Audiobooks Like The Maidens by Michaelides, Alex

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith and Louise Brealey split the narration of The Maidens, Holdbrook-Smith bringing a smoothly persuasive authority to the material that makes the novel's central seduction — of both character and reader — genuinely work as a listen. He appears across most of the titles here, with the same shared authorship and runtime cluster that keeps the psychological thriller atmosphere consistent if you want to stay in that particular register of unreliable intelligence and Cambridge-cool menace.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Maidens by Michaelides, Alex

  1. 1
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    The Silent Patient

    by Alex Michaelides

    Narrated by Jack Hawkins, Louise Brealey

    4.68 ABR Score (3.4M ratings)
    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (3.4M) ★ 4.53 Audible (86.9K)
    8h 33m listening time • Released 2019

    Louise Brealey's icy narration as Alicia makes this twisted psychological thriller impossible to put down, especially when paired with Hawkins' obsessive intensity unraveling the unreliable mystery at its core.

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    The Fury

    by Alex Michaelides

    Narrated by Alex Jennings

    3.64 ABR Score (242.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.36 Goodreads (240.1K) ★ 3.81 Audible (2.2K)
    8h 8m listening time • Released 2024
  3. 3
    The Last Thing He Told Me cover

    The Last Thing He Told Me

    The Last Thing He Told Me • Book 1

    by Unknown Author

    Narrated by Rebecca Lowman

    4.15 ABR Score (59.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (4) ★ 4.37 Audible (59.1K)
    9h 4m listening time • Released 2021
  4. 4
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    Frost Line

    by Linda Howard, Linda Winstead Jones, Unknown Author

    Narrated by Abby Craden

    3.81 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.5 Goodreads (1.9K) ★ 4.28 Audible (166)
    8h 54m listening time • Released 2016
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    None of This is True

    by Lisa Jewell

    Narrated by Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, Alix Dunmore, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Jewell, Thomas Judd, Dominic Thorburn, Nicola Walker, Jenny Walser

    4.53 ABR Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.07 Goodreads (1.1M) ★ 4.53 Audible (15.4K)
    10h 31m listening time • Released 2023

    Jewell's latest is a true-crime-podcast thriller — a woman who befriends a podcaster becomes the subject of the story, with terrifying consequences.

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    The Girl on the Train

    by Paula Hawkins

    Narrated by Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey, India Fisher

    4.49 ABR Score (3.5M ratings)
    ★ 3.96 Goodreads (3.3M) ★ 4.36 Audible (140.9K)
    10h 58m listening time • Released 2015

    Hawkins's debut rode the Gone Girl wave and deserved every bit of it — three unreliable female narrators, a missing woman, and a twist that genuinely lands.

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    Him

    Him • Book 1

    by J.D. Kirk

    Narrated by David Tennant, Louise Brealey

    4.23 ABR Score (7.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 4.54 Audible (3.3K)
    9h 28m listening time • Released 2025

    Tennant and Brealey's dual narration transforms this AI thriller into something genuinely unsettling—their voices blur the line between human and digital so seamlessly that you'll second-guess what's real.

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    Stone the Dead Crows

    The Sharif Thrillers • Book 2

    by Carrie Magillen

    Narrated by Joanne Froggatt, Louise Brealey

    4.05 ABR Score (953 ratings)
    ★ 4.27 Goodreads (714) ★ 4.4 Audible (239)
    10h 50m listening time • Released 2021

    Froggatt and Brealey elevate this twisted family thriller into something genuinely unsettling—their vocal chemistry makes the sisters' desperation feel painfully real as lies unravel faster than trust can hold.

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    Lie Beside Me

    DCI Jonah Sheens • Book 3

    by Gytha Lodge

    Narrated by Louise Brealey, John Hopkins

    3.99 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.9 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 4.38 Audible (160)
    10h 4m listening time • Released 2021

    Louise Brealey and John Hopkins create a claustrophobic dual perspective that makes this unreliable-narrator mystery feel like eavesdropping on a confession. Lodge's third Sheens novel finally lets the detective breathe, and the audiobook's split narration makes you question everything you just heard.

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    Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War cover

    Larry Bond's Red Dragon Rising: Edge of War

    Red Dragon Rising • Book 2

    by Unknown Author

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    3.85 ABR Score (690 ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (547) ★ 4.2 Audible (143)
    11h 24m listening time • Released 2010

    Luke Daniels transforms this geopolitical thriller into a propulsive listen, shifting seamlessly between covert ops tension and military strategy—making the intricate spy-versus-spy plot feel genuinely urgent.

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