Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Escape from Andersonville

By: Gene Hackman & Daniel Lenihan

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

July 1864. Union officer Nathan Parker has been imprisoned at nightmarish Andersonville prison camp in Georgia along with his soldiers. As others die around them, Nathan and his men hatch a daring plan to allow him to escape through a tunnel and make his way to Vicksburg, where he intends to alert his superiors to the imprisonment and push for... Read more

Scream for Me

By: Karen Rose

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to find the perpetrator of multiple killings that mimic a 13 year old murder linked to a collection of photographs that belonged to his brother, Simon, the ruthless serial killer who met his demise in Die for Me. Daniel is certain someone even more depraved than his brother committed these crimes, and... Read more

Quiver

By: Peter Leonard

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate McCall's husband is killed by her teenage son, Luke, in a tragic bow hunting accident--an incident that sets into motion a series of events, culminating in a dramatic, life and death confrontation with a gang of killers. Included in the gang is Kate's first love - an ex-con who himself is struggling to persuade his former "colleagues"... Read more

The Girl of His Dreams

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On a rainy morning, not long after the funeral of his mother, Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello respond to a 911 call reporting a body floating near the steps in one of Venice's side canals. Reaching down to pull it out, Brunetti's wrist is caught by the silkiness of golden hair, and he sees a small foot—together he and Vianello lift a... Read more

The Magician's Assistant

By: Ann Patchett

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself.” (Newsweek)When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also... Read more

Whipping Star

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species—Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban (among others)—and has helped to form the ConSentiency to govern between the species. After suffering under a tyrannous pure democracy that had the power to create laws so fast that no thought could be given to... Read more

Silent Witness

By: Michael Norman

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A Sam Kincaid MysteryThe armored-car robbery went awry, leaving two people dead, one a member of the gang believed responsible for the crime. Forty-five-year-old Walter Bradshaw is captured and charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery. Bradshaw, who leads an archconservative, antigovernment group of Mormon polygamists, now sits in a... Read more

The Fisher Boy

By: Stephen Anable

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

With a gay resort, an art colony, and a working fishing port, Provincetown has long been a place of freedom, escape, diversity, and risk. Mark Winslow, a Boston comic, arrives with his troupe of actors, ready to break into the Provincetown club circuit. But the town and the region are far from peaceful this summer. When a public fight makes Mark... Read more

The Falls

By: Ian Rankin

Narrated by: Samuel Gillies

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A missing student, a six-inch coffin containing a wooden doll, and mysterious role playing games on the Internet are the intriguing elements of the latest case to challenge Inspector Rebus. The missing student comes from an influential family and Rebus begins to get a bad feeling about the case. Whilst Rebus follows up a link with the distant... Read more

Ten Thousand Islands

By: Randy Wayne White

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Government agent-turned-marine biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida’s Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then she began having nightmares. Then she was found hanging from a tree.

Now, years later, the girl’s mother is being... Read more

Perfect Family

By: Pam Lewis

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Speak Softly, She Can Hear, a literary page-turner about a proper New England family and the dark secrets that undo them. Pony Carteret -- the lovely headstrong youngest member of the Carteret family -- has always been a strong swimmer. So when she is discovered drowned at the family's summer home on Lake Aral,... Read more

From Dead to Worse

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Johanna Parker

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone-human and otherwise-is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend, Quinn, has gone missing. It's clear that things are changing-whether the weres and vamps of her... Read more

Sovereign

By: C.J. Sansom

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 21 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

C. J. Sansom is an international bestselling author known for riveting suspense and intricately constructed mysteries. His atmospheric prose has earned him an Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award, among other accolades.In the third novel in this riveting series, barrister Matthew Shardlake is faced with the most terrifying threat in the age of... Read more

Miss Julia Paints the Town

By: Ann B. Ross

Narrated by: Cynthia Darlow

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The sleepy town of Abbotsville is abuzz over the mayor's plans to replace the old courthouse with luxury retirement condos. On top of that, several of the town's husbands seem to have flown the coop. As usual, it falls to Miss Julia to save the day-and the courthouse- even if she has to expose a few of the town's not-so- well-kept secrets. Fans... Read more

The Gingerbread Girl

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Mare Winningham

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running -- barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the... Read more

The Calling

By: Inger Ash Wolfe

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

The first homicide that Canadian Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef, acting chief of the Port Dundas police, has had to investigate in almost three years is that of cancer patient Delia Chandler, a woman who once had an affair with Hazel's father. When a few days later, and three hundred kilometers away, the mutilated body of an multiple... Read more

The Plague of Doves

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Peter Francis James & Kathleen McInerney

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves—the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose—is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American... Read more

The Pale Criminal

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Hailed by Salman Rushdie as a "brilliantly innovative thriller-writer," Philip Kerr is the creator of taut, gripping, noir-tinged mysteries that are nothing short of spellbinding. In this second book of the Berlin Noir trilogy, The Pale Criminal brings back Bernie Gunther, an ex-policeman who thought he’d seen everything on the streets of 1930s... Read more

Phantom Prey

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

“Chalk up another winner for [John Sandford] and his all-too-human hero” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series.
After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the clues... Read more

Phantom Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Chalk up another winner for [John Sandford] and his all-too-human hero” (Richmond Times-Dispatch) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Prey series.
After one troubled college-age student disappears and two are found slashed to death, Lucas Davenport finds himself hunting what appears to be a modern-day Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the clues... Read more

Careless in Red - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her most eagerly anticipated novel yet, Elizabeth George brings back Scotland Yard's Thomas Lynley to investigate a ruthless crime.After the senseless murder of his wife, Detective Superintendent Thomas Lynley retreated to Cornwall, where he has spent six solitary weeks hiking the bleak and rugged coastline. But no matter how far he walks, no... Read more

Flesh House - Abridged

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Cameron Stewart

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The 4th thriller in the Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. Panic grips The Granite City as DS Logan McRae heads up a manhunt for ‘The Flesher’ – one of the UK’s most notorious serial killers. Panic strikes the Granite City… ... Read more

Death of the River Master

By: Allana Martin

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the Western Writers of America Medicine Pipe Bearer Award, Texan author Allana Martin pens mysteries with a distinctive regional flair. Publishers Weekly has called this series "a refreshing read." In the Chihuahuan desert near the Texas-Mexico border, Texana Jones runs an isolated trading post. One afternoon during a jalapeNo pepper... Read more

Lullaby Town

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

“Quick, cutting wit . . . a keen ear.”—The New York Times Book ReviewHollywood’s newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb the country for the wife and... Read more