Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Enemy Within - Abridged

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: David Purdham

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a black man is shot multiple times in the back on the streets of New York by an NYPD golden boy, chaos erupts throughout the city. And in an election year no one feels the pressure more than the men and women who vow to protect and to serve. For Butch Karp -- Chief Assistant District Attorney for New York County -- bullet holes aren't the... Read more

The Manhattan Hunt Club - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Lee Meriwether

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The acknowledged master of psychological suspense and heart-stopping terror, New York Times bestselling author John Saul now invites you to descend to chilling new depths of darkness--and discover a secret, savage world that exists beneath our very feet.

The promising future of New York City college student Jeff Converse has suddenly been... Read more

The Victim in Victoria Station

By: Jeanne M. Dams

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Dorothy Martin's husband, a local police inspector, is out of town. On a trip to London for a doctor's appointment, Dorothy talks to a young man who, by the time the train reaches Victoria Station, is very dead. No one seems to think anything is amiss and the man who told her he was a doctor and would take care of everything seems to have done... Read more

Murderers' Row

By: Otto Penzler, Robert B. Parker, Michael Malone,...

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Seven original baseball short stories in the mystery and murder genres, written by an all-star lineup of writers, each of whom understands the game's lore and tactical nuances as well as its deep roots in American life. Compiled by Otto Penzler, the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York City and regarded as the world's foremost... Read more

Murderers' Row

By: K.C. Constantine, Max Allan Collins, Lawrence B...

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of seven original baseball short stories written by an all-star lineup of writers— each of whom understands the game's lore and tactical nuances, as well as its deep roots in American life— mystery and murder take the mound. Compiled by Otto Penzler— the proprietor of The Mysterious Bookshop... Read more

The Music of the Spheres - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Redfern

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the London of 1795, intrigue and death walk the dark streets. England is at war with its neighbor and nemesis, France, and espionage is rampant. It is the job of Jonathan Absey at the Home Office to catch these spies, but his mind is elsewhere, his dreams haunted by the still unsolved murder of his fifteen-year-old daughter on these same... Read more

Under the Color of Law - Abridged

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: David Purdham

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

He's returned to Santa Fe, newly installed as police chief, when a U.S. ambassador's estranged wife is found murdered in her multimillion-dollar home. Before he can mount a proper investigation, an FBI anti-terrorism team arrives, takes control of the inquiry, and forces Kerney to watch from the sidelines as the crime scene is sanitized,... Read more

A Traitor to Memory - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Eugenie Davies is killed by a driver on a quiet London street, her death is clearly no accident. Someone struck her with a car and then deliberately ran over her body before driving off, leaving nothing behind but questions.

What brought Eugenie Davies to London on a rainy autumn night? Why was she carrying the name of the man who found her... Read more

P Is For Peril

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Kinsey Millhone never sees it coming. She is mired in the case of a doctor who disappeared, his angry ex-wife, and beautiful current one–a case that is full of unfinished business, unfinished homes, and people drifting in and out of their own lives. Then Kinsey gets a shock. A man she finds attractive is hiding a fatal secret–and now a whole lot... Read more

Brazen Virtue - Abridged

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Villa and Carolina Moon, comes a classic tale — a searing novel of twisted passion and lethal cunning.

Superstar mystery novelist Grace McCabe needs to unwind after a grueling book tour, and visiting her sister, whom she hasn't seen in months, seems the perfect solution. But... Read more

Yeats is Dead! - Abridged

By: Various

Narrated by: Ciaran O'Reilly

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: Yes

Fifteen of Ireland’s brightest and most entertaining authors came together to benefit Amnesty International–resulting in this raucous, raunchy, and diabolically entertaining mulligan stew of a novel. 

Yeats is Dead! is an elaborate mystery centered around the search for something more valuable and precious than anything else in Ireland–an... Read more

P Is For Peril - Abridged

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Dowan Purcell had been missing for nine weeks when Kinsey got a call asking her to take on the case. A specialist in geriatric medicine, Purcell was a prominent member of the Santa Theresa medical community, and the police had done a thorough job. Purcell had no known enemies and seemed content with his life. At the time of his... Read more

Bitterroot - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland,... Read more

Final Target - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 5 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The President’s daughter...
The women determined to save her...
The man with the power to betray a nation...

Melissa Riley arrives at her sister’s isolated Virginia country home to find herself plunged into a deadly drama. There the renowned Dr. Jessica Riley is attempting to draw the daughter of the President of the United States out of a severe... Read more

The Cold Six Thousand

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 24 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential, White Jazz, American Tabloid... James Ellroy's high-velocity, best-selling novels have redefined noir for our age, propelling us within inches of the dark realities of America's recent history. Now, in The Cold Six Thousand, his most ambitious and explosive novel yet, he puts the whole of the... Read more

The Last Camel Died at Noon

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters brings back nineteenth-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in this delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and her precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched... Read more

Seduction By Design

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Jenna Stern

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sandra Brown, author of more than forty New York Times bestsellers, explores how an ambitious executive-whose lonely personal life clashes with her career success-discovers that the business of love means taking the biggest risks of all.
SEDUCTION by DESIGN
Hailey Ashton projects an image that she's on top of everything, but no one realizes... Read more

Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

Diplomatic Immunity - Abridged

By: Grant Sutherland

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Diplomatic immunity, n: freedom from arrest ... and submission to police regulations usually accorded by international law to diplomatic agents
-- Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language

From the most exciting writer of international thrillers since Robert Ludlum comes a riveting tale of intrigue that takes us... Read more

The Blue Nowhere - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Jeffery Deaver, bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil's Teardrop, delivers a masterful thriller about a psychotic computer hacker/killer. Set in Silicon Valley, full of stunning—and fact-based—technical details, The Blue Nowhere is Deaver for the 21st Century.

His code name is Phate—a sadistic computer hacker who infiltrates... Read more

The Sacrifice

By: William X. Kienzle

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

EXPLOSIVE OFFERINGS

Precisely when the solemn ceremony receiving renegade Episcopal priest Father George Wheatley into the Roman Catholic priesthood is set to begin, a bomb explodes under the altar. Fortunately Father Wheatley arrives late, but poor old Father Farmer dies in the tragedy.

Father Wheatley’s switch to the Roman church has certainly... Read more

Bad News

By: Donald E. Westlake

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

“I’m a robber,” John Dortmunder says, “not a grave robber.” Yet he soon finds himself in a Long Island cemetery with dirt up to his knees. His old friend Andy Kelp is to blame—Andy and the Internet. For it was while ambling on the Net that Kelp met up with master manipulator Fitzroy Guilderpost and his nefarious companions, the flunked teacher... Read more

Resort to Murder

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Henrietta Collins's talent for troubleshooting and her zest for life are much needed at a family gathering in Bermuda, where murder prowls the halls of a luxury hotel. Henrie O has come to the island with her grandchildren for the remarriage of their father, Lloyd Drake. He plans to marry Connor Bailey, a beautiful widow with a dark past and a... Read more

Death in Holy Orders

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The setting itself is elemental P. D. James: the bleak coast of East Anglia, where atop a sweep of low cliffs stands the small theological college of St. Anselm’s. On the shore not far away, smothered beneath a fall of sand, lies the body of one of the school’s young ordinands. He is the son of Sir Alred Treves, a hugely successful and... Read more