Best David Ellis Audiobooks
Where to Start with David Ellis
- Best entry point → Eye of the Beholder
- Best standalone → Guilty Wives
- Start the Billy Harney series → The Black Book
- Short listen, big payoff → Escape
- What fans keep coming back to → The Red Book
- Highest rated by listeners → The Wrong Man (Jason Kolarich #3)
Best David Ellis Audiobooks
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Escape
Billy Harney • Book 3
by James Patterson, David Ellis
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.54 ABR Score (18.5K ratings)★ 4.33 Goodreads (16.2K) ★ 4.7 Audible (2.3K)8h 53m listening time • Released 2022Ballerini's rapid-fire delivery transforms this into a propulsive cat-and-mouse game where you can't tell if Billy or the billionaire is actually winning. Patterson and Ellis keep the twists coming fast enough that you'll blow through all 9 hours in two sittings.
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The Red Book
Billy Harney • Book 2
by James Patterson, David Ellis
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.54 ABR Score (23.4K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (19.5K) ★ 4.67 Audible (3.9K)8h 35m listening time • Released 2021Edoardo Ballerini's gravelly delivery cuts through Chicago's corrupt machinery like a blade, making this crime thriller pulse with authentic dread. Patterson and Ellis craft a detective who can't trust anyone, and the audiobook format amplifies that paranoia perfectly.
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The Black Book
Billy Harney • Book 1
by James Patterson, David Ellis
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
★ 4.46 ABR Score (58.8K ratings)★ 4.28 Goodreads (43.4K) ★ 4.42 Audible (15.4K)10h 18m listening time • Released 2017Edoardo Ballerini's delivery cuts through Patterson's twisty Chicago noir like a knife—he nails the cynicism, the tension, and the moral rot underneath every scene.
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Guilty Wives
by James Patterson, David Ellis
Narrated by January LaVoy
★ 4.18 ABR Score (40.0K ratings)★ 3.9 Goodreads (37.5K) ★ 4.37 Audible (2.6K)10h 21m listening time • Released 2012January LaVoy's narration transforms this twisty thriller into a compulsive listen, her sharp delivery cutting between four women's unreliable perspectives to keep you second-guessing everything until the final reveal.
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The Wrong Man
Jason Kolarich • Book 3
by David Ellis
Narrated by Luke Daniels
★ 4.03 ABR Score (2.0K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (1.7K) ★ 4.37 Audible (286)11h 54m listening time • Released 2012Luke Daniels transforms this legal thriller into a taut, propulsive experience—his voice work nails the moral complexity of defending someone you're not sure about while racing to expose the real conspiracy underneath.
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The Last Alibi
Jason Kolarich • Book 4
by David Ellis
Narrated by Luke Daniels, Tanya Eby
★ 4.03 ABR Score (2.2K ratings)★ 4.21 Goodreads (2.0K) ★ 4.22 Audible (194)13h 43m listening time • Released 2013Luke Daniels and Tanya Eby's dual narration cuts through the twists with surgical precision, making this Jason Kolarich thriller one of Ellis's sharpest frame-jobs yet.
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Breach of Trust
Jason Kolarich • Book 2
by David Ellis
Narrated by Luke Daniels
★ 3.88 ABR Score (2.1K ratings)★ 3.93 Goodreads (1.6K) ★ 4.08 Audible (546)12h 34m listening time • Released 2011Luke Daniels brings bruising intensity to Kolarich's obsessive hunt for the man who destroyed his family, making this grief-fueled legal thriller feel like a punch to the gut that won't let go.
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Eye of the Beholder
by David Ellis
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 3.81 ABR Score (1.5K ratings)★ 3.83 Goodreads (1.4K) ★ 3.87 Audible (60)13h 25m listening time • Released 2008Dick Hill's measured, unsettling narration transforms this legal thriller into something genuinely creepy—a slow-burn mystery where you're never sure if the protagonist is hunting a killer or being hunted himself.
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Line of Vision
by David Ellis
Narrated by Dick Hill
★ 3.49 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)★ 3.92 Goodreads (1.8K) ★ 3.84 Audible (602)14h 13m listening time • Released 2008