Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Do You Take This Woman?

By: R.M. Johnson

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

No stranger to the Essence best-seller list, RM Johnson creates seductive portraits of contemporary life and love. Best friends since childhood, Pete and Wayne are as close as brothers, sharing a prospering orthopedic practice. Though they've always been competitive about women, things escalate when alluring Carla steps into the picture. As she... Read more

Goodnight, Irene

By: Jan Burke

Narrated by: Eliza Foss

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Packed with intrigue and danger, Jan Burke's Irene Kelly mysteries thrill her many avid fans. The morning after Irene says goodnight to her old journalist friend O'Connor, he is killed suddenly upon opening a letter bomb. As the smoke clears, a devastated Irene determines to find the mail-bomber by tracing threads of an unsolved crime from... Read more

Lazy Eye

By: Donna Daley-Clarke

Narrated by: Robin Miles & Raz Adoti

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A Commonwealth Writers' Best First Book Award winner, Donna Daley-Clarke's transfixing yet often hilarious novel vividly entwines the street-smart stories of one black family facing racism and loss in 1970s London. With his father in jail, his mother passed on, and his comic book idols outgrown, lazy-eyed teenager Geoffhurst must find a new hero... Read more

The Genius

By: Jesse Kellerman

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A tenant has disappeared in a New York slum, leaving behind strange, original artwork. Gallery owner Ethan Muller can see its brilliance—and money-making potential. When Ethan displays the art, the show attracts the attention of the police. Because the subjects of the pictures look exactly like the victims in a long-cold murder case. Ethan has... Read more

Roux Morgue

By: Claire M. Johnson

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan is back teaching at her old alma mater, trying to straddle the worlds of both her original mentors and her contemporaries. To make matters worse, Homicide Detective O’Connor has enrolled as a student, claiming to be on disability from the San Francisco Police Department. In the middle of this turf war, Mary is... Read more

Escape

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: Charles Leggett

Length: 22 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Claiming God commanded her to gruesomely murder her three small children, a radical political-science professor with a high-profile politician husband pleads insanity, leaving New York District Attorney Roger "Butch" Karp the arduous—and incredibly unpopular—task of proving that she's not. Meanwhile, an American-born jihadist detonates a suicide... Read more

Zapped

By: Carol Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

It's a hot, humid July night in New York City. Where were you when the lights went out?

As Zapped begins, the Reillys return home from a summer weekend to the loft in Tribeca they are in the agonizing process of renovating and expanding. They are looking forward to a quiet supper on their newly acquired rooftop terrace. But it's not meant to be.... Read more

Death Walked In

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Annie Darling discovers the secret of the Franklin house, but DEATH WALKED IN . . .

Max Darling hasn’t been interested in crime since his brush with a seductive young woman put him in danger of losing his freedom. He even refuses to talk to a woman who calls for help and says she is afraid. The caller leaves word she’s hidden something in the... Read more

Degrees of Separation

By: Sue Henry

Narrated by: Lee Adams

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Anthony and Macavity award-winning author of Murder at Five Finger Light.
 
After healing from knee surgery, Jessie Arnold can’t wait to train for the Iditarod, but she and her dogs must work hard to qualify. Jessie’s practice run goes smoothly until her sled hits a bump along the trail—a dead body. What the kid was doing on a musher's... Read more

Personal Demon

By: Kelley Armstrong

Narrated by: Laural Merlington & Todd McLaren

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In her acclaimed Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong has created a scintillating realm where the supernatural and the human coexist on the edge of darkness, romance, and eternity. Personal Demon, the eighth Otherworld book, is another wickedly entertaining tale of a young woman with an insatiable lust for danger. She can't help it;... Read more

The Resurrectionist

By: Jack O'Connell

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Gritty noir fiction, mind-bending fantasy, and medical thriller combine in a new novel by an author dubbed the "cyberpunk Dashiell Hammett."



Sweeney is a druggist by trade; Danny, his son, is in a persistent coma, the victim of an accident. Hoping for a miracle, they have come to the Peck Clinic, a fortresslike haven in a post-industrial city... Read more

Where Are You Now?

