Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

Ten-Second Staircase

By: Christopher Fowler

Narrated by: Tim Goodman

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An artist is found dead in a gallery with locked doors and windows. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors. Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse... Read more

The Power of the Dog

By: Don Winslow

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 20 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a major motion picture from Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg (A Royal Affair)This explosive novel of the drug trade takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge.Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes... Read more

Dirty Money

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in transit, but the police heat was so great they could only escape if they left the money behind. Now Parker and his associates plot to reclaim the loot, which they hid in the... Read more

Semana Santa

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Southern Spain. It is in Semana Santa - Holy Week - and the heat is building up in the city. This is always a difficult time for the police, with thousands of visitors adding to thousands of hooded penitents parading through the medieval streets. In the modern slums and the fine old houses of the rich and influential, some have secrets going... Read more

The Novice

By: Trudi Canavan

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 18 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Sonea knows the other novices in the Magicians' Guild all come from powerful families, but she also knows she can turn to Rothen and Dannyl for help when she needs it. That is, until someone starts spreading malicious rumours about her – and Akkarin, The High Lord, steps in. Promoted to Guild Ambassador, Lord Dannyl leaves for the Elyne court.... Read more

Slipknot

By: Priscilla Masters

Narrated by: Patricia Gallimore

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Callum Hughes has been labelled a killer and a psycho - by the press, by his classmates and by the family of the boy he stabbed. Roger Gough has been labelled a victim. He is described by everyone as a sporty, funny and popular boy who was brutally murdered by Callum. But things are rarely so black and white. When Callum is found dead in his... Read more

Devil's Food

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Louise Siversen

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The third in the Corinna Chapman series, Devil's Food is another irresistible, criminally entertaining read from the master crime writer, Kerry Greenwood. Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and amateur sleuth, returns in another delicious mystery. Read more

Murder in Mind

By: Lyndon Stacey

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sophie Bradford is pretty, blonde and an accomplished flirt. When her body is found dumped in a ditch on a lonely West Country road, Jamie Mullin is the prime suspect. He was her latest boyfriend and they'd had a very public row just before she disappeared. Jamie protests his innocence but soon spirals into a breakdown fuelled by frustration,... Read more

Voice of the Violin

By: Andrea Camilleri

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Montalbano’s gruesome discovery of the body of a lovely, naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him on a search for her killer.Among the suspects are her aging husband, a famous doctor; a shy admirer, now disappeared; an antiques-dealing lover from Bologna; and the victim’s friend Anna, whose charms Montalbano cannot... Read more

Frames

By: Loren D. Estleman

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Enter Valentino, a mild-mannered UCLA film archivist, buys a decrepit movie palace and uncovers a skeleton in the secret Prohibition basement. He then makes a second discovery: long-lost, priceless, reels of film: Erich von Stroheim's infamous Greed. The Los Angeles Police Department wants to take the reels as evidence, jeopardizing the precious... Read more

Pigeon Blood - Abridged

By: Paul Cain

Narrated by: Tom Weiner, Lorna Raver, William Hughes, Anthon...

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A society matron’s life is threatened after she engineers the theft of her own priceless jewelry to pay off a gambling debt. Only a debonair connoisseur of crime can save her and recover her gems—for a price. Read more

Trouble Chaser - Abridged

By: Paul Cain

Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Christine Williams, William Hugh...

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A starlet’s plot to blackmail a film-studio executive results in her murder. Only the “trouble chaser” can clear her volatile lover and solve the crime. Read more

Rough Justice - Abridged

By: Frederick Nebel

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner, Anthony Heald, Tom Weiner,...

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mississippi heat—A Manhattan gumshoe pursues a convict to St. Louis, where he gets mixed up in a cop killing and nearly loses his own life at the hands of a “B” girl. Read more

Black - Abridged

By: Paul Cain

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 27 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

Taking His Time - Abridged

By: Reuben J. Shay & Griffith Chase

Narrated by: Grover Gardner & Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this comic vignette, a carnival barker’s valuable watch gets stolen during an illegal poker game. The local sheriff seems in no hurry to apprehend the thief, until a reward is offered. Read more

The Missing Mr. Lee - Abridged

By: Hugh B. Cave

Narrated by: Anthony Heald, Lorna Raver, Christine Williams,...

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eccentric boarding-house denizen winds up dead; his presumed killer, a fellow boarder, has vanished. The baffling case unfolds through the testimony of witnesses, who are themselves suspects. Read more

Lost and Found - Abridged

By: Hugh B. Cave

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Did a spoiled rich girl die in a plane crash or is she hiding with her homicidal lover in the Florida Keys? Whose body is that in the wreckage? Who put it there? Read more

Child 44

By: Tom Rob Smith

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 19 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent.

Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and... Read more

Black Lightning

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

John Saul knows how to make the blood run cold and the heart race wild with fear. Now the author of the New York Times bestsellers Creature and The Homing delivers a chilling novel of a convicted serial killer sentenced to death—and hell-bent on revenge.For five years Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued the horrifying story of a sadistic... Read more

Laguna Heat

By: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Laguna, where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas—where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder, and blood-red secrets—where a crazed killer has turned... Read more

Bleeding Hearts

By: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

National best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert's poetic beauty and West Texas flavor permeate her China Bayles mysteries. The high school principal asks China to secretly investigate the popular football coach who led the Panthers to six state championships. Soon after China confirms the coach's predilection for teenage girls, one of his... Read more

Indigo Dying

By: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by: Julia Gibson

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

National best-selling author and resident of Texas, Susan Wittig Albert pens a quirky, but chilling mystery. When Casey Ford threatens to sell his property to a strip mining company, the townsfolk fear that Indigo will be lost forever. Protecting the town is important-so important that someone is willing to kill Casey to keep their home from... Read more

A Morning for Flamingos

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dave Robicheaux felt the bone-grinding pain rip through his body as the .45 did its damage. Through the agonizing haze that enveloped him, he heard an almost inhuman laugh-the hideous, victorious cackling of Jimmie Lee Boggs-a sound he would never forget. It had started out as an ordinary prisoner transfer, then turned into a blood bath when the... Read more