Mystery & Thriller audiobooks
Lion in the Valley
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Susan O’Malley
Length: 10 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The 1895–96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshur is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through... Read more
View audiobookDie for Love
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: No
The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a... Read more
View audiobookShock
By: Robin Cook
Narrated by: Kate Burton
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying... Read more
View audiobookSilent Snow
By: Steve Thayer
Narrated by: David Birney
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
In this sequel to the best-selling thriller The Weatherman, an investigative reporter embarks on a personal quest for justice and revenge.In the midst of a savage Minnesota blizzard, investigative reporter Rick Beanblossom receives an anonymous note— much like the one Charles Lindbergh and his family received when their infant son... Read more
View audiobookThe Scarlet Pimpernel
By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Narrated by: Roe Kendall
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its... Read more
View audiobookVengeance - Abridged
By: Stuart Kaminsky
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 5 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Three years ago, Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State's Attorney's office in Cook County, Illinois, and headed for Key West. Sidetracked by fate when his car broke down in Sarasota, Florida, he decided to stick around, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys. Asked to locate the missing wife... Read more
View audiobookThe Broken Hearts Club - Abridged
By: Ethan Black
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 6 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A banker with a smile that conceals a devilish impulse, a literary agent who is quick to anger, a mechanic with a desperate need to be liked, and a psychologist who keeps all their secrets— as well as his own— meet every week in the dingy back room of a New York City bar. These men have one thing in common: They all... Read more
View audiobookCat in an Indigo Mood - Abridged
By: Carole Douglas & Andrea Thompson
Narrated by: Robert Forster
Length: 2 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: Yes
At the Blue Dahlia, where homicide detective Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, she finds a dead woman lying in the parking lot. The words "she left" are spray-painted nearby. Soon, a second anonymous woman is found dead in another parking lot. Is a serial killer at work? Will the tough lieutenant have to resort to accepting help from... Read more
View audiobookA Change of Gravity
By: George V. Higgins
Narrated by: Adams Morgan
Length: 17 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
For court clerk Ambrose Merrion, life was about people taking care of one another. For Danny Hilliard, politics was a matter of acquiring the power to make sure that society did just that. With Merrion shrewdly managing Hilliard’s campaigns as a rising politician, the two friends made an excellent team.But trouble starts brewing when Merrion... Read more
View audiobookThe Rose Rent
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
Length: 6 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
A late spring in 1142 has the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22. For three years, wealthy young widow Judith Perle has rented her house to the monks for the price of a single white rose each year, in honor of her late husband. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and found... Read more
View audiobookDevil-May-Care
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 7 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No
Ellie and Henry are young, rich, in love, and engaged. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, Ellie is happy to accept hereccentric Aunt Kate's request that shehouse-sit atKate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. Conventional Henry,... Read more
View audiobookLegend in Green Velvet
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Scotland is Susan’s passion and obsession, and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse—and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has unexpectedly emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her... Read more
View audiobookEverybody Dies - Abridged
By: Lawrence Block
Narrated by: Robert Forster
Length: 5 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life, one of stability and respectability— even the New York streets don't look so mean anymore. He's married to a woman he loves, and wonder of wonders, he's actually gotten around to becoming an officially licensed private investigator. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew' ... Read more
View audiobook9 Scorpions - Abridged
By: Paul Levine
Narrated by: Gerry Bammon
Length: 4 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Lisa Fremont is a rising young lawyer gifted with a brilliant mind, natural beauty -- and an alluring sensuality. A newly hired law clerk on the staff of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Truitt, Lisa has a bright future. She also has a past that her curriculum vitae doesn't reveal....Long before she was Lisa Fremont, Esquire, she was Angel, an... Read more
View audiobookThe Coffin Dancer - Abridged
By: Jeffery Deaver
Narrated by: Joe Mantegna
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli, “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork.
NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his brilliant protégé Amelia Sachs, in the... Read more
Prime Cut - Abridged
By: Diane Mott Davidson
Narrated by: Cherry Jones
Length: 6 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Hallmark Mystery Curious Caterer Original Movies
“Davidson is today’s foremost practitioner of the culinary whodunit.”—Entertainment Weekly
Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn’t get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left... Read more
Summer of the Dragon
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D. J. Abbott to turn down—especially when it's six hundred miles from home. What does it matter that her rich new employer and benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of... Read more
View audiobookSunset Limited - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers.
The... Read more
Bloodstream - Abridged
By: Tess Gerritsen
Narrated by: Jan Maxwell
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves.
Lapped by the gentle waters of... Read more
The Seventh Sinner
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient Temple of Mithra. From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness and discovered the corpse of Albert, one of her fellow students, she was afraid.Not even the comforting presence of... Read more
View audiobookGatekeeper - Abridged
By: Philip Shelby
Narrated by: Blair Brown
Length: 3 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting—from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City—stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power.
Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at... Read more
Fortunes of War - Abridged
By: Stephen Coonts
Narrated by: Richard Gilliland
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In Tokyo, a squad of fanatic Japanese nationalists force their way into the Imperial Palace and behead the emperor. It is a grisly first move in a sinister conspiracy to take advantage of a weakened Russia and invade oil-rich Siberia. The goal? World domination. The price? A third world war. Bound by a secret protocol to come to Russia's aid in... Read more
View audiobookTerm Limits - Abridged
By: Vince Flynn
Narrated by: James Naughton
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Politics and riveting suspense collide in this white-knuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—soon to be a major motion picture.
In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American... Read more
The Greatest Mysteries of All Time
By: Otto Penzler
Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne
Length: 4 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
The fifth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time is an intriguing anthology of crime and suspense short stories by some of the most renowned writers in the field. This unique collection of master writers includes the usual suspects such as Patricia Highsmith and Mickey Spillane, but also writers better known for other genres, such as Isaac... Read more
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