Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Storm Cycle

By: Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

With Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen's fast-paced action, charismatic characters, and impeccable research, Storm Cycle will carry you away. Rachel Kirby is a computer genius whose personal life is hell. While she continues to climb the corporate ranks, her beloved twin sister is plagued by a chronic illness that will eventually kill her, leaving... Read more

The Defector

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Six months after the dramatic conclusion of Moscow Rules, Gabriel has returned to the tan hills of Umbria to resume his honeymoon with his new wife, Chiara, and restore a seventeenth-century altarpiece for the Vatican. But his idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian... Read more

Fire and Ice

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: Hillary Huber & Erik Davies

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“In the gripping Fire and Ice, Jance showcases both Beaumont and Brady….The prolific Jance…is in fine form.”—Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance reunites two of her most popular series characters—Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont—in Fire and Ice, as the separate investigations... Read more

Two of the Deadliest

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Sile Bermingham

Length: 16 hours

Abridged: No

“This brilliant anthology of short stories by some of the most outstanding women now writing mysteries and crime fiction...is a truly glorious collection” — Globe and Mail New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth George has gathered nearly two dozen chilling, boldly original stories, each published for the very first time in this outstanding... Read more

Dance for the Dead

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room—ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated—is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast.



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Michael Strogoff, with eBook

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A courier of the Czar must be dispatched to warn the Governor-General of Sibera at once: Ivan Ogareff has allied himself with the fierce and ambitious Feofar-Khan. The Tartar chiefs are pouring their men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. Should Ivan Ogareff and his allies succeed, the Siberian provinces will be wrested away from Russian... Read more

No Legal Grounds

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

How far will a man go to protect his family?Attorney Sam Trask will go farther than he ever dreamed, even in his worst nightmare. Because his worst nightmare is about to come true…At age forty-seven, attorney Sam Trask finally seems to have his life in order. The dark years of too much drinking and all-consuming ambition have given way to... Read more

A Perfect Crime

By: Peter Abrahams

Narrated by: Sharon Williams

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

The unfaithful wife. With her no-nonsense business savvy and exquisite eye for acquisition, Francie is a rising star in the Boston art world. But her personal life is about to take a decidedly dark turn….The cheating lover. A virile and charismatic radio psychologist, Ned hosts a popular show poised on the brink of syndication. Though married... Read more

Shotgun Wedding

By: Susan Rogers Cooper

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Rogers Cooper's Milt Kovak mysteries are praised for their gentle humor and meticulous plots. The ninth entry in the series begins with Milt and the rest of Prophesy County celebrating the nuptials of deputies Emmett Hopkins and Jasmine Bodine. But during the revelry, the local bank is being cleaned out-and that's just the beginning of a... Read more

Shadow Woman

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 14 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Whitefield is a name to be whispered like a prayer—a shadow woman who rescues the helpless and the hunted when their enemies leave them no place to hide. Now, with the bone-deep cunning of her Native American forebears, she arranges a vanishing act for Pete Hatcher, a Las Vegas gambling executive. It should be a piece of cake, but she... Read more

The Eye of Jade

By: Diane Wei Liang

Narrated by: Cindy Cheung

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Modern, independent Mei Wang runs her own PI business in Beijing; she even has that most modern of commodities, a male secretary. When a family friend asks her to locate a Han dynasty jade of great value that was taken from its museum during the years of the Cultural Revolution when Red Guards seized many relics, her investigation reveals a... Read more

A Diet of Treacle

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Christian Conn

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Anita Carbone was a good girl—and it bored her. That’s why she took the long subway ride down to Greenwich Village, home of the Beats and the stoners, home to every kind of misfit and dropout and free spirit you could imagine. It was where she met Joe Milani, the troubled young war veteran with the gentle touch. But it was also where she met his... Read more

