Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Dark Matter - Abridged

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: Byron Jennings

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I swore not to tell this story while Newton was still alive.

1696, young Christopher Ellis is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Though Ellis is notoriously hotheaded and was caught fighting an illegal duel, he arrives at the Tower as assistant to the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is Warden of the Royal Mint, which... Read more

The Murder Book - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the master of the psychological thriller. Now L.A. psychologist-detective Alex Delaware confronts a long-unsolved murder of unspeakable brutality—an ice-cold case whose resolution threatens his survival, and that of longtime friend, homicide detective, Milo Sturgis.

The nightmare begins ... Read more

Chains of Command - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: Robert Culp

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

During Desert Storm, Major Darren Mace made a fateful decision to go against orders— to abort a secret mission that was, in his judgment, ill-advised. His actions landed him in military exile. Now Mace has moved on to the Air Force Reserves. There's a new US president, a new era, and a new war is escalating along the Ukraine border.... Read more

The Crush - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Tom Wopat

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Dr. Rennie Newton is summoned to jury duty, she brings to the courtroom the same level of competence that she displays in the operating room. Her commitment to precision compels her to deliver a not guilty verdict in the murder case against notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada.
It will be the most regrettable decision in her... Read more

No One to Trust - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 4 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Final Target, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on the hunt—and the woman who is determined to hunt him down.

He is the most terrifying of killers: ruthless, cunning, charismatic. And he has the... Read more

Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The unflappable ornamental blacksmith-turned-detective Meg Langslow returns in this latest bird mystery by award-winning author Donna Andrews. Aficionados of Murder with Peacocks and Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos will revel in Andrews's trademark dry humor, offbeat characters, and disastrous events unfolding at another classic American... Read more

Schattensaiten 3 - Die lebende Statue

By: Katja Behnke

Narrated by: Various

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne zittert, als sich der kühle Stahl der Messerklinge an ihre Kehle drückt. Sie ist völlig hilflos. Hoffentlich können ihre Freunde ihr beistehen. Ein Zeitungsartikel über eine verschwundene Statue auf dem Friedhof ruft Daniel, Anne, Christian und Claudia erneut auf den Plan. Die Täter haben keine Spuren hinterlassen, der einzige Zeuge hat nur... Read more

From A Buick 8

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: James Rebhorn, Bruce Davison, Becky Ann Baker,...

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—a novel about the fascination deadly things have for us and about our insistence on answers when there are none…

Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just... Read more

December 6 - Abridged

By: Martin Cruz Smith

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Amid the imperialist fervor of late 1941 Tokyo, Harry Niles is a man with a mission -- self-preservation. But Niles was raised by missionary parents and educated in the shadows of Tokyo's underworld -- making his loyalties as dubious as his business dealings.

Now, on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Niles must decide where his true... Read more

Dark Horse

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Beth McDonald

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying.

In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is... Read more

Dark Horse - Abridged

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying.

In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is... Read more

The Apprentice - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their crime-solving streak. 

The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and... Read more

Street Boys - Abridged

By: Lorenzo Carcaterra

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys,... Read more

The Mothman Prophecies

By: John A. Keel

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

West Virginia, 1966. For thirteen months the town of Point Pleasant is gripped by a real-life nightmare that culminates in a strategy that makes headlines around the world. Strange occurrences and sightings, including a bizarre winged apparition that becomes known as the Mothman, trouble this ordinary American community. Mysterious lights are... Read more

Dark Matter

By: Philip Kerr

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1696, Christopher Ellis, a young, hot-tempered gentleman, is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. A sudden twist of fate has led him there to assist the renowned scientist Sir Isaac Newton, who as Warden of the Royal Mint has accepted an appointment to hunt down counterfeiters who threaten to topple the shaky, war-weakened... Read more

Utopia

By: Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 18 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child.

Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world on the cutting edge of technology. A theme park... Read more

Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Grammy® Award nominee!It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets, but high above the mean streets, a light burns on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, where Guy Noir—hard boiled, world-weary, yet surprisingly articulate—is trying to find the answers to life's questions. In his big swivel chair under the bare bulb beside... Read more

Absolute Rage - Abridged

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Robert. K. Tanenbaum delivers his grittiest, most ethically challenging thriller yet, as New York chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp fights for his family in the wilds of West Virginia's coal mining country.
While New York City sizzles beneath a blanket of early summer humidity, the Karp family is... Read more

Leslie - Abridged

By: Omar Tyree

Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

To some she's intelligent and beautiful.
To others she's proud and dangerous.
At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions.
In the eyes of her... Read more

Jinxed - Abridged

By: Carol Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 4 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Carol Higgins Clark, bestselling author of Fleeced and co-author with Mary Higgins Clark of He Sees You When You're Sleeping, returns in top form in her new Regan Reilly mystery, blending her talent for intriguing locales, eccentric characters, and fast-paced suspense laced with humor.

In Jinxed, smart, saucy sleuth Regan Reilly faces a new... Read more

All Our Yesterdays - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire.  Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn,... Read more

The Glorious Cause

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 25 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody... Read more

Grave Secrets

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As fresh and shocking as today’s headlines, a “chilling” (People) Temperance Brennan novel in which a harrowing excavation unearths a terrible tragedy never laid to rest—from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the... Read more

Grave Secrets - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As fresh and shocking as today’s headlines, a “chilling” (People) Temperance Brennan novel in which a harrowing excavation unearths a terrible tragedy never laid to rest—from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the... Read more