Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Tourist Season

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Hiaasen's best-selling novels are funny and sardonic. Hilarious postcards of south Florida, they also decry the lurid commercialism that is draining and paving the tropical landscape. Tourist season is swinging into high gear in Miami. So are the activities of a bizarre terrorist group determined to keep... Read more

Cause of Death

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On a quiet day, away from the hustle of Richmond, in a small cottage on the Virginia coast, Dr. Kay Scarpetta receives a disturbing phone call from the Chesapeake police. Thirty feet deep in the murky waters of Virginia's Elizabeth River, a scuba diver's body is discovered near the Inactive Naval Shipyard. As the police begin searching for... Read more

Loaded Dice

By: James Swain

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For ex-cop Tony Valentine, life in balmy Florida provides little R&R. In fact, he’s in demand now more than ever. Armed with a special grift sense, Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash. But when his son, who was going to card-counting school, goes missing,... Read more

The Blackbird Papers

By: Ian Smith

Narrated by: Brent Jennings

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby … a Nobel Prize–winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . .

The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian Smith, a major new talent in crime fiction, and of Sterling Bledsoe, his smart and occasionally... Read more

Unnatural Exposure

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of... Read more

The Castlemaine Murders

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Stephanie Daniel

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Phryne Fisher, her sister Beth and her faithful maid, Dot, take a trip to an amusement park with Phryne's two daughters Ruth and Jane. But in the dusty dark Ghost Train, a mummified bullet-studded corpse falls to the ground in front of them. Digging to the bottom of this long-standing mystery takes her to the country town of Castlemaine where it... Read more

Demons

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For the Nameless Detective, investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided at all costs. When an old poker buddy asks him to help frazzled and distraught Kay Runyon, whose husband, Victor, is having a clandestine affair with a mystery woman named Nedra, Nameless unwillingly relents, but he soon discovers there is much more at... Read more

The Black Prince

By: Peter Corris

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

They called him the Black Prince. Southwestern University's top athlete, Clinton seemed to have it all: he was destined for sporting stardom and lucky in love - then it all went horribly wrong. Now Clinton won't rest until he's avenged his girlfriend's death. He's after the dealer who sold Angie bad steroids and nothing's going to get in his... Read more

Nocturne

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Michele Pawk, Frederick Weller, Boyd Gaines & B...

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your... Read more

The Place at Whitton

By: Tom Keneally

Narrated by: Geoff Hiscock

Length: 7 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As Father Stenner, Whitton's President, put it, 'a garish killing in a place for aspirants to the priesthood is, by the world's standards, an exotic crime.' Father Stenner's forebodings were, if anything, well short of the mark. The killer was apparently a madman whose first murder was to be merely the beginning of a bloody series. And into the... Read more

The Washington Club

By: Peter Corris

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Claudia Fleischman is beautiful, rich, intelligent and has just been charged with the murder of her husband. Hardy, hired to look into the background of the case, is soon up to his neck in trouble. When his car is blown up and then a friend is killed, Cliff finds himself with a personal stake in the action. His investigations introduce him to... Read more

The Bookman's Promise - Abridged

By: John Dunning

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cliff Janeway is back! The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of the award-winning crime novel series that helped the nation turn on to first-edition book collecting.

The Bookman's Promise juxtaposes past and present as Denver ex-cop and bookman Cliff Janeway searches for a book and a killer.

The quest begins when an old woman --... Read more

Scarecrow - Abridged

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The newest action thriller from the author of the bestselling Ice Station and Area 7 marks the return of Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield in his fastest, most nail-biting challenge yet

It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world—commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today.... Read more

A Death in Vienna - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Tony Goldwyn

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during ... Read more

Bone Key

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1931, a storm passes through the Florida straits, soon followed by a devastating explosion aboard a freighter, The Magdalena. Decades later, John Deal, the brooding real-estate developer and hero of eight previous Standiford mysteries, is traveling to Key West to talk over a prospective project with an old friend of his father's, the wealthy... Read more

The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. It introduces legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partner’s killer and the famous jewel-encrusted bird. Humphrey Bogart immortalized the tough-guy detective in the classic 1941 film. Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

Dead Ringer - Abridged

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Then her wallet goes missing. And Bennie's life goes crazy.Someone is posing as the outspoken, blue-eyed, blond attorney and is wreaking havoc around town, apparently determined to destroy everything Bennie loves. Only one person can pull off this double deception -- Bennie's identical twin sister, Alice Connelly. But as far as Bennie knows,... Read more

The Last Juror

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The Ford County Times, went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor.

The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a... Read more

The Intelligencer - Abridged

By: Leslie Silbert

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell & Alfred Molina

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service.
In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment,... Read more

Exit Wounds - Abridged

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: Debra Monk

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Sheriff Joanna Brady seeks an elusive and chillingly brutal killer whose crimes run deep into the past in the next New York Times bestseller from the author of Partner in Crime Read more

Einbruch der Nacht

By: Katja Behnke

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Kim und Iris wagen kaum, sich zu bewegen. Angespannt kauern sie hinter dem Kleiderständer mit der neuen Wintermantelkollektion. Endlich geht der Mann an ihnen vorbei, ohne sie zu bemerken. Erleichtert atmen die beiden auf. Aber die beiden Einbrecher sind weiterhin auf der Suche nach ihnen. Es war so eine gute Idee gewesen: sich heimlich im... Read more

Chronologie der letzten Tage 2

By: Raoul Barocco

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea wacht auf. Max? Sitzt neben ihr auf dem Bett. Sie hat Fieber. Die Alpenluft wird ihr gut tun. Auf der Alm der Feldwablin kehren die Träume zurück, ein dunkler Gang, mit schwarzen Laken abgehängte Bilder. Bekannte Namen tauchen wieder auf: Graf Clodomir, Jelena. Die goldene Inschrift auf dem alten Grabstein weist den Weg in eine allzu... Read more

When the Women Come Out to Dance

By: Elmore Leonard

Narrated by: Taye Diggs

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The unrivaled master of crime’s first collection of noir stories. . . . “If you thought you knew all the places Elmore Leonard could take you, think again.”—Mike LupicaIn more than 30 books spanning half a century, Elmore Leonard has captured the imagination of millions as few writers can. A literary icon praised by the New York Times Book... Read more