Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Stormy Petrel - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Jenny Seagrove

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For writer Rose Fenemore, an isolated cottage on a remote Scottish island seemed like an ideal away-from-it-all retreat. Here is a place where she can work in peace, and where her brother Crispin could walk, fish, and photograph the birds and wildlife. But it is not easy to escape the world and its troubles. Crispin's arrival is delayed, and... Read more

Downtown - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Stephen Macht

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ed McBain, author of the best-selling 87th Precinct series, takes us Downtown in this harrowing tale of a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York CIty. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Wall Street bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled,... Read more

Cinderella - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Attorney Matthew Hope had hired Otto Samalson to conduct a simple marital investigation— so how does Samalson end up dead on a deserted highway? Hope's search for an answer takes him into Florida's drug underworld on the trail of a hooker— one who has the style and looks necessary to transform herself into a high-class... Read more

Dance with the Devil - Abridged

By: Kirk Douglas

Narrated by: Kirk Douglas

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Thought-provoking, riveting, and erotic, Dance with the Devil is the debut novel of legendary actor Kirk Douglas. Hollywood can be a tough town, but it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. At 55, he's wealthy, successful, and respected throughout the film world. But Danny has been living a lie. Haunted by his past, he longs to find peace and... Read more

Three Blind Mice - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After Jessica Leeds— wife of a prestigious, wealthy Florida landowner— is brutally raped, three Vietnamese immigrants are charged with the crime. After the trial results in their acquittal, Jessica's husband Stephen vows vengeance. Then, the three immigrants are found savagely murdered. When all of the evidence ties... Read more

Drowned Hopes - Abridged

By: Donald Westlake

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A comic crime masterpiece featuring anti-hero John Dortmunder.Arriving home after another failed burglary, John Dortmunder is shocked to find his apartment occupied by a notorious cellmate that everyone had supposed (and hoped) had been jailed for life. Tom Jimson needs Dortmunder's help. Thirty years before his last prison stretch, Tom had... Read more

Billy - Abridged

By: Whitley Strieber

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Every parent's worst fear: A young child is kidnapped by a deranged misfit. When Barton Royal finds Billy at a video arcade, it' s a dream come true for Barton, but a terrifying nightmare for Billy. A shocking look into the dark soul of a psychopath, this chilling tale will leave listeners breathless. Read more

Lady Boss - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s life as a writer and icon is now explored in the CNN Films documentary Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story!

The dangerously beautiful Lucky Santangelo—star of two of Jackie Collins’s previous smash, international bestsellers, Chances and Lucky—returns, and this time the shockingly sensual, ruthlessly... Read more

That's the Ticket & Voices in the Coal Bin

By: Mary Clark

Narrated by: Carol Higgins Clark

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark presents two short stories narrated by her daughter Carol: "That's the Ticket!"Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a... Read more

Hammerheads - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Off the coast of southern Florida, a deadly war is being waged that threatens our national security. Thousands of kilos of illicit drugs are dumped on our shores annually. But "business as usual" takes a different turn when Sandra Geffar, head of the U.S. Customs Department, and Ian Hardcastle, Commander of the Coast Guard, put their... Read more

Kiss Me Deadly - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

No dame is pretty with a gun in her hand. But at least this one was alive. The last time Mike Hammer met up with a blonde she ended up dead, and Hammer inherited a war with the Mob. As he digs deeper, he discovers that about fifteen years ago the Mafia had been double crossed. Now, people are dying because of it and the girl with the gun is a... Read more

Vengeance is Mine - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Deborah lee Johnson

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was a nice guy. Now he's dead. That's all Hammer knows about the stiff in the hotel room. But that isn't enough because Hammer suspects murder while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Hammer is pushing his way through a swirl of sex-and-game clubs, high priced models and not just a little blackmail. Someone is... Read more

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Sally Kirkland

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From The Anastasia Syndrome, her bestselling collection of short fiction, Terror Stalks the Class Reunion is a riveting, unabridged audio production.

Lovely young Kay Crandall has come back for the reunion of a high school where she once taught. But Kay cannot guess that the happy occasion is about to turn into a nightmare, as she falls into the... Read more

Distant Danger

By: Jan Van de Wetering, Jean Darling, Joyce Harrin...

Narrated by: Nancy Dussault

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories for this annual collection of the Mystery Writers of America were selected for their strange and exotic locales. Breathtaking suspense, cold-blooded crime, and challenging twists of plot— set in the four corners of the world— make this recording a chilling audio experience. • "Deadhead Coming... Read more

My Gun is Quick - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He called her Red.  She called him in from the cold.  For one short moment in the big, hard city they were friends--and then the girl turned up dead.  Mike Hammer will walk through walls to find out who she was and why she died, even if he doesn't like the answers he gets.  Even if they are all about a seamy network of call-girls, blackmail, and... Read more

A Stranger in the Mirror

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Shannon Engemann

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

A tale of Hollywood betrayal, revenge, and murder, A Stranger in the Mirror tells the story of two star-crossed lovers, Toby Temple—a superstar who struggles to become the world's funniest man—and Jill Castle, a sensuous starlet with a dark, mysterious past. Toby gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. As his... Read more

Out on the Rim - Abridged

By: Ross Thomas

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if you were offered a gig by some shadowy and well-financed interests to funnel five million dollars to rebels holed up in the Philippine mountains? They need to fund a revolt against the Aquino government and a resourceful and gutsy team to engineer it. And what a team it is: Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert, is the only man the rebel... Read more

Angel Eyes - Abridged

By: Eric Lustbader

Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tori Nunn went to Buenos Aires to forget— to forget her former life and to forget the death of her astronaut brother Greg, who died in a tragic space accident. But when handsome Ariel Solares alerts her to Japanese cocaine dealers shipping nuclear material from Columbia, she won't let go. Soon Tori is back in the world of spies and... Read more

Killing Man - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It keeps coming back to Hammer...

The image of bloodshed in his office remained etched in Mike Hammer's mind forever - his secretary sprawled on the floor and a stranger sitting dead and mutilated at his own desk. In one moment a storm of madness entered the private eye's life. As he starts hunting for the killer, Hammer is haunted by the... Read more

The Guest of Honor - Abridged

By: Irving Wallace

Narrated by: Roddy McDowall

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If he had been just another married man, and she a beautiful woman— it would have been just a passionate affair. But he was the president. Will this dangerous liaison change the course of history? Matthew Underwood— former anchorman and now U.S. President— is dangerously indifferent to his job until he meets... Read more

While My Pretty One Sleeps - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jessica Walter

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A stunning tale of murder, glamour, and romance, While My Pretty One Sleeps is the most exciting novel yet from Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense.

Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposés, is one of the best customers at... Read more

Red Dragon - Abridged

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Thomas Harris

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered -- the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness.

All hope rests on Special Agent Will... Read more

Thornyhold - Abridged

By: Mary Stewart

Narrated by: Jenny Agutter

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gilly Ramsey's lonely childhood was brightened only by visits to her godmother until her death, when the grown-up Gilly inherits the family cottage, “ Thornyhold.” Set deep in a wild wood, with its magical and peaceful strength and its sovereign defenses against evil, Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. The... Read more

Murder for Christmas

By: Thomas Godfrey, John Collier, Sir Arthur Conan ...

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Ah, the pleasures of Christmas: the hanging of lights, the traditional feasts, the gathering of families, and... a bit of murder, conspiracy, and theft. The holiday season seems to inspire the imagination of the best mystery writers, and their talents shine here in these delightful tales of Yuletide crime. In this busiest of seasons,... Read more