Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Alienist - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In... Read more

Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko & John Weisman

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Richard Marcinko wrote his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in ROGUE WARRIOR II: RED CELL -- a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself... Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most original and best adventure stories ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes, and explosions. With an introduction by Stella Rimington.

May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising... Read more

Degree of Guilt

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mary Carelli, one of the most powerful women in TV journalism, is charged with the murder of Mark Ransom, America's most eminent novelist. Her attorney, Christopher Paget, sets out to shock the courtroom with revelations about Ransom as a twisted sexual predator. But as the trial unfolds, it is Paget who will be surprised...by Mary's secret... Read more

The Murder Game - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the network decides to revive its old show The Murder Game, Steve Allen's wife Jayne Meadows is willing to try her hand at solving imaginary homicides on prime-time television. The game turns deadly, however, as one by one the stars are actually killed. With each new victim, the program's ratings soar, so Steve and Jayne take it upon... Read more

Murder in Vegas - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The greed and glamour of Vegas are nothing new for comedian Steve Allen, until his show at the famous Colosseum ends in murder. While Steve and his fellow crooner Buddy Hamilton rehearse, Steve' s wife, actress Jayne Meadows, rushes in with horrifying news: Buddy's glamorous young bride, Christie, has been strangled in the sauna.... Read more

Night Shadows - Abridged

By: Ron Ely

Narrated by: Ron Ely

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An exciting first mystery by actor Ron Ely, star of Tarzan and Doc Savage.Jake Sands has had a truly action-packed life as a recoverer of stolen objects and people. His work has made him a very rich man, but he paid a steep price: the murder of his wife and child. Jake now spends his days working out and his nights haunted by memories. One... Read more

The Advocate's Devil - Abridged

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When defense attorney Abe Ringel takes the case of Joe Campbell— the "White Knight" of the New York Knicks who stands accused of rape— the lawyer anticipates an easy victory to get his career on track. But when it appears that Campbell is not only guilty but dangerous, Ringel must confront the conflict between his... Read more