Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Gone for Soldiers - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: George Hearn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

In... Read more

Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Delia Jamison is a gorgeous woman of a certain age and at the pinnacle of her career as anchor of a network news show in Los Angeles. But she is being blackmailed by someone she is certain is one of her former lovers. Terrified to go to the police for fear the story will leak and cause a scandal, Delia's at her wit's end when she accidentally... Read more

John Le Carre Value Collection - Abridged

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The collection is sure to please avid LeCarre fans and new listeners alike.

Includes: Night Manager, Tailor of Panama, and Our Game

Night Manager
Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is... Read more

Harm Done - Abridged

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Christopher Ravenscroft

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family and neighbors had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Never an articulate child, between her confusion and amnesia she could not plausibly describe where she'd been or why she'd been away. Soon after, a convicted pedophile is released back... Read more

Be the One - Abridged

By: April Smith

Narrated by: Linda Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of North of Montana ("The writing has the taut, perfect tone of a well-tuned string"--Scott Turow), a spellbinding new thriller about ambition taken to unexpected, and deadly, extremes.

Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers--the only female scout in the major leagues. Hard-living and hard-drinking, a gifted... Read more

Omerta - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and... Read more

Over the Edge - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is... Read more

A Dangerous Fortune - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath... Read more

Icon - Abridged

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines.

It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy.  An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption,... Read more

Flower Net - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.

Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's  is underscored.

In the depths of a... Read more

City of Light - Abridged

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.

Louisa Barrett has made... Read more

A Sudden Change of Heart - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Margaret Whitton

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From master storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a magnificent new novel, a powerful, moving story of two women, two families, and an extraordinary friendship challenged by tragedy and a devastating secret from the past....

Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best friend....

Nothing hurts like the truth.  A truth that has... Read more

Where You Belong - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Barbara Taylor Bradford's unique blend of passion and intrigue has made her one of the most cherished storytellers in the world. Her new novel is vintage Bradford: a powerful, suspenseful story of one woman's search to find out where she belongs, in life, in love, and within herself....

Where You Belong

Val Denning, a willowy war photographer,... Read more

The Alibi - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Born into a fine old Charleston family, Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney-without sacrificing his integrity. Prosecuting the sensational murder of real estate magnate Lute Pettijohn could be his ticket into the office. Yet while Hammond anticipates his success, someone near him is plotting his downfall--

Steffi... Read more

Fat Tuesday - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's latest romantic thriller is set against the lively and decadent backdrop of New Orleans--where, to avenge the acquittal of his partner's murderer, a policeman kidnaps the defense lawyer's wife. Read more

Unspeakable - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Gary Cole

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carl Herbold enjoys being bad. After all, he is terrifyingly good at it. Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers. And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a fellow inmate and is on his way back to where he... Read more

The Devil's Workshop - Abridged

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Stephen J. Cannell

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams.  In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons lab known as the Devil's... Read more

L.A. Requiem - Abridged

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Terrific entertainment . . . A powerful portrait of Los Angeles in our time: swift, colorful, gripping, a real knockout.”—Dean Koontz

The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same... Read more

The Grilling Season - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a Hallmark Mystery Curious Caterer Original Movie

“Davidson is today’s foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit.”—Entertainment Weekly

Caterer Goldy Schulz has been hired to host a hockey party. But the proceedings won’t be all fun and games. Unfortunately, her client won’t be satisfied until Goldy adds a... Read more

Tough Cookie - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Hallmark Mystery Curious Caterer Original Movies

“A surprisingly tart and savory reading experience.”—The Washington Post Book World

When caterer Goldy Schulz is offered a temporary stint hosting a cooking show for PBS, she jumps at the chance. After all, she could use the money—not to... Read more

Vertical Run - Abridged

By: Joseph R. Garber

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A breathless read” (USA Today) featuring “some of the most ingenious military-techno twists this side of Tom Clancy” (San Francisco Chronicle).
 
David Elliot is about to have a very bad day at the office.

Each morning in his forty-fifth floor executive suite, David savors the quiet moments before the workday begins.... Read more

For the Sake of Elena - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge—where Elena was a student at St. ... Read more

A Great Deliverance - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To this day, the low, thin wail of an infant can be heard in Keldale's lush green valleys. Three hundred years ago, as legend goes, the frightened Yorkshire villagers smothered a crying babe in Keldale Abbey, where they'd hidden to escape the ravages of Cromwell's raiders.

Now into Keldale's pastoral web of old houses and older secrets comes... Read more

Payment in Blood - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly

The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in... Read more