Audiobooks Like Verity

10 audiobooks for fans of Verity

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   Layla

   by Colleen Hoover

   Narrated by Brian Pallino

   Layla delivers the same unsettling psychological intensity and morally complex characters that made Verity captivating, while Brian Pallino's measured narration creates an equally immersive descent into obsession and darkness. Hoover's knack for twisting romance into something sinister remains on full display, offering the same haunting emotional experience in roughly the same listening timeframe.

   ★ 4.16 ABR Score (630.2K ratings)

   ★ 3.63 Goodreads (616.1K) ★ 4.29 Audible (14.1K)

   8h 10m listening time • Released 2020

   Brian Pallino captures the creeping dread and emotional fracture of this grief-haunted love story with unsettling restraint—his performance transforms ambiguity into genuine unease.

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   Too Late

   by Colleen Hoover

   Narrated by Ryan Gray, Maxine Mitchell, Joe Arden

   ★ 4.31 ABR Score (562.6K ratings)

   ★ 4.03 Goodreads (556.5K) ★ 4.32 Audible (6.1K)

   10h 19m listening time • Released 2023

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   The Housemaid's Secret

   The Housemaid • Book 2

   by Freida McFadden

   Narrated by Lauryn Allman

   Both audiobooks deliver psychological horror through unreliable narrators and shocking plot twists that unravel domestic facades, with McFadden's expert pacing and Allman's compelling performance matching the intensity Hoover and her dual narrators create. The extended runtime allows McFadden to build the same creeping dread and jaw-dropping revelations that made Verity so gripping.

   ★ 4.66 ABR Score (1.8M ratings)

   ★ 4.16 Goodreads (1.8M) ★ 4.63 Audible (20.2K)

   9h 44m listening time • Released 2023

   McFadden's follow-up to The Housemaid doubles down on domestic suspense — more twists, a more complex heroine, and a villain who's genuinely unsettling.

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   Sharp Objects

   by Gillian Flynn

   Narrated by Ann Marie Lee

   ★ 4.49 ABR Score (1.3M ratings)

   ★ 4 Goodreads (1.2M) ★ 4.44 Audible (41.9K)

   9h 34m listening time • Released 2006

   Flynn's debut announced one of crime fiction's sharpest voices — a journalist returns to her hometown to cover a murder and confronts wounds that never healed.

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   Behind Closed Doors

   by B.A. Paris

   Narrated by Georgia Maguire

   ★ 4.45 ABR Score (822.5K ratings)

   ★ 3.97 Goodreads (765.1K) ★ 4.41 Audible (57.4K)

   8h 40m listening time • Released 2016

   Paris's debut is a slow-burn domestic thriller — a perfect marriage with a terrible secret, told with a patience that makes the reveal all the more devastating.

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   The Family Upstairs

   The Family Upstairs • Book 1

   by Lisa Jewell

   Narrated by Tamaryn Payne, Bea Holland, Dominic Thorburn

   ★ 4.41 ABR Score (589.7K ratings)

   ★ 3.95 Goodreads (574.9K) ★ 4.46 Audible (14.8K)

   9h 36m listening time • Released 2019

   Jewell's cult-thriller slowly reveals how a normal London family became entangled with a charismatic stranger — built on dread, masterfully paced.

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   Silent Horizons

   Silent Horizons • Book 1

   by Chad Robichaux, Jack Stewart

   Narrated by Ray Porter

   ★ 4.19 ABR Score (909 ratings)

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (415) ★ 4.67 Audible (494)

   9h 24m listening time • Released 2025

   Ray Porter's gravelly intensity makes Foster Quinn's solitary descent into Iran feel genuinely claustrophobic—this is a thriller that trusts silence as much as dialogue, and Porter knows exactly when to let it breathe.

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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.

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   The Couple Next Door

   by Shari Lapena

   Narrated by Kirsten Potter

   ★ 4.18 ABR Score (741.0K ratings)

   ★ 3.8 Goodreads (720.1K) ★ 4.19 Audible (20.9K)

   8h 40m listening time • Released 2016

   Lapena's debut is sharp domestic suspense — a baby goes missing during a dinner party next door and everyone, including the parents, is hiding something.

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    Woman Down

    by Colleen Hoover

    Narrated by Sarah Naughton

    ★ 3.70 ABR Score (115.8K ratings)

    ★ 3.47 Goodreads (112.9K) ★ 3.86 Audible (2.9K)

    11h 38m listening time • Released 2026

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