Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Presence

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits sixteen-year-old Michael Sundquist and his mother, Katharine, an anthropologist who has come to the Islands to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui.Yet far below the black depths of the Pacific a... Read more

Folly

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie R. King creates unforgettable characters and situations in her mystery series featuring Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell. In Folly, she tells the gripping story of a woman on the edge of the world--and the edge of sanity. Tragedy and mental illness have been dark companions of Rae Newborn for more than 50 years. Her life seems to start... Read more

Death In A White Tie - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.

But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.

But someone else got there... Read more

Angie's Delight

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story with a cruel twist, about a lawyer and a criminal. Read more

Devil Bones

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Kathy Reichs’s eleventh forensic mystery thriller, in which Temperance Brennan heads to Charlotte, North Carolina to solve a demonic plot involving ritual sacrifice before the town’s vengeful citizens take matters into their own hands.

In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about and makes a grisly discovery: a... Read more

The Door of No Return

By: Sarah Mussi

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Zac Baxter's grandfather has always told him that he's the descendant of African kings, whose treasure was stolen when his ancestors were sold into slavery. Of course, Zac brushes this off as a tall tale -- until his grandfather is murdered and their apartment is completely ransacked. Clearly somebody is after something.
Heeding his... Read more

The Girl in the Yellow Bikini

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

I've always thought of myself as a fan more than a writer. Never in a million years did I imagine that I'd ever get my fiction published, let alone have all of my books become New York Times bestsellers. It wasn't until I was in my 30's that I published my first short story, The Girl in the Yellow Bikini. It was released in 1974 in Mike Shayne... Read more

Silks

By: Dick Francis & Felix Francis

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A lawyer and amateur jockey is torn between doing what’s right and what will keep him alive in this New York Times bestselling thriller from Dick and Felix Francis.

Geoffrey Mason wasn’t terribly disappointed when his client Julian Trent was found guilty. Despite being paid handsomely as Trent’s defense counsel, he believes Trent needs to be... Read more

The Jailhouse Lawyer

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Jailhouse Lawyer"" appears in the 1998 anthology Legal Briefs as well as the 1999 edition of The Best American Mystery Stories. Read more

Laughter of Dead Kings

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A royal treat….Welcome back, Vicky Bliss!...For readers new to Vicky’s sassy and distinctively smart stories, The Laughter of Dead Kings will mark the start of a beautiful friendship.”—Tampa Tribune New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters—author of the thrilling fictional exploits of archaeologist Amelia Peabody in the Land of... Read more

The Fifth Floor

By: Michael Harvey

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Harvey’s sizzling follow-up to The Chicago Way (“A magnificent debut that should be read by all”—John Grisham; “This book heralds the arrival of a major new voice”—Michael Connelly) opens with a murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O’Leary’s cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

When PI Michael Kelly is hired by... Read more

Devil Bones - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kathy Reichs’s eleventh forensic mystery thriller, in which Temperance Brennan heads to Charlotte, North Carolina to solve a demonic plot involving ritual sacrifice before the town’s vengeful citizens take matters into their own hands.

In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about and makes a grisly discovery: a... Read more

Charon's Landing

By: Jack Du Brul

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Russian mastermind Ivan Kerikov plans to use an ecological terrorist group to sabotage the Alaska pipeline and pollute the western coast of North America with oil, all to turn the United States from domestic to foreign sources of oil. He's being paid millions by a rogue Arab oil minister who is plotting a coup in his own country and is in... Read more

Broken

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ever since she discovered she's pregnant, Elena Michaels has been on edge. After all, she's never heard of another living female werewolf, let alone one who's given birth. But thankfully, her expertise is needed to retrieve a stolen letter allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. As a distraction, the job seems simple enough—only the letter... Read more

The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans will rejoice as New York's most charming burglar returns to action. Greenwich Village bookseller Bernie Rhodenbarr has perfected the art of breaking and entering, as well as that of clever repartee. Bernie gets plenty of opportunity to exercise both his wit and his lock-picking muscles, as he juggles old friends, new "employees," potential... Read more

The Burglar in the Rye

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of multiple Edgar and Shamus Awards, Lawrence Block keeps fans guessing to the end with his rollicking Bernie Rhodenbarr mysteries. In this diverting caper, full-time bookstore owner and part-time burglar Bernie tries to do the right thing for a new friend, only to find himself accused of some terrible wrongs.

All Bernie plans to do is... Read more

The Burglar in the Library

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Lawrence Block's talent for creating colorful characters, sophisticated dialog, and engaging atmosphere has earned him many awards: the title of Grand Master, three Edgar Awards, four Shamus Awards, and a Nero Wolfe Award. One of his most popular series follows the adventures of the suave bookseller and crook, Bernie Rhodenbarr. Bernie's... Read more

Fresh Kills

By: Bill Loehfelm

Narrated by: Gary Wilmes

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 8 CDs, 10 hours

Raw emotion, razor- sharp dialogue, dark humor, and a heartfelt sense of place and character define this noir mystery—and herald the astonishing debut of a compelling voice in contemporary fiction. Read more

Evidence of Mercy

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

The plane crash nearly ended Lynda’s life. Was it an accident or sabotage? Lynda Barrett, a young lawyer, hates to sell her plane, but she can no longer afford to keep it. Enter Jake Stevens: wealthy, arrogant, and interested in buying Lynda’s beloved Piper. Together, he and Lynda embark on a test flight that ends in disaster--hurling them into... Read more

Cape Refuge

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Renee Raudman

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale from New York Times bestselling suspense author Terri Blackstock. When the kindest couple in Cape Refuge is found murdered at their church, their daughter will have to find the killer . . . before her own husband is convicted.Wade and Thelma Owens run a halfway house on the small island of Cape Refuge that caters to wayward souls... Read more

Rough Justice

By: Jack Higgins

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Dispatched by the President to report on the state of troubled Kosovo, his trusted agent Blake Johnson runs into a military man there named Harry Miller, who has the same task from the British Prime Minister. They band together just in time to stop a Russian officer from torching a mosque -- or rather, Miller stops him, with a bullet to the... Read more

First Daughter

By: Eric Van Lustbader

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive new political thriller by Eric Van Lustbader, the New York Times bestselling author of The Testament and The Bourne Betrayal

Jack McClure lost his daughter. Now it's his job to make sure the president-elect doesn't lose his.
For eight years, America has been led by a president hell-bent on aggressive foreign policy and re-building... Read more

First Daughter - Abridged

By: Eric Van Lustbader

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack McClure lost his daughter. Now it's his job to make sure the president-elect doesn't lose his.
For eight years, America has been led by a president hell-bent on aggressive foreign policy and re-building the nation on Christian values. A new administration is on its way in, but the president has a few power moves left to see his legacy... Read more

A Walk Through the Fire

By: Marcia Muller

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author, Marcia Muller, brings you another thrilling mystery with her famous private investigator, Sharon McCone.Sharon McCone, weary of San Francisco's persistent rainy weather, jumps at the chance to investigate sabotage on the set of a documentary film being shot on the island of Kauai. Based on the writings of... Read more