Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Long After Midnight - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She wanted to save lives.  The killer wanted to end hers.

The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away.  The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood.  Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth:  She is somebody's target.

Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance.  And the gifted ... Read more

The Killing Game - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A merciless killer on the hunt...an innocent child in his sights...a woman driven to the edge to stop him...

The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she'll insist on identifying the nine... Read more

And Then You Die - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Iris Johansen is a master storyteller whose thrilling novels go straight to the heart of suspense.  Now the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Long After Midnight and The Ugly Duckling returns with her most nerve-shattering novel ever, a story of deadly greed and global terror.  

A seasoned photojournalist, Bess Grady has honed her... Read more

Time to Hunt - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself.  Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope.”—Nelson Demille, author of Mayday

He is the most dangerous man alive.  He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him. . . .

It's not going to happen.

Stephen Hunter's... Read more

Hannibal - Abridged

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Thomas Harris

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall.

In one of the most eagerly... Read more

The Pelican Brief - Abridged

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper  on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy  D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly  garroted to death... The next day America learns  that two of its Supreme Court justices have been  assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law  student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was  no... Read more

A Suitable Vengeance - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Ms. George proves that the classiest crime writers are true novelists.”—The New York Times

Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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