Best Patrick Lawlor Audiobooks

The best audiobooks narrated by Patrick Lawlor — 5 titles spanning Romance, Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Biography & Memoir, Mystery, averaging 3.84 ABR stars.

Patrick Lawlor has a resonant, slightly weathered baritone that suits both historical material and character-driven fiction. His reading of Poe's Annabel Lee carries genuine poetic feeling, while Bonnie and Clyde brings a journalist's clarity to true crime narrative. Lawlor handles romance with surprising tenderness — Suzanne Brockmann's Some Kind of Hero benefits from his ability to convey masculine vulnerability. He is equally at home with serious nonfiction like The Wages of Whiteness, never condescending to the academic material. His voice has a lived-in quality that listeners find trustworthy over long listens. If you want a narrator who sounds like he has seen some things and can tell you about them — whether the story is a love story, a history, or a mystery — Lawlor delivers.

Where to Start with Patrick Lawlor

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    Some Kind of Hero

    Troubleshooters • Book 19

    by Suzanne Brockmann

    Narrated by Bahni Turpin, Patrick Lawlor

    ★ 4.08 ABR Score (3.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.12 Goodreads (3.3K) ★ 4.52 Audible (539)
    13h 1m listening time • Released 2017

    Turpin and Lawlor bring real emotional weight to this unlikely family drama wrapped in action—a SEAL learning to be a dad is surprisingly moving when the narration refuses to let you look away.

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    Annabel Lee

    The dark Artifices

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Gilles Tibo

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

    ★ 3.98 ABR Score (12.0K ratings)
    ★ 4.32 Goodreads (12.0K) ★ 4.41 Audible (22)
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    The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class

    The Haymarket Series

    by David R. Roediger, Priyamvada Gopal, Kathleen Cleaver

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor, Bahni Turpin

    ★ 3.91 ABR Score (2.4K ratings)
    ★ 3.99 Goodreads (2.4K) ★ 4.57 Audible (56)
    8h 45m listening time • Released 2017

    Roediger's argument that whiteness itself was constructed as a psychological escape from wage labor cuts deeper than most histories of American racism—and dual narrators Lawlor and Turpin anchor this foundational text with clarity and urgency.

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    Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend

    by Paul Schneider

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

    ★ 3.73 ABR Score (595 ratings)
    ★ 3.84 Goodreads (562) ★ 4.24 Audible (33)
    15h 27m listening time • Released 2009
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    Thriller: An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories

    Music and Murder Mystery • Book 2

    by Don Bruns, Heather Graham, Jeffery Deaver, William Kent Krueger, Dahlia Rose, David R. Slayton

    Narrated by Jesse Vilinsky, Bahni Turpin, Bailey Carr, Andrew Eiden, Kevin Kenerly, Patrick Lawlor, Keith Szarabajka, Eva Kaminsky, Pun Bandhu, Vikas Adam, Michael David Axtell, Johnny Heller, Gary Tiedemann

    ★ 3.52 ABR Score (192 ratings)
    ★ 3.15 Goodreads (189) ★ 4.33 Audible (3)
    7h 19m listening time • Released 2023

    A rotating cast of narrators brings real punch to each story, making this anthology feel less like a collection and more like a curated night of master storytellers at their sharpest.

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