Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Mortal Word

By: Genevieve Cogman

Narrated by: Kristin Atherton

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1890s Paris, a librarian and a detective must track down a killer – before the city goes up in flames. The Mortal Word is the enthralling fifth instalment in the Invisible Library series from Genevieve Cogman.

A corrupt countess. A spy in danger. And an assassin.

Peace talks are always tricky – especially when a key diplomat gets stabbed. This... Read more

Hallowe'en Party

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming in 2023!In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween Party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer.At a Halloween party, Joyce—a hostile thirteen-year-old—boasts that she once witnessed a... Read more

The Drowning House

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads. —Chuck Wendig, author of The Book of Accidents A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Her grandson, Simon Culpepper, vanishes in the... Read more

The Marriage Lie

By: Kimberly Belle

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone has secrets…

Iris and Will have been married for seven years, and life is as close to perfect as it can be. But on the morning Will flies out for a business trip to Florida, Iris’s happy world comes to an abrupt halt: another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board and, according to the airline, Will... Read more

Unknown Rider

By: Jack Stewart

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

After a Navy pilot inexplicably loses control of his stealth fighter, he stumbles upon a global conspiracy, and embarks on a thrilling chase filled with espionage and betrayal.“A high-octane and adrenaline-powered thriller… Strap in and hold on!” – Jack Carr, Former Navy SEAL sniper and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the James Reece... Read more

Missing Joseph

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the... Read more

Something Rotten

By: Jasper Fforde

Narrated by: Emily Gray

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Jasper Fforde's time-traveling, book-jumping detective Thursday Next is a hit with fans and critics. Each book in this humorous and intelligent series has hit nationwide best-seller lists. Here, Thursday must save the world from Yorrick Kaine and the evil Goliath Corporation while trying to recover her lost husband from the timestream and raise... Read more

The House of Cross

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Wayne Carr, Inger Tudor, William Christopher St...

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Supreme Court candidates are being murdered—and only Alex Cross and John Sampson can take the case in The House of Cross. 

“[Alex Cross’s] innate nature is to protect people…If he has a weakness, it’s his family, especially his children. They’re the chink in his armor. But aside from that, it’s tough to get at him.” 
–Aldis Hodge, star of Cross... Read more

The Stranger

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Harlan Coben delivers his most shocking thriller yet, proving that a well-placed lie can help build a wonderful life—and a secret has the same explosive power to destroy it.The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown.... Read more

Hour Game

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A man accused of burglary seems innocent . . . but in this #1 New York Times bestseller, two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth.

A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the... Read more

Hardy Boys Adventures Collection Volume 1

By: Franklin W. Dixon

Narrated by: Tim Gregory

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Secret of the Red Arrow
Something is not right in Bayport.

After a series of unfortunate (yet harmless) pranks, it looks like Frank and Joe have caught their suspect surprisingly early. Their classmate Seth Diller has taken his love of filmmaking a bit too far. But shortly after Frank and Joe confront Seth, there are fresh outbreaks of Seth-like... Read more

Silent Night, Deadly Night

By: Vicki Delany

Narrated by: Amy Deuchler

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Residents of Rudolph keep the spirit of Christmas alive year-round—but their joy is threatened when a group of grinches visits the town, in the charming fourth installment of the Year-Round Christmas Mystery series.



It's the week before Thanksgiving, and Merry Wilkinson, owner of Mrs. Claus's Treasures, is preparing for a weekend reunion of her... Read more

Dead Man in a Ditch

By: Luke Arnold

Narrated by: Luke Arnold

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A former soldier turned PI solves crime in a world that's lost its magic in this brilliant sequel to actor Luke Arnold's debut The Last Smile in Sunder City.
The name's Fetch Phillips -- what do you need?
Cover a Gnome with a crossbow while he does a dodgy deal? Sure.
Find out who killed Lance Niles, the big-shot businessman who just arrived in... Read more

Cold Wind

By: C. J. Box

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Award winner C. J. Box's novels featuring game warden Joe Pickett are full of breathtaking thrills. Cold Wind, the 11th tale in the series, finds Pickett's mother-in-law suspected of murdering her husband. Pickett cannot stand the woman, and all the evidence is pointing straight toward her. Caught up... Read more

A Holiday Homicide

By: Ellie Alexander

Narrated by: Ellen Quay

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie Murray's festive plans at the Secret Bookcase are thrown into disarray when a celebrity baker drops dead during a gingerbread-baking competition… As whispers of foul play swirl like snowflakes, Annie soon finds herself tangled in a web of secrets, small-town rivalry, and long-buried mysteries.With pub owner and new love Liam by her side... Read more

The Nebula Secret

By: Trudi Trueit

Narrated by: Ramón De Ocampo

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers. Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz,... Read more

Such Sharp Teeth

By: Rachel Harrison

Narrated by: Kristen Sieh

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive USA Today bestselling novel from the author of Cackle and The Return.

Rory Morris isn’t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant,... Read more

All the Demons Are Here

By: Jake Tapper

Narrated by: Meg Price & Rob Shapiro

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Devil May Dance and The Hellfire Club comes a breathtaking thriller that explores the chaotic underworlds of the 1970's after an AWOL US Marine returns home to a strange and dangerous country. It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder's kids, are grown up—and in trouble. US Marine Ike has... Read more

Kala

By: Colin Walsh

Narrated by: Frank Blake, Moe Dunford & Seána Kerslake

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE TABLET, AND CRIMEREADS • "An enthralling, evocative and heartfelt mystery" (Chris Whitaker) from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for twenty years, reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives.

"The perfect read for hot summer days... Read more

The Echo Maker

By: Richard Powers

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 20 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven year old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, returns to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a coma, Mark believes that this woman is really an impostor who looks just like his sister. Shattered, Karin contacts... Read more

The Spite House

By: Johnny Compton

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"The plotting is intricate, following the points of view of many characters from the past and present, all of whom are expertly performed by Adam Lazarre-White." - Library Journal

"Adam Lazarre-White narrates this terrifying debut novel with a Southern drawl that puts the gothic into this gothic thriller."- AudioFile

A terrifying Gothic thriller... Read more

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

By: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 1 hour 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Tolkien’s acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tale, read by Derek Jacobi. ‘Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of the history of these fascinating people – a selection [of verses] offered as an ‘interim report’ to those interested in Hobbit-lore, and to... Read more

Open And Shut

By: David Rosenfelt

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Whether dueling with new forensics or the local old boys’ network, irreverent defense attorney Andy Carpenter always leaves them awed with his biting wit and winning fourth-quarter game plan. But the fun stops the day Andy’s dad, Paterson, New Jersey’s legendary ex-D.A., drops dead in front of him at a game in Yankee Stadium. The shocks pile... Read more

Everything You Ever Wanted

By: Luiza Sauma

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Everything You Ever Wanted written by Luiza Sauma, read by Stephanie Racine.

You wake up. You go to work. You don't go outside for twelve hours at a time. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you order expensive drink after expensive drink until you're so blackout drunk you... Read more