Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Out of the Darkness

By: Susan Kelly

Narrated by: Pamela Klein

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Recession has visited Boston freelance writer Liz Connors with a vengeance: the magazine that is her main source of income has folded, and her financial future is looking grim. So Liz jumps at the chance when the enormously successful true-crime author Griffin Marcus hires her to research the grisly, ritualistic slayings of seven local women.... Read more

Moscow Rules

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Over the course of ten previous novels, Daniel Silva has established himself as one of the world’s finest writers of international intrigue and espionage—“a worthy successor to such legends as Frederick Forsyth and John le Carré” (Chicago Sun-Times)—and Gabriel Allon as “one of the most intriguing heroes of any thriller series” (The Philadelphia... Read more

Volk's Shadow

By: Brent Ghelfi

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The headquarters of an American oil company hemorrhages chemical-pink smoke into the Moscow night, the aftermath of an apparent terrorist attack. A Russian army captain carrying a priceless Fabergé egg and digital evidence of horrific wartime atrocities is murdered and relieved of both these prizes. And in the snowy mountains of southern Russia,... Read more

Damage Control

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Coronado National Monument, an elderly couple's car is driven off the side of a mountain. Hours later and miles away, the subsiding rain reveals two trash bags containing human remains. It's just another day in the life of Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady.The remains are those of a handicapped woman who wandered away from a care... Read more

Edge of Evil

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: Kristen Kairos

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The end of her high-profile broadcasting career came too soon for TV journalist Alison Reynolds—bounced off the air by executives who wanted a ""younger face."" With a divorce from her cheating husband of ten years also pending, there is nothing keeping her in L.A. any longer. Cut loose from her moorings, Ali is summoned back home to Sedona,... Read more

A Carrion Death

By: Michael Stanley

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.



But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation... Read more

Let It Bleed

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: Samuel Gillies

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The seventh in the series of the award winning, best-selling Inspector Rebus crime novels, grips us with first-rate plotting and fierce realism. It's a bitter winter in Edinburgh, and Rebus has found himself wrapped in a case that provides more questions than answers. Was Lord Provost's daughter kidnapped, or is she a runaway? Why is a city... Read more

The Comfort of Strangers

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author, Ian McEwan has won the Booker Prize, Whitbread Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for his masterfully accomplished fiction. The Comfort of Strangers is an exquisitely crafted gothic novella. On holiday, Colin and Maria wander the ancient streets of Venice and frequently lose their way. When they... Read more

Flame

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: multivoice

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

When a client dies in a car explosion, Orlando detective Fred Carver learns the man may not have been who he said he was
For Bert Renway, it starts out as a simple proposition: a fat bundle of money to spend a few weeks impersonating Frank Wesley, a local tycoon. But after a while Bert grows suspicious of the easy money, and seeks help in the... Read more

Night Work

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Laurie R. King has won both critical and popular acclaim for her mysteries featuring San Francisco detective Kate Martinelli. Looking forward to routine police work after her last terrifying case, Kate finds herself on the trail of vigilantes targeting abusive men in the San Francisco area. Kate has just returned to active... Read more

Keeping Watch

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 16 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Allen Carmichael came back from Vietnam a lifetime ago--but only now was he ready to return home. For years, he's lived on the fringes of the law, using a soldier's skills to keep watch over those too young to defend themselves. Some consider him nothing but a kidnapper for hire--the best in the business; others call him a hero. His specialty... Read more

Quiller Bamboo

By: Adam Hall

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Summoned late at night to the Bureau, Quiller attends a secret conference with the foreign secretary and a surprise defector: the Chinese ambassador to Britain. Minutes later, shots ring out and the ambassador's body is flung out onto the sidewalk of a deserted London street, riddled with bullets.Searching for clues, Quiller flies to Calcutta to... Read more

Collision

By: Jeff Abbott

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Already an international sensation, with his books translated into fifteen languages—in the UK alone, Panic has more than 400,000 copies in print—Jeff Abbott is a master of the action-packed thriller. Now, with Collision, he delivers a meaty, twisty, white-knuckle ride designed to propel him onto the bestseller lists in his home... Read more

