Where to Start with Charlie Huston
- Best entry point → Already Dead
- Best standalone → Sleepless
- What fans keep coming back to → No Dominion
- Best narrator for Charlie Huston → Half the Blood of Brooklyn
- Highest rated by listeners → Every Last Drop (Joe Pitt #4)
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Every Last Drop
Joe Pitt • Book 4
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 4.03 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 4.43 Audible (293)9h 5m listening time • Released 2010Scott Brick's narration cuts through Huston's noir-soaked vampire crime world with the perfect blend of menace and dark humor—he makes Joe Pitt's desperation feel inevitable, not just inevitable.
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Half the Blood of Brooklyn
Joe Pitt • Book 3
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.95 ABR Score (4.9K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (4.6K) ★ 4.28 Audible (367)8h 42m listening time • Released 2010Scott Brick's gravelly delivery transforms Huston's noir-vampire prose into something genuinely intoxicating—hard-boiled and visceral, like listening to a noir film noir that happens to have fangs.
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My Dead Body
Joe Pitt • Book 5
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.95 ABR Score (3.9K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (3.6K) ★ 4.42 Audible (329)10h 33m listening time • Released 2009Scott Brick's deadpan delivery transforms this grimy vampire noir into something darkly funny and weirdly touching—a perfect match for Joe Pitt's exhausted fatalism.
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No Dominion
Joe Pitt • Book 2
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.80 ABR Score (6.2K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (5.6K) ★ 4.15 Audible (579)8h 41m listening time • Released 2008Scott Brick's deadpan noir delivery transforms this vampire noir into pure genre bliss—Joe Pitt's desperation and moral compromises have never sounded more authentically doomed.
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Already Dead
Joe Pitt • Book 1
Narrated by Scott Brick
★ 3.76 ABR Score (11.6K ratings)★ 3.8 Goodreads (10.7K) ★ 3.98 Audible (903)9h 6m listening time • Released 2008Scott Brick's noir-soaked delivery transforms this vampire noir into something genuinely unsettling—he makes the undead feel exhausted and trapped rather than glamorous, which is exactly what separates Huston's gritty take from every other vampire story.
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Sleepless
Narrated by Ray Porter, Mark Bramhall
★ 3.68 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)★ 3.67 Goodreads (2.6K) ★ 3.71 Audible (200)13h 36m listening time • Released 2009Ray Porter and Mark Bramhall split vocal duties on a nightmare scenario that feels disturbingly plausible: Los Angeles descends into chaos when insomnia becomes contagious, and one cop must navigate the collapse while everyone around him unravels.
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