Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the delectable fifth installment of the bestselling adventures of Isabel Dalhousie, our cherished inquisitive heroine returns to investigate a medical mystery. A doctor's career has been ruined by allegations of medical fraud and Isabel cannot ignore what may be a miscarriage of justice. Besides, Isabel's insatiable interest is piqued and she... Read more

Roseanna

By: Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On a July afternoon, the body of a young woman is dredged from Sweden's beautiful Lake Vättern. Three months later, all that Police Inspector Martin Beck knows is that her name is Roseanna, that she came from Lincoln, Nebraska, and that she could have been strangled by any one of eighty-five people. As the melancholic Beck narrows down the list... Read more

Different Paths

By: Judy Clemens

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

When dairy farmer Stella Crown’s friend, veterinarian Carla Beaumont, is carjacked, it’s just the first in a rush of vicious attacks on the town’s leading businesswomen. A truck driver, a minister, and a personal trainer also become victims of vandalism and theft. But the community is shaken to the core when the kindhearted Dr. Peterson is found... Read more

A Summer Smile

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Traci Svendsgaard

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

He appeared in her life with the unexpected force of a desert sandstorm, sweeping her from terrifying danger into the sweet haven of his arms. Daniel Seifert was a fierce man, used to taking whatever he wanted, but Zilah, the spirited woman he’d risked his life to rescue, filled him instead with a passion to protect. Yet when they hid from their... Read more

The Keepsake

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Deirdre Lovejoy

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers.

For untold years, the perfectly preserved... Read more

The Keepsake - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick & Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen knows how to expertly dissect a brilliantly suspenseful story, all the while keeping fascinated readers riveted to her side. By turns darkly enthralling and relentlessly surprising, The Keepsake showcases an author at the peak of her storytelling powers.

For untold years, the perfectly preserved... Read more

Red Leaves

By: Paullina Simons

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The body of a beautiful student is found nude and frozen, concealed within a snowbank for days on a New England college campus. Why hadn't anyone reported her missing? Detective Spencer O'Malley had met the girl, Kristina, only a day prior to her death. Nearly falling in love with her on this chance meeting, he learns more about her life... Read more

The Heretic's Daughter

By: Kathleen Kent

Narrated by: Mare Winningham

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Salem, 1752. Sarah Carrier Chapman, weak with infirmity, writes a letter to her granddaughter that reveals the secret she has closely guarded for six decades: how she survived the Salem Witch Trials when her mother did not.

Sarah's story begins more than a year before the trials, when she and her family arrive in a New England community already... Read more

The Book of Lies

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date.

In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost... Read more

Working Stiff

By: Tori Carrington

Narrated by: Allyson Ryan

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Sofie’s getting her feet under her as a PI and business is booming. So much so that she’s hired her (formerly) layabout cousin and a one-time petty criminal as “boys of all work.” Okay, so her reputation’s become, well, complicated–everyone in Astoria, Queens, knows that from time to time she shoots one of her own clients–but on the whole, she’s... Read more

Immunity

By: Lori Andrews

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

One bizarre death is just that---a death. Two? Could be a coincidence. But in Lori Andrews’s latest thriller, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake discovers something much more dangerous than a killer---an epidemic.

Taking a break from decoding the genetic sequence of a tropical disease, Alex takes on an investigation into the gruesome and unexplained... Read more

Crosscut

By: Meg Gardiner

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“It makes Silence of the Lambs look like Mary had a little one—it never lets up.” —Adrienne Dines, author of The Jigsaw MakerEvan Delaney knew China Lake was a tough place to grow up. She never knew how tough until she returns to the desert military base for her high school reunion and learns that several of her classmates have died young. Then,... Read more

Sweetheart

By: Chelsea Cain

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Gretchen Lowell, the world's most beautiful serial killer, has escaped from prison in Chelsea Cain's next unpredictable, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Sweetheart.

With Heartsick, Chelsea Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland... Read more

Island of Exiles

By: I.J. Parker

Narrated by: Roy Vongtama

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In I.J. Parker’s newest mystery set in eleventh-century Japan, Akitada disguises himself as a prisoner to solve the, murder of a prince

As her audience grows with each evocative historical thriller featuring Sugawara Akitada, I. J. Parker returns with a gripping tale of political intrigue and cold-blooded murder in ancient Japan. When the exiled... Read more

The Book of Lies - Abridged

By: Brad Meltzer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brad Meltzer--author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Fate--returns with his most thrilling and emotionally powerful novel to date.

In Chapter Four of the Bible, Cain kills Abel. It is the world's most famous murder. But the Bible is silent about one key detail: the weapon Cain used to kill his brother. That weapon is still lost... Read more

Night Kill

By: Ann Littlewood

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Iris Oakley, a young zookeeper at the Finley Memorial Zoo, hopes to reconcile with her newly sober husband, Rick. But when he’s found dead drunk—and dead—in the lion exhibit, a paralyzing mix of grief and anger keeps Iris from questioning the assumptions around his death. But Iris’ friends motivate her to prove that her husband could not have... Read more

Vulcan's Forge

By: Jack Du Brul

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Beneath the Pacific Ocean a volcano surges upward, carrying in its fiery heart a mineral more powerful than uranium. When the volcano breaks the ocean’s surface, nations will battle to control what is known as Vulcan’s Forge—a source of limitless, clean, nuclear power.The secret of Vulcan’s Forge begins to unravel when Mercer, a man of many... Read more

Escape (Island Trilogy, Book 3)

By: Gordon Korman

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Luke, Charla, Will, Lyssa, J.J., and Ian aren't alone on their desert island. They've survived so far -- but now their enemies are closing in. They have only one chance at escaping. Will they make it? Read more

Rituals of the Season

By: Margaret Maron

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Margaret Maron shows the form that has won her the Edgar and Agatha Awards, among many others, in this riveting mystery. Judge Deborah Knott and Deputy Sheriff Dwight Bryant are due to marry in a week. But all plans are put on hold when an assistant district attorney is killed, and the clues compel Judge Knott to investigate... Read more

The Presence

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Beyond the sparkling Hawaiian beaches, masked by the deceptive beauty of the rainforest, evil awaits sixteen-year-old Michael Sundquist and his mother, Katharine, an anthropologist who has come to the Islands to study the unusual skeletal remains unearthed on the volcanic flanks of Haleakala, Maui.Yet far below the black depths of the Pacific a... Read more

Folly

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 16 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie R. King creates unforgettable characters and situations in her mystery series featuring Kate Martinelli and Mary Russell. In Folly, she tells the gripping story of a woman on the edge of the world--and the edge of sanity. Tragedy and mental illness have been dark companions of Rae Newborn for more than 50 years. Her life seems to start... Read more

Death In A White Tie - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim.

But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene.

But someone else got there... Read more

Laughter of Dead Kings

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“A royal treat….Welcome back, Vicky Bliss!...For readers new to Vicky’s sassy and distinctively smart stories, The Laughter of Dead Kings will mark the start of a beautiful friendship.”—Tampa Tribune New York Times bestselling Grand Master Elizabeth Peters—author of the thrilling fictional exploits of archaeologist Amelia Peabody in the Land of... Read more

Angie's Delight

By: Phillip Margolin

Narrated by: Austin Cooper

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A short story with a cruel twist, about a lawyer and a criminal. Read more