Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

A Great Deliverance - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.

Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes... Read more

For the Sake of Elena - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge—where Elena was a student at St. ... Read more

Vertical Run - Abridged

By: Joseph R. Garber

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A breathless read” (USA Today) featuring “some of the most ingenious military-techno twists this side of Tom Clancy” (San Francisco Chronicle).
 
David Elliot is about to have a very bad day at the office.

Each morning in his forty-fifth floor executive suite, David savors the quiet moments before the workday begins.... Read more

Omerta - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and... Read more

The Gemini Contenders - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men both good and evil... Read more

The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne Book #3) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s... Read more

The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne Book #1) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jason Bourne.

He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.

There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that... Read more

The Apocalypse Watch - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortresslike mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. But on the eve of his most spectacular success, after three years in deep cover, Harry disappears.
 
Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular... Read more

Nothing but the Truth - Abridged

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the stakes have never been higher.

Dismas knows his wife,... Read more

Survival of the Fittest - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood.  Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.  There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the... Read more

Unspeakable - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Gary Cole

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. After all, he is terrifyingly good at it. Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers. And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a fellow inmate and is on his way back to where he... Read more

The Devil's Workshop - Abridged

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Stephen J. Cannell

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams.  In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons lab known as the Devil's... Read more

Natural Causes - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Natasha Richardson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal

Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's... Read more

Miracle Cure - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Scott Bryce

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With each successive bestseller, including Extreme Measures and Critical Judgment, ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense...writing "wrenchingly scary," (Publishers Weekly) "chillingly sinister"(Denver Post) novels packed with all the cutting-edge authenticity only a doctor could prescribe.  Now, in... Read more

Extreme Measures - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: John Pankow

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has... Read more

Critical Judgment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients.  It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages.  As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors... Read more

The Lazarus Child - Abridged

By: Robert Mawson

Narrated by: Allison Janney

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It takes just a moment for a family's life to be changed forever. For a twelve-year-old boy to dash across the street for a pack of peppermints. For his seven-year-old sister to follow him into traffic. For a bus to swerve out of control. And with that terrible moment, a family's search begins for the unlikely miracle that will put together... Read more

The Scorpio Illusion - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Robert Ludlum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly—and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer—one of the best—until the ... Read more

The Matarese Countdown - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time....

CIA... Read more

The Matarese Circle - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

An international circle of killers, the Matarese will undoubtedly take over the world within just two years. Only two rival spies have the power to stop them: Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB. They share a genius for espionage and a life of explosive terror and violence. But though these sworn enemies once vowed to terminate each other, they... Read more

The Lawnmower Man

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "The Lawnmower Man," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Gray Matter

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Gray Matter" from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Graveyard Shift

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational... Read more