Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Cement Garden

By: Ian McEwan

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the world's most acclaimed novelists, New York Times best-selling author Ian McEwan has earned the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. A tour de force of stunning power, The Cement Garden is a beautiful yet disturbing look at the psychology of childhood. After their parents die, four children are left alone in the... Read more

7th Heaven

By: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.

As fire after fire consume couples in... Read more

Close To Home

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Ron Keith

Length: 16 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Robinson is the critically acclaimed New York Times, LA Times, and London Sunday Times best-selling author of the Inspector Alan Banks series, as well as a winner of the 2001 Anthony and 2001 Ellis Awards, and Le Grand Prix de LittErature PoliciEre. Close to Home traverses the difficult landscapes of a painful past-and an uncertain future... Read more

Cardington Crescent

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Pitt's sister, Emily, has been accused of murdering her wayward but wealthy husband. Now Charlotte and police inspector Thomas Pitt must breach a formidable uppercrust barrier to prove Emily's innocence. Anne Perry's Victorian mysteries are rich and suspenseful journeys into a world filled with impeccable manners and intrigue. Read more

Copper River

By: William Kent Krueger

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

William Kent Krueger has won two Anthony Awards for his gripping Cork O'Connor mysteries. Set in remote areas of the northwest, each book in the series launches the Minnesota lawman into challenges that push his endurance to new limits. Part Irish, part Native-American, Sheriff Cork O'Connor serves the remote territory of Tamarack County,... Read more

7th Heaven - Abridged

By: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.

As fire after fire consume couples in... Read more

Sensitive New Age Spy

By: Geoffrey McGeachin

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

All Alby wants is a decent coffee and a day off. But there's a hijacked tanker with a deadly cargo in Sydney Harbour, and bullets are flying on board a US Navy cruiser. Three sailors are dead and a Seahawk chopper is missing. Who's behind the mayhem? Why is the government intent on shutting down Alby's investigation? What's the connection to the... Read more

Fiddle Game

By: Richard A. Thompson

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Herman Jackson has chosen St. Paul as his place of permanent exile from Detroit, where his former life as a bookie got too hot to hold. Now he leads a respectable life as a bail bondsman, while looking over his shoulder.When a young woman leaves him an antique violin as security for her brother’s bail bond, it’s really the beginning of an... Read more

Desert Cut

By: Betty Webb

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Arizona is still a wicked frontier.While scouting locations for a film documentary on Arizona's Apache Wars, private investigator Lena Jones and Oscar-winning director Warren Quinn discover the mutilated body of a young girl. The gruesome manner of the child's death evokes memories of Lena's own rough childhood.Clashing with the local law,... Read more

The Cherry Sundae Company

By: Isla Dewar

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

You have to bide your time when you live a life of crime. That's what we discovered when we founded The Cherry Sundae Company. It seemed to us there was only so much money in the world and some people had too much. Others hadn't enough. You could say we were vigilantes.' Read more

Fatal Attraction

By: Carol Smith

Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When Rose sees Joe in an Oxford bar, it is instant infatuation. He is everything that turns her on: gifted musician, wit and high achiever. In her mind, at least, they are ideally matched. But Joe has no intention of settling down. All Rose will ever be to him is part of his student past. Instead he embarks on a dazzling career which takes him... Read more

The Vagabond Virgins

By: Ken Kuhlken

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In the weeks before the 1979 Mexican elections, San Diego PI Alvaro Hickey is checking the stories that Baja California campesinos are spreading about visits from the Holy Virgin, one who has definite political preferences. Though Alvaro doubts that this visitor is divine, he’s firmly on her side. Then, Lourdes Shuler asks him to unite her with... Read more

The Black Book of Secrets

By: F.E. Higgins

Narrated by: James Daniel Wilson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Ludlow Fitch's parents cruelly betray him, he steals away to the country. He arrives in a remote village, where he meets the tall and limping figure of Joe Zabbidou - a pawnbroker with a difference. For Joe trades secrets, not goods. Employed as Joe's assistant, Ludlow records the villagers' fiendish confessions in an ancient leather-bound... Read more

