Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Borderline - Abridged

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestseller starring Anna Pigeon from the author of Winter Study. “Action-packed…a narrative that plunges readers into mystery [and] mayhem.”—The Denver PostHoping a raft trip in Big Bend National Park will lift her spirits, Anna Pigeon and her husband Paul go to southwest Texas, where the Rio Grande is running high. The beauty... Read more

A Study in Scarlet, with eBook

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Derek Partridge

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Convalescing in London after a disastrous experience of war in Afghanistan, Dr. John Watson finds himself sharing rooms with his enigmatic new acquaintance Sherlock Holmes. But their quiet bachelor life at 221B Baker Street is soon interrupted by the grisly discovery of a dead man in a grimy "ill-omened" house in southeast London, his face... Read more

The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu, with eBook

By: Sax Rohmer

Narrated by: John Bolen

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Imagine a person tall, lean and feline, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long magnetic eyes of the true cat green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect. Imagine that awful being and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu."

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Bruno, Chief of Police

By: Martin Walker

Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist Martin Walker has written a New York Times Notable Book and a novel shortlisted for the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Bruno, Chief of Police is the first installment of a series starring BenoIt "Bruno" CourrEges, the only cop stationed in a rural French village where tradition remains strong. "[A] timely whodunit .... Read more

About Face

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Donna Leon’s novels have won her countless fans, heaps of critical acclaim, and a place among the top ranks of international crime writers. Through the warmhearted, perceptive, and principled Commissario Guido Brunetti, Leon’s bestselling books have explored Venice in all its aspects: history, tourism, high culture, food, family, but also... Read more

The Pain Nurse

By: Jon Talton

Narrated by: Lloyd James & Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Cheryl Beth Wilson, a nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctor’s husband, a surgeon, and now she is a “person of interest,” if not an outright suspect. But someone other than the police is also watching Cheryl Beth.The murder comes as former... Read more

Madison Avenue Shoot

By: Jessica Fletcher & Donald Bain

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Cabot Cove's resident novelist and crime solver Jessica Fletcher travels to the Big Apple where she finds herself helping to track down a murderer, in this installment of the USA Today bestselling series.Jessica is back in New York City, although as a visitor this time. Jessica's favorite nephew, Grady, asks her to visit him in New York City to... Read more

Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii

By: Lee Goldberg

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Some people think Hawaii is paradise, but Monk knows that danger, like dirt, lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a fatal blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. His assistant Natalie isn't exactly thrilled about Monk's latest investigation. It was bad enough that Monk... Read more

Hornblower and the "Atropos"

By: C Forester

Narrated by: Nicolas Coster

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Soon Atropos is part of the... Read more

Schemers

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Nameless wasn't supposed to come into the office on Mondays; he wasn't supposed to answer the phone. On this Monday, he did both. The call was from Barney Rivera—once a friend, now despised—at Great Western Insurance. Against his better judgment, Nameless agreed to meet with him. The investigation was relatively simple: a multimillionaire rare... Read more

Embrace the Grim Reaper

By: Judy Clemens

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of a tragic accident, Casey Maldonado’s life is over. So she packs up, puts her house on the market, and leaves town, her only companion Death, who won’t take her but won’t leave her alone.Casey stops in Clymer, a small town in upheaval. The town’s appliance factory and main employer, a company called HomeMaker, is planning to move... Read more

Ultimatum

By: Matthew Glass

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Trigger Point delivers “an anxiety-inducing thriller about global warming [that] effectively taps a hot topic and handles it with flair” (Publishers Weekly).November, 2032. Joe Benton has just been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after winning, his predecessor reveals that estimates regarding the... Read more

Sign of the Cross

By: Chris Kuzneski

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 15 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On a Danish shore, a Vatican priest is found—hanging on a cross. The next day, the same crime is repeated…this time in Asia and Africa. Meanwhile, deep in the legendary catacombs near Orvieto, Italy, an archeologist unearths a scroll dating back two thousand years, revealing secrets that could rock the foundations of Christianity. Its discovery... Read more

A Touch of Evil

By: Richard J. O’Dea

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

There are all kinds of detectives. Some are tougher than others. But Frank O'Brien is a strange anomaly of toughness mingled with compassion, resulting from his unusual background. After twelve years in a Jesuit seminary, Frank left to pursue a career in the FBI. Now, teamed up with his wife Mary Teresa, a teacher at St. Joseph's School, he uses... Read more

Malice

By: Lisa Jackson

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Mel Foster

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Taut, twisty. . .Malice displays the skilled Jackson at her best yet." —The Providence JournalThe perfect moment is here at last. The humiliation and pain he put her through is about to be repaid. Soon Rick Bentz will know the torment of losing the person he loves most—and better yet, he'll have to watch. . ."Gripping. . .Jackson heightens the... Read more

Long Lost

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: Steven Weber

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Myron Bolitar hasn’t heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. In a shattering admission, Terese reveals the tragic story behind her disappearance—her struggles to get pregnant, the greatest moment of her life when her baby was born…and the... Read more

Critical Mass

By: Whitley Strieber

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What would we do if a nuclear weapon were detonated in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. government suddenly disappeared? What would we do if a terrorist organization announced that it had concealed nuclear weapons in every major Western city and then demanded that the entire planet embrace its twisted brand of Muslim fundamentalism?



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The Cincinnati Red Stalkings

By: Troy Soos

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans are cheering Troy Soos for his absorbing mysteries packed with old-time baseball lore. In The Cincinnati Red Stalkings, he whisks you back to the summer of 1921 when life was simpler and the world was a safer place-or was it? Utility infielder Mickey Rawlings is thrilled to be playing for the wildly popular Cincinnati Reds. But when he... Read more

The Crossing Guard

By: David Rabe

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Eight years ago, Mary and Freddy Gale's young daughter was killed by a drunk driver on her way home from school. The driver, a young man named John Booth, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Unable to absolve their own guilt, the Gale's marriage dissolves and Mary takes their two remaining children away from Freddy. Quenching his thirst... Read more

Spirit Sickness

By: Kirk Mitchell

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh comesKirk Mitchell's latest suspense thriller, which reunites Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops torn between their heritage and the law.A fire-gutted police cruiser found in a remote part of the... Read more

True Detectives

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In Jonathan Kellerman’s gripping novels, the city of Los Angeles is as much a living, breathing character as the heroes and villains who roam its labyrinthine streets. Sunny on the surface but shadowy beneath, this world of privilege and pleasure has a dark core and a dangerous edge. In True Detectives, Kellerman skillfully brings his renowned... Read more

Breach of Trust

By: DiAnn Mills

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Paige Rogers survived every CIA operative’s worst nightmare.

A covert mission gone terribly wrong.

A betrayal by the one man she thought she could trust.

Forced to disappear to protect the lives of her loved ones, Paige has spent the last several years building a quiet life as a small-town librarian. But the day a stranger comes to town and starts... Read more

The Dakota Cipher

By: William Dietrich

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Dakota Cipher is a supple, elegant thriller that carries the reader triumphantly from one exciting climax to the next.”
—Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Jefferson KeyEthan Gage is a fearless adventurer who has crossed paths (and, sometimes, swords) with the likes of Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin—and whose... Read more

The Long Fall

By: Walter Mosley

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It’s a name that takes a little explaining, but he’s used to it. “Daddy was a communist and great-great- Granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland. You know, the black man’s family tree is mostly root. Whatever you see aboveground is only a hint at the... Read more