Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Bright Futures

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lovable everyman Lew Fonesca, the Man Who Makes Things Work in Sarasota, is once again faced with cases that try his patience and test his sanity. A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to... Read more

A Scandal in Bohemia

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In Sherlock Holmes’ first mystery short story, the Great Detective saves the future king of Bohemia from a possible blackmailer. Read more

The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

After some cajoling on the part of Watson, Sherlock Holmes takes pen in hand to write about one of his investigations. Watson, who at the time had selfishly deserted Holmes to take a wife, has no notes on this particular case, so we're privileged to hear, in the Great Detective's own words, the accounting of one of his strangest adventures. Read more

The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A very valuable coronet is damaged and almost stolen. The apparent thief is caught red-handed, or was he the thief? Holmes does not think so. Who wanted to steal the coronet and how does Holmes find the actual thief? Read more

Ride the Lightning

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: Jerry Ohrbach

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

No one thought Curtis Colt had been railroaded for the shooting of a liquor store owner, least of all St. Louis private investigator Alo Nudger. It had been an open-and-shut case of cold blooded murder, and the people of Missouri were just waiting for Colt to be strapped into the electric chair-after all, three eyewitnesses couldn't be wrong.... Read more

Cain's Mark

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A "botched" hit and blackmail turn to revenge and betrayal in this gripping mystery by a master mystery writer. Read more

Cat's Paw

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A "Nameless Detective" mystery story that starts with the thefts of several exotic animals from San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo and ends with murder. Read more

The Blue Cross

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristide Valentin, head of the Paris Police, is on the trail of the ingenious criminal and master of disguise, Flambeau. Valentin suspects that Flambeau is going to London steal precious religious articles. While traveling to London, Valentin overhears Father Brown tell a lady that he is carrying the "Blue Cross," a sterling silver cross covered... Read more

Strangers In the Fog

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In a remote spot, Hannigan is burying a body he claims is his dog. A man suddenly emerges from the fog, asking if he can call for help since he had to quickly escape a nearby house from a jealous husband. The district is tense since the news warns of an escaped lunatic killer from a mental hospital is on the loose. The two men return to... Read more

Mind Slash Matter

By: Edward Wellen

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A brilliant screenwriter is tragically stricken with Alzheimer's disease. In anticipation of this he has prepared an intricate computer program to look after him and direct his every move. As a result, he fools everyone into thinking that he is still normal, including the police, who suspect him of several slasher murders. While the screenwriter... Read more

Killing Castro

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

There were five of them, each prepared to kill, each with his own reasons for accepting what might well be a suicide mission. The pay? $20,000 apiece. The mission? Find a way into Cuba and kill Castro. This breathtaking thriller, originally published the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis under a pen name Lawrence Block never used before or... Read more

The Secret Garden

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Aristide Valentin, Paris chief of police, has decided to stage a grand dinner party at his estate. The estate has only one entrance with a garden is protected by a high wall; there is no entering or leaving, except by the main entrance which is guarded by Valentin's steadfast servant. However, a murder most foul, a decapitation occurs, and it... Read more

The Queer Feet

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

If you were to meet a mild, hard-working little priest, named Father Brown, and were to ask him what he thought was the most singular luck of his life, he would probably reply that upon the whole his best stroke was at the Vernon Hotel, where he had averted a crime and, perhaps, saved a soul, merely by listening to a few footsteps in a passage. Read more

Epiphany

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Peter Marinker

Length: 16 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

At Christmas 1975 a group of Californian students experiment with LSD. One of them, Michael Quinn kidnaps the son of an English professor. When he is released from jail twenty years later, a mysterious young English woman named Joni Lascelles begins to ask questions that will unravel the past... Read more

The Flying Stars

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“My last crime was a Christmas crime, a cheery, cosy, English middle-class crime; a crime of Charles Dickens. I did it in a good old middle-class house, a house with a crescent of carriage drive, a house with a stable by the side of it, a house with the name on the two outer gates, a house with a monkey tree. Enough, you know the species.” How... Read more

The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes receives a letter from a Nathan Garrideb asking for help. He is looking for another man with his unusual surname for it will mean an inheritance for him. He has been approached by another man, John Garrideb, who says that he needs to find others with the same last name. Why does Holmes’ investigation lead to a tragic shooting?  Read more

Skylar

By: Gregory Mcdonald

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone loves Skylar Whitfield, Greendown County's winsome charmer. He has innate sexiness that makes women smile. But he doesn't make his cousin Jonathan smile. Jonathan's a Harvard preppy gracing the South for the first time and he has a hard time with Skylar's penchant for hot summer nights, long-legged women and southern masculinity. Skylar... Read more

The Scold's Bridle

By: Minette Walters

Narrated by: Sharon Williams

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she had taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a utility knife. But what shocked Dr. Sarah Blakeney the most was the rusted metal cage obscuring the dead woman's face—a medieval instrument of torture called a scold's bridle grotesquely adorned with a garland of nettles and... Read more

The Invisible Man

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

John Angus wants to marry Laura Hope. But Laura was previously courted by two men who she rejected for their appearances. One became very rich, but Laura can still occasionally hear the voice and strange laughter of the other man. A note appears threating murder of one of the men. Father Brown is called in and finds blood on the floor. Was it... Read more

The Honour of Israel Gow

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Father Brown and Flambeau, now a private detective, arrive at Glengyle Castle in Scotland to help Inspector Craven of Scotland Yard solve the strange death and secretive burial of the late Earl, a secluded man who lived as a hermit with his servant, the silent Israel Gow. The Earl died and was buried in secrecy by Gow. The clues to the crime, if... Read more

The High Lord

By: Trudi Canavan

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 21 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the city of Imardin, where magic and power walk hand-in-hand, a young street-girl, adopted by the Magicians’ Guild, finds herself at the centre of a terrible plot. Sonea has learned much at the Magicians’ Guild and and the other novices now treat her with a grudging respect. But she cannot forget what she witnessed in the High Lord Akkarin’s... Read more

The Wrong Shape

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Listeners will delight in these masterful chronicles of the adventures and mishaps of Father Brown. Small, round-faced and engagingly innocent, Brown is a Roman Catholic priest from East Anglia. He also happens to be a top-notch detective, possessing that rarest of all gifts - an intuition that never fails. Read more

Celestial Buffet

By: Susan Dunlap

Narrated by: Sharon Gless

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"I hadn't stepped with angels, but I was very aware that I died. I waited in the hall of judgement. Suddenly there was a door that I entered and found a festive banquet hall with the most magnificent buffet. I'm sure that I obeyed the 10 commandments and will make it to heaven, especially if I get to enjoy all of this incredible food. 10... Read more

A Matter of Justice

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

After two London men end their business partnership, one of them is savagely murdered in a medieval tithe barn on his estate in Somerset. Investigating the killing, Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge discovers that the victim was universally despised in Cambury—even the victim's wife and the town's police inspector are suspect. And yet in... Read more