Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Wife of the Gods

By: Kwei Quartey

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, a good family man and a remarkably intuitive sleuth, is sent to the village of Ketanu—the site of his mother's disappearance many years ago—to solve the murder of an accomplished young AIDS worker.



While battling his own anger issues and concerns for his ailing son, Darko explores the motivations and secrets of... Read more

Blood Ties

By: Kay Hooper

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes us to the outer reaches of fear in Blood Ties, as the Special Crimes Unit is targeted by a monster intent on destroying both Noah Bishop and his people. A series of grisly murders has left a trail of blood across three states, bringing the Special Crimes Unit to a small Tennessee town. There,... Read more

Original Sin

By: Allison Brennan

Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Haunted by chilling memories of demonic possession and murder, Moira O’Donnell has spent seven years hunting down her mother, Fiona, whose command of black magic has granted her unprecedented control of the underworld. Now Moira’s global search has led her to a small California town that’s about to become hell on earth.

Tormented by his own... Read more

The Bricklayer

By: Noah Boyd

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NINA DOBREV AND AARON ECKHART“Terrific pace, surprises galore….Move over Jack Reacher, here comes The Bricklayer.” —James PattersonSomeone will kill and kill again if it means he can fool the FBI . . .Ex-FBI agent Steve Vail is more than happy to leave the Bureau behind, but they aren’t through with him yet. A... Read more

Blood Money

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Whitefield, the fearless "guide" who helps people in trouble disappear, has just begun her quiet new life as Mrs. Carey McKinnon when she is called upon again to face her toughest opponents yet. Jane must try to save a young girl fleeing a deadly mafioso. The deceptively simple task of hiding the girl propels Jane into the center of... Read more

The Lineup

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Justine Eyre, John Lee & John Allen Nelson

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger. But where do some of the most fascinating sleuths in the mystery and thriller world really come from? What was the real-life location that inspired Michael Connelly to... Read more

The Domino Principle

By: Adam Kennedy

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A convicted killer is broken out of maximum security in broad daylight. The price of his freedom? A secret that just may cost him his life. Read more

Open Season

By: C. J. Box

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss the JOE PICKETT series—now available to stream on Paramount+The first novel in the thrilling series featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett from #1 New York Times bestselling author C. J. Box.Joe Pickett is the new game warden in Twelve Sleep, Wyoming, a town where nearly everyone hunts and the game warden—especially one like Joe... Read more

Publish and Perish

By: James Hynes

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This set of novellas from Austin, Texas resident James Hynes was a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. As chilling as the best of Edgar Allan Poe and bursting with fiendish humor, Publish and Perish features three tales from the not-so-hallowed halls of academia. Hailed as a "delightful... Read more

Murder in the Sentier

By: Cara Black

Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc picks up the phone one hot July afternoon, the call turns her life upside-down. The voice on the other end, with its heavy German accent, belongs to a woman named Jutta Hald. Jutta claims to have shared a jail cell with Aimée’s long-lost mother, a suspected terrorist on Interpol’s most wanted list.... Read more

Purgatory Ridge

By: William Kent Krueger

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

William Kent Krueger is the award-winning author of the popular Cork O'Connor mysteries. In Purgatory Ridge, Krueger crafts a riveting tale which has ex-sheriff O'Connor on the case after a heated town debate turns deadly. The local Anishinaabe Indian tribe is furious to discover that Karl Lindstrom's lumber mill is after a grove of trees sacred... Read more

The Last Talk with Lola Faye

By: Thomas H. Cook

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author and Edgar Award winner Thomas H. Cook's atmospheric thrillers cut to the core of humanity's deepest fears. Here, a floundering middle-aged historian reluctantly sits down with the woman he suspects was responsible for his father's murder decades before. As they drink, they open up about this seminal event and... Read more

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

The Rogue Hunter

By: Lynsay Sands

Narrated by: Rick Robertson

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Samantha Willan is a workaholic lawyer. She's grateful for some rest and relaxation in cottage country, and after a recent breakup she wants to stay as far away from romance as possible. Then she meets her irresistible new neighbor. There's something strange and mysterious about his eyes. Is it just her imagination, or are they locked on her... 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

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

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

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

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