Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

Winter Study - Abridged

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is January, and Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent to Isle Royale in Lake Superior to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have its own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She’s lodging in the island’s bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two... Read more

Freedomland - Abridged

By: Richard Price

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1998, Richard Price returned to the gritty urban landscape of his national bestseller Clockers to produce Freedomland, a searing and unforgettable novel about a hijacked car, a missing child, and an embattled neighborhood polarized by racism, distrust, and accusation.  Freedomland hit bestseller lists from coast to coast, including those of... Read more

Road to Nowhere - Abridged

By: Paul Robertson

Narrated by: Greg Whalen

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For years, Wardsville, North Carolina, sat nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a peaceful small town. The kind of place where neighbors care for each other. But that's until unexpected funding arrives to build a road into town. Suddenly, this quiet town becomes torn in two, with everybody looking first to their own interests,... Read more

The Zebra-Striped Hearse - Abridged

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Edward Asner, Kathryn Harrold, Jennifer Tilly, ...

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Celebrated private eye Lew Archer is hired by a father intent on preventing the marriage of his daughter to a penniless and possibly murderous artist. The chase takes Archer from Mexico to Lake Tahoe and from the San Francisco Bay area to Los Angeles as more than one murder crowds the investigation. Read more

Lucky You - Abridged

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Edward Asner

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Grange, Florida, is famous for its miracles--the weeping fiberglass Madonna, the Road-Stain Jesus, the stigmata man. And now it has JoLayne Lucks, unlikely winner of the state lottery.

Unfortunately, JoLayne's winning ticket isn't the only one. The other belongs to Bodean Gazzer and his raunchy sidekick, Chub, who believe they're entitled to the... Read more

Sick Puppy - Abridged

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: Edward Asner

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving... Read more

The Orpheus Deception

By: David Stone

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

CIA cleaner Micah Dalton returns for another go-round of the international espionage, government cover-ups, and high-intensity pursuit that have cemented this series in the best of spy fiction. Read more

The Bible of Clay

By: Julia Navarro

Narrated by: Shohreh Aghdashloo

Length: 20 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In St. Peter’s Basilica, a man sits in a confessional asking forgiveness for a murder he’s about to commit. And a young priest begins a desperate journey to stop him. . . .

It’s only the beginning of a ruthless race among the world’s most powerful to find a rumored cache of sacred texts inscribed with the story of Creation as told by Abraham.... Read more

Hollywood Crows

By: Joseph Wambaugh

Narrated by: Christian Rummel

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In a super follow-up to Hollywood Station, Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a darkly funny ride-along with a cast of flawed LAPD cops and eccentric lowlifes you won't forget.

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun.... Read more

Lost Souls

By: Lisa Jackson

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Kristi Bentz wants to write true crime. All she needs is that one case that will take her to the top. She finds it when she enrolls at All Saints College after learning that four girls have disappeared in less than two years. All four girls were "lost souls"—troubled, vulnerable girls with no one to care about them, no one to come looking for... Read more

The Sky Inside

By: Clare B. Dunkle

Narrated by: Bruce Turk

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin lives in a perfect world. Every year, a new generation of genetically-engineered children is shipped out to meet their parents. Every spring the residents of his town take down the snow they’ve stuck to their windows and put up flowers. Every morning his family gathers around their television and votes, like everyone else, for whatever... Read more

Smoke & Mirrors

By: John Ramsey Miller

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

One Shot . . . One Warning . . . And No End in Sight

The murder was shocking in its brutality: a thousand-yard high-velocity shot that left an innocent nineteen-year-old babysitter dead on a Mississippi plantation. At first, police called it a hunting accident. But the killer left a calling card—for ex–U.S. marshal Winter Massey. And when Massey... Read more

Compulsion

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware.

A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate... Read more

Compulsion - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once again, the depths of the criminal mind and the darkest side of a glittering city fuel #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman’s brilliant storytelling. And no one conducts a more harrowing and suspenseful manhunt than the modern Sherlock Holmes of the psyche, Dr. Alex Delaware.

A tipsy young woman seeking aid on a desolate... Read more

The Trench

By: Steve Alten

Narrated by: Bruce Reizen

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes listeners to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Now, in The Trench, Alten shows just how deep fear can run when you don’t know what lurks beneath the surface.…Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth, scalpel-sharp. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted... Read more

Charley's Web

By: Joy Fielding

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Joy Fielding tells the story of an ambitious journalist whose foray into the mind of a killer puts her own family in jeopardy.Charley Webb is a beautiful single mother who writes a successful and controversial column for the Palm Beach Post. She's spent years building an emotional wall against... Read more

Dead Heat

By: Joel C. Rosenberg

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

2009 Retailer's Choice Award winner!The stage is set for war. Oil prices are surging to record highs. A new dictator is rising in Iraq. China is threatening Taiwan. North Korean forces appear ready to strike south. Israel is feverishly trying to complete the Third Temple. And in the midst of a world ready to explode, American president James... Read more

Black Widow

By: Randy Wayne White

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

A cult of death.
A weapon of apocalyptic horror.
Juan Cabrillo must stop them both.

THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Some women you love.
Some women you hate.
Some women you survive.

Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette... Read more

The Dark Tide

By: Andrew Gross

Narrated by: Melissa Leo

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Zone comes this second mesmerizing thriller about a woman who must unravel the secrets from her dead husband's past.An explosion rips through New York City's Grand Central Station, destroying the train Karen Friedman's husband, a successful hedge fund manager, is riding in to work. On the... Read more

Freefall

By: Kristen Heitzmann

Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Freefall, a CBA best-seller by Christy Award winner Kristen Heitzmann, swirls with gripping suspense, heartstopping action, and blossoming romance. When an injured stranger staggers down a Hawaiian mountainside and into her backyard, Monica believes God has directed this mysterious young lady to her. But Monica's brother, an insurance fraud... Read more

The Final Warning - Abridged

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jill Apple

Length: 4 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it.

Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the... Read more

Close Call

By: John McEvoy

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Doyle, ex–amateur boxer and failed advertising account executive, returns to the world of thoroughbred horse racing when he is hired as publicity director for Monee Park, a struggling suburban Chicago track owned by heiress Celia McCann.McCann is determined to maintain the business, which was inherited from a beloved uncle. She finds... Read more