Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Fever

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco... Read more

Rashomon Gate

By: I.J. Parker

Narrated by: Roy Vongtama

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting historical mystery set amid the exquisite ritual and refined treachery of eleventh-century Japan.

Sugawara Akitada is the son of impoverished nobility toiling at a low-level job in the Ministry of Justice. When an old friend, Professor Hirata, asks him to investigate a colleague’s blackmail, Akitada takes leave of his stultifying job... Read more

Mission Canyon

By: Meg Gardiner

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

While bicycling in the foothills of Santa Barbara, Jesse Blackburn and his friend Isaac are struck down by a hit-and-run driver. Isaac is killed, but Jesse survives. Now he wants revenge, and his fiancée, Evan Delaney, wants justice. Neither is simple. Evan and Jesse underestimate the power of the person with whom they’re dealing, and of the... Read more

Chasing Darkness

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: James Daniels

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Private Investigator Elvis Cole learns that LA fires bring more than heat, they bring his old friend Joe Pike and the past. Cole’s fight to clear his name brings murder and corruption terrifyingly close to home.It’s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied... Read more

Illegal Action

By: Stella Rimington

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage–the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has gained priority. But there’s plenty for her to do: there are more spies operating in London in the 21st century than there were during the height of East-West hostilities. Even the Russians still have a... Read more

Presumed Guilty

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Rob Lamont

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder, betrayal, and a trial that feeds a media frenzy.Can one woman stand against the forces that threaten to tear her family apart?Pastor Ron Hamilton’s star is rising. His 8,000-strong church is thriving. His good looks and charisma make him an exceptional speaker on family values. And his book on pornography in the church has become an... Read more

The Water's Edge

By: Daniel Judson

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jake "Payday" Bechet hears that two men have been murdered a few miles from where he lives in the Hamptons—hanged fromthe Shinnecock Bridge, their hands severed—he knows that trouble is coming. Trouble for him, for everyone, because it means that someone has betrayed the Castello crime family. Whether it's someone trying to move in on their... Read more

Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: various authors, Dashiell Hammett, Hugh B. Cave...

Narrated by: a full cast, Richard Ferrone, Grover Gardner, G...

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous damesIn the 1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now comes this... Read more

The Last Patriot - Abridged

By: Brad Thor

Narrated by: Armand Schultz

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brad Thor, master of suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author is back with his highest-voltage thriller to date in which Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.

June 632 AD: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount... Read more

Mordskiste - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Hans Peter Hallwachs, Evelyn Hamann, Hans Korte...

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

10 Klassische WDR-Kriminalhörspiele - u.a.: Tauno Yliruusis Klassiker Mord ist ein Kinderspiel, Hans-Werner Kettenbachs Psychodrama Privatsache (mit Peer Augustinski und Evelyn Hamann), Konrad Hansens Familien-Thriller Der Jäger oder das Action-Stück Keine Chance für Bach von Dirk Schmidt — eine Mordskiste im doppelten Wortsinn. Read more

Bethlehem Road

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 15 million copies of Edgar Award winner Anne Perry's historical mysteries have been sold. In Bethlehem Road, Inspector Pitt and his wife investigate the murder of a Member of Parliament. Before they can begin to piece together what happened to Sir Lockwood Hamilton, one of his colleagues is discovered murdered-on the exact same spot. Read more

Free Fall

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thoughtful and powerful page turner.”—PeopleElvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiancé, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble—the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him... Read more

What You Sow

By: Wallace Ford

Narrated by: Ezra Knight, James Yaegashi, Nyambi Nyambi, Car...

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Connoisseurs of edgy, contemporary African-American fiction find the novels of Wallace Ford prime offerings. In this riveting sequel, a powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners' money, he's been living fast, but losing even faster. Read more

A Wedding to Die For

By: Leann Sweeney

Narrated by: Danielle Ferland

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leann Sweeney's first Yellow Rose mystery won many new fans eager to follow Abby Rose, now a private investigator. Not knowing exactly what she's gotten herself into yet, Abby takes on the case of a bride determined to find her birth mother before her wedding day. But things get messy when the reception is cut short by a matrimonial murderer. Read more

Slow Motion Riot

By: Peter Blauner

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum is desperately struggling to hold on to the last remaining shreds of his idealism, until Darryl King invades his world. A deranged young sociopath, one of the most bloodthirsty creations of a diseased society, Darryl has come to drag Baum along with him... Read more

The Last Oracle

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind.Salvation . . . or annihilation?What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet—the next Buddha, Mohammed,... Read more

The Deceived

By: Brett Battles

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unputdownable.”*
“Brilliant and heart-pounding.”**
“A tightly written page-turner.”***

Brett Battles won rave reviews for his debut novel, The Cleaner, which introduced hero Jonathan Quinn. A freelance operative and professional “cleaner,” Quinn knows better than to get emotionally involved in any of his jobs. But in this superb powerhouse of... Read more

Eight in the Box

By: Raffi Yessayan

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this swiftly paced, breathlessly suspenseful debut novel, the bizarre rampage of an elusive serial killer sends shockwaves through Boston, igniting a harrowing police manhunt and resounding at the highest levels of the criminal justice system. Drawing on eleven years’ experience as a Boston assistant district attorney–and as chief prosecutor... Read more

The Lemur

By: Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When John Glass's billionaire father-in-law hires him to write his biography, he feels he can't refuse. Then his research assistant on the book discovers some very sensitive information about John's in-laws, and is murdered before he can tell anyone what he knows. John is on his own to find out the young man's secret, before the murderer finds him. Read more

What Was Lost

By: Catherine O'Flynn

Narrated by: Catherine Skinner

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1980s, Kate Meaney is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing "suspects" and carefully observing everything around her at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of a local shopkeeper. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under... Read more

Eight in the Box - Abridged

By: Raffi Yessayan

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They call him the Blood Bath Killer -- a man who has now killed two Boston women by sneaking into their homes, filling the bathtub with their blood, and making off with their bodies. And everything suggests that he's poised to strike again.

Out to stop him are two good cops -- Detective Angel Alves and his hard-driven boss, Sergeant Wayne Mooney... Read more

Dime Store Magic

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations—the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new... Read more

The Dark of Day

By: Barbara Parker

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Parker introduces one of the most unforgettable female characters in suspense fiction: high-profile Miami defense attorney C. J. Dunn.C J. Dunn is an expert at spinning her clients' image in the media. She is the perfect lawyer to deflect police interest in Rick Slater, head of security for Bob Shelby, a US congressman from Miami. Slater... Read more

2012

By: Whitley Strieber

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, Earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end of not only this age but also human consciousness as we know it. But what will actually... Read more