Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Murder on the Glitter Box - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A murder mystery in which author and television personality Steve Allen finds himself a prime suspect! Creator and first host of The Tonight Show, entertainment legend Steve Allen is asked to stand in for Terry Cole, a late night talk-show host. Easy enough to be a substitute, thinks Allen, but little does he know that the vodka from the... Read more

The Lottery Winner - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jean Stapleton

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Mary Higgins Clark, the bestselling “Queen of Suspense,” returns with Alvirah Meehan—one of her most beloved characters—in these six dazzling, intertwined, and thrilling tales of sleuthing and suspense.

Together with her devoted mate, the ever-resourceful Alvirah has jumped into crime solving on a grand scale—and with her indomitable spirit and... Read more

Frankenstein - Abridged

By: Mary Shelley

Narrated by: Kenneth Branagh

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man’s obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy. “If ever a book needed to be placed in context, it’s Frankenstein” (The New York Times Book Review).

A timeless, terrifying tale of one man's obsession to create life—and the monster that became his legacy.

This edition includes:
-A concise... Read more

Wild Horses - Abridged

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind, and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of and makes his last confession to his visiting film-director friend, Thomas Lyon, whom in his delirium he mistakes for a... Read more

Hollywood Kids - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wherever there's money and glamour, trouble can't be too far behind—in Hollywood Kids Jackie Collins takes her readers back to the Hollywood Hills for another absorbing page-turner of sex, ambition, and deadly revenge.

At the novel's core is the Hollywood Five, a clique of jaded twenty-somethings whose parents (all major players) thought that... Read more

The Butcher Boy - Abridged

By: Patrick Mccabe

Narrated by: Patrick Mccabe

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

When I was a lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent.

Welcome to the mind of Francie Brady. Just what Francie did to Mrs. Nugent is the final, terrifying act of a young boy at the end of a relentless descent into a world of scorn and fear, brought to... Read more

Dixie City Jam - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From two-time Edgar Award–winner and New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a thrilling novel—now available in ebook—that pits Dave Robicheaux against the worst opponent he’s encountered yet.

It’s out there, under the salt of the Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana coast—a buried Nazi submarine. Detective Dave Robicheaux of the New... Read more

Night Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

John Sandford's bestselling Lucas Davenport series continues with the fast-paced, compelling thriller, Night Prey. A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up... Read more

The Big Kill - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar.  Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone.  But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse.  By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys... Read more

The Alienist - Abridged

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 4 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1986: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In... Read more

Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko & John Weisman

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Richard Marcinko wrote his bestselling autobiography, Rogue Warrior, he and co-writer John Weisman were bound by government restrictions and could only tell a fraction of his incredible story. Now the tales he could not tell, the secrets he could not reveal explode in ROGUE WARRIOR II: RED CELL -- a riveting ne novel with Marcinko himself... Read more

The Thirty-Nine Steps

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: David Case

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the most original and best adventure stories ever told, with spies, thrilling chase scenes, and explosions. With an introduction by Stella Rimington.

May 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger he stumbles into a hair-raising... Read more

Degree of Guilt

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Stalking Horse - Abridged

By: Bill Shoemaker

Narrated by: Bruce Boxleitner

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raymond Starbuck ruined star jockey Coley Killebrew's reputation— so why is Coley cutting a deal with him? When Killebrew was barred from the track after a race-fixing scandal, he also lost his irresistible girlfriend, Francie Dorn. Starbuck says that if Coley can keep some unsavory cronies from muscling in on the old Magnolia Park... Read more

Murder in Vegas - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The greed and glamour of Vegas are nothing new for comedian Steve Allen, until his show at the famous Colosseum ends in murder. While Steve and his fellow crooner Buddy Hamilton rehearse, Steve' s wife, actress Jayne Meadows, rushes in with horrifying news: Buddy's glamorous young bride, Christie, has been strangled in the sauna.... Read more

The Murder Game - Abridged

By: Steve Allen

Narrated by: Steve Allen

Length: 2 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When the network decides to revive its old show The Murder Game, Steve Allen's wife Jayne Meadows is willing to try her hand at solving imaginary homicides on prime-time television. The game turns deadly, however, as one by one the stars are actually killed. With each new victim, the program's ratings soar, so Steve and Jayne take it upon... Read more

Seafire - Abridged

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Bond and his stunning partner— the former Swiss intelligence agent Flicka von Grusse— investigate the disappearance of Sir Maxwell, a self-made billionaire whose aims rival that of Hitler. Their pursuit takes them on a dangerous course through London and Spain then across the Middle East and on to a floating... Read more

The Advocate's Devil - Abridged

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When defense attorney Abe Ringel takes the case of Joe Campbell— the "White Knight" of the New York Knicks who stands accused of rape— the lawyer anticipates an easy victory to get his career on track. But when it appears that Campbell is not only guilty but dangerous, Ringel must confront the conflict between his... Read more

Night Shadows - Abridged

By: Ron Ely

Narrated by: Ron Ely

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An exciting first mystery by actor Ron Ely, star of Tarzan and Doc Savage.Jake Sands has had a truly action-packed life as a recoverer of stolen objects and people. His work has made him a very rich man, but he paid a steep price: the murder of his wife and child. Jake now spends his days working out and his nights haunted by memories. One... Read more

My Sister's Keeper - Abridged

By: Shirley Lord

Narrated by: Shirley Lord

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Louise Towers, one of the most powerful and celebrated women in the world, is brutally attacked in her New York mansion. Founder of a mighty cosmetics empire, she is known as one of the most well-guarded, inaccessible people, so both the public and press alike believe that the attack could have only been planned by someone close to her. The... Read more

Decider - Abridged

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A GRIPPING RACETRACK THRILLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DRIVING FORCE AND COMEBACK

THE STAKES ARE DEADLY AT STRATTON PARK

Architect and family man Lee Morris never gave much thought to the shares he inherited of the Stratton Park racecourse, the multi-million dollar property owned by the powerful Stratton family. His mother had first... Read more

Little Chills

By: NPR

Narrated by: NPR

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran radio repertory company ZPPR Productions is guaranteed to give you goose bumps! Ranging from comic to horrific, these bite-sized thrillers include suspenseful contemporary dramas, satiric murder mysteries, and tongue-in-cheek parodies. This recording includes:

• "Vigilante"— Is it a villain or a hero who turns... Read more

A Simple Plan - Abridged

By: Scott Smith

Narrated by: Griffin Dunne

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of The Ruins comes his debut New York Times bestselling thriller

A SIMPLE PLAN
Read by Griffin Dunne

Hank Mitchell thought he lived an ordinary, ordered life. But on one chilly afternoon, Hank, his brother Jacob, and Jacob's unsavory pal Lou, make a discovery that offers a chance for a life filled with riches beyond their... Read more

Sky Masters - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A confrontation between the U.S and China threatens to erupt into all-out war. As the U.S. withdraws from the Philippines, China slips in to fill the power vacuum and lays claim to tiny, uninhabitable oil-rich islands in the South China Sea. The Philippines also claim the islands, so China's navy decimates a Philippine drilling platform when its... Read more