Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

A Stained White Radiance - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both.

Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a bizarre assassination attempt pull Detective Dave... Read more

Simple Simon - Abridged

By: Ryne Douglas Pearson

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

An autistic teenager. A ruthless assassin. An FBI agent who must risk everything to protect an innocent person from a savage.

All three are thrust together when Simon Lynch, a sixteen-year-old savant, unknowingly breaks the newest, most secure code developed by the National Security Agency. Corrupt elements within that government behemoth,... Read more

Malice Domestic 2

By: Mary Clark, Frances Fyfield, K.K. Beck, Gary Al...

Narrated by: Mason Adams

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of Malice Domestic 1— recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and called "outstanding" by Publishers Weekly— acclaimed author Mary Higgins Clark serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie style. Featured writers include Amanda Cross, Frances Fyfield,... Read more

Final Jeopardy - Abridged

By: Linda Fairstein

Narrated by: Diane Venora

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the former chief of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office comes the bestselling thriller featuring a New York City prosecutor unraveling a terrifying and brutal murder mystery.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan’s top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own... Read more

Murder for Love, Murder for Men

By: Otto Penzler, William J. Caunitz, John Gardner,...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect recipe for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Men is the perfect— and only— collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best male writers inside— ... Read more

Murder for Love, Murder for Women

By: Otto Penzler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carol Higgins C...

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field. These eight thrilling never-before-published stories include: • “ For Whom the Beep Tolls” by Carol Higgins Clark
• “ ... Read more

The Dead Sea Cipher

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity: a rare opportunity to visit biblical places rich in tradition and shrouded in mystery. But in the middle of Beirut, a world away from everything she knows, Dinah Van der Lyn suddenly hears angry voices through the wall of her hotel. The voices are followed by a crash and cries for... Read more

Sudden Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revenge is the engine which powers this entry in John Sandford's Prey series starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. Read more

Heaven's Prisoners - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf... Read more

Cold Fall - Abridged

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The night that Flight 229 was blown apart upon landing at Washington's Dulles Airport— killing almost 400 passengers aboard— James Bond embarked on a mission that would become an obsession. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at... Read more

Chance

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Burt Reynolds

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura wants to find his daughter's missing husband. At least that's how he puts it to Spenser and Hawk, even though it's clear that Julius isn't telling the whole truth—or maybe not any part of the truth. Something about the case appeals to Spenser's passion for justice, though, and he launches an odyssey that leads him... Read more

The Account - Abridged

By: Roderick Mann

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Julia Lang is a winner— she' s beautiful, vivacious, and the publicity director of London's top hotel. Robert Brand is charismatic and handsome— with his vast fortune he can work magic. Julia and Robert make a golden couple, but when Robert tragically dies, Julia's world suddenly shatters. When his Swiss bank... Read more

Lord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron - Abridged

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.

Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive... Read more

Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

Two for the Dough - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lori Petty

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING NARRATED BY LORELEI KING!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty and “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), Janet Evanovich’s Two for the Dough is irresistibly fun and powerful suspense entertainment featuring beloved bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.

It's the return of Stephanie... Read more

Days of Drums - Abridged

By: Philip Selby

Narrated by: Diane Venora

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The most gripping thriller since Marathon Man

For rookie Secret Service agent Holland Tylo, landing one of the top protection jobs in Washington is a clear sign that her career is right on track. Suddenly it all blows up in her face when Senator Westbourne is gruesomely murdered on her watch. Devastated by the senator's death, censured by her... Read more

Servant of the Bones

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes of vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.

He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient... Read more

Airframe

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Frances Cassidy

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Abridged

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Quasimodo appears before the masses as the "Pope of Fools," the crowd beholds an enormous cyclops-like creature— the hunchback's whole body seems a twisted grimace. Yet, with all his deformity, there is a certain grace and agility in him, and he possesses an endearing passion. When Esmerelda, the beautiful Romani woman, stands... Read more

White Flame - Abridged

By: James Grady

Narrated by: Blair Underwoood

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Faron Sears— a rich, brilliant, messianic, Black ex-con— enters the presidential race and refuses to play by the old rules, he electrifies the electorate. But someone Faron trusts is a traitor, and someone else plots to become his assassin. The FBI agent assigned to save Faron's life is also ordered to protect the... Read more

The Cry of the Halidon - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Robert Foxworth

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For $2 million, scientist Alex McAuliff is hired by Dunstone, Ltd. to survey the geology of Jamaica's dark, mysterious interior. There is a catch: no one can know Dunstone is involved. When British Intelligence learns of Alex's mission, they let him in on a little secret: the last survey team never made it home. McAuliff' s reception... Read more

Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil - Abridged

By: Rafael Yglesias

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When one of Dr. Rafael Neruda' s patients commits a vicious murder and then kills himself, the psychiatrist is compelled to discover the root causes of the crime. Delving into his own painful childhood, he embarks on a desperate personal mission to confront the nature of evil itself. Endangering both his personal and professional... Read more

One for the Money - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lori Petty

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING NARRATED BY LORELEI KING!

Discover where it all began—the first “snappily written, fast-paced, and witty” (USA TODAY) novel in the beloved Stephanie Plum series featuring a feisty and funny heroine who “comes roaring in like a blast of very fresh air” (The Washington Post), from Janet Evanovich, #1 New York Times... Read more

The Camelot Caper

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The lethal stuff of legendsFor Jessica Tregarth, an unexpected invitation to visit her grandfather in England comes as a wonderful surprise, an opportunity to open doors to a family history that have always been closed to her. But her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her through Cornwall, their motive and intentions unknown.... Read more