Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Silent Cradle - Abridged

By: Margaret Cathbert

Narrated by: Tonya Pinkins

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Save the life. Save the life...This is the mantra repeated by Dr. Rae Duprey, Berkeley Hills Hosptial's premier obstetrician, who's haunted by the searing memory of her own mother's death in the back of an ambulance—and driven by a passion to save the lives of the women and babies in her care. But when her candidacy for the chairmanship of... Read more

Mercury Rising - Abridged

By: Ryne Douglas Pearson

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

A Simon & Schuster audiobook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every listener. Read more

Rogue Warrior: Seal Force Alpha - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

AS A U.S. NAVY SEAL, RICHARD MARCINKO KNEW NO LIMITS -- AS THE ROGUE WARRIOR, HE OBEYS NO RULES.
The Rogue Warrior's taking a flying leap -- a high-altitude jump over the South China Sea. His mission: scuttle a Chinese freighter's cargo of nuclear hardware and its crack crew of naval commandos. It's a leave-no-tracks, take-no-prisoners operation,... Read more

Night Train - Abridged

By: Martin Amis

Narrated by: Linda Hamilton

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chain-smoking, deep-voiced fifteen-year veteran of the force Detective Mike Hoolihan is a tough woman. Now she has her worst assignment yet. Jennifer Rockwell—astrophysicist and darling of the community—had everything to live for: brains, looks, the world's best lover, and unlimited career horizons. When Jennifer takes her own life, no one is... Read more

Dust - Abridged

By: Charles Pellegrino

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The good news: the bugs are all dead.
The bad news: we're next.

The change begins silently, imperceptibly, inexorably. One natural effect topples into the next, like an array of dominoes that stretches to every corner of the globe. Before anyone can realize it, the earth's ecology has utterly transformed itself. And the days of the old... Read more

Malice Domestic 3

By: Nancy Pickard, Wendy Hornsby, Dorothy Cannell, ...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard presents this anthology of original mystery stories by some of the most distinguished mystery writers of the 20th century, including Dorothy Cannell and Sharyn McCrumb. Compiled in honor of the most beloved crime writer of all time— Agatha Christie— this collection... Read more

Sharp Edges - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Jayne Ann Krentz

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!

She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic... Read more

No Safe Place

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In his first book since the national best-seller Silent Witness, Richard North Patterson uses his mastery of characterization and suspense to give us a story of startling realism and originality--an extraordinary novel of presidential politics.
        In the year 2000, Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick... Read more

The Street Lawyer

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

He gave up the money.  He gave up the power.  Now all he has left is the law.

Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm.  One step away from partnership, Michael has it all.  Then, in an instant, it all comes undone.

A homeless man takes nine lawyers hostage... Read more

Backflash

By: Richard Stark

Narrated by: Robert Davi

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A gritty novel featuring resourceful criminal Parker, the anti-hero of Payback.Steel-nerved master thief Parker has his eyes on a fat prize: a gambling casino on the Hudson River. But it' s not in Parker's nature to gamble, so he leaves nothing to chance. From the phony politician to the getaway boat, from bringing guns on board to... Read more

Attack on the Queen - Abridged

By: Richard Henrick

Narrated by: William Atherton

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Aboard the majestic ocean liner Queen Elizabeth II, the world's most powerful leaders meet to launch a new era of peace and global cooperation. For Chinese terrorists who believe that the summit will make their Asian homeland a pawn of Western imperialist power, this summit represents a betrayal. They infiltrate the ship— and in a... Read more

Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt - Abridged

By: Carole Douglas & Robert Forster

Narrated by: Andrea Thompson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie, a hard-boiled, hairy-chested, 19-pound black tomcat detective, returns home to death on the Nile. Two battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel cause a dead body to rise to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Temple Barr— Louie's redheaded, high-heeled human... Read more

The Blood Artists - Abridged

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: Gordon Thomson

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk are doctors who once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives— making the two scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo... Read more

The Ballad of Frankie Silver - Abridged

By: Sharyn McCrumb

Narrated by: Sharyn McCrumb

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One hundred years after a woman is hanged, the search for justice reveals a story of faith, obsession, and murder.In 1832, 18-year-old Frankie Silver was charged with murdering her young husband. In 1833, she became the first woman in the state of North Carolina to be hanged for murder. But was she guilty? More than 100 years later, Tennessee... Read more

The Best Laid Plans

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all... Read more

The Best Laid Plans - Abridged

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

He wants power, and she wants revenge. The Best Laid Plans is full of manipulators, dirty dealers, and dastardly rascals, all snatching at power—political, financial, and sexual, or all of the above. Against the backdrop of Washington politics and the war in Bosnia, a handsome, charismatic attorney is determined to win the presidency at all... Read more

The Angel of Darkness - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In The Angel Of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose rough life has given him wisdom beyond his years. Thus New York City, and the groundbreaking alienist Dr. Kreizler himself, are seen anew.
It is June 1897. A year... Read more

Windmills of the God - Abridged

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Lee Remick

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

As the world is on the brink of mutual destruction between the East and the West, Mary Ashley—a bright, young political science professor—is appointed U.S. Ambassador to an Iron Curtain country. Her husband dies in a suspicious car crash, and Mary becomes the target of a mysterious murder plot by unseen and powerful enemies. Thrust from her... Read more

Another City, Not My Own - Abridged

By: Dominick Dunne

Narrated by: Dominick Dunne

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Like millions of Americans, journalist Gus Bailey is drawn into the vortex of the O. J. Simpson trial. By day, Gus is a fixture at law offices, newspapers, courtrooms, and even judge's offices. By night, he is feted by celebrities who delight in the hottest news from the courtroom corridors. Interweaving fact and fiction surrounding “ ... Read more

Life Support - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic.

The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine—until she admits a man in critical condition from a... Read more

Deja Dead - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Amy Irving

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Speaking in Bones, the first Temperance Brennan novel in the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review).

Her life is devoted to justice—even for those she never knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has... Read more

Night Train to Memphis

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Another exciting tale following the adventures of art history professor Vicky Bliss—who keeps getting involved in international crime.An assistant curator of Munich's National Museum, Vicky Bliss is no expert on Egypt, but she does have a PhD in solving crimes. So when an intelligence agency offers her a luxury Nile cruise if she'll help solve a... Read more

Cimarron Rose - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Texas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.

Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His... Read more

Rose Cottage - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Samantha Eggar

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the summer of 1947, Kate Herrick, widowed by the war, returns to Rose Cottage, her childhood home. A tiny, thatched dwelling nestled in an idyllic country setting, Rose Cottage at first appears the picture of tranquility. But Kate soon discovers that someone has broken in, and valuable family papers have disappeared. The village seethes with... Read more