Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Steal Away

By: Katharine Clark

Narrated by: narrator

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

"David, something awful has happened to your mother and father," said the stranger in the van. "You're in great danger. You've got to come with us..." Nine-year-old David Stark has been snatched off the street in broad daylight. With no apparent motive. No witnesses. And only one clue-his shiny red bicycle, lying on the side of the road. Rachel... Read more

An American Killing

By: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

As such things are measured in Washington, Denise Burke has everything a woman of wit could want: two hip kids able to look after themselves; a marriage constructed to allow maximum mutual leeway with a husband smack in the center of Clinton's inner circle; and a high-profile lover, the most eligible bachelor on Capitol Hill. Plus, she's a... Read more

Stained Glass

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

CIA superspy Blackford Oakes, fresh from his daring exploits at Windsor Castle, has been entrusted with a matter of some delicacy: finding the perfect blue to restore the war-damaged windows of a thirteenth-century German chapel. The owner of the chapel, Axel Wintergrin, is not only an old friend but a charismatic hero who is rising to power in... Read more

Tropical Heat

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: Bill Weideman

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female introduces hard-boiled Florida PI Fred Carver: “Lutz has never written leaner prose” (USA Today).
 When the criminal’s bullet shattered his knee, Fred Carver’s colleagues called him lucky. Between his pension and the insurance check, they said, he had a nice, easy retirement to look... Read more

Findings

By: Mary Anna Evans

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Faye Longchamp is overjoyed to be paid to do archaeological work she would have done anyway—excavating a site that was once her family’s. That joy ends abruptly when intruders break into a dear friend’s house and leave him dead among the scattered remains of Faye’s artifacts. There seems to be no motive at all for the vicious crime…unless the... Read more

Swan Peak

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Mystery

Beloved Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux returns—this time, traveling from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana.

Dave Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to an old friend’s ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape... Read more

At First Sight

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Chick Best—a middle-aged, self-absorbed California dot.com millionaire. Other than his house and high-priced foreign cars, Chick’s most expensive possession is his trophy wife, Evelyn. Evelyn is good at spending Chick’s money, money that has pretty much run out. Another problem is his drug-addled sixteen-year-old daughter, Melissa. Though... Read more

A Flag for Sunrise

By: Robert Stone

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 17 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A Flag for Sunrise is a novel of Americans drawn into the maelstrom of Tecan, a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. At a mission on the coast a priest is lapsing into alcoholic mysticism, while a young American nun is veering towards commitment to the cause. In a bar in Brooklyn, Frank Holliwell is lunching with an old CIA... Read more

Martin Misunderstood

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Wayne Knight

Length: 2 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Once upon a time there was a man named Martin.Martin Reed is thoroughly average in every way. So how has he wound up with such a pathetic existence? Martin has no friends, no lovers, and no respect. Working as a senior accountant at Southern Toilet Supply and still living with his nagging mother, his sole source of excitement is the crime novels... Read more

Palace Council

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 22 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK, INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES • A gripping political thriller set against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.

Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect to fall... Read more

Palace Council - Abridged

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK, INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES • A gripping political thriller set against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.

Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect to fall... Read more

Swan Peak - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2009 Audie Award Finalist for Mystery

Beloved Louisiana lawman Dave Robicheaux returns—this time, traveling from New Iberia Parish to the wilds of Montana.

Dave Robicheaux, his wife, and his buddy Clete Purcell have retreated to an old friend’s ranch, hoping to spend their days fishing and enjoying their distance from the harsh, gritty landscape... Read more

Fuzzy Navel

By: J.A. Konrath

Narrated by: Susie Breck & Dick Hill

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Things are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city’s toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal life is finally in order. Her friends and family are safe and happy. And she just got a call that eased her mind like nothing else could: Alex Kork, one of the... Read more

Silent Thunder

By: Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the assignment of a lifetime.…Brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson has been given a priceless opportunity. A U.S. maritime museum has just acquired the former pride of the Soviet fleet, the decommissioned submarine Silent Thunder, for public exhibition. Hannah must inspect every single inch of this legendary nuclear attack sub and... Read more

Voodoo River

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he... Read more

The Deeds of the Disturber

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Can fear kill?When the body of a night watchman is found sprawled in the shadow of a rare nineteenth-Dynasty mummy case, a look of terror frozen on his face, panic ensues. No one doubts that the guard's untimely demise is the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. No one, that is, except that tart-tongued Victorian Egyptologist, Amelia Peabody,... Read more

Fever

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Nameless had told Mitchell Krochek that he'd do whatever he could to find his missing wife, Janice. She'd run away before—propelled by a gambling fever that grew ever higher—and Mitch had always taken her back. This time, when Nameless, his partner Tamara, and the agency's chief operative Jake Runyon finally found her in a sleazy San Francisco... Read more

Rashomon Gate

By: I.J. Parker

Narrated by: Roy Vongtama

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting historical mystery set amid the exquisite ritual and refined treachery of eleventh-century Japan.

Sugawara Akitada is the son of impoverished nobility toiling at a low-level job in the Ministry of Justice. When an old friend, Professor Hirata, asks him to investigate a colleague’s blackmail, Akitada takes leave of his stultifying job... Read more

The Water's Edge

By: Daniel Judson

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

When Jake "Payday" Bechet hears that two men have been murdered a few miles from where he lives in the Hamptons—hanged fromthe Shinnecock Bridge, their hands severed—he knows that trouble is coming. Trouble for him, for everyone, because it means that someone has betrayed the Castello crime family. Whether it's someone trying to move in on their... Read more

Chasing Darkness

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: James Daniels

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Private Investigator Elvis Cole learns that LA fires bring more than heat, they bring his old friend Joe Pike and the past. Cole’s fight to clear his name brings murder and corruption terrifyingly close to home.It’s fire season, and the hills of Los Angeles are burning. When police and fire department personnel rush door to door in a frenzied... Read more

Illegal Action

By: Stella Rimington

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Liz has been transferred to counter-espionage–the hub of MI5 operations during the Cold War, which has been scaled back as anti-terrorism has gained priority. But there’s plenty for her to do: there are more spies operating in London in the 21st century than there were during the height of East-West hostilities. Even the Russians still have a... Read more

Mission Canyon

By: Meg Gardiner

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

While bicycling in the foothills of Santa Barbara, Jesse Blackburn and his friend Isaac are struck down by a hit-and-run driver. Isaac is killed, but Jesse survives. Now he wants revenge, and his fiancée, Evan Delaney, wants justice. Neither is simple. Evan and Jesse underestimate the power of the person with whom they’re dealing, and of the... Read more

The Garden of Evil

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In a hidden studio in Rome, an art expert is found dead in front of one of the most beautiful paintings Nic Costa has ever seen - an unknown Caravaggio masterpiece. But before long, tragedy will strike Nic far closer to home. The main suspect's identity is known, but he remains untouchable protected by a fleet of lawyers and a sinister cult... Read more

Presumed Guilty

By: James Scott Bell

Narrated by: Rob Lamont

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder, betrayal, and a trial that feeds a media frenzy.Can one woman stand against the forces that threaten to tear her family apart?Pastor Ron Hamilton’s star is rising. His 8,000-strong church is thriving. His good looks and charisma make him an exceptional speaker on family values. And his book on pornography in the church has become an... Read more