Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

Mordskiste - Abridged

By: Various Artists

Narrated by: Hans Peter Hallwachs, Evelyn Hamann, Hans Korte...

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

10 Klassische WDR-Kriminalhörspiele - u.a.: Tauno Yliruusis Klassiker Mord ist ein Kinderspiel, Hans-Werner Kettenbachs Psychodrama Privatsache (mit Peer Augustinski und Evelyn Hamann), Konrad Hansens Familien-Thriller Der Jäger oder das Action-Stück Keine Chance für Bach von Dirk Schmidt — eine Mordskiste im doppelten Wortsinn. Read more

The Last Patriot - Abridged

By: Brad Thor

Narrated by: Armand Schultz

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brad Thor, master of suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author is back with his highest-voltage thriller to date in which Navy SEAL turned covert Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath must race to locate an ancient secret that has the power to stop militant Islam dead in its tracks.

June 632 AD: Deep within the Uranah Valley of Mount... Read more

Black Mask Audio Magazine, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: various authors, Dashiell Hammett, Hugh B. Cave...

Narrated by: a full cast, Richard Ferrone, Grover Gardner, G...

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tough gumshoes, rotten yeggs, and dangerous damesIn the 1930s and '40s, Black Mask was the single most important magazine for the modern mystery field. In its pages writers such as Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Earl Stanley Gardner reshaped the established view of mystery fiction, creating the "hard-boiled" private eye. Now comes this... Read more

A Wedding to Die For

By: Leann Sweeney

Narrated by: Danielle Ferland

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Leann Sweeney's first Yellow Rose mystery won many new fans eager to follow Abby Rose, now a private investigator. Not knowing exactly what she's gotten herself into yet, Abby takes on the case of a bride determined to find her birth mother before her wedding day. But things get messy when the reception is cut short by a matrimonial murderer. Read more

What You Sow

By: Wallace Ford

Narrated by: Caroline Clay, Michael Early, Nyambi Nyambi, Ez...

Length: 8 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Connoisseurs of edgy, contemporary African-American fiction find the novels of Wallace Ford prime offerings. In this riveting sequel, a powerful and unscrupulous investment banker learns the hard way that what goes up must come down. Ever since Gordon Perkins made off with his partners' money, he's been living fast, but losing even faster. Read more

Free Fall

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

“A thoughtful and powerful page turner.”—PeopleElvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiancé, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble—the kind of serious trouble that only Elvis Cole can help him... Read more

Bethlehem Road

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 15 million copies of Edgar Award winner Anne Perry's historical mysteries have been sold. In Bethlehem Road, Inspector Pitt and his wife investigate the murder of a Member of Parliament. Before they can begin to piece together what happened to Sir Lockwood Hamilton, one of his colleagues is discovered murdered-on the exact same spot. Read more

Slow Motion Riot

By: Peter Blauner

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum is desperately struggling to hold on to the last remaining shreds of his idealism, until Darryl King invades his world. A deranged young sociopath, one of the most bloodthirsty creations of a diseased society, Darryl has come to drag Baum along with him... Read more

What Was Lost

By: Catherine O'Flynn

Narrated by: Catherine Skinner

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1980s, Kate Meaney is hard at work as a junior detective. Busy trailing "suspects" and carefully observing everything around her at the newly opened Green Oaks shopping mall, she forms an unlikely friendship with Adrian, the son of a local shopkeeper. But when this curious, independent-spirited young girl disappears, Adrian falls under... Read more

The Deceived

By: Brett Battles

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

“Unputdownable.”*
“Brilliant and heart-pounding.”**
“A tightly written page-turner.”***

Brett Battles won rave reviews for his debut novel, The Cleaner, which introduced hero Jonathan Quinn. A freelance operative and professional “cleaner,” Quinn knows better than to get emotionally involved in any of his jobs. But in this superb powerhouse of... Read more

Eight in the Box

By: Raffi Yessayan

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 7 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this swiftly paced, breathlessly suspenseful debut novel, the bizarre rampage of an elusive serial killer sends shockwaves through Boston, igniting a harrowing police manhunt and resounding at the highest levels of the criminal justice system. Drawing on eleven years’ experience as a Boston assistant district attorney–and as chief prosecutor... Read more

