Mystery & Thriller audiobooks
The Potter's Field - Abridged
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Sir Derek Jacobi
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
During the ploughing of the Potter's Field, the Brothers unearth the grisly remains of a woman's body. Rumors had it that the wild, beautiful Welsh woman had gone away with a lover, returning to her homeland, but now it seems as if she had been murdered. With the arrival of a young monk fleeing from the devastating civil war in East Anglia, the... Read more
View audiobookThe Adventures of Brother Cadfael - Abridged
By: Ellis Peters
Narrated by: Sir Jacobi, Derek
Length: 17 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: Yes
This collection of recordings about Brother Cadfael—a Benedictine monk and amateur sleuth in the 12th century—are performed here by the ideal actor. Sir Derek Jacobi, who portrayed Cadfael in several television adaptations, captivates listeners with his renderings of Monk's Hood, Saint Peter's Fair, The Heretic's Apprentice, The Potter's Field,... Read more
View audiobookMy Gal Sunday - Abridged
By: Mary Higgins Clark
Narrated by: Megan Follows
Length: 4 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: Yes
A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense.
Henry Parker Britland IV—wealthy, worldly, and popular—is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday—as clever as she is lovely—has just been elected to Congress... Read more
Harvest - Abridged
By: Tess Gerritsen
Narrated by: Jayne Brook
Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: Yes
In this harrowing medical thriller filled with suspense and brilliantly crafted twists, Tess Gerritsen—the author of the acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series that inspired the hit television show—delivers a pulse-pounding tale that “will make your heart skip a beat” (USA TODAY).
For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital... Read more
Bloodline - Abridged
By: Sidney Sheldon
Narrated by: Jenny Agutter
Length: 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Intelligent, tough, beautiful, and sole heir to a billion-dollar fortune, Elizabeth suddenly finds herself head of an empire after her father mysteriously dies. Surrounded by cash-hungry family members, the young heiress fights to save the family business. And after narrowly escaping death, she realizes that someone is determined to kill her.... Read more
View audiobookCadillac Jukebox
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Mark Hammer
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
James Lee Burke has been hailed as a “national treasure” (Tampa Bay Times), and in his ninth Dave Robicheaux thriller, it’s easy to see why. This taut, twisted tale of corruption in the Louisiana bayou truly brands Burke as “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post).
Aaron Crown comes from a long line of shady Cajun characters, and rumors of Klan... Read more
A Stained White Radiance - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 2 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both.
Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a bizarre assassination attempt pull Detective Dave... Read more
Simple Simon - Abridged
By: Ryne Douglas Pearson
Narrated by: Joe Morton
Length: 3 hours
Abridged: Yes
An autistic teenager. A ruthless assassin. An FBI agent who must risk everything to protect an innocent person from a savage.
All three are thrust together when Simon Lynch, a sixteen-year-old savant, unknowingly breaks the newest, most secure code developed by the National Security Agency. Corrupt elements within that government behemoth,... Read more
Malice Domestic 2
By: Mary Clark, Frances Fyfield, K.K. Beck, Gary Al...
Narrated by: Mason Adams
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Following the success of Malice Domestic 1— recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and called "outstanding" by Publishers Weekly— acclaimed author Mary Higgins Clark serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie style. Featured writers include Amanda Cross, Frances Fyfield,... Read more
View audiobookFinal Jeopardy - Abridged
By: Linda Fairstein
Narrated by: Diane Venora
Length: 2 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From the former chief of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office comes the bestselling thriller featuring a New York City prosecutor unraveling a terrifying and brutal murder mystery.
Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan’s top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own... Read more
Murder for Love, Murder for Women
By: Otto Penzler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carol Higgins C...
Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Length: 4 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field. These eight thrilling never-before-published stories include: • “ For Whom the Beep Tolls” by Carol Higgins Clark
• “ ... Read more
The Dead Sea Cipher
By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity: a rare opportunity to visit biblical places rich in tradition and shrouded in mystery. But in the middle of Beirut, a world away from everything she knows, Dinah Van der Lyn suddenly hears angry voices through the wall of her hotel. The voices are followed by a crash and cries for... Read more
View audiobookMurder for Love, Murder for Men
By: Otto Penzler, William J. Caunitz, John Gardner,...
Narrated by: Susan Anspach
Length: 4 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect recipe for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Men is the perfect— and only— collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best male writers inside— ... Read more
View audiobookSudden Prey - Abridged
By: John Sandford
Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders
Length: 3 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Revenge is the engine which powers this entry in John Sandford's Prey series starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. Read more
View audiobookCold Fall - Abridged
By: John Gardner
Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove
Length: 2 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: Yes
The night that Flight 229 was blown apart upon landing at Washington's Dulles Airport— killing almost 400 passengers aboard— James Bond embarked on a mission that would become an obsession. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at... Read more
View audiobookHeaven's Prisoners - Abridged
By: James Lee Burke
Narrated by: Will Patton
Length: 3 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: Yes
James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.
Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf... Read more
Chance
By: Robert Parker
Narrated by: Burt Reynolds
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura wants to find his daughter's missing husband. At least that's how he puts it to Spenser and Hawk, even though it's clear that Julius isn't telling the whole truth—or maybe not any part of the truth. Something about the case appeals to Spenser's passion for justice, though, and he launches an odyssey that leads him... Read more
View audiobookLord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron - Abridged
By: Tom Holland
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: TBA
Abridged: Yes
Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.
Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive... Read more
Rogue Warrior - Abridged
By: Richard Marcinko
Narrated by: Richard Marcinko
Length: 2 hours 29 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
View audiobookThe Account - Abridged
By: Roderick Mann
Narrated by: Patrick Macnee
Length: 3 hours 13 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Julia Lang is a winner— she' s beautiful, vivacious, and the publicity director of London's top hotel. Robert Brand is charismatic and handsome— with his vast fortune he can work magic. Julia and Robert make a golden couple, but when Robert tragically dies, Julia's world suddenly shatters. When his Swiss bank... Read more
View audiobookDays of Drums - Abridged
By: Philip Selby
Narrated by: Diane Venora
Length: 3 hours 1 minute
Abridged: Yes
The most gripping thriller since Marathon Man
For rookie Secret Service agent Holland Tylo, landing one of the top protection jobs in Washington is a clear sign that her career is right on track. Suddenly it all blows up in her face when Senator Westbourne is gruesomely murdered on her watch. Devastated by the senator's death, censured by her... Read more
Two for the Dough - Abridged
By: Janet Evanovich
Narrated by: Lori Petty
Length: 2 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes
From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty and “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), Janet Evanovich’s Two for the Dough is irresistibly fun and powerful suspense entertainment featuring beloved bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.
It's the return of Stephanie Plum, New Jersey’s “fugitive apprehension” agent (a.k.a.... Read more
Airframe
By: Michael Crichton
Narrated by: Frances Cassidy
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .
At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and... Read more
Servant of the Bones
By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 16 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In a new and major novel, the creator of fantastic universes of vampires and witches takes us now into the world of Isaiah and Jeremiah, and the destruction of Solomon's Temple, to tell the story of Azriel, Servant of the Bones.
He is ghost, genii, demon, angel--pure spirit made visible. He pours his heart out to us as he journeys from an ancient... Read more