Audiobooks Like The Likeness

Heather O'Neill narrates this twenty-two-hour Irish noir with a voice that stays close to the bone — understated, precise, with a kind of wariness that mirrors a detective who keeps infiltrating the lives of strangers to understand her own. The pacing is slow-burn by design, letting atmosphere do the heavy lifting while the prose works on you beneath the surface. These recommendations share that same measured, psychological weight, and nearly all of them run long enough to get fully under your skin.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Likeness

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    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes cover

    The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

    by John Joseph Adams, Stephen King, Robert J. Sawyer, Michael Moorcock, Sharyn McCrumb, Stephen Baxter, Anne Perry, Barbara Hambly, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Rob Rogers, Naomi Novik, Anthony Burgess, Dominic Green, Laurie R. King, Barbara Roden, Tim Lebbon, Peter Tremayne, Bradley H. Sinor, Edward D. Hoch, Vonda N. McIntyre, Darrell Schweitzer, Mary Robinette Kowal, H. Paul Jeffers, Geoffrey A. Landis, Amy Myers, Chris Roden, Tony Pi, Chris Roberson, Mark Valentine

    Narrated by Simon Vance, Anne Flosnik

    3.88 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.39 Goodreads (22.7K) ★ 3.96 Audible (736)
    21h 21m listening time • Released 2010
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    Lethal White cover

    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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    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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    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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    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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    Moonflower Murders

    Susan Ryeland • Book 2

    by Anthony Horowitz

    Narrated by Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner

    4.36 ABR Score (71.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.06 Goodreads (66.9K) ★ 4.57 Audible (4.5K)
    18h 28m listening time • Released 2020
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    The Punishment She Deserves cover

    The Punishment She Deserves

    Inspector Lynley • Book 20

    by Elizabeth George

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    4.35 ABR Score (21.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.19 Goodreads (19.0K) ★ 4.58 Audible (2.1K)
    22h 48m listening time • Released 2018
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    The Lake House cover

    The Lake House

    by Kate Morton, Unknown Author

    Narrated by Caroline Lee

    4.35 ABR Score (152.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.08 Goodreads (131.8K) ★ 4.45 Audible (21.1K)
    21h 24m listening time • Released 2015
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    The Alienist

    Laszlo Kreizler and John Schuyler Moore • Book 1

    by Caleb Carr

    Narrated by George Guidall

    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 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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