Thrilling Thrillers

The Last House on Needless Street

By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

“This one lives up to the hype. Although there are numerous points where the story is revealed to be something quite different from what it appeared, you won't remember it just because the plot twists left your head spinning, but rather because of the fascinating, exquisitely-voiced narrators (including, yes, the gay Christian housecat) and... Read more

Carrie

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Sissy Spacek
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

An unpopular teenage girl whose mother is a religious fanatic is tormented and teased to the breaking point by her more popular schoolmates and uses her hidden telekinetic powers to inflict a terrifying revenge. Read more

Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

A Novel

By: Benjamin Stevenson
Narrated by: Barton Welch
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

“Being such an avid Mystery/Thriller reader, I am always trying to figure out the twists and turns of a story before the main character is able to solve it- and I'm usually pretty spot on. This book, however, was a breath of fresh air- a clever, surprisingly deep mystery that kept me on my toes throughout, even though the self-proclaimed... Read more

Delicate Condition

By: Danielle Valentine
Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her... Read more

The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

By: Stuart Turton
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 17 hours 3 minutes

“A murder has happened at the esteemed Blackheath House. Or, rather a murder will happen every night--the same night played over again-- at Blackheath House until our protagonist Aiden Bishop breaks the cycle. Every repeated day, Aiden must unravel a little more of the mystery surrounding the Hardcastle manor and its inhabitants in attempt to... Read more

The Paris Apartment

A Novel

By: Lucy Foley
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi & Charlie Anson
Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.”  — Vogue"[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller." — PeopleFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment... Read more

Looking Glass Sound

By: Catriona Ward
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland & Katherine Fenton
Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

“I love Ward’s writing. It’s intelligent and rife with unreliable narrators and characters. We do not see things as they are. This latest book, like those previous, dabbles with mental instability. Don’t trust what you see. The truth is present on every page, but I bet you interpreted it inaccurately. Omg. Is this what I love about her books?? I... Read more

Daisy Darker

A Novel

By: Alice Feeney
Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

“A fun take on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, Alice Feeney tells the story of a very dysfunctional family gathering for the eccentric matriarch's birthday in a house full of clocks which can only be accessed at low tide. And then the murders begin! Stephanie Racine's Daisy narration brings so much depth to her naive and lonely... Read more

Whalefall

A Novel

By: Daniel Kraus
Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

“Whalefall, by Daniel Kraus, is based on a ridiculous premise - a skinny little scuba diver is swallowed by a huge sperm whale. Also, the first couple of chapters are kind of slow going. So why am I recommending this book? Because it is a rollercoaster of a story. Jay Gardiner's estranged father commits suicide by drowning himself. We know it's... Read more

The Silent Patient

By: Alex Michaelides
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins & Louise Brealey
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

“In “The Silent Patient”, a masterfully maniacal mystery set in London, Alex Michaelides manages to manipulate the most sleuthful and it’s magnificent! Meet artist Alicia and her photographer husband Gabriel, happily married for seven years until one evening, they were not. Convicted of killing Gabriel, a guilty Alicia is sentenced to a mental... Read more

And Then There Were None

By: Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickOne of the most famous and beloved mysteries from The Queen of Suspense—Agatha Christie—now a Lifetime TV movie."Ten . . ."
Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U. N. Owen.""Nine . . ."
At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a... Read more

Red Dragon

By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

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

The Silence of the Lambs

25th Anniversary Edition

By: Thomas Harris
Narrated by: Frank Muller
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Listen to the silence...
An instant classic novel of chilling psychological suspense...a critically-acclaimed audio production of unforgettable intensity...From the tormenting words of the homicidal maniac Dr. Hannibal Lecter and the flesh-rending depravity of an elusive killer to the sheer courage of a young F.B.I. novice, who risks her life... Read more

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

By: Stephen King
Narrated by: Anne Heche
Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

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

The Grifters

Mulholland Classic

By: Jim Thompson
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Jim Thompson's classic The Grifters is one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for the critically acclaimed film by Stephen Frears and Martin Scorcese. 

To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest... Read more

Diary

By: Chuck Palahniuk
Narrated by: Martha Plimpton
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”

Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.

Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a... Read more

The Girl on the Train

A Novel

By: Paula Hawkins
Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture.
 
The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.
 
“Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.”—Vanity Fair

“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller... Read more

Room

A Novel

By: Emma Donoghue
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren, Ellen Archer, Michal Friedman & Robert Petkoff
Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

The award-winning bestseller that became one of the most talked about and memorable novels of the decade, Room is "utterly gripping...a heart-stopping novel" (San Francisco Chronicle).   Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first... Read more

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

A Lisbeth Salander Novel

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series: Book #1

By: Stieg Larsson
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist, and you... Read more

Dark Matter

A Novel

By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

“Dark Matter is equal parts science fiction, thriller, and theoretical self-examination, complete with an overarching love story. Crouch does a fantastic job of keeping readers grounded while traveling through multiple dimensions, and he offers introspection on how each of the life choices a person makes recreates that person in a new and... Read more