Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Gargoyle

By: Andrew Davidson

Narrated by: Lincoln Hoppe

Length: 19 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time

The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is modern life. As the book opens, he is driving along a dark road when he is distracted by what seems to... Read more

People Who Walk in Darkness

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Rostnikov is a Russian bear of a man, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Russia. Known as "The Washtub," Rostnikov is one of the most engaging and relevant characters in crime fiction, a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing (that is, disintegrating) Russia. Surviving pogroms and... Read more

Forced Out

By: Stephen Frey

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

Forced to retire from his job as a scout for the Yankees, Jack Barrett is just getting by in a small Florida town when his daughter drags him to watch the local minor league team play. On the field, he spots a remarkable player, Mikey Clement, a kid whose amazing natural skill on the field is overshadowed by his bad attitude and solitary habits.... Read more

The Assassin

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

From Stephen Coonts comes a novel of high octane excitement, featuring Tommy Carmellini in his most dangerous mission yet: The Assassin.

In the finale of Coonts's last novel The Traitor, the ruthless and brilliant Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the Group of 7 in Paris slipped the noose and escaped. But Abu Qasim... Read more

A Job to Kill For

By: Janice Kaplan

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Shopping meets suspense in this enticing new cocktail of sassy-smart sleuthing featuring a spunky decorator who can hunt down furniture—and murder.

As a tireless mom of three, the doting spouse of a surgeon, and a talented interior designer to the stars, Lacy Fields can always find the perfect piece to finish a living room—or an investigation.... Read more

Foreign Body

By: Robin Cook

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling novel from the bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times), NYC medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism—and a sinister global conspiracy.

Devastated by the news that her beloved granmother has died after hip surgery in New... Read more

Stalking Susan

By: Julie Kramer

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside the desperate world of TV ratings, an investigative reporter discovers that a serial killer is targeting women named Susan and killing one on the same day each year.

Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heartbreaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap... Read more

Black Arrow

By: I.J. Parker

Narrated by: Roy Vongtama

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

With unblinking determination, Sugawara Akitada must confront an ancient evil in a frozen land

Unlocking the doors to power and influence in eleventh-century Japan comes naturally to one as cunning and curious as Sugawara Akitada. Now he travels north to assume the provisional governorship of Echigo, a remote and frigid province notorious for its... Read more

The Bordeaux Betrayal

By: Ellen Crosby

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

When Valerie Beauvais, author of a book on Thomas Jefferson's travels through the wine regions of France and Italy, turns up dead near Lucie Montgomery's Virginia vineyard, Lucie is certain Valerie's murder has something to do with the authenticity of a 200-year-old bottle of Bordeaux Jefferson may once have purchased for his good friend George... Read more

The Assassin - Abridged

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Stephen Coonts comes a novel of high octane excitement, featuring Tommy Carmellini in his most dangerous mission yet: The Assassin.

In the finale of Coonts's last novel The Traitor, the ruthless and brilliant Al Qaeda leader who nearly succeeded in blowing up a meeting of the Group of 7 in Paris slipped the noose and escaped. But Abu Qasim... Read more

While Other People Sleep

By: Marcia Muller

Narrated by: Jean Reed Bahle

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A DOUBLE NIGHTMAREWith her agency going great guns, Sharon McCone is known as one of the best detectives in the business...until her reputation is threatened by an impostor. The woman's resemblance to McCone is uncanny. Her knowledge of McCone's life is chilling. And with lover Hy Ripinsky away on business, McCone is alone as the double... Read more

Pigtown

By: William J. Caunitz

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Lieutenant, Matt Stuart, third generation New York cop, is precinct head in Pigtown, an old wiseguy neighborhood where the name remains but the pig farms are gone in a forgotten section of Brooklyn. Which is where Beansy Rutolo is found inside a refrigerator with his brains blown out. Nobody cares about mob hits anymore, but Matt owes... Read more

Haven

By: John R. Maxim

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Elizabeth Stride has settled on South Carolina's Hilton Head Island to escape her past. Most of all, she wants to leave behind Martin Kessler – a man who will always own a piece of her soul. But his love is a continuing reminder of what she once was: "The Black Angel," a ruthless and efficient assassin. A young girl is about to be kidnapped... Read more

Haunted

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Eve Levine—half-demon, black witch, and devoted mother—has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life, and can't be killed again—which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve has. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad. All she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, and... Read more

The Cain Conversion

By: Richard Aellen

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The Manchurian Candidate meets the New World Order in this stunning thriller by the bestselling author of Crux and Flashpoint. Secret Service agent Bill Sullivan has a wife, two children, and a secret unknown even to himself: he is a multiple personality programmed and planted by the KGB during the Cold War. The Russians no longer need an... Read more

Cold Case

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Controversial author and scholar David Etheridge is not the kind of company an aspiring politician wants to keep. But ambitious senator Robert McCrutchen has a history with Etheridge that he’s desperately trying to keep under wraps. Twenty-two years ago, both men were investigated in the death of a young coed, but the case was never solved.When... Read more

White Corridor

By: Christopher Fowler

Narrated by: Tim Goodman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the depths of winter, a member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the eccentric elderly detectives who run London's strangest crime division, aren't on hand to solve the crime. They've ventured into... Read more

Lucifer's Shadow

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Christopher Kay

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An intelligently crafted novel telling a chilling and suspenseful tale of classical music and corruption in Italy.
Venice is a beautiful and mysterious city. Lucifer's Shadow combines two stories in the city, set centuries apart from one another, and both involving the shady but seductive characters of Venice. The stories involve an anonymous... Read more

The Turnaround - Abridged

By: George Pelecanos

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty-five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.

The... Read more

Robert Ludlum's (TM) The Bourne Sanction

By: Eric Van Lustbader

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In Europe, Bourne's investigation into the Black Legion turns into one of the deadliest and most tangled operations of his double life-the pursuit of the leader of a terrorist group with roots in the darkest days of World War II--all while an assassin as brilliant and damaged as himself is getting closer by the minute . . .
Jason Bourne returns... Read more

Little Saigon

By: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 14 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the aftermath of the war in Vietnam, thousands of desperate refugees fled the killing fields for new lives in Southern California. But for those who settled in "Little Saigon," the war never really ended. The latest victim of the continuing struggle is Li Frye, a popular singer whose songs of hope and home have made her a heroine to her... Read more

Black and White and Dead All Over

By: John Darnton

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Bad news is brewing in the inner sanctum of the New York Globe, the city’s long-standing newspaper of note, whose back is to the wall. Readership, advertising, and circulation are plummeting—along with the paper’s vaunted standards—and the cost cutters have their knives out. But trouble of a wholly different kind begins one rainy September... Read more

It Only Takes a Moment

By: Mary Jane Clark

Narrated by: Isabel Keating

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp. The country's viewers are glued to their television sets, anxiously awaiting the news that... Read more

Strangers

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 29 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“The plot twists ingeniously...an engaging, often chilling book.”—The New York Times Book ReviewA writer in California. A doctor in Boston. A motel owner and his employee in Nevada. A priest in Chicago. A robber in New York. A little girl in Las Vegas. They’re a handful of people from across the country, living through eerie variations of the... Read more