Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Broken Hearts Club - Abridged

By: Ethan Black

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A banker with a smile that conceals a devilish impulse, a literary agent who is quick to anger, a mechanic with a desperate need to be liked, and a psychologist who keeps all their secrets— as well as his own— meet every week in the dingy back room of a New York City bar. These men have one thing in common: They all... Read more

A Change of Gravity

By: George V. Higgins

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For court clerk Ambrose Merrion, life was about people taking care of one another. For Danny Hilliard, politics was a matter of acquiring the power to make sure that society did just that. With Merrion shrewdly managing Hilliard’s campaigns as a rising politician, the two friends made an excellent team.But trouble starts brewing when Merrion... Read more

The Rose Rent

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A late spring in 1142 has the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22. For three years, wealthy young widow Judith Perle has rented her house to the monks for the price of a single white rose each year, in honor of her late husband. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and found... Read more

Devil-May-Care

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellie and Henry are young, rich, in love, and engaged. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, Ellie is happy to accept hereccentric Aunt Kate's request that shehouse-sit atKate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. Conventional Henry,... Read more

Legend in Green Velvet

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland is Susan’s passion and obsession, and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse—and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has unexpectedly emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her... Read more

Everybody Dies - Abridged

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life, one of stability and respectability— even the New York streets don't look so mean anymore. He's married to a woman he loves, and wonder of wonders, he's actually gotten around to becoming an officially licensed private investigator. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew' ... Read more

Prime Cut - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cheesecake, beefcake, and a pair of dueling caterers whet someone's appetite for murder in this sinfully delicous novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sticks & Scones

Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious... Read more

The Coffin Dancer - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli, “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork.

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his brilliant protégé Amelia Sachs, in the... Read more

9 Scorpions - Abridged

By: Paul Levine

Narrated by: Gerry Bammon

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lisa Fremont is a rising young lawyer gifted with a brilliant mind, natural beauty -- and an alluring sensuality. A newly hired law clerk on the staff of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Truitt, Lisa has a bright future. She also has a past that her curriculum vitae doesn't reveal....Long before she was Lisa Fremont, Esquire, she was Angel, an... Read more

Summer of the Dragon

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D. J. Abbott to turn down—especially when it's six hundred miles from home. What does it matter that her rich new employer and benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of... Read more

Sunset Limited - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers.

The... Read more

Bloodstream - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves.

Lapped by the gentle waters of... Read more

The Seventh Sinner

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient Temple of Mithra. From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness and discovered the corpse of Albert, one of her fellow students, she was afraid.Not even the comforting presence of... Read more

Gatekeeper - Abridged

By: Philip Shelby

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting—from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City—stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power.

Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at... Read more

Fortunes of War - Abridged

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Tokyo, a squad of fanatic Japanese nationalists force their way into the Imperial Palace and behead the emperor. It is a grisly first move in a sinister conspiracy to take advantage of a weakened Russia and invade oil-rich Siberia. The goal? World domination. The price? A third world war. Bound by a secret protocol to come to Russia's aid in... Read more

Term Limits - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Politics and riveting suspense collide in this white-knuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—soon to be a major motion picture.

In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American... Read more

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time is an intriguing anthology of crime and suspense short stories by some of the most renowned writers in the field. This unique collection of master writers includes the usual suspects such as Patricia Highsmith and Mickey Spillane, but also writers better known for other genres, such as Isaac... Read more

Silent Cradle - Abridged

By: Margaret Cathbert

Narrated by: Tonya Pinkins

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Save the life. Save the life...This is the mantra repeated by Dr. Rae Duprey, Berkeley Hills Hosptial's premier obstetrician, who's haunted by the searing memory of her own mother's death in the back of an ambulance—and driven by a passion to save the lives of the women and babies in her care. But when her candidacy for the chairmanship of... Read more

Mercury Rising - Abridged

By: Ryne Douglas Pearson

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Night Train - Abridged

By: Martin Amis

Narrated by: Linda Hamilton

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chain-smoking, deep-voiced fifteen-year veteran of the force Detective Mike Hoolihan is a tough woman. Now she has her worst assignment yet. Jennifer Rockwell—astrophysicist and darling of the community—had everything to live for: brains, looks, the world's best lover, and unlimited career horizons. When Jennifer takes her own life, no one is... Read more

Dust - Abridged

By: Charles Pellegrino

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we're next.

The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone can realize it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old... Read more

Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

AS A U.S. NAVY SEAL, RICHARD MARCINKO KNEW NO LIMITS -- AS THE ROGUE WARRIOR, HE OBEYS NO RULES.
The Rogue Warrior's taking a flying leap -- a high-altitude jump over the South China Sea. His mission: scuttle a Chinese freighter's cargo of nuclear hardware and its crack crew of naval commandos. It's a leave-no-tracks, take-no-prisoners operation,... Read more

Malice Domestic 3

By: Nancy Pickard, Wendy Hornsby, Dorothy Cannell, ...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century, including Dorothy Cannell and Sharyn McCrumb. Compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time— Agatha Christie— this collection... Read more

Sharp Edges - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Jayne Ann Krentz

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!

She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic... Read more