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From America’s Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy—a quest with terrifying repercussions.

It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. (“Mack”) went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and... Read more

Hellstrom's Hive

By: Frank Herbert

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

America is a police state, and it is about to be threatened by the most hellish enemy in the world: insects.

When the Agency discovered that Dr. Hellstrom's Project 40 was a cover for a secret laboratory, a special team of agents was immediately dispatched to discover its true purpose and its weaknesses—it could not be allowed to continue. What... Read more

Stalking the Angel

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Elvis Cole, L.A. private eye . . . he quotes Jiminy Cricket and carries a .38. He’s a literate, wise-creacking Vietnam vet who is determined never to grow up.The blonde who walked into Cole’s office was the best looking woman he’d seen in weeks. The only thing that kept her from rating a perfect “10” was the briefcase on one arm and the... Read more

Blueberry Muffin Murder

By: Joanne Fluke

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Bakery owner Hannah Swensen is back—and the cookies are crumbling—as acclaimed author Joanne Fluke serves readers another helping of murder, mayhem, and mouthwatering mystery …Preparations are underway for Lake Eden, Minnesota’s annual Winter Carnival—and Hannah Swensen is set to bake up a storm at her popular shop, The Cookie Jar. Too bad the... Read more

Witness to the Truth

By: Paul Lindsay

Narrated by: Robert Lawrence

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An FBI agent nabs an armed-and-dangerous drug dealer single-handedly. His reward: an angry reprimand for neglecting to call in for backup. Welcome to today's FBI, where crime fighting takes a backseat to brown-nosing and backbiting -unless you happen to be Special Agent Mike Devlin. A streetwise veteran of Detroit's downtown war zone, Devlin... Read more

Not Dead Enough - Abridged

By: Peter James

Narrated by: Neil Pearson

Length: 4 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he's found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award winning crime author Peter James, read by actor Neil Pearson.

A beautiful socialite is dead. Roy Grace’s leading suspect, her husband, was sixty miles away when she died, but all other evidence points to him. Has... Read more

Losing You

By: Nicci French

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s Nina Landry’s birthday, and she’s supposed to have her kids ready to leave in a few hours for a Christmas holiday in Florida with her new boyfriend, but her fifteen-year-old daughter Charlie spent the night at a friend’s and hasn’t come home yet. Not by ten a.m., not by eleven. Nina is getting angry—they have a plane to catch, and Charlie... Read more

Forgery of Venus

By: Michael Gruber

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Chaz Wilmot makes his living cranking out old-master parodies for ads and magazine covers. When he's offered a job restoring a Venetian palace fresco, he is at first, skeptical—he immediately sees it is more a forgery than a restoration. But he is soon seduced by the challenge and throws himself into the work, doing the job brilliantly.This feat... Read more

Wit's End

By: Karen Joy Fowler

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"[A] delightful and eccentric new tale"(The Boston Globe) from the author of the runaway bestseller The Jane Austen Book Club

In Karen Joy Fowler's newest novel, the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club once again delivers top-notch storytelling, creating characters both oddball and endearing in a voice that is utterly and memorably... Read more

Infected

By: Scott Sigler

Narrated by: Scott Sigler

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.

Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing... Read more

The Finder

By: Colin Harrison

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times lauds him as "a master of mood and atmosphere," and Publishers Weekly crows... Read more

Belfast confidential

By: Colin Bateman

Narrated by: Adam Moore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

They say moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. Well, as far as Dan Starkey's concerned, 'they' can stick it where the sun don't shine because right now helping his wife with the unpacking is the least of his worries... No sooner than Dan has moved into his new Belfast home, his best mate, Mouse, is murdered - leaving him... Read more

French Pressed

By: Cleo Coyle

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Clare’s daughter, Joy, is immersing herself in the foodie culture with an internship at Solange, one of New York’s hottest French restaurants—and she’s getting pretty intimate with the older, married Chef Tommy Keitel as well. Clare’s not buzzed about the relationship, but what twenty-something takes romantic advice from her mother? Resolved to... Read more