Audiobooks Like The Boy from the Woods

10 audiobooks for fans of The Boy from the Woods

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   In Cold Blood

   by Truman Capote

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 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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   Squeeze Me

   Skink • Book 8

   by Carl Hiaasen

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 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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   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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   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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   The Long Goodbye

   Philip Marlowe • Book 6

   by Raymond Chandler

   Narrated by Scott Brick

   ★ 4.21 ABR Score (47.7K ratings)

   ★ 4.19 Goodreads (47.3K) ★ 4.5 Audible (399)

   13h 25m listening time • Released 2021

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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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    Threshold • Book 1

    by Peter Clines

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    ★ 4.20 ABR Score (88.8K ratings)

    ★ 3.97 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.35 Audible (49.1K)

    12h 34m listening time • Released 2012

    Ray Porter's measured, curious delivery transforms this locked-door mystery into something genuinely unsettling—each revelation lands harder because he treats the impossible like a puzzle worth solving.

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