Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Night Magic - Abridged

By: Tom Tryon

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the bestselling author of The Other and Harvest Home...His Final Horror Classic!

Apprentice to an evil unknown.

In the bestselling tradition of Mary Reilly, the late Tom Tryon returns to the horror genre for one final triumph -- a spellbinding modern-day retelling of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

It happens in front of the Metropolitan Museum in... Read more

The Naked Face

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: William Roberts

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Hanson died quickly—with a knife in his back. Carole was next—tortured to death. Now Judd Stevens, a successful Manhattan psychoanalyst, must face a horrific prospect: someone is trying to kill him and he is being treated as the prime suspect. As two faceless executioners on a murderous mission continue their search for an unknown secret, Judd... Read more

Murder in America

By: John Breen, Mary Higgins Clark, William F. Nola...

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining collection by seven renowned American mystery writers— including Mary Higgins Clark and Whitley Strieber— this anthology offers a delightful mix of mystery, suspense, and murder. The stories include• “ Starstruck” by Jon L. Breen, read by James Stacy: A group of aging... Read more

The Love Talker

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

There might be worse fates than spending a few months at Idlewood, Laurie thought, as the Chicago winter howled around her. It was, after all, the the beloved family home where she found comfort and peace as a lonely young girl. Certainly her Aunt Ida's invitation was well intentioned, and she couldn't really have meant what she said: "I have... Read more

Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 24 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

Ill Wind

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Separated from friends and family and haunted by personal demons, park ranger Anna Pigeon finds solace in the quiet ruins of the Anasazi civilization of Colorado's Mesa Verde. But the rugged beauty of the park and the mystery of the Anasazi are cruelly overshadowed by danger and death. Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more... Read more

The Jackal’s Head

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Digging up a buried past could lead to a premature death, for there is a dangerous secret that is centuries old—as old as the treasure of Nefertiti.Althea Tomlinson comes back to Egypt as just another tourist, showing the country to a spoiled seventeen-year-old.That's what she tells herself, anyway.The truth is more complex—and dangerous. Ten... Read more

Ill Wind

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Separated from friends and family and haunted by personal demons, park ranger Anna Pigeon finds solace in the quiet ruins of the Anasazi civilization of Colorado's Mesa Verde. But the rugged beauty of the park and the mystery of the Anasazi are cruelly overshadowed by danger and death. Lately, visitors to Mesa Verde have been bringing home more... Read more

Iced

By: Carol Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

It's Christmas in Aspen, and P.I. Regan Reilly has come to ski and celebrate with her parents and their rich Aspen friends. As the snow falls, million-dollar paintings start to disappear, along with an old friend of Regan's—who happens to be an ex-con and reformed jewel thief. Regan may be the only person in town who believes he is innocent, but... Read more

Willy and Alvirah

By: Mary Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Crime just seems to follow lottery-winning couple Willy and Alvirah Meehan wherever they go. But now Alvirah can sleuth to her heart's content! In this collection of stories, the couple is targeted and pursued by ex-cons after winning the lottery in "Plumbing for Willy," they discover the body of actress Fiona Winter in their New York apartment... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel - Abridged

By: Baroness Orczy

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1792, during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror. An English aristocrat regarded as an ineffectual fop is actually a master of disguises who— with a small band of dedicated friends— undertakes dangerous missions to save members of the French nobility from the guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the... Read more

The Plan - Abridged

By: Stephen Cannell

Narrated by: Stephen J Cannell

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the aftermath of his son's death, TV reporter Ryan Bolt agrees to film a documentary about a lesser-known presidential contender. The assignment could salvage his damaged life and career, but soon he uncovers the candidate' s mafia connections. Bolt doesn't know whom he truly serves, and by the time he finds out, it may already be... Read more

Feast of July - Abridged

By: H. E. Bates

Narrated by: Embeth Davidtz

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bella Ford, aged 19 and inexperienced, is seduced by an older, married man and becomes pregnant. Jilted by her unscrupulous lover, Bella plans revenge and journeys to the place he told her he was from— a lie— and loses the baby during the journey. She is taken in by a family of shoemakers who help her restore her faith in... Read more

Black Eagles - Abridged

By: Larry Collins

Narrated by: Burt Reynolds

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

DEA agent Kevin Grady discovers that the CIA is turning a blind eye to drug smuggling by its allies— and CIA officer Jack Lind is at the center of this conspiracy. Lind allows Panamanian policeman Manuel Noriega to become the country's dictator, ignoring his ties to the Medellin cocaine cartel in order to use Panama as a base for an... Read more

East Beach - Abridged

By: Ron Ely

Narrated by: Ron Ely

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this thrilling sequel to Night Shadows, Jakes Sands finds volleyball to be a killer sport.After the double murder of his wife and child, Jake Sands gave up his lucrative career recovering stolen objects and missing people. Hoping to escape his past ties to Los Angeles, he moves to Santa Barbara, spending his days avoiding past friends and... Read more

Murder on the Glitter Box - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A murder mystery in which author and television personality Steve Allen finds himself a prime suspect! Creator and first host of The Tonight Show, entertainment legend Steve Allen is asked to stand in for Terry Cole, a late night talk-show host. Easy enough to be a substitute, thinks Allen, but little does he know that the vodka from the... Read more

The Lottery Winner - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jean Stapleton

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” returns with Alvirah Meehan—one of her most beloved characters—in these six dazzling, intertwined, and thrilling tales of sleuthing and suspense.

Together with her devoted mate, the ever-resourceful Alvirah has jumped into crime solving on a grand scale—and with her indomitable spirit and... Read more

Wild Horses - Abridged

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind, and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of and makes his last confession to his visiting film-director friend, Thomas Lyon, whom in his delirium he mistakes for a... Read more

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy.

This edition includes:
-A concise... Read more

Hollywood Kids - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wherever there's money and glamour, trouble can't be too far behind—in Hollywood Kids Jackie Collins takes her readers back to the Hollywood Hills for another absorbing page-turner of sex, ambition, and deadly revenge.

At the novel's core is the Hollywood Five, a clique of jaded twenty-somethings whose parents (all major players) thought that... Read more

Dixie City Jam - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.

It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New... Read more

The Butcher Boy - Abridged

By: Patrick Mccabe

Narrated by: Patrick Mccabe

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent.

Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to... Read more

Night Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

John Sandford's bestselling Lucas Davenport series continues with the fast-paced, compelling thriller, Night Prey. A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up... Read more

The Big Kill - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar.  Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone.  But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse.  By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys... Read more