Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Darkness and Light

By: John Harvey

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Inspector Frank Elder's first case was unsolved. A dead woman, lying on a bed, immaculately dressed. The murderer was never found - free to kill again. Eight years later, Elder's estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friend's sister Claire has mysteriously disappeared. Elder reluctantly agrees to help. Then Claire is... Read more

The Fifth Woman

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders. Holger Eriksson, a retired car dealer and bird watcher, is impaled on sharpened bamboo poles... Read more

The Deep Blue Alibi

By: Paul Levine

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

They are Florida’s most mismatched legal duo: one a glamorous Miami blue blood, the other a Coconut Grove beach bum. And when they get together, you can throw every law right out the window.What do you get when you mix beautiful people, family secrets, and a yacht washed up on Sunset Key with a hundred grand in cash and a dying man? Steve... Read more

The Company

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 41 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. Master of the espionage thriller Robert Littell has crafted a breathtaking story of the legendary CIA—""The Company"" to insiders—and a spectacular mole hunt that involves Mossad, MI6, and the KGB.The Company tells the thrilling story of agents imprisoned in... Read more

Hornblower and the "Hotspur"

By: C Forester

Narrated by: Nicolas Coster

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Only twenty-seven years old, Horatio Hornblower has distinguished himself as a capable and intrepid officer in the Royal Navy. On a reconnaissance mission with the Hotspur, a three-masted frigate under his command, Hornblower and his crew narrowly avoid capture by their French adversaries, but the danger is not over. In the meantime, misgivings... Read more

The Company - Abridged

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Crisis constantly lurks around the corner, monitored by spies who are always with us. In this breathtaking thriller, a spectacular mole hunt is under way, one that involves not just the CIA—"The Company" to insiders—but Mossad, MI6, and the KGB as well. Robert Littell, master of the espionage novel, has crafted an exciting story of agents... Read more

A Christmas Beginning

By: Anne Perry

Narrated by: Terrence Hardiman

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Superintendent Runcorn—who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss—is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when the sister of the local vicar is discovered murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's... Read more

Murder on K Street

By: Margaret Truman

Narrated by: Phil Gigante

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner, senior Illinois senator Lyle Simmons discovers his wife’s brutally bludgeoned body. And like any savvy politician with presidential aspirations, his first move is to phone his attorney. In this case, it’s his old friend and college roommate, former DA Philip Rotondi, who gamely agrees to step out of... Read more

Mister B. Gone

By: Clive Barker

Narrated by: Doug Bradley

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“Think of a darker, more aggressive version of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters. . . . Filled with wicked mischief and dark dares.” — Kansas City StarFrom Clive Barker, the great master of horror and the macabre, comes a brilliant and truly unsettling tour de force of the supernatural—a terrifying work that escorts the reader on an intimate and... Read more

Protect and Defend

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp is on a collision course with America’s most feared enemy in this white-knuckle thriller from “the best pure adrenaline-charged action writer out there” (The Providence Journal) and #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin.

No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its... Read more

Eternity in Death

By: J. D. Robb

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When club-hopping bad girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her plush Manhattan apartment, the killing has all the earmarks of a vampire attack. The ever-practical Lieutenant Eve Dallas has to deal with superstitious cops carrying garlic and stakes, as well as the ever-hysterical press. None of the wealthy young victim’s friends seem to know much... Read more

The Quiet Girl

By: Peter Høeg

Narrated by: James Gale

Length: 14 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve... Read more

Zugzwang

By: Ronan Bennett

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Zugzwang: A chess term used to describe a position in which a player is reduced to utter helplessness–he is obliged to move, but every move serves to make his position even worse.

The year is 1914, and St. Petersburg is spellbound by the international chess championship, even as the city seethes with revolutionary plots. One blustery April day, a... Read more

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: Unabridged Selections From The Frontier Stories, Volume 5

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer – who The Wall Street Journal recently compared with... Read more

The Race

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 13 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.

Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce... Read more

Protect and Defend - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Armand Schultz

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp is on a collision course with America’s most feared enemy in this white-knuckle thriller from “the best pure adrenaline-charged action writer out there” (The Providence Journal) and #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin.

No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its... Read more

The Race - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Michael Boatman

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Can an honest man become president? In The Race, this timely and provocative novel from bestselling author Richard North Patterson, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics.

Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio—is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce... Read more

The Ghost

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.

The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the... Read more

The Last Noel

By: Heather Graham

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

With a storm paralyzing New England, the O’Boyle household becomes prey to a pair of brutal escaped killers desperate to find refuge. Skyler O’Boyle is convinced the only way they can live through the night is by playing a daring psychological game to throw the convicts off their guard. Threatened by a pair of Smith & Wessons, she has to... Read more

Darkness Falls

By: Kyle Mills

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Erin Neal has been living a secluded life in the Arizona desert since the death of his girlfriend and he isn't happy when an oil company executive comes calling. A number of important Saudi oil wells have stopped producing and Erin is the world's foremost expert in resolving just these kinds of complications. Erin quickly finds himself stuck in... Read more

Now & Then

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Spenser knows something’s amiss the moment Dennis Doherty walks into his office. The guy’s aggressive yet wary, in the way men frightened for their marriages always are. So when Doherty asks Spenser to investigate his wife Jordan’s abnormal behavior, Spenser agrees. A job’s a job, after all.

Not surprisingly, Spenser catches Jordan with another... Read more

The Eight

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 25 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1972–A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious offer: He has an anonymous client... Read more

The Ghost - Abridged

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Roger Rees

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Imperium comes The Ghost Writer, an extraordinarily auspicious thriller of power, politics, corruption, and murder—now a major motion picture starring Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.

The role of a ghostwriter is to make his client look good, not to uncover the truth. But what happens when the... Read more

The Eight - Abridged

By: Katherine Neville

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York City, 1972—A dabbler in mathematics and chess, Catherine Velis is also a computer expert for a Big Eight accounting firm. Before heading off to a new assignment in Algeria, Cat has her palm read by a fortune-teller. The woman warns Cat of danger. Then an antiques dealer approaches Cat with a mysterious offer: He has an anonymous client... Read more