Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: John Joseph Adams

Narrated by: Simon Vance & Anne Flosnik

Length: 21 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

“Once you elminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.”Twenty-eight tales of mystery and imagination detailing the further exploits of the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, as told by today’s greatest storytellers:“A Sherlockiana Primer” by Christopher Roden
“The Horror of the Many Faces”... Read more

The Patience of the Spider

By: Andrea Camilleri

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Winning fans in Europe and America for their dark sophistication and dry humor, Andrea Camilleri's crime novels are classics of the genre. Set once again in Sicily,The Patience of the Spiderpits Inspector Montalbano against his greatest foe yet: the weight of his own years. Still recovering from the gunshot wound he suffered inRounding the Mark,... Read more

Kisser

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Stone Barrington is back in this thrilling new page-turner from the perennially entertaining New York Times-bestselling author.

Stone Barrington is back in New York, and after a rather harrowing sojourn in Key West, he's looking to stay closer to home and work on some simple divorce and custody cases for Woodman & Weld. But when he crosses... Read more

Sharpe’s Gold

By: Bernard Cornwell

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Wellington must call on the only man brave and ruthless enough to win at any cost—Richard Sharpe.Only a year after its stunning victory at Talavera in July of 1809, Wellington’s Peninsular army—vastly outnumbered, its coffers empty—is on the brink of collapse. The Spanish government has fallen, and the last Spanish armies have been crushed by... Read more

Word of Honor

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: J. C. Howe

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing? The answer comes in the form of a gunman crashing through the door of the hotel room where Jill... Read more

A Study in Scarlet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Two American travelers have been killed—one with poison, the other with a knife through the heart—and the only clues at the scene are a woman's wedding ring and the German word for "vengeance" written in blood. The military surgeon Dr. John Watson is brought in to investigate, along with his clever, arrogant new roommate, Sherlock Holmes. Thus... Read more

Absolute Power

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: David Baldacci & Scott Brick

Length: 19 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, a burglar, Luther Whitney, breaks into a Virginia mansion, and witnesses a brutal crime involving the president—​a man who believes he can get away with anything.  Featuring a Preface Read by David Baldacci.

In a heavily guarded mansion in the Virginia countryside, professional burglar and break-in... Read more

East of Desolation

By: Jack Higgins

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Martin had been on many salvage operations, but his gut feeling told him this one was different. The insurance company and the beautiful widow of the dead pilot had hired him to find out what he could about the crash, but some things were best left alone.Before long, what should have been a routine mission becomes a hair-raising adventure... Read more

Necessary as Blood

By: Deborah Crombie

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Macavity Award-winning author Deborah Crombie paints a vivid portrait of England's seedy underbelly in Necessary as Blood. As a brutal killer stalks the innocent of Whitechapel, Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James pick up the trail. Read more

Poppy Done to Death

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Thérèse Plummer

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A "DELIGHTFUL" (LIBRARY JOURNAL) Aurora Teagarden mystery From the New York Times bestselling author of Last Scene Alive and the Sookie Stackhouse novels. Not just any woman in Lawrenceton, Georgia, gets to be a member of the Uppity Women Book Club. But Roe's stepsister-in-law Poppy has climbed her way up the waiting list of the group-only to... Read more

Yellow Moon

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

Narrated by: Myra Lucretia Taylor

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in Jewell Parker Rhodes' acclaimed Voodoo series, Yellow Moon finds New Orleans' preeminent voodoo practitioner hunting an African vampire -a wazimamoto. Marie Levant is tired of seeing corpses drained of blood arrive at the hospital each night, and tired of being haunted by their ghosts. It'll take all her skills to expel the... Read more

Enquiry

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Jockey Kelly Hughes and trainer Dexter Cranfield have been barred from racing—a devastating event for them both. The charge at the secret enquiry? Throwing a race for personal profit. It is a vicious frame-up, and worse, they have nowhere to turn to clear their names. Still, Hughes refuses to take the phony verdict lying down—even though his... Read more

In the Frame

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Todd is an English painter well known and respected for his renderings of sleek and athletic horses at the racetrack. What he now faces at his cousin Donald’s house is also art—the art of a perfectly brutal murderer.Donald’s home has been burglarized and his wife, Regina, is lying on her back dead, her face the color of cream. Donald is... Read more

Blood Sport

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

English agent Gene Hawkins is restlessly facing three weeks of vacation with only his tormented past for company. So when his boss asks him to help millionaire Dave Teller locate a prized missing stallion, he accepts. But he gets more action than he bargained for when he draws the affection of his boss’ beautiful teenage daughter, advances from... Read more

No Mercy

By: Lori Armstrong

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Mercy Gunderson is a straight shooter with a hard edge. On medical leave from the army, she returns home to South Dakota, which isn’t much safer for her than Iraq. Arriving just after the death of her father, it is up to Mercy to decide what to do with the family ranch and try to deal with her irresponsible sister and nephew. Feeling guilty that... Read more

Treasure Hunt

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mickey Dade hates deskwork, but that’s all he’s been doing at Wyatt Hunt’s private investigative service, The Hunt Club. His itch to be active is answered when a body is discovered: It’s Dominic Como, one of San Francisco’s most high profile activists—a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half-dozen nonprofit... Read more

Sleepless

By: Charlie Huston

Narrated by: Ray Porter & Mark Bramhall

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, more and more people have been found to have contracted the illness. It reveals itself gradually, inhibiting sleep, eating away at one’s mind, birthing panic and confusion, until the final few months before death known as the suffering. The epidemic has swept the globe, and now infects one in ten people.Straight-arrow cop Parker T.... Read more

Dead to Rights

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman is cruelly cut down in a remote corner of Arizona, killed on her nineteenth wedding anniversary by a drunk motorist.? A year later, the driver himself dies badly, and all suspicions point to the slain woman's still-grieving husband as his murderer. But the truth is rarely black and white in the long Southwestern shadows, and one law... Read more

The First Rule

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Robert Crais

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Joe Pike and his partner Elvis Cole must solve the murder of an old friend and his entire family in this gripping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.When Frank Meyer and his family are executed during a home invasion, the police begin investigating the secret life they're sure Meyer had. Joe Pike's on a hunt of his... Read more

The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

By: Lauren Willig

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The heroines of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series have engaged in espionage all over nineteenth-century Europe. In the sixth stand-alone volume, our fair English heroine travels to India, where she finds freedom—and risk—more exciting than she ever imagined.

Everyone warned Miss Penelope Deveraux that her unruly behavior would... Read more

Dermaphoria

By: Craig Clevenger

Narrated by: Craig Clevenger

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Bailed out of jail and holed up in a low-rent motel, amnesiac Eric Ashworth has only the memory of a woman’s name: Desiree. With steadily increasing doses of a strange new hallucinogen, Ashworth finds that the drug allows him to reassemble his past in broken fragments. But as he begins to lose touch with the present, his distinction between... Read more

Captain of Rome

By: John Stack

Narrated by: Eamonn Riley

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The second installment of the thrilling maritime adventure; two mighty empires battle each other for control of the high seas. Atticus is the young captain of the Aquila, the flagship of the attack fleet of the Roman navy. But his commander is a young upstart whose position has been purchased rather than earned. Bound to... Read more

The Killing Dance

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In the sixth adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Anita Blake’s unique skills make her a wanted woman—by vampire, by werewolf, and by a hit man...
 
Though she’s dating a vampire and a werewolf, Anita is keeping them at arm’s length. Which isn’t easy considering that Jean-Claude is the master vampire of St. Louis and Richard... Read more

Freedom (TM)

By: Daniel Suarez

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon.

In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New... Read more