Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Pawn

By: Steven James

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven James' Christy Award-nominated crime thriller pits FBI Special Agent Bowers against a serial killer who enjoys torturing women. After visiting the mountain vistas where the murderer posed his dead victims, Bowers receives a taunting call from the "Illusionist." Although Bowers gets close, his insidious foe continues to elude him. "[An]... Read more

Road to Nowhere

By: Paul Robertson

Narrated by: Henry Strozier

Length: 14 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Paul Robertson's debut novel The Heir garnered critical praise as a "Grisham-like tale of intrigue and murder" (Booklist). Told from five diverse viewpoints, Road to Nowhere spins gripping suspense into a mysterious whodunit as a small mountain town wrangles over a road that could change its future forever. "This top-notch offering features... Read more

Cruel Intent

By: J.A. Jance

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes a chilling tale of suspense, where a cold-blooded murderer lures former newscaster Ali Reynolds into a chilling web of online romance—and doom.

During an all-consuming remodel on her home, the last thing Ali Reynolds expects is a murder investigation. But when the savagely mutilated body of... Read more

The Charlemagne Pursuit

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath... Read more

Defiance

By: Don Brown

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From a murder in Paris to a courtroom in California to a terrorist camp in the Gobi Desert, Don Brown’s follow-up to Treason and Hostage plunges into a suspense-filled journey of danger, duty, and hope. The Commander’s Bodyguard is Shannon McGilverry, a crack NCIS agent assigned to protect Navy JAG Officer Zack Brewer. Zack is being hunted by... Read more

Treason

By: Don Brown

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The stakes are high . . . and the entire world is waiting for the verdict.The Navy has uncovered a group of radical Islamic clerics who have infiltrated the Navy Chaplain Corps, inciting sailors and marines to acts of terrorism. And Lieutenant Zack Brewer has been chosen to prosecute them for treason and murder.Only three years out of law... Read more

Badlands

By: Richard Montanari

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Philadelphia police detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano are working a new beat: the Special Investigations Unit, aka the cold case squad. Ironic, given that it’s the height of a blazing hot August. But even these hardened homicide veterans are chilled to the bone as a dormant murder case stirs to life–leading Byrne and Balzano into the... Read more

Written on Silk

By: Linda Lee Chaikin

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A royal wedding masks the unfolding of Catherine de Medici’s murderous plot against the Huguenots. Will any of the Huguenot princes survive? Life and death rest with two people … Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet, couturiere from a celebrated silk-making family, has come back to the Louvre Palais to create the royal wedding gown. Recruited into the... Read more

Hostage

By: Don Brown

Narrated by: James Adams

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Zack Brewer faces a choice. It can prevent the next war. But it will cost the life of the person he loves the most.JAG Officer Zack Brewer’s prosecution of three terrorists posing as Navy chaplains was called the “court martial of the century” by the press. Now, with the limelight behind him, all Zack wants to do is forget. But the radical... Read more

Never Again Good-Bye

By: Terri Blackstock

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Normally, Wes Grayson would have been attracted to the striking woman with the camera. But this woman has clearly been stalking Amy, his adoptive daughter and the center of his life. And a threat to Amy is a threat to Wes. Laney Fields has no desire to threaten anyone, just a longing to see the child she’d brought into the world six years ago... Read more

Born to Run

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“[A] thrill-a-minute novel.”—USA Today Jack Swyteck is back in action in Born to Run—the eighth outing for the danger-prone Miami lawyer in author James Grippando’s New York Times bestselling series. In this timely and spellbinding thriller, Swyteck is embroiled in shady Washington D.C. politics when his own father is selected by the President... Read more

Cruel Intent - Abridged

By: J.A. Jance

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance comes a chilling tale of suspense, where a cold-blooded murderer lures former newscaster Ali Reynolds into a chilling web of online romance—and doom.

