Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

A Dangerous Fortune - Abridged

By: Ken Follett

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A breathtaking thriller featuring "political and amorous intrigues, cold-blooded murder, and financial crises" (San Francisco Chronicle), from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Column of Fire

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath... Read more

Tell No One - Abridged

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: Steven Weber

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.

Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for... Read more

Playing for the Ashes - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession.... Read more

Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl - Abridged

By: Winston Groom

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Delia Jamison is a gorgeous woman of a certain age and at the pinnacle of her career as anchor of a network news show in Los Angeles. But she is being blackmailed by someone she is certain is one of her former lovers. Terrified to go to the police for fear the story will leak and cause a scandal, Delia's at her wit's end when she accidentally... Read more

Over the Edge - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the phone rings in the middle of the night, child psychologist Alex Delaware does not hesitate. Driving through the dream-lit San Fernando Valley, Alex rushes to Jamey Cadmus, the patient he had failed five years before—and who now calls with a bizarre cry for help. But by the time Alex reaches Canyon Oaks Psychiatric Hospital, Jamey is... Read more

Harm Done - Abridged

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Christopher Ravenscroft

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family and neighbors had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Never an articulate child, between her confusion and amnesia she could not plausibly describe where she'd been or why she'd been away. Soon after, a convicted pedophile is released back... Read more

John Le Carre Value Collection - Abridged

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: John le Carré

Length: 16 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The collection is sure to please avid LeCarre fans and new listeners alike.

Includes: Night Manager, Tailor of Panama, and Our Game

Night Manager
Enter the new world of post Cold War espionage. Penetrate the secret world of ruthless arms dealers and drug smugglers who have risen to unthinkable power and wealth. The sinister master of them all is... Read more

Be the One - Abridged

By: April Smith

Narrated by: Linda Hamilton

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of North of Montana ("The writing has the taut, perfect tone of a well-tuned string"--Scott Turow), a spellbinding new thriller about ambition taken to unexpected, and deadly, extremes.

Cassidy Sanderson is a scout for the Los Angeles Dodgers--the only female scout in the major leagues. Hard-living and hard-drinking, a gifted... Read more

Omerta - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To Don Raymonde Aprile's children he was a loyal family member, their father's adopted "nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather ride his horses than do Mob business. No one knew why Aprile, the last great American Don, had adopted Astorre Viola many years before in Sicily; no one suspected how he had carefully trained him . . . and... Read more

The Vampire Armand

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

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In the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally young, with the face of a Botticelli angel.... Read more

A Time to Kill

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling  author John Grisham probes the savage depths of  racial violence... as he delivers a compelling tale  of uncertain justice in a small southern  town...

Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a  ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and  remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts  with... Read more

Graveyard Shift

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Graveyard Shift," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Gray Matter

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "Gray Matter" from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

The Lawnmower Man

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: John Glover

Length: 3 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

John Glover reads a selection of unabridged short stories, including "The Lawnmower Man," from Stephen King's best-selling collection Night Shift. Read more

Timeline

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational... Read more

Vittorio the Vampire

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER •With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio... Read more

Los Alamos - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who... Read more

Dark Lady - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Dark Lady, Richard North Patterson displays the mastery of setting, psychology, and story that makes him unique among writers of suspense, and one of today's most original and enthralling novelists.

In Steelton, a struggling Midwestern city on the cusp of an economic turnaround, two prominent men are found dead within days of each other. One... Read more

Degree of Guilt - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Final Judgment - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Lisa Banes

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found 22-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crime; the weapon covered with her fingerprints.

Caroline has doubts of her own about Brett's innocence. But... Read more

The Lasko Tangent - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire who's got the ear of the president and a talent for using it to get what he wants. Read more

Private Screening - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Christopher Reeve

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Thrilling.... PRIVATE SCREENING succeeds on all counts. It's a footrace of a read, daring you to put it down."
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead in front of his rock-star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord dares to defend the... Read more

No Safe Place - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the high-stakes, high-pressure world of presidential politics, where predators carry microphones and one misstep can savage a lifetime of achievement, Kerry Kilcannon is the rarest player of all. Kilcannon believes he can make the system work. And he just may die trying.

Driven by the violent nightmare of his childhood, fueled by forces that... Read more

Silent Witness - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-eight years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide.

Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie... Read more