Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Ninth Metal

By: Benjamin Percy

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

“[In THE NINTH METAL] debris from a comet drops a fabulously valuable new metal on Northfall, MN., turning it into a bloody, brawling boomtown. Great characters, fine writing, totally engrossing.”
—Stephen King

“Take one part dystopia, one part sci-fi, two parts apocalypse, then ride them roughshod through a bleak and bloody western, and it... Read more

The Book of Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle

Length: 12 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant” (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series—a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?

For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love—but all of that is about to change. The novel begins... Read more

Memorials

By: Richard Chizmar

Narrated by: Michael Crouch & Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 15 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF 2024
“Scary and hard to put down. You might be advised not to read it at night.” —STEPHEN KING

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the... Read more

Scrap

By: Calla Henkel

Narrated by: Amelia Sciandra

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A TRUE-CRIME-OBSESSED YOUNG ARTIST IS DRAWN INTO THE LIVES OF A DELIRIOUSLY WEALTHY FAMILY IN THIS FANTASTICALLY ENTERTAINING THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF OTHER PEOPLE’S CLOTHES.Recently dumped and stuck with the mortgage, artist Esther Ray wants to burn down the world, but instead, she reluctantly accepts a scrapbooking job from the deliriously... Read more

An Enchanting Case of Spirits

By: Melissa Holtz

Narrated by: Piper Goodeve & Aaron Shedlock

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz.

Alyssa Mann isn’t adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there’s no way to avoid celebrating... Read more

Small Town Sins

By: Ken Jaworowski

Narrated by: Chris Ciulla, Jennifer Blom & John Pirhalla

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

Ken Jaworowski’s Small Town Sins is a gripping Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing their troubled pasts and the crimes that could cost them their lives.

In Locksburg, Pennsylvania, a former coal and steel town whose best days seem long past, five... Read more

Survivor's Guilt

By: Robyn Gigl

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Robyn Gigl’s unique protagonist, transgender attorney Erin McCabe, returns in a fascinating and timely legal thriller that delves into the dark world of human trafficking by the rich and powerful …At first, the death of millionaire businessman Charles Parsons seems like a straightforward suicide. There’s no sign of forced entry or struggle in... Read more

The Third Option

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin comes a pulse-pounding thriller that “is an old school spy story…updated with heavy helpings of international intrigue and domestic politicking and betrayal” (Library Journal) and puts CIA agent Mitch Rapp in the crosshairs of an enemy even he did not anticipate.

When diplomacy... Read more

Northern Spy

By: Flynn Berry

Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Reese’s Book Club Pick
Instant New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Thriller of 2021
A Washington Post Top 10 Thriller or Mystery of 2021
 
“If you love a mystery, then you’ll devour [Northern Spy] . . . I loved this thrill ride of a book.” —Reese Witherspoon

“A chilling, gorgeously written tale . . . Berry keeps the... Read more

Murder at an Irish Christmas

By: Carlene O'Connor

Narrated by: Caroline Lennon

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

This December in Kilbane, if you’re planning to warm up with a cuppa tea at Naomi’s Bistro, you may have a bit of a wait—the entire O’Sullivan brood has gone off to West Cork to spend the holidays with brother James’s fiancée Elise’s family, including her grandfather, the famous orchestral conductor Enda Elliot. Siobhán is so happy for James and... Read more

Curse of the Spellmans - Abridged

By: Lisa Lutz

Narrated by: Ari Graynor

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

In this sidesplittingly funny follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Spellman Files, San Francisco’s own highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators are back on the case in another mystery full of suspicion, surveillance, humor, and surprise from award-winning author Lisa Lutz.

When Izzy Spellman, PI,... Read more

The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill & Kit Griffiths

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.

“Fantastically gripping…this is fiction roaring on all cylinders.” —The Guardian
“A work of peculiar gonzo genius…Thomas takes a glamorous... Read more

Mary Russell's War

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie, Jenny Sterlin, Susan Benn...

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie R. King illuminates the hidden corners of her beloved Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series in this dynamic story collection. In nine short stories, seven of which have never previously been available in print, and one brand new, never-before-seen Sherlock Holmes mystery-available together for the first time-Laurie R. King blends her... Read more

American Tabloid

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 18 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK’s presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose cannons conspire in a covert anarchy...Where the right drugs,... Read more

X

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Of #1 New York Times–bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan said, “Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.” With only two letters left, Grafton’s many devoted readers will share that sentiment.

X:  The number ten. An unknown quantity. A mistake. A cross. A kiss.

X:  The shortest entry in Webster’s Unabridged. Derived from... Read more

Grave Secrets

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As fresh and shocking as today’s headlines, a “chilling” (People) Temperance Brennan novel in which a harrowing excavation unearths a terrible tragedy never laid to rest—from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the... Read more

A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder

By: Dianne Freeman

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Award–winning author Dianne Freeman returns to Victorian England, as the future Mrs. George Hazelton, American-born Countess of Harleigh, encounters a young French woman with the shocking claim that she is the rightful Mrs. Hazelton …For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner... Read more

To Be a Man

By: Nicole Krauss

Narrated by: Nicole Krauss

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

O, The Oprah Magazine's 20 Best Titles of the YearTime Magazine's 100 Books to Read in 2020 Financial Times' Best Books of 2020Esquire's Best Books of 2020New York Times Editors' Choice
Lit Hub's Best Books of 2020 Bustle's Best Short Story Collections of 2020Electric Literature's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2020Library Journal's Best... Read more

Jack & Jill

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Available as an unabridged audiobook for the first time in a brand new recording. In the middle of the night, a controversial U.S. senator is found murdered in bed in his Georgetown pied-a-terre. The police turn up only one clue: a mysterious rhyme signed "Jack and Jill" promising that this is just the beginning. Jack and Jill are out to get the... Read more

Slow Horses

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a critically acclaimed series on Apple TV+Welcome to the thrilling and unnervingly prescient world of the slow horses. This team of MI5 agents is united by one common bond: they’ve screwed up royally and will do anything to redeem themselves.London, England. Slough House is where washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their... Read more

Cinderwich

By: Cherie Priest

Narrated by: Traci Odom

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

“Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer. Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr. Judith Kane, travel to Cinderwich, Tennessee, in hopes that maybe it was their Ellen: Katie’s lost aunt, Judith’s long-gone lover. But they’re not... Read more

A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder

By: Dianne Freeman

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha and Lefty Award–winning author Dianne Freeman's third Countess of Harleigh Mystery set in Victorian England, the widowed, American-born aristocrat Frances Wynn finds her sister's wedding threatened by a vow of vengeance …London is known for its bustle and intrigues, but the sedate English countryside can host—or hide—any number of... Read more

Summoned to Thirteenth Grave

By: Darynda Jones

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Grim Reaper Charley Davidson is back in the final installment of Darynda Jones’ New York Times bestselling paranormal series, Summoned to Thirteenth Grave.

Charley Davidson, Grim Reaper extraordinaire, is pissed. She’s been kicked off the earthly plane for eternity – which is the appropriate amount of time to make a person stark raving mad. But... Read more

The Scarlet Papers

By: Matthew Richardson

Narrated by: Leighton Pugh & Lucy Scott

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

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VIENNA, 1946
A brilliant German scientist spirited out of the ruins Nazi Europe in search of a new life

MOSCOW, 1964
A rising star of the British diplomatic service whose job is not what it seems

LONDON, THE PRESENT DAY
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