Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Sculptress

By: Minette Walters

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Everyone knows Olive Martin, the huge and menacing woman who was found five years ago with the carved-up bodies of her mother and younger sister. Everyone knows how she pleaded guilty to murder at her trial. And everyone knows not to anger the Sculptress even now that she is safely locked in prison for a minimum of twenty-five years.When... Read more

The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Stig Wemyss

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Melbourne during the Depression. A seedy, corrupt city. Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse, can find out. Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat,... Read more

An Author Bites the Dust

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room. But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature... Read more

Death of a Swagman

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In an isolated hut not far from the sleepy country town of Merino, stockman George Kendall is found dead and it looks very much like murder. Six weeks later, when the murderer is still at large, another stockman turns up in the township and, as a first move, provokes the local sergeant to lock him up. This particular stockman is... Read more

Venus Spring

By: Jonny Zucker

Narrated by: Jenny Bryce

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Venus's mother, Gail, has discovered that Venus has been leading a secret life as a stunt girl and is very angry about it. Gail makes Venus promise that she will concentrate on her school work and forget the stunt world. But Venus can't forget it: she lives in fear of her fellow stunt artist and arch-enemy, Franco. She keeps catching glimpses of... Read more

A Question of Death

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The Honourable Phryne Fisher - she of the Lulu bob, green eyes, Cupid's Bow lips and diamante garters - is the 1920s' most elegant and irrepressible sleuth. This collection of Phryne short stories and other Phryne miscellany - including Prynne's favourite shoes and hats, decadent cocktail recipes and her best tips for discouraging unwanted... Read more

Ott On A Limb

By: Susan Dunlap

Narrated by: Sharon Gless

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Herman Ott was the type of private detective that you could trust. He never talked to the police, though that one time when Smith leaned on him..Now he was getting mysterious deliveries — would solving the mystery cost him his career? Read more

A Face at the Window

By: Sarah Graves

Narrated by: Lindsay Ellison

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

As a toddler, in a room illuminated only by the flames of a fallen candle, Jacobia Tiptree watched a man kill her mother. Jake once believed that man to be her father. Now, thirty-five years after the murder, as the real killer’s long-delayed trial is about to begin, the defendant has vanished.Jake tries to distract herself from murder with the... Read more

The Three Tools of Death

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Both by calling and conviction Father Brown knew better than most of us, that every man is dignified when he is dead. But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was called at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered. There was something absurd and unseemly about the violence in connection with so entirely entertaining and... Read more

Stories From The Innocence of Father Brown

By: G. K. Chesterton

Narrated by: James Arthur

Length: TBA

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

The Red-headed League

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Some things are just too good to be true. Holmes surely suspects as much. A gentleman gained an office job based on the color of his hair and then lost the position mysteriously. He wants to know why. Read more

A Case of Identity

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The young woman is worried about her fiancé who disappeared right before the wedding. Why had he kept asking her to be true to him no matter what happens? Holmes figures that out quite quickly. Read more

The 7th Victim

By: Alan Jacobson

Narrated by: Lila Wellesley

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A brutal serial killer known as “Dead Eyes” is lurking in the backyard of the famed Virginia FBI Profiling Unit. Despite the gifted profiling skills of Special Agent Karen Vail, the psychopath is always one step ahead with uncanny knowledge of the FBI's detailed strategy of pursuit. Threatening to derail the investigation and her career is... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's... Read more

Bushranger of the Skies

By: Arthur W. Upfield

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary case for Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte opens when a police car is bombed from the air on a lonely outback road by a mysterious pilot who plans to conquer a nation. The trail through the Land of Burning Water tests Bony's endurance to the limit and takes the detective as close to death as he has ever been. Read more

Gone to Ground

By: John Harvey

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Stephen Bryan, a gay academic, is found brutally murdered in his bathroom. Will Grayson and Helen Walker, police detectives investigating the case, at first assume that his death is the result of an ill-judged sexual encounter. But doubts are soon raised. Bryan's laptop has gone missing - could the murder be connected to a biography he was... Read more

The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Raleigh

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A mutilated woman, a circus strongman and betrayal lead Holmes to solve a mystery that remained up in the air for many years. Read more

Sudden Exposure - Abridged

By: Susan Dunlap

Narrated by: Margot Kidder

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This is a wry, indecently entertaining mystery involving politics, murder - and nudity. Where else but in Berkeley, California would naked protesters, competing health clubs, and ex-sixties radicals add up to murder? And who else would find herself smack in the middle of this crisis than back-on-the-beat detective Jill Smith, the beloved... Read more

Corporate Bodies - Abridged

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, takes a star gig as a forklift driver in a Delmoleen Company corporate video. Something about Delmoleen is deeply troubling to Charles. That “happy family” facade may be just that. Mockery, jealousy, lust, envy, they all seem to be pervasive. Still, the work is easy and the money is good; it's even fun... Read more

Perfect

By: Harry Kraus

Narrated by: Kelly Higdon

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Wendi Stratford’s job as an accident reconstructionist is just one more enviable reflection of her ideal life. She’s got it all—perfect career, perfect looks, perfect husband, perfect home, perfect faith. There’s just one problem: it’s all a sham, right down to her bleached-blonde hair.So Wendi hatches an impulsive and exhilarating plan to break... Read more

Black Ops

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 19 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

W.E.B. Griffin always hits the target-right at the top of the bestseller lists...

W.E.B. Griffin's explosive Presidential Agent novels have gained worldwide acclaim for "leaving satisfied thriller readers hankering for more."

Now, in Griffin's latest #1 New York Times bestseller, the Russian bear is stirring after many years of... Read more

Firewall

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A body is found at an ATM, the apparent victim of heart attack. Then two teenage girls are arrested for the brutal murder of a cab driver. The girls confess to the crime, showing no remorse whatsoever. Two open-and-shut cases.At first, these incidents seem to have nothing in common. But as Wallander delves deeper into the mystery of why the... Read more

Another Life

By: Andrew Vachss

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The only person Burke has ever called “father,” a legendary crime planner known throughout the underground as the Prof, is in a coma, barely clinging to life in the off-the-books hospital where the crew stashed him after their last job went off the rails. So when Pryce, a shadow-man with deep (and very dark) government connections, offers a... Read more

Fire and Ice

By: Julie Garwood

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie Rose, a tough and determined newspaper reporter, is the daughter of Bobby Rose, a suave, charming, and handsome gentleman who also happens to be a notorious big-time thief sought by every law-enforcement agency in the country. When the major Chicago daily where she works insists she write an exposé about her roguish father, Sophie... Read more