During an all-consuming remodel on her home, the last thing Ali Reynolds expects is a murder investigation. But when the savagely mutilated body of... Read more

The Charlemagne Pursuit - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a child, former Justice Department agent Cotton Malone was told his father died in a submarine disaster in the North Atlantic, but now he wants the full story and asks his ex-boss, Stephanie Nelle, to secure the military files. What he learns stuns him: His father’s sub was a secret nuclear vessel lost on a highly classified mission beneath... Read more

The Victoria Vanishes

By: Christopher Fowler

Narrated by: Tim Goodman

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunken lady coming out of a pub. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where their paths crossed. Even more disturbingly, the pub has vanished and the street has changed. Bryant is convinced that he saw them as they looked over a century before - is elderly detective losing his mind? Then it... Read more

Thai Die

By: Monica Ferris

Narrated by: Connie Crawford

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As owner of the Crewel World needlework shop and part-time sleuth, Betsy Devonshire has become skilled at weaving suspicious threads together. Just back from a trip to Thailand, Doris Valentine is eager to show her stitching friends her souvenirs, which includes dazzling Thai silk. She also has a small stone Buddha that she agreed to deliver to... Read more

The Gutter and the Grave

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Matt Cordell was happily married once, and gainfully employed, and sober. But that was before he caught his wife cheating on him with one of his operatives and took it out on the man with the butt end of a .45. Now Matt makes his home on the streets of New York and his only companions are the city’s bartenders. But trouble still knows... Read more

Greasing the Piñata

By: Tim Maleeny

Narrated by: Armando Durán

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A former US senator vanishes days after his son goes missing. When they’re both found dead on a golf course in Mexico with body parts missing, the senator’s estranged daughter, Rebecca, resolves to discover what happened. When it looks like the daughter may become the next victim, private investigator Cape Weathers takes up the case.Cape asks... Read more

The Anteater of Death

By: Betty Webb

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

If Lucy, the pregnant giant anteater from Belize, didn't kill the man found dead in her enclosure, who did? California zookeeper Teddy Bentley must find the real murderer before her furry friend is shipped off to another zoo in disgrace. Then another human bites the dust, the monkeys riot, and the wolves go nuts. Things get worse when the snooty... Read more

The Tarnished Chalice

By: Susanna Gregory

Narrated by: Andrew Wincott

Length: 17 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

On a bitter winter evening in 1356, Matthew Bartholomew and Brother Michael arrive in Lincoln - Michael to accept an honour from the cathedral, and Bartholomew to look for the woman he wants to marry. It is not long before they learn that the friary in which they are staying is not the safe haven they imagine - one guest has already been... Read more

Mr. Monk Is Miserable

By: Lee Goldberg

Narrated by: Laura Hicks

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On a return trip from Germany, Monk and Natalie stop over in Paris. They visit the catacombs, a vast, underground cavern in the center of the city lined with millions of human bones. Monk picks up a skull and announces that the person was murdered. Most of the bodies came from a battlefield, but Monk believes the wound that killed this man came... Read more

Shallow Graves

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From The Bone Collector to the brand-new James Bond masterwork, “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver”(San Jose Mercury News)!

John Pellam had a promising career as a Hollywood stuntman, until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he’s a divorced, hard-living location scout who travels the country in search of shooting sites, and... Read more

Black Hornet

By: James Sallis

Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A sniper appears in 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. Five people have been fatally shot. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. He's black and she's white, and though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some... Read more

Queen Bee of Mimosa Branch

By: Haywood Smith

Narrated by: Anne Gartlan

Length: 14 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her eccentric family she escaped by... Read more

A Certain Justice

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 15 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In San Francisco—a city of tolerance and hope—everything came apart. One man died at the hands of another. The next victim was killed by a mob. Now fires burn in the night, helicopters throb through the air, and politicians, lawyers and cops vie for the remnants of power. Somewhere in the once-placid streets of San Francisco, a young man is on... Read more