Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Eye of the Cricket

By: James Sallis

Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a Black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process.Now, a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew’s novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take... Read more

Choker

By: Frederick Ramsay

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Sometimes clues just fall out of the sky.Nick Reynolds, his pilot’s rating barely a month old, drops off the radar at night over the Chesapeake Bay. Investigating agencies call it another tragic pilot-error accident. No trace of the plane is found in the Bay’s murky waters. Ike Schwartz, erstwhile sheriff of Picketsville, on vacation, is... Read more

Toros and Torsos

By: Craig McDonald

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Award finalist Craig McDonald blends art, murder, and a touch of noir in this thriller set in 1935. Hector Lassiter is a gutsy crime writer who believes in the "write what you live and live what you write" mantra. Then Hector learns of another artist who follows this method--a serial killer who takes inspiration from art, leaving his... Read more

Shakespeare's Landlord

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Anthony Award-winning author of the immensely popular Sookie Stackhouse mysteries comes the first book starring Lily Bard, a reclusive cleaning lady with a penchant for karate. When Lily finds and reports a dead body, her shady past and connections to potential perpetrators make her a leading suspect. "[Lily Bard is] the equal of Kay... Read more

Turtle Moon

By: Alice Hoffman

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Turtle Moon transports the listener to Verity, Florida, a place where anything can happen during the month of May, when migrating sea turtles come to town, mistaking the glow of the streetlights for the moon.A young single mother is murdered in her apartment and her baby is gone. Keith, a 12-year-old boy in the same apartment building—the... Read more

The Square Root of Murder

By: Paul Zindel

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

High school sleuths P.C. Hawke and Mackenzie Riggs quickly regret their decision to take a difficult calculus class from a tough instructor at Columbia University. But even though she's mean, Professor Dunaway certainly seems an unlikely candidate for murder. Though there are plenty of suspects, a lot of things about this case just don't add up.... Read more

The Surfing Corpse

By: Paul Zindel

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Zindel delights even the most reluctant readers with his thrilling P.C. Hawke Mysteries. Everyone is upset when P.C.'s junior class trip ends with classmate Timmy Warner plunging to his death over a 300-foot waterfall. So when Timmy's mom exhibits some strange behavior at the funeral, P.C. and his friend Mackenzie just... Read more

The Haunted Hotel

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When the Countess Narona meets Agnes Lockwood, the woman jilted by her fiancé, she feels a great sense of foreboding. After Countess Narona’s marriage, she moves with her husband, Lord Montbarry, to Venice. There, disowned by his family, the lord apparently becomes a recluse and falls fatally ill. As much as Agnes tries to forget the episode of... Read more

The Last Don

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 18 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

The Last Don is Mario Puzo at his finest, thrilling us with his greatest Mafia novel since The Godfather, a masterful saga of the last big American crime family and its powerful reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas.Domenico Clericuzio, the wise and ruthless don of a mafia empire, is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society.... Read more

206 Bones

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delivers another “outstanding” book (Publishers Weekly) in her “cleverly plotted” (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones.

There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can use them to... Read more

Even Money

By: Dick Francis & Felix Francis

Narrated by: Martin Jarvis

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Ned Talbot is a small-time bookmaker on the edge of giving it all up when his world is turned upside down by a man who claims to be his father, long thought dead. And when the mysterious stranger is murdered, Ned feels compelled to find out exactly what is going on. But the more he discovers, the longer the odds become for his survival. Read more

Waiting for Columbus

By: Thomas Trofimuk

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, a man who answers only to the name of Christopher Columbus is delivered to a mental institution in Sevilla. Nurse Consuela, a lonely young woman searching for love, who listens to his fantastical tales of adventure and romance day after day, tries desperately to make some sense of why this man has... Read more

206 Bones - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs delivers another “outstanding” book (Publishers Weekly) in her “cleverly plotted” (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones.

There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can use them to... Read more

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published as a series of short stories in Colliers Weekly, this action-packed sequel to The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu features a number of fiendish doings, including kidnappings, snake murders, albino peacocks, killer apes, quicksand, a haunted house, rat torture, and more. Fu-Manchu summons a poisonous cat, fiery hands of death, and a... Read more

Spies, Inc.

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Hootenville, Pennsylvania, looks like any conventional company town, but beneath its placid surface throbs a network of violence, blackmail, and murder. It takes a sharp ex–Army spy to coolly fit the puzzle together, exposing the game of terror, intrigue, and cunning known as industrial espionage.Paul Dexter was once an Army counterintelligence... Read more

Alex Cross's TRIAL

By: James Patterson & Richard DiLallo

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1906, and America is segregated. Hatred and discrimination plague the streets, the classroom, and the courts. But in WashingtonD.C., Ben Corbett, a smart and courageous lawyer, makes it his mission to confront injustice at every turn. He represents those who nobody else dares defend, merely because of the color of their skin. When... Read more

The Rebel Angels

By: Robertson Davies

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A goodhearted priest and scholar, a professor with a passion for the darker side of medieval psychology, a defrocked monk, and a rich young businessman who inherits some troublesome paintings are all helplessly beguiled by the same coed. The story is set in motion by the death of art collector Francis Cornish, and Robertson Davies weaves... Read more

The Case of Jennie Brice

By: Mary Roberts Rinehart

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The blood-stained rope and towel, the stray slipper, the broken knife—and the disappearance of the lovely Jennie Brice—were enough to convince Mrs. Pitman that murder had been commited in her boardinghouse. The police, however, were another matter. Without a tangible body, there could be no official murder charge.Mrs. Pitman ran a respectable... Read more

Death Benefits

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A careful, methodical young data analyst for a California insurance company, John Walker knows when people will marry, at what age they will most likely have children, and when they will die. All signs point to a long successful career—until Max Stillman, a gruff security consultant, appears without warning at the office. It seems a colleague... Read more

Cop Killer

By: Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the penultimate installment of this masterful crime-fiction series, Martin Beck, now head of the National Murder Squad, is called in to a sleepy part of the countryside to investigate a woman’s disappearance. What Beck doesn’t know is that the woman has already been murdered, her body dumped in a swamp. At the same time, a midnight shoot-out... Read more

Vanished

By: Joseph Finder

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Nick Heller is tough, smart, and stubborn. And in his line of work, it's essential. Trained in the Special Forces, Nick is a high-powered intelligence investigator--exposing secrets that powerful people would rather keep hidden. He's a guy you don't want to mess with. He's also the man you call when you need a problem fixed.

Desperate, with... Read more

The Law of Nines

By: Terry Goodkind

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Turning twenty-seven may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has suddenly made him-and everyone he loves-a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence... Read more

The Dead Girls' Dance

By: Rachel Caine

Narrated by: Cynthia Holloway

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Claire Danvers has her share of challenges—like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains, dealing with the homicidal girls in her dorm, and above all, finding out that her college town is overrun with vampires. On the up side, she has a great roommate (who tends to disappear at sunup) and a new boyfriend named Shane, whose... Read more

Blood Memory

By: Margaret Coel

Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Margaret Coel starts a thrilling new series with Blood Memory. Investigative reporter Catherine McLeod has been covering the local Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes' case to reclaim 27 million acres of land, but after barely surviving an assassination attempt, she decides to lie low for a while. Yet Catherine's... Read more