Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Transfer of Power - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This “roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he must stop a massacre in Washington, DC, and save the president before terrorists reach the White House.

The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of... Read more

The Descent - Abridged

By: Jeff Long

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old....In Bosnia, Major... Read more

McNally's Dilemma - Abridged

By: Lawrence Sanders

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.
Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case; the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. After finding... Read more

The Vanishing Men

By: Martin Greenberg, Jan Grape, Susan Dunlap, Edwa...

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality. Written by some of the greats— including Edgar Award Grand Masters Tony Hillerman, Edward D. Hoch, John D. MacDonald, and Ed McBain— these classic stories include:
• “ ... Read more

Death Du Jour - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a recent skeleton among ancient bones raises questions—and danger—forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is the only one who can solve the case in this “triumphant second appearance” (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.

Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC... Read more

The Fencing Master - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1868, and Spain teeters on the brink of revolution. Don Jaime de Astarola is Spain's greatest fencing master— a man of honor, an anachronism— priding himself on the precision and dignity of his ancient art, and the perfector of the deadly unstoppable sword thrust technique. His friends spend their days in cafes... Read more

Back to the Moon - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Michael R. LeGault

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A renegade rocket man haunted by his past. A beautiful daredevil who thinks she can do it all -- until she finds herself on the adventure of her life. A death-defying mission so risky, so audacious, that no one would try it...unless the fate of the world depended on its success.
Thirty years after man's first lunar landing, retired NASA engineer... Read more

Hermit's Peak - Abridged

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: Ed J Araiza

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hermit’s Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest.

When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of... Read more

High Exposure - Abridged

By: David Breashears

Narrated by: Michael Gross

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For famed cinematographer, adventurer, and mountaineer David Breashears, the terrifying experiences on Mount Everest during the deadly 1996 season became the defining moment of his life. By 1995, Breashears had already twice reached Mt. Everest's summit. Then he faced the greatest challenge of his life: to scale the 29,028-foot peak while... Read more

Every Dead Thing - Abridged

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more

The Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Anne Heche

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—uniquely frightening suspense about a young girl lost in the woods as night falls, with only the voice of her beloved Red Sox relief pitcher to sustain her and help her survive—maybe.

During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha... Read more

Left Behind: An Experience in Sound and Drama - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the trumpet sounds, where will you be? Passengers in an airborne Boeing 747 find out in this riveting novel by renowned Christian speaker Tim LaHaye and master storyteller Jerry Jenkins. Without any warning, passengers mysteriously disappear from their seats. Terror and chaos slowly spread not only through the plane but also worldwide as... Read more

Single & Single - Abridged

By: John le Carre

Narrated by: John le Carre

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Any reader who feared that the end of the Cold War would deprive Mr. le Carré of his subject can now feel a measure of relief. If anything, his subject of East-West misunderstanding has grown richer, and he now possesses vast new territories to mine" (The New York Times).

New York Times bestselling author John le Carré's novels deftly navigate... Read more

Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko & John Weisman

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

Left Behind - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just like any other day. Riding the bus, listening to a ballgame, flying across the Atlantic… Normal... Then, in a fraction of a second, this day becomes like no other day in history.Take your imagination on a journey. What would it be like if hundreds of thousands just disappeared off the face of the earth? The bus driver, the center fielder,... Read more

O Is For Outlaw

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one, vice-cop Mickey Macgruder, remained a mystery, until now. The call came from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units and came... Read more

Dark Lady

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Anne Twomey

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

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

The Testament

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions—a message that will touch off a vicious legal battle and transform dozens of lives.

Nate O'Riley is a high-octane... Read more

Silent Snow

By: Steve Thayer

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to the best-selling thriller The Weatherman, an investigative reporter embarks on a personal quest for justice and revenge.In the midst of a savage Minnesota blizzard, investigative reporter Rick Beanblossom receives an anonymous note— much like the one Charles Lindbergh and his family received when their infant son... Read more

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its... Read more

Die for Love

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a... Read more

Lion in the Valley

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1895–96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshur is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through... Read more

Shock

By: Robin Cook

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying... Read more