Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

Los Alamos - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who... Read more

B Is for Burglar - Abridged

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie  case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last  seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her  condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But  somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case  goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is  torched, an apartment is burgled of... Read more

The Lost World: A Novel - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has... Read more

Trevayne - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fearless and incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne is a self-made millionaire, former undersecretary of state, and current head of one of the nation’s most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the “secret government”—and is soon swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger.... Read more

Timeline - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

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

Disclosure - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.

At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in... Read more

Airframe - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

At a moment when the issue of safety and... Read more

The Deceiver - Abridged

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Sam McCready serves Britain as Chief of Covert Operations for the Secret Intelligence Service. He's competent, dedicated, in his prime. Why then this push to get him out?

The options are painful -- early retirement or an administrative backwater. But he has one other option: it's a wild card, confrontational, risky.

Risky because McCready knows... Read more

The Rhinemann Exchange - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Bob Gunton

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Autumn 1943. Global espionage elite converge on Buenos Aires. Intense, high-level covert negotiations will soon bear dangerous fruit with the aid of expatriate German industrialist Erich Rhinemann. American agent David Spaulding will be there. His top-secret mission can bring the war to an explosive end. But what happens here in this city of... Read more

The Bourne Supremacy (Jason Bourne Book #2) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
Reenter the shadowy world of Jason Bourne, an expert assassin still plagued by the splintered nightmares of his former life. This time the stakes are higher than ever. For someone else has taken on the Bourne identity—a ruthless killer who must be stopped or the world will pay a devastating price. To succeed, the... Read more

The Chancellor Manuscript - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Michael Moriarty

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“[The Chancellor Manuscript] exerts a riveting appeal, as it seems to justify our worst nightmares of what really goes on in the so-called intelligence community in Washington.”—The New York Times Book Review

Did J. Edgar Hoover die a natural death? Or was he murdered? When a group of high-minded and high-placed intellectuals known as Inver Brass... Read more

Vittorio the Vampire - Abridged

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Alan Cumming

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of... Read more

The Client - Abridged

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a weedy lot on the outskirts of memphis, two  boys watch a shiny Lincoln pull upt ot the  curb... Eleven-year-old Mark Sway and his younger brother  were sharing a forbidden cigarrette when a chance  encounter with a suicidal laywer left Mark knowing  a bloody and explosive secret: the whereabouts of  the most sought-after dead body in... Read more

Black Light - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . .

On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child.  His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out.  And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was... Read more

Servant of the Bones - Abridged

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Michael Cumpsty

Length: 3 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes o vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.

He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient... Read more

The Plague Tales - Abridged

By: Ann Benson

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a... Read more

The Magic Circle - Abridged

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Megan Follows

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When her cousin is slain by an unknown assassin, Ariel Behn becomes the sole heir to a family legacy: a sinister cache of manuscripts that thrusts her into the deadly center of international intrigue--and an age-old enigma that spans the centuries. Whoever assembles and interprets the cryptic clues of this ancient mystery will possess the power... Read more

Dark Lady - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.

In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One... Read more

Degree of Guilt - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her attorney, Christopher Paget, sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, it is Paget who will be surprised...by Mary's secret... Read more

Final Judgment - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Lisa Banes

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found 22-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime; the weapon covered with her fingerprints.

Caroline has doubts of her own about Brett's innocence. But... Read more

The Tailor of Panama - Abridged

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

"Le Carre remains far in front in his field, a startlingly up-to-date storyteller who writes as well about the shadows around the power elite as anyone alive."
-Publishers Weekly

Le Carre's Panama is a Casablanca without heroes, a hotbed of drugs, laundered money and corruption.  It is also the country which on December 31, 1999, will gain full... Read more

The Emperor's General - Abridged

By: James Webb

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through.

But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his... Read more