Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Blood and Ice

By: Robert Masello

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 16 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Michael Wilde — his world recently shattered by tragedy — hopes that a monthlong assignment to the South Pole will give him a new lease on life. Here, in the most inhospitable place on earth, he is simply looking to find solace...until, on a routine dive in to the polar sea, he unexpectedly finds something else entirely: a young man... Read more

Promises in Death

By: J. D. Robb

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb takes us to the New York City of 2060, where Lieutenant Eve Dallas faces down a cop killer...Amaryllis Coltraine may have recently transferred to the New York City police force from Atlanta, but she’s been a cop long enough to know how to defend herself against an assailant. When she’s taken down... Read more

Frost the Fiddler

By: Janice Weber

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Most concert violinists wouldn't pack explosives in the case along with their Stradivarius, but Leslie Frost is no ordinary musician. When she's not performing the Kreutzer sonata, she's spying on neo-fascists and ex-communists in the emerging new East Germany. Frost, aka Smith (code names for the all-female band of American super-spies come... Read more

The Healer

By: Dee Henderson

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Rachel O'Malley works disasters for a living. Her specialty? Helping children through trauma. When a school shooting rips through her community, she finds herself dealing with more than just grief among the children she is trying to help. One of them saw the shooting, and the gun is still missing.Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group... Read more

Sins of the Fathers

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A parent’s worst nightmare.A lawyer’s biggest challenge.A young boy’s life on the line.The unimaginable has happened. A thirteen-year-old boy has fired a rifle into a baseball game, killing several of the kids on the field. Parents are devastated. The townspeople are horrified. When public opinion swells to an enraged cry for justice, an... Read more

Whisper to the Blood

By: Dana Stabenow

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestseller Dana Stabenow returns to her enormously popular Kate Shugak series with Whipser to the Blood

Inside Alaska's biggest national park, surrounding the town of Niniltna, a gold mining company has started buying up land. The residents of the Park, are uneasy. "But gold is up to nine hundred dollars an ounce," is the refrain... Read more

The Second Opinion

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Franette Liebow

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the world’s most respected doctors lies comatose in the ICU unit of Boston’s Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks he will survive. Two of his children believe treatment should be stopped. But his daughter Thea refuses to give up hope―and begins to suspect a cover-up. As a brilliant physician who left the... Read more

Kingdom of Silence

By: Lee Wood

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A US marshal and her prisoner are gunned down outside of London’s Heathrow Airport just as the prisoner is to testify against the head of a violent animal-rights group. Leeds Detective Sergeant Keen Dunliffe doesn’t seem like the right man for the case, except that he has the undercover experience and knowledge of Yorkshire, the terrorists’... Read more

All the Colors of Darkness

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Alan Banks mystery-suspense novels are, simply put, the best series now on the market.”—Stephen King Peter Robinson is one of the very best in the crime fiction business—a teller of dark police tales who stands firmly in the bestseller ranks alongside Ian Rankin and Elizabeth George. In All the Colors of Darkness, the maestro whose... Read more

Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King, Kathy Bates, Matthew Broderick, T...

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King’s classic bestselling short story collection.

Stories include:
Introduction (Stephen King)
Suffer the Little Children (Whoopi Goldberg)
Crouch End (Tim Curry)
Rainy Season (Yeardley Smith)
Dolan’s Cadillac (Rob Lowe)
The House on Maple St. (Tabitha... Read more

Among the Mad

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the thrilling next novel by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline Winspear, Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.

It's Christmas Eve 1931. On the way to see a client, Maisie Dobbs witnesses a man commit suicide on a busy London street. The following day, the prime minister's office receives... Read more

The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, with eBook

By: Mark Twain

Narrated by: Jonathan Kent

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mysterious Stranger, Mark Twain's fantastical last novelette, took him twelve years—and three long drafts—to complete. Based on boyhood memories of the Mississippi River Valley and of the print shops of Hannibal, the story is set in medieval Austria at the dawn of the printing craft. It is a psychic adventure, full of phantasmagoric effects,... Read more

Metzger's Dog

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a professor's lab at the University of Los Angeles, he's after some pharmaceutical cocaine, worth plenty of money. Instead, he finds the papers the professor has compiled for the CIA, which include a blueprint for throwing a large city into chaos. But how is the CIA to be persuaded to pay a suitable... Read more

A Stir of Echoes

By: Richard Matheson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now, he’s hearing the private thoughts of the people around him—and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom’s existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store, as he becomes the unwilling... Read more

The Man on the Balcony

By: Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Someone is killing young girls in the once peaceful parks of Stockholm—killing them after “having his way” with them. The people of Stockholm are tense and fearful. Police Superintendent Martin Beck has two witnesses: a cold-blooded mugger who won’t say much and a three-year-old boy who can’t say much. The dedicated work of the police force... Read more

Monster

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Delaware is back! And in Jonathan Kellerman's riveting and ingenious new novel, Monster, he faces one of the most grisly and baffling mysteries of his career: How can a nonfunctional psychotic locked up in a supposedly secure institution for homicidal madmen predict brutal murders in the outside world? Delaware and his friend and partner... Read more

The Silent Man

By: Alex Berenson

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Ghost War and The Faithful Spy returns with a novel of international intrigue and catastrophic terrorism that "keeps the reader caring, and guessing, until the end." (Booklist) For CIA operative John Wells, the underworld has become more real than the real world. He's spent years in the close... Read more

Billy Straight

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this riveting, astute, high-tension thriller, the creator of psychologist sleuth Alex Delaware weaves a Dickensian tale of innocence, urban depravity, and the resilience of the human spirit, and brings to the page one of the most endearing and finely drawn characters in contemporary  fiction.
        
Twelve-year-old Billy Straight--precocious,... Read more

The Laughing Policeman

By: Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On a cold and rainy Stockholm night, nine bus riders are gunned down by an unknown assassin. The press, anxious for an explanation for the seemingly random crime, quickly dubs the killer a madman. But Superintendent Martin Beck of the Stockholm Homicide Squad suspects otherwise: this apparently motiveless killer has managed to target one of... Read more

Double Minds

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The young girl with the Bohemian style was on the floor where she’d fallen, between Parker's computer case and her file cabinet. She wore a long, flowing skirt—lavender, the color of calm—and camel-colored Uggs. She lay on her back, her long, wavy blonde hair matted with blood. For struggling singer/songwriter Parker James, the music business... Read more

The Renegades

By: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Michael Connelly and CJ Box, the second thrilling novel in the Charlie Hood series from New York Times bestseller and Edgar-award winner T. Jefferson Parker, now featuring an excerpt from his upcoming novel The Room of White Fire.

Deputy Sheriff Charlie Hood cruises the dusty backroads of the new American West. But when his partner... Read more

Spade & Archer

By: Joe Gores

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Sam Spade gets drawn into the Maltese Falcon case, we know what to expect: straight talk, hard questions, no favors, and no way for anyone to get underneath the protective shell he wears like a second skin. We know that his late partner, Miles Archer, was a son of a bitch; that Spade is sleeping with Archer’s wife, Iva; that his tomboyish... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles, with eBook

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Essex in the English countryside, The Mysterious Affair at Styles is one of the great classic murder mysteries. The victim, Mrs. Emily Inglethorp, is the wealthy mistress of Styles Court. After an evening of entertaining family and guests, she is found poisoned in her locked bedroom. The long list of suspects includes her gold-digging new... Read more

Drood - Abridged

By: Dan Simmons

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens -- at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world -- hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double... Read more