Audiobooks Like The Sun Down Motel

Brittany Pressley and Kirsten Potter trade narration across this dual-timeline gothic thriller — Pressley handling one woman's investigation in the present, Potter reaching back to the haunted motel of the 1980s — and the effect is of two voices slowly closing in on the same terrible secret from different directions. The atmospheric horror quality relies on what each narrator withholds as much as what she reveals. All ten picks are narrated by Pressley, so if her particular quality of controlled unease worked for you in this, you're hearing that same instrument applied to different mysteries.

10 audiobooks for fans of The Sun Down Motel

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    A Minute to Midnight

    Atlee Pine • Book 2

    by David Baldacci

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Kyf Brewer

    ★ 4.56 ABR Score (65.7K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (56.9K) ★ 4.63 Audible (8.8K)
    12h 11m listening time • Released 2019
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    When You See Me cover

    When You See Me

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 12

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.55 ABR Score (43.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.24 Goodreads (39.7K) ★ 4.67 Audible (4.2K)
    10h 55m listening time • Released 2020
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  3. 3
    A Killer's Mind cover

    A Killer's Mind

    Zoe Bentley Mystery • Book 1

    by Mike Omer

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

    ★ 4.55 ABR Score (77.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.22 Goodreads (63.7K) ★ 4.58 Audible (13.3K)
    10h 15m listening time • Released 2018
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  4. 4
    Live to Tell cover

    Live to Tell

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 4

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter, Rebecca Lowman, Ann Marie Lee

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (51.1K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (47.1K) ★ 4.51 Audible (4.0K)
    13h 23m listening time • Released 2010
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  5. 5
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    Find Her

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 9

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.42 ABR Score (75.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.16 Goodreads (62.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (13.0K)
    12h 16m listening time • Released 2016
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    All Good People Here cover

    All Good People Here

    by Ashley Flowers, Alex Kiester

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley, Karissa Vacker, Ashley Flowers

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (371.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (342.8K) ★ 4.5 Audible (28.8K)
    10h 35m listening time • Released 2022
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    Catch Me cover

    Catch Me

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 6

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (50.6K ratings)
    ★ 4.2 Goodreads (44.4K) ★ 4.44 Audible (6.2K)
    13h 9m listening time • Released 2012
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    Fear Nothing cover

    Fear Nothing

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 8

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.40 ABR Score (36.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.14 Goodreads (32.9K) ★ 4.52 Audible (3.9K)
    12h 46m listening time • Released 2014
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    Love You More cover

    Love You More

    Tessa Leoni • Book 1

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter, Katie MacNichol

    ★ 4.39 ABR Score (65.3K ratings)
    ★ 4.18 Goodreads (58.0K) ★ 4.42 Audible (7.3K)
    12h 5m listening time • Released 2011
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    The Neighbor cover

    The Neighbor

    Detective D.D. Warren • Book 3

    by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne, Kirsten Potter

    ★ 4.37 ABR Score (57.9K ratings)
    ★ 4.09 Goodreads (52.7K) ★ 4.47 Audible (5.3K)
    13h 29m listening time • Released 2009
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