Best Ruth Rendell Audiobooks

The best audiobooks by Ruth Rendell — 22 titles spanning Mystery, averaging 3.65 ABR stars.

Ruth Rendell's highest-rated audiobook in our collection is Kissing the Gunner's Daughter, narrated by Davina Porter (3.87 ABR stars). Browse the full list below.

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    Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

    Inspector Wexford • Book 15

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.87 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.94 Goodreads (4.2K) ★ 4.38 Audible (97)
    14h 33m listening time • Released 2011
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    The Veiled One

    Inspector Wexford • Book 14

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.79 ABR Score (4.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (4.0K) ★ 4.21 Audible (75)
    10h 29m listening time • Released 2011

    Davina Porter's narration transforms this Rendell into something hypnotic—her ability to slip between Wexford's sharp intelligence and Burden's mounting desperation makes the psychological cat-and-mouse feel genuinely unsettling.

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    Harm Done

    Inspector Wexford • Book 18

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.77 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.8 Goodreads (3.6K) ★ 4.28 Audible (96)
    14h 59m listening time • Released 2011

    Davina Porter's measured, precise narration cuts through Rendell's layered mystery like a scalpel, making you feel Wexford's slow-burn investigation into a community turning viciously on itself.

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    A Guilty Thing Surprised

    Inspector Wexford • Book 5

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

    ★ 3.76 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (3.7K)
    2h 53m listening time • Released 2011
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    No Night is Too Long

    by Barbara Vine, Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Alex Jennings, Shelley Thomson, Samuel West

    ★ 3.75 ABR Score (2.9K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (2.9K) ★ 4.26 Audible (88)
    11h 21m listening time • Released 2016
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    Simisola

    Inspector Wexford • Book 16

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Christopher Ravenscroft

    ★ 3.73 ABR Score (4.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 4.05 Audible (55)
    10h 53m listening time • Released 2009
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    A Sleeping Life

    Inspector Wexford • Book 10

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

    ★ 3.72 ABR Score (3.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.82 Goodreads (3.4K)
    2h 44m listening time • Released 2010
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    Road Rage

    Inspector Wexford • Book 17

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.72 ABR Score (4.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.81 Goodreads (3.9K) ★ 4.09 Audible (93)
    12h 33m listening time • Released 2011
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    The Speaker Of Mandarin

    Inspector Wexford • Book 12

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Michael Bryant

    ★ 3.68 ABR Score (3.1K ratings)
    ★ 3.78 Goodreads (3.0K) ★ 4.07 Audible (118)
    6h 11m listening time • Released 2012
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    The Best Man to Die

    Inspector Wexford • Book 4

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.68 ABR Score (5.0K ratings)
    ★ 3.75 Goodreads (4.7K) ★ 4.11 Audible (218)
    7h 3m listening time • Released 2011
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    Murder Being Once Done

    Inspector Wexford • Book 7

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

    ★ 3.67 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (3.8K) ★ 5 Audible (1)
    2h 49m listening time • Released 2010
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    Put on by Cunning

    Inspector Wexford • Book 11

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

    ★ 3.65 ABR Score (2.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.76 Goodreads (2.8K)
    2h 35m listening time • Released 2011
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    No Man's Nightingale

    Inspector Wexford • Book 24

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony

    ★ 3.63 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (3.6K) ★ 4.14 Audible (161)
    8h 44m listening time • Released 2013
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    An Unkindness of Ravens

    Inspector Wexford • Book 13

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Davina Porter

    ★ 3.60 ABR Score (5.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.72 Goodreads (5.1K) ★ 3.87 Audible (117)
    9h 20m listening time • Released 2011

    Davina Porter's narration transforms Rendell's twisty mystery into something genuinely unsettling—she captures the suffocating domesticity and moral decay lurking beneath suburban respectability with perfect restraint.

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    Not in the Flesh

    Inspector Wexford • Book 21

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Simon Vance

    ★ 3.59 ABR Score (4.5K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (4.3K) ★ 3.97 Audible (117)
    8h 44m listening time • Released 2008

    Simon Vance's measured, darkly observant narration transforms this Wexford mystery into something that feels less like a puzzle to solve and more like a slow-burn investigation into the ugliness lurking beneath suburban normalcy.

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    Wolf to the Slaughter

    Inspector Wexford • Book 3

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

    ★ 3.55 ABR Score (3.7K ratings)
    ★ 3.65 Goodreads (3.7K)
    2h 52m listening time • Released 2010
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    A Spot of Folly: Ten and a Quarter New Tales of Murder and Mayhem

    by Ruth Rendell, Sophie Hannah

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Toby Longworth, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Gemma Whelan, Hattie Morahan

    ★ 3.55 ABR Score (795 ratings)
    ★ 3.64 Goodreads (794) ★ 4 Audible (1)
    6h 34m listening time • Released 2017
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    End in Tears

    Inspector Wexford • Book 20

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by John Lee

    ★ 3.54 ABR Score (4.2K ratings)
    ★ 3.58 Goodreads (4.0K) ★ 3.97 Audible (179)
    10h 58m listening time • Released 2006
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    The Babes in the Wood

    Inspector Wexford • Book 19

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Nigel Anthony

    ★ 3.53 ABR Score (6.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.77 Goodreads (6.3K) ★ 3.82 Audible (258)
    12h 9m listening time • Released 2009
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    A New Lease of Death

    Inspector Wexford • Book 2

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by George Baker

    ★ 3.52 ABR Score (3.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.63 Goodreads (3.6K)
    2h 59m listening time • Released 2010
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    The Vault

    Inspector Wexford • Book 23

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Steven Crossley

    ★ 3.51 ABR Score (4.3K ratings)
    ★ 3.61 Goodreads (4.1K) ★ 3.87 Audible (169)
    8h 37m listening time • Released 2011
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    The Monster in the Box

    Inspector Wexford • Book 22

    by Ruth Rendell

    Narrated by Nicolas Coster

    ★ 3.42 ABR Score (3.6K ratings)
    ★ 3.51 Goodreads (3.5K) ★ 3.63 Audible (104)
    9h 36m listening time • Released 2009
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