A Pale Horse

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Late on a spring night in 1920, five boys cross the Yorkshire dales to the ruins of Fountains Abbey, intent on raising the devil. Instead, they stumble over the devil himself, sitting there watching them. Terrified, they run for their lives, leaving behind a book on alchemy stolen from their schoolmaster. The next morning, a body is discovered... Read more

Sins of the Assassin

By: Robert Ferrigno

Narrated by: L. J. Ganser

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 2042. New York and Washington DC have been leveled by nuclear bombs. New Orleans is submerged beneath sixty feet of water. The United States no longer exists, and in its place two new nations maintain an uneasy truce: an Islamic republic in the west and the Christian Bible Belt in the south.But stability is threatened when the... Read more

A Catskill Eagle

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Spenser's girlfriend Susan goes away with another man, Jerry Costigan, the son of a very rich and dangerous criminal. Spenser and his friend, Hawk, go to find Susan. Soon they are in the world of the CIA, guns and murder. Read more

The Widening Gyre

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The adoring wife of a senatorial candidate has a smile as sweet as candy and dots her "i's" with little hearts. A blond beauty, she is the perfect mate for an ambitious politician, but she has a little problem with sex and drugs--a problem someone has managed to put on videotape.

The big boys figure a little blackmail will put her husband out of... Read more

Crimson Joy

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A serial killer is on the loose in Beantown and the cops can't catch him. But when the killer leaves his red rose calling card for Spenser's own Susan Silverman, he gets all the attention that Spenser and Hawk can give.

Spenser plays against time while he tracks the Red Rose killer from Boston's Combat Zone to the suburbs. His trap is both daring... Read more

Stardust

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

When a Hollywood-based TV series schedules filming in Boston, Spenser smells trouble. When he signs up to protect the show's star, Jill Joyce, he knows it's on its way.

First, there's Jill herself. She's spoiled, arrogant, drugged out -- made worse by fear. Someone is out to get her -- does she imagine it, or is it real?

Spenser monitors her... Read more

Pale Kings and Princes

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

“Ebullient entertainment.”—Time

A hotshot reporter is dead. He'd gone to take a look-see at “Miami North”—little Wheaton, Massachusetts—the biggest cocaine distribution center above the Mason-Dixon line.

Did the kid die for getting too close to the truth . . . or to a sweet lady with a jealous husband?

Spenser will stop at nothing to find... Read more

The Godwulf Manuscript

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Spenser earned his degree in the school of hard knocks, so he is ready when a Boston university hires him to recover a rare, stolen manuscript. He is hardly surpised that his only clue is a radical student with four bullets in his chest.

The cops are ready to throw the book at the pretty blond coed whose prints are all over the murder weapon but... Read more

A Savage Place

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

TV reporter Candy Sloan has eyes the color of cornflowers and legs that stretch all the way to heaven. She also has somebody threatening to rearrange her lovely face if she keeps on snooping into charges of Hollywood racketeering.

Spenser's job is to keep Candy healthy until she breaks the biggest story of her career. But her star witness has... Read more

Mortal Stakes

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Everybody loves a winner, and the Rabbs are major league. Marty is the Red Sox star pitcher, Linda the loving wife. She loves everyone except the blackmailer out to wreck her life.

Is Marty throwing fast balls or throwing games? It doesn't take long for Spenser to link Marty's performance with Linda's past...or to find himself trapped between... Read more

Playmates

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Spenser smells corruption in a college town. Taft University's hottest basketball star is shaving points for quick cash. All manner of sleaze -- from corrupt academics to hoods with graduate degrees -- have their fingers in the pot.

Spenser's search takes him from lecture halls to blue collar bars and finally into a bloody confrontation with... Read more

Looking for Rachel Wallace

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 4 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Crackling dialogue, plenty of action, and expert writing.”—The New York Times

Rachel Wallace is a tough young woman with a lot of enemies. 

Spenser is a tough guy with a macho code of honor, hired to protect a woman who thinks that kind of code is obsolete. Privately, they will never see eye to eye.

But when Rachel vanishes. Spenser is ready to... Read more