Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Serpent on the Crown

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Elizabeth Peters, brings an exotic world of adventure, intrigue, and danger to vivid life, in a tale as powerful as ancient Egypt.The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 and Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in... Read more

The Chairman

By: Stephen Frey

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling rewards.
A towering legend among New York... Read more

Death of the Party

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Britt Barlow is certain her media mogul brother-in-law Jeremiah Addison's fatal tumble a year ago was no accident -- especially since she herself discovered, and disposed of, the trip wire someone had strung across the stairs. Now she's bringing all who were in attendance that weekend back to Golden Silk -- Addison's luxurious secluded island... Read more

Swimming to Catalina - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Swimming to Catalina, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan-attorney and investigator Stone Barrington is back, still smarting from his sudden breakup with brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who has left him to marry Hollywood's hottest male star, Vance Calder. Then Calder calls Stone for help: Arrington has vanished without a... Read more

Strange Affair - Abridged

By: Peter Robinson

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case from New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson.A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased—a policeman who has since gone... Read more

Imperfect Strangers - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 2 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of... Read more

The Serpent on the Crown - Abridged

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling master of suspense, Elizabeth Peters, brings an exotic world of adventure, intrigue, and danger to vivid life, in a tale as powerful as ancient Egypt.The Emersons have returned to the Valley of the Kings in 1922 and Amelia Peabody and her family look forward to delving once more into the age-old mysteries buried in... Read more

Dead in the Water - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stone Barrington is back. Stuart Woods has created no better known or loved character than the ex-cop, Manhattan attorney and investigator whose work treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity.In Dead in the Water, Stone has hardly arrived in St. Marks, a lovely Caribbean island nation, on a... Read more

Dirt - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The second novel in the thrilling Stone Barrington Series by #1 New York Times Bestselling author Stuart Woods""Blackmail, murder, suspense, love—what else could you want in a book?"" –Cosmopolitan Feared and loathed for her poison pen and ice queen persona, Amanda Dart has made her share of enemies. Then the tables are turned. An anonymous... Read more

HEAT - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ex-DEA agent Jesse Warden has seen enough of the inside of a solitary confinement cell to last him a lifetime.Or two lifetimes, which is the sentence he's serving after being convicted of a plan he was planning to commit, but never did. So when an old buddy shows up with a deal that could spring him from his hell behind bars, he's ready to... Read more

Santa Fe Rules - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Better Off Dead Successful Hollywood movie producer Wolf Willettis stunned when he happens to read his own New York Times obituary--victim of a sordid triple homicide amid a steamy méage à trois with his young bride and best friend. Who's the corpse? Who wants him dead? And why has Wolf blacked out the entire evening of the grisly crime?... Read more

Dead Eyes - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Joan Allen

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The notes are signed Admirer. At first respectful, they become increasingly bizarre and are accompanied by roses, then other, more macabre offerings. Chris Calloway, a rising young Hollywood actress, finds the letters irritating, then frightening, but when a freak accident takes away her sight, Admirer turns her world into a nightmare.Joe... Read more

Choke - Abridged

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A standalone novel from Stuart Woods, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stone Barrington and Holly Barker series...Murder is not a spectator sport.Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion—first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West's Old... Read more

The Chairman - Abridged

By: Stephen Frey

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No one knows the dark side of “The Street” better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling rewards.
A towering legend among New York... Read more

The Waterless Sea

By: Kate Constable

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The second novel in the captivating Chanters of Tremaris trilogy follows Calwyn and her friends to the desolate Merithuran Empire. As they search for a group of kidnapped children who have the gift of chantment, they must negotiate both the unforgiving desert and the even more treacherous Palace of cobwebs, where they uncover the dreadful... Read more

Midas

By: Russell Andrews

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

New York’s Hamptons are the summer playground for Wall Street big shots, Hollywood starlets, and all species of glitterati in between. But when a Middle Eastern man rigged with explosives walks into a chic restaurant and blows himself up, all that glamour is shattered. And so is the security and safety of the entire United States.Drawn into this... Read more

Burned - Abridged

By: Carol Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Regan Reilly and her best friend, Kit, are on vacation in Honolulu, intent on having a Hawaiian adventure. They won't be disappointed!
When we last saw L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly, she'd recently become engaged, but before the big event Kit convinces her to come to Hawaii for one last girls' weekend.
At the Waikiki Waters Resort,... Read more

With No One As Witness - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Delicately textured. . . achingly compassionate. . . gripping. . . . It’s one of George’s best, and that’s saying something.” —Seattle Times
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th novel in the Inspector Lynley series
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the greatest challenge of his career.When an adolescent boy’s nude body... Read more

Drowned Wednesday

By: Garth Nix

Narrated by: Allan Corduner

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

With his unlimited imagination and thrilling storytelling, Garth Nix has created a character and a world that become even more compelling with each audiobook. As Arthur gets closer to the heart of his quest, the suspense and mystery grow more and more intense . . .

This is the third audiobook in the thrilling, triumphantly imaginative Keys to... Read more

Cold Service

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

When Spenser's closet ally, Hawk, is brutally injured and left for dead while protecting booking Luther Gillespie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his friend in body and soul. Hawk, always proud, has never been dependent on anyone. Now he is forced to make connections: to the medical technology that will ensure his physical... Read more

Mr. Lucky

By: James Swain

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City–and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a ’92 Honda, Tony is low-profile, old-school, and has seen it all–until he meets the luckiest man on... Read more

The Narcissist’s Daughter

By: Craig Holden

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet Syd Redding, a gruff, ambitious working-class young man and pre-med student. Syd passes the stultifying hours of 1978 in his ethics class fantasizing about the destruction of the Kesslers, his boss's well-to-do Ohio family, a threesome "moneyed and beautiful and installed high in the city's society." As he steps onto the doorstep of their... Read more

Jane and His Lordship's Legacy

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

It's with a heavy heart that Jane Austen takes up a new residence at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire. Secretly mourning the lost love of her life, she's stunned to learn that the late Lord Harold Trowbridge has made her heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with his diaries, letters, and most intimate correspondence. From these,... Read more

Sleeper

By: Gene Riehl

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

FBI agent Puller Monk is losing his mind. His father passed away six months ago and left him a predisposition for Alzheimer's disease. Add to that a lethal American spy raised by the North Koreans, and Monk's life just got a lot more complicated. Aware of his dark side and willingness to take chances no matter what the risk, Monk is asked by... Read more