.27 ABR Score (64.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (56.5K) ★ 4.43 Audible (7.5K)
    11h 15m listening time • Released 2009
  6. 6
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    Resurrection Walk

    The Lincoln Lawyer • Book 7

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Peter Giles, Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin

    4.86 ABR Score (84.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.53 Goodreads (77.5K) ★ 4.81 Audible (6.9K)
    10h 30m listening time • Released 2023
  7. 7
    Desert Star cover

    Desert Star

    Renée Ballard • Book 5

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Titus Welliver, Christine Lakin, Peter Giles

    4.81 ABR Score (96.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.47 Goodreads (86.3K) ★ 4.77 Audible (10.4K)
    9h 43m listening time • Released 2022
  8. 8
    The Waiting cover

    The Waiting

    Renée Ballard • Book 6

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver, Madison Lintz

    4.62 ABR Score (76.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (71.3K) ★ 4.68 Audible (4.7K)
    10h 50m listening time • Released 2024
  9. 9
    The Night Fire cover

    The Night Fire

    Renée Ballard • Book 3

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver

    4.67 ABR Score (90.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.29 Goodreads (76.6K) ★ 4.7 Audible (14.0K)
    10h 4m listening time • Released 2019
  10. 10
    Dark Sacred Night cover

    Dark Sacred Night

    Renée Ballard • Book 2

    by Michael Connelly

    Narrated by Christine Lakin, Titus Welliver

    4.52 ABR Score (96.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (84.3K) ★ 4.61 Audible (12.5K)
    10h 39m listening time • Released 2018

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