Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

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 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

Sacred and Profane

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Los Angeles Police Detective Peter Decker had grown very close to Rina's young sons, Sammy and Jake, as he had to their mother, and he looked forward to spending a day of his vacation camping with the boys. A nice reprieve from the grueling work of a homicide cop-until Sammy stumbles upon a gruesome sight...Two human skeletons, charred beyond... 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

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

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

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

Beautiful Children - Abridged

By: Charles Bock

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

The Secret Between Us - Abridged

By: Barbara Delinsky

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Border Crossing

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

As Tom Seymour walks with his wife along the river Tyne, they see a young man jump from the jetty into the freezing water. Instinctively, Tom rescues him. But his act saves the life of Danny Miller, whose past, as well as whose future, will come to haunt Tom. Recently released from prison, and living under an assumed name, Danny was tried for... Read more

Blood Lure

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Anna Pigeon mysteries are a New York Times best-selling series. Each addition is eagerly anticipated by fans of its award-winning author Nevada Barr, who uses her experience as a park ranger to create stunningly authentic details. Blood Lure takes Park Ranger Anna Pigeon high into Glacier Park and deep into a grisly murder case. Anna has... Read more

The Bookwoman's Last Fling

By: John Dunning

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In another enthralling bestseller by "master yarn spinner" John Dunning, rare book dealer and relentless private eye Cliff Janeway unravels a deadly plot marked by stolen classics and stable secrets. When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who... Read more

Bones to Pick

By: Carolyn Haines

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Mississippi native Carolyn Haines writes spicy mysteries teeming with all the eccentricities of Southern society. Bones to Pick continues the adventures of sassy P.I. Sarah Booth Delaney. Quentin McGee, author of a sensational exposE, has been murdered, and her lover Allison is charged with the crime. Sarah is hired to find the real culprit, but... Read more

Bubbles in Trouble

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bubbles Yablonsky is in trouble. Her exposé of corruption in Lehigh's social heights has infuriated the local paper's editor, so she's still a fulltime hairdresser and only an occasional reporter. Her freeloading ex is back on her sofa after his socialite wife threw him out, her daughter's in love, and her mother thinks she's Jackie Onassis.... Read more

Bubbles Unbound

By: Sarah Strohmeyer

Narrated by: Barbara McCulloh

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

She may be a hairdresser with the body of a Barbie doll and a fatal weakness for hot pants, but Bubbles Yablonsky is not just another dumb blonde. She's determined to turn her taste for gossip into a talent for journalism, and she knows a secret about the death of Laura Buchman that could be her Big Break.Plus, she gets to work with photographer... Read more

Blood Hollow

By: William Kent Krueger

Narrated by: David Chandler

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Multiple Anthony Award winner William Kent Krueger returns to Minnesota's North Woods country for another chilling entry in his Cork O'Connor series. In this thrilling mystery, former sheriff Cork O'Connor confronts the paranormal while investigating baffling murders. After 17-year-old Charlotte Kane-the beautiful, brilliant, and brooding... Read more

Biggie and the Devil Diet

By: Nancy Bell

Narrated by: Spike McClure

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Nancy Bell's popular mystery series combines colorful characters, a small-town setting, down-home Texas humor- and one of the most wildly misnamed sleuths in the genre. A diminutive, shrewd grandmother, "Biggie" Weatherford is an amateur detective and professional collector of gossip. In Biggie and the Devil Diet, she investigates a murder at a... Read more

Capitol Conspiracy

By: William Bernhardt

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Oklahoma defense attorney Ben Kincaid has found himself smack in the middle of more than a few controversies and deadly predicaments–and the unexpected leap from his modest Tulsa law offices to Washington, D.C.’s Senate chamber hasn’t taken the edge off Ben’s knack for stepping into the line of fire. Now the idealistic junior senator is plunged... Read more

Three Shirt Deal

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 9 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Truit Hickman is a small-time crook doing life in California’s notoriously brutal Corcoran State Prison for the murder of his mother. He admitted to the crime, but now Hickman claims his confession was coerced by the cops. A beautiful Internal Affairs detective, Secada “Scout” Llevar, asks Shane to help investigate, and he agrees after learning... Read more