Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Babylon Sisters

By: Pearl Cleage

Narrated by: Pearl Cleage

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for... Read more

Rules of Deception

By: Christopher Reich

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.

Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing... Read more

Our Lady of Pain

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Cathcart is only a ploy to keep her parents from shipping her off to India. But then Harry’s latest client, Dolores Duval—a vision... Read more

Cat Pay the Devil

By: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Nestled quietly on the Pacific Coast below San Francisco, Molena Point is a quaint hamlet—not the kind of place an escaped convict would choose for a hideout. But it just happens to be the home of a state's witness who put a thief named Cage Jones behind bars—until he broke out, that is. Wily tomcat Joe Grey senses trouble is on the way, but he... Read more

The Hotel Riviera

By: Elizabeth Adler

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

American Lola Laforet seems to have it all—a whirlwind romance that turned into to have and to hold, a charmed life on the Cote d'Azur, and ownership of the magnificent Hotel Riviera. Tragically the dream ends as abruptly as it begins when her beloved husband mysteriously disappears. Heartsick, confused, and lonely, her life is thrown into... Read more

The Perfect Fake

By: Barbara Parker

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Fairchild is a man with a past he can't shake. He's struggling to make it as a graphic artist, but his probation officer thinks he belongs in jail. Then millionaire Miami real estate developer Stuart Barlowe offers him fifty thousand dollars to travel to Italy with his daughter Allison, a map expert and Tom's childhood love, to duplicate a... Read more

A Christmas Secret

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Dominic and Clarice Corde, who met and fell in love in Brunswick Gardens, journey to a quaint hamlet to replace the local vicar who is away on holiday. The holiday takes a nasty turn when the vicar is discovered not to be away at all, but brutally murdered and stashed in the cellar. So instead of fulfilling the vicar's duties, the Cordes are... Read more

A Christmas Journey

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Readers of Anne Perry's bestselling suspense novels revel in a world that is all their own, sharing the privileged existence of Britain's wealthy and powerful elite in West End mansions and great country houses. It is also a world in which danger bides in unsuspected places and the line between good and evil can be razor thin. This new novel... Read more

A Christmas Guest

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest—an outcast from her own... Read more

The Seduction of Water

By: Carol Goodman

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For Iris Greenfeder—all but published, all but a professor, and all but married to her boyfriend of ten years—the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside is the sad story of her mother's... Read more

Killer View

By: Ridley Pearson

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When a skier goes missing at Sun Valley’s Galena Summit, Sheriff Walt Fleming quickly assembles his crack Search and Rescue team and heads out into the snowy night. Despite the treacherous conditions, Walt and his group, including deputy Tommy Brandon and Walt’s best friend, Mark Aker, set off on skis, accompanied by highly trained search dogs. ... Read more

Richard Diamond, Folge 7: Die rote Rose / Der Karussell-Fall

By: Blake Edwards

Narrated by: Tobias Kluckert, Detlef Bierstedt & Oliver Rohr...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Fall 7 - Die rote Rose John Alastair, ein Klient Richard Diamonds, hat ein großes Problem. Um seine Schulden zu begleichen und seiner Frau ein gutes Leben durch die Versicherungssumme zu ermöglichen, ließ er durch einen Dritten einen Mordauftrag auf sich selbst ansetzen. Durch eine glückliche Fügung kann Alastair sich allerdings doch noch das... Read more

Watch Your Back!

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Hapless criminal John Dortmunder returns in another rollicking tale of disorganized crime from Grand Master of Mystery Donald E. Westlake. It's the score of a lifetime: easy access to a lavish New York City apartment, hordes of valuables, and an absentee owner avoiding the lawyers of his unhappy ex-wives. But before they pull the job,... Read more

Semiautomatic

By: Robert Reuland

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On Brooklyn's treacherous streets, having a conscience can be a dangerous commodity. When Andrew Giobberti, exiled from Homicide to Appeals, suddenly finds himself in demand in the prosecution of the horrific murder of a beloved neighborhood grocer, he cannot know the hornet's nest of lies and double-dealing he will uncover. With the newspapers... Read more

What’s So Funny?

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

All it takes is a few underhanded moves by a tough ex-cop named Eppick to pull thief John Dortmunder into a game he never wanted to play. With no choice, he musters his always-game gang and they set out on a perilous treasure hunt for a long-lost gold and jewel-studded chess set once intended as a birthday gift for the last Romanov czar, which... Read more

Winter and Night

By: S. J. Rozan

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning S. J. Rozan comes her finest novel to date—an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town.In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They’re holding fifteen-year-old named Gary—Bill’s nephew. But before Bill... Read more

Saturnalia

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong: she acquires a mystery illness—then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.Marcus Didius... Read more

Dating Dead Men

By: Harley Jane Kozak

Narrated by: Deanna Hurst

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado—a state-run mental hospital—and is taken hostage by a charismatic... Read more

Sick of Shadows

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience so Rose can avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Her sharp intellect and radical ideas have served to repel her would-be suitors. Rose's parents are hardly thrilled that their only child is marrying a man in trade, but Harry... Read more

Seven Deadly Wonders

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Golden Capstone atop the Great Pyramid at Giza offered protection from the global flooding and scorching sun that occurs every 4,500 years due to the Tartarus Rotation solar event. But Alexander the Great broke the Capstone into seven pieces and hid them in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, in 2006, another Tartarus Rotation is... Read more

Snobbery with Violence

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

In this delightful mystery from the New York Times bestselling author M. C. Beaton imagine if the rebellious sister from Downton Abbey and her maid got mixed up in murderWhen a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful—if rebellious—Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor’s intentions are honorable. He calls on... Read more

Wish Come True

By: Eileen Goudge

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

After years spent in the shadow of her movie-star sister, Monica, Anna Vincenzi finally remakes herself. But when Monica is murdered, Anna is arrested as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Anna is not alone as she fights to exonerate herself. When a Carson Springs dweller as beloved as Anna needs help, all the valley's residents rally together,... Read more

Cat Breaking Free

By: Shirley Rousseau Murphy

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The fur starts flying when a gang from LA comes up to tranquil Molena Point, California, and begins breaking into the village's quaint shops. Joe Grey, feline PI, has called Molena Point home since he was a kitten, and he doesn't take well to marauding strangers. Joe even wonders whether the blonde who's moved in next to his human companion... Read more

Lemons Never Lie

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: Steve Aveson

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately—which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane—so Grofield walks... Read more