Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Flirt

By: Laurell K. Hamilton

Narrated by: Kimberly Alexis

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the results aren't going to make everybody happy... Read more

Blood Brothers

By: Josephine Cox

Narrated by: Ben Elliot

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Another page-turning story of tragedy and triumph from the No.1 bestselling author of The Loner and The Journey. With her shy smile and kind nature, she fits into the family easily. When Nancy Arnold’s eldest son Frank begins to show an interest in the new arrival, she believes that at long last he has found a woman to share... Read more

Able One

By: Ben Bova

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When a nuclear missile launched by a rogue North Korean faction explodes in space, the resulting shock wave destroys most of the world's satellites and all global communication. US military satellites, designed to withstand such an assault, reveal two more missiles on launch pads in North Korea, ready to be deployed. Faced with the threat of a... Read more

Emerald Windows

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Rebecca Rogers

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten years ago, devastated by an ugly scandal, Brooke Martin fled the small town of Hayden to pursue a career as a stained glass artist. Now Brooke has returned on business to discover that some things never change. Her spotted reputation remains. Tongues still wag. And that makes what should be her dream assignment tough.Brooke has been hired to... Read more

The Extra

By: Michael Shea

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The Extra is set in a future California where members of a desperate populace sign contracts to participate in reality death films, knowing that less than twenty percent of them will survive. It’s a view of the future—and Hollywood—as delightfully cynical as Kurt Vonnegut, with sympathetic characters, Hollywood executive sleazeballs, and much more. Read more

Secrets of Eden

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Susan Denaker, Rebecca Lowman & ...

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.

"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot... Read more

Conspirata

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Conspirata is “a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport,” raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance.

On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly... Read more

The Information Officer

By: Mark Mills

Narrated by: Robin Sachs

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Malta, April 1942. Max Chadwick is the military officer charged with managing information and maintaining morale on the tiny Mediterranean island, a strategic lynchpin in the war. Bombs rain from the sky at all hours of the day and night, as the Maltese and their British protectors fiercely cling to the rocky outcropping that is all that stands... Read more

Conspirata - Abridged

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Oliver Ford Davies

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Conspirata is “a portrait of ancient politics as a blood sport,” raves The New York Times. As he did with Imperium, Robert Harris again turns Roman history into a gripping thriller as Cicero faces a new power struggle in a world filled with treachery, violence, and vengeance.

On the eve of Cicero’s inauguration as consul of Rome, a grisly... Read more

A Cold Day in Paradise

By: Steve Hamilton

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 7 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Other than the bullet lodged less than a centimeter from his heart, former Detroit police officer Alex McKnight thought he had put the nightmare of his partner’s death and his own near-fatal injury behind him. After all, Maximilian Rose, convicted of the crimes has been locked in the state pen for years. But in the small town of Paradise,... Read more

Geschichten aus Gehenna - Wie der Vater

By: Dane Rahlmeyer

Narrated by: Various

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

»Der Anruf kam mitten in der Nacht: Ein alter Antiquitätenhändler behauptete ein Freund meines Vaters gewesen zu sein. Angeblich hatte er in Hendricks Auftrag ein uraltes, magisches Artefakt gesucht. Jetzt hatte er das Ding gefunden – und wollte es sobald wie möglich wieder loswerden. Denn das Teil war sehr mächtig. Und brandgefährlich.

Wir... Read more

Worst Case

By: James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

Narrated by: Bobby Cannavale, John Glover & Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

One by one, children of New York's wealthiest are taken hostage. But the criminal doesn't crave money or power--he only wants to ask the elite if they know the price others pay for their luxurious lifestyles. And, if they don't, he corrects their ignorance--by killing them.

To Detective Michael Bennett, it becomes clear that these murders are... Read more

Woman without a Past

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Successful author Molly Hunt, the adopted daughter of Long Island parents, is stunned when a handsome man she meets in her publisher’s office makes a startling declaration: that he is about to marry her twin sister. Molly soon discovers that she is actually the long-lost child of the wealthy Mountfort family of Charleston, South Carolina. Eager... Read more

Blood Atonement

By: Dan Waddell

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A body is discovered with her throat cut and her daughter believed missing. DCI Foster quickly sees parallels with the disappearance of a teenager three years earlier. With hopes fading, he calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes to piece together the links between the families of the two girls. The trail leads back to 1890, and a young couple fleeing... Read more

The Wycherly Woman

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Lew Archer to find her.That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe’s mother, an eerily unmaternal... Read more

Broken Places

By: Sandra Parshall

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Summer is deadly in the mountain community of Mason County, Virginia.Deputy Sheriff Tom Bridger and his girlfriend, veterinarian Rachel Goddard, are caught in a maelstrom of lies that stretch far into the past and suspicions that threaten the future when two Mason County residents are killed. Cam and Meredith Taylor are murdered within hours of... Read more

Short Squeeze

By: Chris Knopf

Narrated by: Deanna Hurst

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Smart-aleck attorney Jackie Swaitkowski's business relies on constant movement of Hamptons' real estate market. After making an odd request to evict his sister-in-law from his home, one of her clients turns up dead. Jackie would have expected that to be the end of it, but an envelope found on the corpse contains an item so unusual that Jackie... Read more

Too Many Murders

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a beautiful spring day in the little city of Holloman, Connecticut. The year is 1967, and the world teeters on the brink of nuclear holocaust as the Cold War goes relentlessly on. But Holloman has other things to worry about—on April 3, 1967, twelve murders have taken place on one day. Suddenly Captain Carmine Delmonico, chief of... Read more

Busman's Honeymoon

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

Narrated by: Full Cast, Ian Carmichael & Sarah Badel

Length: 2 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Society’s eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally succeeded in his ardent pursuit of the lovely mystery novelist Harriet Vane. The two depart for a tranquil honeymoon in a country farmhouse but find, instead of a well-prepared love nest, the place left in a shambles by the previous owner. His... Read more

A Whisper to the Living

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov is an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union. He and his team are searching for a serial killer who has claimed at least forty victims. And then there is the problem of protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring—in doing so Rostnikov... Read more

Trial by Fire

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Jay Charles & John McDonough

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it’s clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man’s identity, struggles with the agonizing question: who did it—and why? Paramedic Issie Mattreaux is no icon of... Read more

The Whole Truth

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Eric Turner

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

At the age of five, Steve Conroy saw his seven-year-old brother kidnapped from the very bedroom they shared. His brother was never found. And the guilt of his silence that night has all but destroyed Steve’s life.Now thirty years old with a failing law practice, Steve agrees to represent convicted criminal Johnny LaSalle, an arrangement... Read more

Subterranean

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: John Meagher

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

“James Rollins knows adventure.”—Chicago Sun Times Subterranean is the novel that launched the spectacular career of James Rollins, author of the mach-speed, New York Times bestselling blockbusters Map of Bones, Black Order, The Judas Strain, The Doomsday Key, and so many others. Rollins fans—and aficionados of his contemporaries, Clive Cussler... Read more

Before Another Dies

By: Alton L. Gansky

Narrated by: Sarah Rutan

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Running for congress is hard work for Madison Glenn.But she never expected it to be murder. Running the coastal city of Santa Rita. Campaigning for a congressional seat. Staying one step ahead of a high-powered corporate broker’s demands. Life couldn’t get more difficult for Mayor Maddy Glenn—or so she thinks. Enter three murders in three days.... Read more