Audiobooks Like The Lying Game

Imogen Church has narrated enough Ruth Ware to know exactly where the dread lives in this kind of story — the coastal atmosphere, the weight of old secrets, the way ordinary scenes tighten into something threatening, Church handles all of it with a consistency that makes the suspense feel architectural rather than manufactured. Five of the ten recommendations are Church narrating Ware directly, and the others carry the same author-narrator pairing logic: mid-length, highly rated psychological thrillers where the narrator and the material have grown into each other.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Lying Game

  1. 1
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    The Turn of the Key

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    4.36 ABR Score (346.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (331.7K) ★ 4.44 Audible (15.1K)
    12h 13m listening time • Released 2019
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    The Woman in Cabin 10

    Lo Blacklock • Book 1

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    4.10 ABR Score (802.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.72 Goodreads (785.3K) ★ 4.13 Audible (16.6K)
    11h 14m listening time • Released 2016

    Ware's maritime thriller is pure claustrophobic tension — a journalist witnesses a murder on a luxury cruise, except officially no one died.

  3. 3
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    Zero Days

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    3.74 ABR Score (130.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (129.5K) ★ 3.82 Audible (1.1K)
    14h 10m listening time • Released 2023
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    In a Dark, Dark Wood

    by Ruth Ware

    Narrated by Imogen Church

    4.19 ABR Score (416.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.71 Goodreads (402.8K) ★ 4.3 Audible (13.6K)
    9h 41m listening time • Released 2015

    Ware's debut is a hen-weekend thriller that starts as social comedy and turns genuinely terrifying — a woman attends a party and wakes up with no memory of what happened.

  5. 5
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    Into the Water

    by Paula Hawkins

    Narrated by Laura Aikman, Sophie Aldred, Rachel Bavidge, Daniel Weyman, Imogen Church

    3.92 ABR Score (435.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.59 Goodreads (421.9K) ★ 3.98 Audible (13.9K)
    11h 32m listening time • Released 2017
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    Savage Son

    Terminal List • Book 3

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.88 ABR Score (65.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (36.5K) ★ 4.87 Audible (28.7K)
    12h 56m listening time • Released 2020

    Ray Porter transforms Carr's revenge thriller into pure adrenaline. His ability to shift between Reece's measured lethality and the chaos around him makes this the best entry in the series yet.

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    In the Blood

    Terminal List • Book 5

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.86 ABR Score (52.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.49 Goodreads (27.6K) ★ 4.87 Audible (24.7K)
    12h 8m listening time • Released 2022

    Ray Porter's relentless delivery transforms Carr's geopolitical thriller into something almost unbearably gripping—his voice makes Reece's obsession feel like your own.

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    The Devil's Hand

    Terminal List • Book 4

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.83 ABR Score (53.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (31.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (22.0K)
    14h 37m listening time • Released 2021

    Ray Porter's gravelly delivery transforms Carr's geopolitical thriller into something almost hypnotic—he makes every tactical detail and moral compromise feel inevitable, turning a sprawling post-9/11 reckoning into pure momentum.

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    Only the Dead

    Terminal List • Book 6

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.82 ABR Score (32.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.54 Goodreads (24.0K) ★ 4.85 Audible (8.6K)
    15h 29m listening time • Released 2023

    Ray Porter's gravelly intensity transforms this geopolitical thriller into something that feels alarmingly plausible. By book six, Carr's Reece has earned the kind of narrator who makes conspiracy feel inevitable.

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    True Believer

    Terminal List • Book 2

    by Jack Carr

    Narrated by Ray Porter

    4.78 ABR Score (76.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (43.6K) ★ 4.8 Audible (32.9K)
    15h 44m listening time • Released 2019

    Ray Porter's narration transforms Reece's moral descent into something hypnotic—his voice carries the weight of each kill with enough restraint that you feel the damage accumulating. A thriller that uses silence as effectively as gunfire.

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