Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Before You Know Kindness

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

For ten summers, the Seton family—all three generations—met at their country home in New England to spend a week together playing tennis, badminton, and golf, and savoring gin and tonics on the wraparound porch to celebrate the end of the season. In the eleventh summer, everything changed. A hunting rifle with a single cartridge left in the... Read more

In the Night Room

By: Peter Straub

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Willy Patrick, the author of the Caldecott-winning young-adult novel In the Night Room, thinks she is loosing her mind again. Two weeks before her second marriage, on her way home one day, Willy is drawn into the parking lot of a warehouse. Knowing that her daughter Holly is being held in that building, she wants to rescue her. But what she... Read more

Kill the Messenger

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

With this new thriller, The New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers her own message to suspense fans everywhere: Don't turn off the lights, and keep reading if you dare. From the gritty streets of Los Angeles to its most protected enclaves of prestige and power to the ruthless glamour of Hollywood, a killer stalks his prey. A killer... Read more

Kill the Messenger - Abridged

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With this new thriller, The New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag delivers her own message to suspense fans everywhere: Don't turn off the lights, and keep reading if you dare. From the gritty streets of Los Angeles to its most protected enclaves of prestige and power to the ruthless glamour of Hollywood, a killer stalks his prey. A killer... Read more

Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Introducing Socrates Fortlow, an ex-con struggling to find his place in the world after 27 years in jail. Living in an abandoned apartment building in South-Central L.A., Socrates is one step away from the streets. He bags groceries at the supermarket, recycles bottles and cans for pennies, and feels himself slipping toward invisibility—until he... Read more

Hide Yourself Away - Abridged

By: Mary Jane Clark

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark, every word is a clue--and Hide Yourself Away more than delivers the pacing and suspense her growing legion of fans have come to expect

Being a KEY To America intern may be hazardous to your health. But even when one is nearly killed in an accident and another disappears, this year's crop of... Read more

Guardian of the Horizon - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A lost journal of Amelia Peabody has been miraculously recovered: a chronicle from one of the ""missing years"" -- 1907-1908 -- shedding light on an already exceptional career...and an unexpected terror.Ousted from their most recent archaeological dig and banned forever from the Valley of the Kings, the Emersons are spending a quiet summer at... Read more

Children of the Storm - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Once again, the New York Times bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody novels “kicks up a desert storm.”—PeopleThe “grande dame of historical mystery” (Washington Post) is back with a thrilling new tale featuring America’s favorite archaeologist turned sleuth. At last the Great War is over. Amelia Peabody, her distinguished Egyptologist... Read more

Sandstorm - Abridged

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum and the race begins to determine how it happened, why it happened, and what it means.Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies in ruins. Her search for answers leads Kara and her friend Safia al-Maaz, the... Read more

Silhouette in Scarlet

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A single crimson rose and a plane ticket to Stockholm neatly mailed in a mysterious package sound like the formula for a romantic weekend. And a note in the bottom of the box fuels Vicky's already insatiable curiosity-it is written in an archaic language even the capable Dr. Bliss cannot decipher. Is she embarking on a journey of romance or... Read more

Street of the Five Moons

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When a man is found murdered with a copy of the Charlemagne talisman, Vicky follows the trail of the genius who created the fake to the narrow streets of the antiquity markets in Rome. Read more

Die Einladung

By: Katja Behnke

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Der Brief war einfach da. Ohne Absender, ohne Briefmarke, ohne Poststempel. Eine Einladung zu einem Treffen. Um eine Geschichte zu erzählen. Dieser Termin ist wichtig, unendlich wichtig. Denn das Erzählen der Geschichte ist der Schlüssel. Und die einzige Möglichkeit, das bevorstehende Unheil abzuwenden. Read more

Klirrende Kälte

By: Katja Behnke

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 16 minutes

Abridged: No

„Autounfall. Wir stecken in einer Hütte fest und brauchen dringend Hilfe. Bitte melde sich doch jemand….wir sind in Gefahr. Da draußen…Geräusche im Schnee….nicht allein…Gefahr…ihr müsst….Hilfe!“ Das Rauschen ist so stark, dass Lisa, Tina, Markus und Julius die Worte aus dem Funkgerät kaum verstehen können. Das ist doch die Stimme ihres Freundes... Read more

Wettlauf zum Tod

By: Katja Behnke

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ein eisiger Wind peitscht die dicken Regentropfen über die verlassenen Strassen. Die Strasse glänzt feucht und glatt. Das Licht der Laternen spiegelt sich auf dem nassen Asphalt. Nacht und Regen machen die Sicht fast unmöglich. Nervös umklammert Ruth das Lenkrad und starrt angespannt auf die Fahrbahnmarkierung. Auf einmal bemerkt sie zwei... Read more

Killer Smile

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary DiNunzio gets a terrifying telephone call while she's working late, then goes home to find a shadow lurking at her front door. When a lawyer close to her turns up dead, Mary begins to suspect that the case she's been working on -- involving the suicide of an Italian-American in an internment camp during World War II -- may not be ancient... Read more

Ten Big Ones

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Janet Evanovich is the hottest author in America, and her Stephanie Plum novels have taken the nation by storm!

#1 New York Times
#1 Wall Street Journal
#1 Los Angeles Times
#1 Entertainment Weekly
#1 Publishers Weekly

She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her... Read more

Killer Smile - Abridged

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

With her trademark wit and style, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers yet another blockbuster thrillerWith the halfhearted okay of her boss at the boutique Philly firm of Rosato & Associates, insecure young lawyer Mary DiNunzio takes on a pro bono case—which is Latin for not paying squat. What’s more, the client is... Read more

The Color of Death - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Lowell

Narrated by: Maria Tucci

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The phenomenal New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell brilliantly displays her incomparable talents in a story of treachery, greed, conspiracy, and murder that will hold the reader spellbound until the final word.It is the opportunity of a lifetime for Kate Chandler, the chance to cut seven rare, priceless sapphires and solidify her... Read more

Silenced

By: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Enter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate Christians. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles, which have only cast further suspicion upon Christians. Meanwhile, Paul struggles with how to... Read more

Trojan Gold

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Adventure and romance enter Vicky Bliss' life in the form of a black-and-white photograph of a woman covered from head to toe in gold jewels. This "Trojan Gold" has an intriguing history, but it is the envelope that piques Vicky's curiosity. It is a grimy brown, with no return address, and it appears to have been soaked in blood. Read more

The Blackbird Papers - Abridged

By: Ian Smith

Narrated by: Ian Smith

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .

The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally... Read more

Monday Mourning

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Michele Pawk

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed forensic anthropologist and New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs explores Stockholm syndrome—the psychology of a captive submitting to the ideology of a captor—in this mesmerizing new thriller.

The bones of three young women are unearthed in the basement of a Montreal pizza parlor, and forensic anthropologist... Read more

Chosen Prey

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestseller!Lucas Davenport returns in the most harrowing and unexpected Prey novel yet—the story of a congenial man, and his most uncongenial obsession...Art history professor James Qatar’s hobby was taking secret photographs of women. At night when he was all alone he’d dream about them and indulge his fantasies. Then one day... Read more

Mortal Prey

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author!
 
Years ago, Lucas Davenport almost died at the hands of Clara Rinker, a pleasant, soft-spoken, low-key Southerner, and the best hitwoman in the business. Now retired and living in Mexico, she nearly dies herself when a sniper kills her boyfriend, the son of a local druglord, and while the boy’s... Read more