The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family of Salem. The greed and haughty pride of the Pyncheon family through the generations is mirrored in... Read more

Blood Red Roses

By: Lin Anderson

Narrated by: Cathleen McCarron

Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dr Rhona MacLeod mystery.A hen night in Glasgow leaves the bride-to-be dead on a toilet floor. Her body is twisted, her face wears a terrifying grin. Who would kill a girl just before her wedding? Read more

Whipping Boy

By: Gabrielle Lord

Narrated by: Richard Aspel

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When high-flying Sydney lawyer Cass Meredith is appointed head of a state inquiry into a child pornography racket, she sees it as an opportunity to clean up the city. But she doesn't count on ex-Vice Squad detective John Carrigan - with his reputation for taking bribes and liking underage girls - being made her second-in-command. Loveday Larsen,... Read more

Undertow

By: Sydney Bauer

Narrated by: Bill Ten Eyck

Length: 15 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Following an alleged conversation between respected attorney Rayna Martin and teenager Christina Hayes, one of them is dead, the other arrested for their murder. Boston lawyer David Cavanaugh faces his toughest case to date when what appears to be a tragic accident turns into something else entirely. David soon finds that his most dangerous... Read more

I Predict a Riot

By: Colin Bateman

Narrated by: Adam Moore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Walter has a rubbish job, so has Margaret. But when they meet through a dating agency, neither is who they seem. Margaret's married for a start and Walter's encounter with her husband Billy leaves him black and blue. Billy's a dodgy accountant for politician and racketeer Pink Harrison, who is about to come unstuck. Superintendent James Mallow... Read more

The Rubber Woman

By: Lindsay Ashford

Narrated by: Cait Davis

Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

The world of Cardiff's sex trade hits the headlines when a woman is butchered and left for dead. Pauline distributes condoms to the women of the red light district and is known locally as 'the rubber woman'. She and Megan, a forensic psychologist, make it their mission to stop more women becoming victims. They don't know it yet, but one of them... Read more

The Blue Hen

By: Des Dillon

Narrated by: Des Dillon

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The closing down of the steelworks meant the end of being in work - but John and his pal don't intend it to be the end. 'Keep hens! That's the answer.' Read more

Mother's Day

By: Patricia MacDonald

Narrated by: David Stuart

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Sweethearts since high school, Karen and Greg Newhall have lived in Bayland, Massachusetts, all their lives. They trust each other. They know their neighbors. Bayland had been the perfect place to raise their adopted daughter, Jenny. Then a young girl is found dead in the nearby woods, and everything changes. Thirteen-year-old Jenny fails to... Read more

Rage of Angels

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Jennifer Parker, a brilliant and beautiful young lawyer, survives shattering career setbacks to become one of the most successful defense attorneys in America. Jennifer's strength and beauty win the love of two powerful men but earn her the implacable hatred of a third. Adam Warner, a man of integrity born to lead his country, is tied by honor... Read more

Bring It Back Home

By: Niall Griffiths

Narrated by: Wayne Forester

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Chased by a hit-man, a young man returns home from London to a small town in Wales. Reconciliation with his family is alternated with his pursuer's progress. A long criminal connection is revealed, but can he escape the sins of his fathers? This is a tense, tightly written drama that will captivate the listener with fast, gut-wrenching action. Read more

Death of a Gentle Lady

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Gentle by name, gentle by nature. Everyone in the sleepy Scottish town of Lochdubh adores elderly Mrs. Gentle—everyone but Hamish Macbeth, that is. Hamish thinks the gentle lady is quite sly and vicious, and the citizens of Lochdubh think he is overly cranky. Perhaps it’s time for him to get married, they say.But who has time for marriage when... Read more