Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

A Person of Interest

By: Susan Choi

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

With its propulsive drive, vividly realized characters, and profound observations about soul and society, Pulitzer Prize–finalist Susan Choi's novel is as thrilling as it is lyrical, and it confirms her place as one of the most important novelists chronicling the American experience.Lee is a math professor at a second-tier university in the... Read more

High Country

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for... Read more

Catch As Cat Can

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Never have two species co-created a work of such suspense and humorous catitude as the wildly popular mystery series by Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown. This time out, that agile-witted tiger puss Mrs. Murphy makes the round of parties where Virginia's Very Best People mingle with some of the worst. Together, she and her human must unravel a... Read more

Pawing Through the Past

By: Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling authors Rita Mae Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown are everybody's favorite human/feline writing team. In this warm-hearted puzzler, "Mary Minor Harry" Haristeen is preparing for her 20th high school reunion when trouble comes to the seemingly sleepy town of Crozet, Virginia. It all begins when classmates receive anonymous letters with a... Read more

Paragon Walk

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When a young woman from the upper class neighborhood of Paragon Walk is raped and murdered, Inspector Pitt is sent in on the case. Unable to believe that a killer could live among them, residents refuse to cooperate with the investigation. He soon finds that the polite society of Paragon Walk is nothing more than a mask for something much more... Read more

Full Cry

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Rita Mae Brown

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the third novel of her captivating foxhunting series, Rita Mae Brown welcomes readers back for a final tour of a world where most business is conducted on horseback-and stables are de rigueur for even the smallest of estates. Here, in the wealth-studded hills of Jefferson County, Virginia, even evil rides a mount. The all-important New Year's... Read more

Firestorm

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Accomplished storyteller Nevada Barr captivates fans with her tightly-woven plots, vibrant descriptions, and believable characters. In this thrilling mystery, her resourceful sleuth, middle-aged park ranger Anna Pigeon, travels to northern California where she joins the forces battling an out-of-control forest fire. Ever since a fire began... Read more

Murder, She Meowed

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

What do steeplechase, playing cards and daggers have in common? They all play vital roles in the intricately woven plot of Sneaky Pie and her human cohort Rita Mae Brown in this delightful mystery. While Mary "Harry" Haristeen and her cat, Mrs. Murphy attend the annual steeplechase at Montpelier, Mrs. Murphy discovers something amiss. During the... Read more

The Full Cupboard of Life

By: Alexander McCall Smith

Narrated by: Lisette Lecat

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith's critically acclaimed No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series continues in this engaging book that won the first ever Saga Award for Wit, given to the wittiest British book of the year. Mma Ramotswe has been engaged to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni for quite some time, yet still they have no wedding... Read more

Whisker of Evil

By: Sneaky Pie Brown & Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their heads-while frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as they curl their way around a cold-blooded killer. This balmy summer in Crozet, Virginia, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen has a lot to think about. Things... Read more

Cat's Eyewitness

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times best-selling Mrs. Murphy mysteries delight fans with an irresistible blend of suspense, engaging characters, and the entertaining high jinks of some quick-witted, four-legged friends. With more than two million copies in print, the series has made coauthors Rita Mae and Sneaky Pie Brown the most popular human/feline writing... Read more

Murder on the Prowl

By: Rita Mae Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Rita Mae Brown's feline mystery capers are New York Times best-sellers. In Murder on the Prowl, a fake obituary is printed in the local newspaper, and the people of Crozet, Virginia are quite dismayed. But when another fake obituary appears, quickly followed by a murder, Mrs. Murphy the sleuthing cat and her human friend "Harry" Haristeen find... Read more

Claws and Effect

By: Rita Mae Brown & Sneaky Pie Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling authors Rita Mae Brown and her cat, Sneaky Pie Brown, are beloved for their Mrs. Murphy mysteries. Set in the quiet town of Crozet, Virginia, each delightful book finds Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and the incomparably clever feline, Mrs. Murphy, caught up in a puzzling whodunit. In the middle of a particularly dull winter, nobody... Read more

Phantoms

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 14 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phantoms is gruesome and unrelenting…It’s well realized, intelligent, and humane.”—Stephen KingThey found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California.At first... Read more

The Reserve

By: Russell Banks

Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Part love story, part murder mystery, set on the cusp of the Second World War, Russell Banks' sharp-witted and deeply engaging new novel raises dangerous questions about class, politics, art, love, and madness-and explores what happens when two powerful personalities begin to break the rules.29-year-old Vanessa Cole is a wild, stunningly... Read more

The Appeal

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 12 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict or reverse it.
Who are... Read more

The Anatomy of Deception

By: Lawrence Goldstone

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the listener into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer.

In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful... Read more

The Anatomy of Deception - Abridged

By: Lawrence Goldstone

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A mesmerizing forensic thriller that thrusts the reader into the operating rooms, drawing rooms, and back alleys of 1889 Philadelphia, as a young doctor grapples with the principles of scientific process to track a daring killer

In the morgue of a Philadelphia hospital, a group of physicians open a coffin and uncover the corpse of a beautiful... Read more

Sleeping Beauty

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Sleeping Beauty plunges private detective Lew Archer into a fascinating and intricate case connected to a disastrous oil spill on the southern California coast. It leads Archer into a load of trouble involving ransom, a lethal dose of Nembutal, the death of a stranger found floating off shore, and three generations of the imposing Lennox family,... Read more

Key Lime Pie Murder

By: Joanne Fluke

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Hannah is busy juggling whipping up treats for the chamber of commerce booth at the Tri-County fair and judging the baking contest. But when Hannah discovers a fellow bake contest judge dead alongside an upended key lime pie, it's up to her to find the murderer before a carnival ride could be her last …It promises to be a busy week for Hannah... Read more

The Secret Between Us

By: Barbara Delinsky

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing will break this mother-daughter bond. Not even the truth.

Deborah Monroe and her daughter, Grace, are driving home from a party when their car hits a man running in the dark. Grace was at the wheel, but Deborah sends her home before the police arrive, determined to shoulder the blame for the accident. Her decision then turns into a... Read more

At the City's Edge

By: Marcus Sakey

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Home from Iraq and still reeling from his discharge, Jason Palmer plans to spend the summer drinking too much and chasing girls. But when his brother is brutally murdered, Jason is all that stands between his eight-year-old nephew and a pair of ruthless killers with a mysterious agenda. As he struggles to protect all that remains of his family,... Read more

The Chameleon's Shadow

By: Minette Walters

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

When British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, his serious head injuries are the outward manifestation of a profound inner change: he may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or it may be, as his psychiatrist suggests, "the prolonged destruction of a personality."

Though previously well adjusted and known as an... Read more

Beautiful Children

By: Charles Bock

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller by the author of the forthcoming novel Alice & Oliver | Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | A New York Times Notable Book
 
“One word: bravo.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“Truly powerful . . . Beautiful Children dazzles its readers on almost... Read more