Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Extreme Measures - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: John Pankow

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has... Read more

Critical Judgment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients.  It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages.  As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors... Read more

The Lazarus Child - Abridged

By: Robert Mawson

Narrated by: Allison Janney

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It takes just a moment for a family's life to be changed forever. For a twelve-year-old boy to dash across the street for a pack of peppermints. For his seven-year-old sister to follow him into traffic. For a bus to swerve out of control. And with that terrible moment, a family's search begins for the unlikely miracle that will put together... Read more

The Scorpio Illusion - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Robert Ludlum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly—and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer—one of the best—until the ... Read more

The Matarese Countdown - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time....

CIA... Read more

The Matarese Circle - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

An international circle of killers, the Matarese will undoubtedly take over the world within just two years. Only two rival spies have the power to stop them: Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB. They share a genius for espionage and a life of explosive terror and violence. But though these sworn enemies once vowed to terminate each other, they... Read more

The Gemini Contenders - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men both good and evil... Read more

The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne Book #3) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s... Read more

The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne Book #1) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jason Bourne.

He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.

There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that... Read more

The Apocalypse Watch - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortresslike mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. But on the eve of his most spectacular success, after three years in deep cover, Harry disappears.
 
Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular... Read more

Nothing but the Truth - Abridged

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the stakes have never been higher.

Dismas knows his wife,... Read more

The Web - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense. Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny... Read more

Survival of the Fittest - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood.  Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.  There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the... Read more

The Clinic - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Upon his return to Los Angeles from a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific, Alex is called upon by his friend Milo Sturgis to help solve the murder of a celebrity author.

For three months the police found no clues to the murder of Hope Devane, psychology professor and controversial author of a pop-psych bestseller about men. She was found... Read more

The Prodigal Spy - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns with a thrilling new novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue.  

Washington, 1950.  The trouble with history, Nick Kotlar's father tells him, is that you have to live through it before you know how it'll come out.  And for... Read more

The Ugly Duckling - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Robin Mattson

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If fate suddenly made you more beautiful that you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?

The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending.... Read more

Long After Midnight - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

She wanted to save lives.  The killer wanted to end hers.

The first warning was triggered hundreds of miles away.  The second warning exploded only yards from where she and her son stood.  Now Kate Denby realizes the frightening truth:  She is somebody's target.

Danger has arrived in Kate's backyard with a vengeance.  And the gifted ... Read more

The Killing Game - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A merciless killer on the hunt...an innocent child in his sights...a woman driven to the edge to stop him...

The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she'll insist on identifying the nine... Read more

And Then You Die - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Iris Johansen is a master storyteller whose thrilling novels go straight to the heart of suspense.  Now the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Long After Midnight and The Ugly Duckling returns with her most nerve-shattering novel ever, a story of deadly greed and global terror.  

A seasoned photojournalist, Bess Grady has honed her... Read more

Time to Hunt - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Stephen Hunter is in a class by himself.  Time to Hunt is as vivid and haunting as a moving target in the crosshairs of a sniper scope.”—Nelson Demille, author of Mayday

He is the most dangerous man alive.  He only wants to live in peace with his family, and forget the war that nearly killed him. . . .

It's not going to happen.

Stephen Hunter's... Read more

Four Corners of Night - Abridged

By: Craig Holden

Narrated by: Terrence Mann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In his critically acclaimed novels The River Sorrow and The Last Sanctuary, Craig Holden forged a powerful, poetic vision of the American heartland. Now the writer The New York Times calls "astonishing" returns to this haunting landscape in his newest work. At once a suspenseful search for the truth in a teenage girl's abduction and a... Read more

Hannibal - Abridged

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Thomas Harris

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall.

In one of the most eagerly... Read more

A Suitable Vengeance - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Ms. George proves that the classiest crime writers are true novelists.”—The New York Times

Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the... Read more

Payment in Blood - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly

The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in... Read more