Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nothing but the Truth - Abridged

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the stakes have never been higher.

Dismas knows his wife,... Read more

The Lawnmower Man

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "The Lawnmower Man," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Graveyard Shift

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

A Time to Kill

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling  author John Grisham probes the savage depths of  racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale  of uncertain justice in a small southern  town...

Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a  ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and  remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts  with... Read more

Vittorio the Vampire

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER •With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio... Read more

The Vampire Armand

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel.... Read more

Gray Matter

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Gray Matter" from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

No Safe Place - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying.

Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that... Read more

Trevayne - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Fearless and incorruptible, Andrew Trevayne is a self-made millionaire, former undersecretary of state, and current head of one of the nation’s most prestigious foundations. Now, at the express wish of the president, Trevayne undertakes an investigation into the “secret government”—and is soon swept up in a tidal wave of intrigue and danger.... Read more

The Emperor's General - Abridged

By: James Webb

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Captain Jay Marsh had never questioned where his ultimate loyalty lay. He had witnessed the bloody horror left behind by the retreating Japanese army during World War II's final days. And he had abandoned his beautiful Filipina fiancée to see his duty through.

But not even Marsh could guess the terrible personal price he would have to pay for his... Read more

Degree of Guilt - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her attorney, Christopher Paget, sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, it is Paget who will be surprised...by Mary's secret... Read more

Dark Lady - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.

In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One... Read more

Black Light - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . .

On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child.  His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out.  And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was... Read more

B Is for Burglar - Abridged

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie  case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last  seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her  condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But  somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case  goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is  torched, an apartment is burgled of... Read more

The Plague Tales - Abridged

By: Ann Benson

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a... Read more

The Lost World: A Novel - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has... Read more

Los Alamos - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who... Read more

Final Judgment - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Lisa Banes

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found 22-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime; the weapon covered with her fingerprints.

Caroline has doubts of her own about Brett's innocence. But... Read more