Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Illumination

By: Jill Gregory & Karen Tintori

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Natalie Landau, a museum curator with an expertise in Mesopotamian protective amulets and magical beliefs, has received a puzzling gift from her sister, Dana – a necklace with a blue evil-eye pendant. A symbol of protection common throughout the world, the evil eye has a mystical history connecting it to many religions. When Natalie learns Dana... Read more

In the Dark

By: Mark Billingham

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A Deadly Crash

A rainy night in south London. A gun is fired into a car, which swerves onto the pavement and plows into a bus stop. It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost the life of an innocent victim. But the reality is far more sinister....

A Dangerous Quest

One life is wiped out and three more are changed forever: the young man... Read more

The Sign of the Book

By: John Dunning

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex-policeman and rare books dealer Cliff Janeway travels to remote Paradise , Colorado , where cops and crooks alike are as infernal as the weather. Janeway has agreed to help Laura Marshall, a friend of his bookstore partner, who's accused of murdering her husband. While Janeway tries to gather the facts, he pulls long shifts standing watch... Read more

The Rising - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

You know the players, now see how they came to be. Follow parallel story lines that chronicle two distinct lives, not the least bit aware of one another… yet.Just who is Viv Ivans? How did Rayford and Irene meet? What is Marilena willing to give up to get her hearts' desire? Experience pivotal points in the history of the primary characters of... Read more

Savage Season

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A rip-roaring, high-octane, Texas-sized thriller, featuring two friends, one vixen, a crew of washed-up radicals, loads of money, and bloody mayhem. Hap Collins and Leonard Pine are best friends, yet they couldn’t be more different. Hap is an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Texas women. Leonard is a black, gay Vietnam vet. Together,... Read more

Nemesis

By: William Bernhardt

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In his bestselling legal thrillers, William Bernhardt has explored the dark side of contemporary politics, power, and the law. Now Bernhardt turns back the clock to the city of Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1935. Based on true events and new discoveries about Eliot Ness, Nemesis is a brilliantly told story featuring this legendary lawman’s... Read more

Mucho Mojo

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hap and Leonard return in this incredible, mad-dash thriller, loaded with crack addicts, a serial killer, and a body count. Leonard is still nursing the injuries he sustained in the duo’s last wild undertaking when he learns that his Uncle Chester has passed. Hap is of course going to be there for his best friend and offers to help clean Uncle... Read more

Mounting Fears

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times– bestselling author Stuart Woods returns with another page-turning thriller.President Will Lee is having a rough week. His vice president just died during surgery. Confirmation hearings for the new vice president are under way, but the squeaky-clean governor whom Will has nominated may have a few previously unnoticed skeletons... Read more

The Night Battles

By: M. F. Bloxam

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Historian Joan Severance has returned to the Sicily of her childhood, ostensibly to do research in the archives of the remote fortress town of Valparuta. In truth, her academic career lies in ruin behind her after being relieved of her teaching duties at Brown University for assaulting a student. Unable to approach her own long-buried history of... Read more

The Dark Room

By: Minette Walters

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 13 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The newspaper reported the case with relish. Jane (Jinx) Kingsley, fashion photographer and heiress, tried to kill herself after being unceremoniously jilted by her fiance, Leo Wallader. Leo has disappeared—together with Jinx's best friend Meg Harris. But when she wakes from her coma, Jinx can remember nothing about her alleged suicide attempt.... Read more

Dark Fire

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, Dark Fire brings back acclaimed master of historical fiction C. J. Sansom’s colorful and rapier-witted lawyer Matthew Shardlake. This beguiling tale of murder and mayhem is set against the rich backdrop of 1540 London.In the employ of King Henry VIII’s vicar general Lord Thomas Cromwell,... Read more

Leather Maiden

By: Joe R. Lansdale

Narrated by: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale writes outrageous fiction that rockets along with violent spikes of action and intense humor. Gulf War vet Cason Statler has moved back to his East Texas hometown after losing his job as a reporter in Houston (sleeping with both the boss' wife and 30-year-old stepdaughter has a way of ruining career prospects).... Read more

The Fortune Teller's Daughter

By: Lila Shaara

Narrated by: T. Ryder Smith

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Every Secret Thing comes an imaginative novel sizzling with suspense. After a string of personal losses, Harry Sterling has hit rock bottom. He takes a teaching job at a small Florida college, but can't abandon his journalistic roots. So when he learns that a world-famous physicist may have stolen a revolutionary... Read more

Denver Draw

By: Robert J. Randisi

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author of Butler's Wager, Robert J. Randisi delivers gunslinging Westerns swirling with quick-draw justice. While fleeing his family's assassins, Tyrone Butler learns to survive with well-honed poker skills, a loaded six-gun, and a little bit of luck. But with the deck stacked against him and with way too many killers anteing up, a... Read more

Daemon

By: Daniel Suarez

Narrated by: Jeff Gurner

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly).

Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also... Read more

Day of Atonement

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Decker of the L.A.P.D. never dreamed he'd be spending his honeymoon with his new wife, Rina Lazarus, in an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn, New York—or that a terrible event would end it so abruptly. But a boy has vanished from the midst of this close-knit religious community, a troubled youth fleeing the tight bonds and strictures he... Read more

Milk and Honey

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In the silent pre-dawn city hours -- alone with his thoughts about Rina Lazarus, the woman he loves, three thousand miles away in New York -- LAPD detective Peter Decker finds a small child, abandoned and covered in blood that is not hers. It is a sobering discovery, and a perplexing one, for nobody in the development where she was found steps... Read more

Plum Spooky

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Evanovich fans rejoice for Plum Spooky! Stephanie Plum is back in town, along with her sidekick Lula, her Grandma Mazur, and an ever-widening cast of freaks, criminals, deranged felons, and lunatics looking for love. And just when Stephanie thinks her life can't get any more complicated, in walks the mysterious Diesel. A man who seems to show... Read more

Eclipse

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Richard North Patterson's Eclipse tells the spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder.

Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his... Read more

Three Weeks to Say Goodbye

By: C.J. Box

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author C.J. Box delivers a novel about something that could be anyone's worst nightmare...

Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone... Read more

On the Grind

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Charged with felony misconduct in a high-profile solicitation of murder case, Scully is faced with an impossible decision: either quietly resign from his job as a detective for the LAPD or face criminal prosecution. His wife, Alexa, the chief of detectives, leaves him, seeking a divorce for his dalliance with the accused in the case, a... Read more

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: Penelope Dellaporta

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

P. D. James is “the reigning mistress of murder.” –Time

Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead... Read more

The Hunted

By: Wayne Barcomb

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A lightning-fast police procedural from an up-and-coming talent, The Hunted introduces a homicide detective who gets the shock of his life while tracking a most ingenious serial killer.

From a writer whose previous works Robert B. Parker declared “compelling... swiftly told,” and James W. Hall called “top-notch,” comes this first electrifying... Read more

Eclipse - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Peter Francis James

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The spellbinding story of an American lawyer who takes on a nearly impossible case—the defense of an African freedom fighter against his corrupt government's charge of murder

Damon Pierce's life has just reached a defining moment: a gifted California lawyer, he's being divorced by his wife and his work often seems soulless. Then he receives a... Read more