The Last Oracle

By: James Rollins

Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez

Length: 14 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who have unleashed a diabolical project that could bring about the extinction of mankind.Salvation . . . or annihilation?What if scientists could bio-engineer the next great world prophet—the next Buddha, Mohammed,... Read more

The Lemur

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

When John Glass's billionaire father-in-law hires him to write his biography, he feels he can't refuse. Then his research assistant on the book discovers some very sensitive information about John's in-laws, and is murdered before he can tell anyone what he knows. John is on his own to find out the young man's secret, before the murderer finds him. Read more

Eight in the Box - Abridged

By: Raffi Yessayan

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They call him the Blood Bath Killer -- a man who has now killed two Boston women by sneaking into their homes, filling the bathtub with their blood, and making off with their bodies. And everything suggests that he's poised to strike again.

Out to stop him are two good cops -- Detective Angel Alves and his hard-driven boss, Sergeant Wayne Mooney... Read more

Dime Store Magic

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Paige Winterbourne was always either too young or too rebellious to succeed her mother as leader of one of the world's most powerful elite organizations—the American Coven of Witches. Now that she is twenty-three and her mother is dead, the Elders can no longer deny her. But even Paige's wildest antics can't hold a candle to those of her new... Read more

2012

By: Whitley Strieber

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

December 21, 2012, may be one of the most watched dates in history. Every 26,000 years, Earth lines up with the exact center of our galaxy. At 11:11 on December 21, 2012, this event happens again, and the ancient Maya calculated that it would mark the end of not only this age but also human consciousness as we know it. But what will actually... Read more

The Dark of Day

By: Barbara Parker

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Barbara Parker introduces one of the most unforgettable female characters in suspense fiction: high-profile Miami defense attorney C. J. Dunn.C J. Dunn is an expert at spinning her clients' image in the media. She is the perfect lawyer to deflect police interest in Rick Slater, head of security for Bob Shelby, a US congressman from Miami. Slater... Read more

Father and Son

By: Larry Brown

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Larry Brown, a remarkable literary voice from the South, is a veteran of the Vietnam War and spent 17 years as a firefighter. Distilling his experiences, he has developed a deep understanding of the darker forces at work in men's souls. In novels like Joe and On Fire he has astounded critics and earned critical acclaim from many authors... Read more

Sweet Dreams, Irene

By: Jan Burke

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Edgar, Macavity and Agatha Awards, Jan Burke is one of America's most admired mystery writers. In this intense sequel to the best-seller Goodnight, Irene, as the race for District Attorney heats up the mudslinging begins, and soon one candidate's son is branded a satanist. He claims innocence, but chilling events soon point... Read more

Bubbles Betrothed

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On her first day as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands in jail with a murder suspect named Crazy Popeye, who grants Bubbles an exclusive interview shortly before keeling over herself. Suddenly, Bubbles's interview notes are a hot commodity among a romance-obsessed police detective, a Polish Mafioso, and a podiatrist on the lam. Meanwhile, her... Read more

Delusion

By: Peter Abrahams

Narrated by: Ken Marks

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed as a master of suspense, award-winning author Peter Abrahams crafts an absorbing psychological thriller. Twenty years ago, Alvin DuPree was jailed for murdering Nell Jarreau's boyfriend-on the strength of Nell's testimony. Now, Alvin has been exonerated. Wondering whether she was delusional, Nell searches for answers by digging through... Read more

The Kalahari Typing School for Men

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

International best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith delivers another delightful tale from his critically acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe's comfortable existence as the only detective in Botswana is suddenly rattled when the Satisfaction Guaranteed Detective Agency opens, and its brochure proclaims, "Don't... Read more

Once Around the Track

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Nicole Poole

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb returns to the heart-racing world of NASCAR with Once Around the Track. Badger Jenkins, a driver past his prime, is recruited by an all-female pit crew to drive their new car. But every woman has a different plan to get the car into the fast lane, and it's not long before the women collide-both on and off the... Read more