Dating Dead Men

By: Harley Jane Kozak

Narrated by: Deanna Hurst

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Los Angeles greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is dating forty men in sixty days as research for a radio talk show host's upcoming book. Wollie is meeting plenty of eligible bachelors but not falling in love, not until she stumbles over a dead body en route to Rio Pescado—a state-run mental hospital—and is taken hostage by a charismatic... Read more

Ask the Parrot

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Racing through the backwoods of Massachusetts and on the verge of being taken down for one of the biggest and most disastrous bank heists the state has ever seen, Parker runs right into the barrel of a gun pointed from the wrong side of the law. A quiet and angry recluse with only a silent parrot for company in his seclusion, Tom Lindahl saves... Read more

Seven Deadly Wonders

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Golden Capstone atop the Great Pyramid at Giza offered protection from the global flooding and scorching sun that occurs every 4,500 years due to the Tartarus Rotation solar event. But Alexander the Great broke the Capstone into seven pieces and hid them in the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Now, in 2006, another Tartarus Rotation is... Read more

Richard Diamond, Folge 7: Die rote Rose / Der Karussell-Fall

By: Blake Edwards

Narrated by: Tobias Kluckert, Detlef Bierstedt & Oliver Rohr...

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Fall 7 - Die rote Rose John Alastair, ein Klient Richard Diamonds, hat ein großes Problem. Um seine Schulden zu begleichen und seiner Frau ein gutes Leben durch die Versicherungssumme zu ermöglichen, ließ er durch einen Dritten einen Mordauftrag auf sich selbst ansetzen. Durch eine glückliche Fügung kann Alastair sich allerdings doch noch das... Read more

The Virgin of Small Plains

By: Nancy Pickard

Narrated by: Kymberly Dakin

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

On the night of the decade's worst blizzard, a local farm boy discovers the naked body of a beautiful young woman in the snow. Seventeen years later, the Virgin of Small Plains has become a local myth. Strange miracles have visited those who faithfully tend to her grave and Small Plains becomes a haven for those hoping the Virgin will cure them.... Read more

Winter and Night

By: S. J. Rozan

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning S. J. Rozan comes her finest novel to date—an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town.In the middle of the night, private investigator Bill Smith is awakened by a call from the NYPD. They’re holding fifteen-year-old named Gary—Bill’s nephew. But before Bill... Read more

Rules of Deception

By: Christopher Reich

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. Jonathan Ransom, world-class mountaineer and surgeon for Doctors Without Borders, is climbing in the Swiss Alps with his beautiful wife, Emma, when a blizzard sets in. In their bid to escape the storm, Emma is killed when she falls into a hidden crevasse.

Twenty-four hours later, Jonathan receives an envelope addressed to his wife containing... Read more

Silent Partner

By: Stephen Frey

Narrated by: Norma Lana

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the world of high finance, it’s all about risk and return. With big risks come big rewards … and even bigger dangers. And no one knows this better than Stephen Frey. From the New York Times bestselling author of Trust Fund and The Day Trader comes an electrifying new thriller of money, mayhem, and murder.Angela Day has survived a rough... Read more

Nail Biter

By: Sarah Graves

Narrated by: Lindsay Ellison

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree took the dangerous plunge from Wall Street power broker to homeowner. Now the do-it-yourself enthusiast is about to discover that her own dream house is built on a foundation of murder.Buying a beachfront fixer-upper to lease out to Eastport, Maine's, burgeoning tourist crowd seems like a good idea to Jake Tiptree and her... Read more

The Seduction of Water

By: Carol Goodman

Narrated by: Christine Marshall

Length: 13 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

For Iris Greenfeder—all but published, all but a professor, and all but married to her boyfriend of ten years—the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine, leads to a shot at literary success. The piece recounts an eerie Irish fairy tale her mother used to tell her at bedtime—and nestled inside is the sad story of her mother's... Read more

Lemons Never Lie

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: Steve Aveson

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When he’s not carrying out heists with his friend Parker, Alan Grofield runs a small theater in Indiana. But putting on shows costs money and jobs have been thin lately—which is why Grofield agreed to fly to Las Vegas to hear Andrew Myers’ plan to knock over a brewery in upstate New York. Unfortunately, Myers’ plan is insane—so Grofield walks... Read more