Crime, Mysteries, & Thrillers

The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly, Atlanta Amado, Victoria Villarreal, Arthur Morey, Andrew Eiden, Kristen DiMercurio, Frankie Corzo, Lauren Fortgang, Javier Prusky, Fred Sanders, Lee Osorio & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine—but the real drama is behind the scenes in this sumptuous historical epic from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

“Whenever I want to read a book I know will be good, I go to Silvia Moreno-Garcia.”—Taylor... Read more

Little Rot

A Novel

By: Akwaeke Emezi
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye & Chukwudi Iwuji
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

“A masterwork…mesmerizing…We come away troubled, unsettled — and in some subtle way changed.”–The New York Times

"The perfect steamy read for those hot summer nights." –People

A thrilling new novel from the bestselling, award-winning, visionary Akwaeke Emezi
 
One weekend.
The elite underbelly of a Nigerian city.
A party that goes awry.
A... Read more

Do What Godmother Says

By: L.S. Stratton
Narrated by: Aure Nash & York Whitaker
Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Shanice Pierce knows better than to heed bad omens. But she has a hard time ignoring the signs when she finds herself newly single and out of a job on the same seemingly cursed day. Then, while cleaning out her grandmother’s house, Shanice comes across a painting she hasn’t seen in years. Drawn to the haunting portrait in a way she can't... Read more

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Reese's Book Club Pick (A Novel)

By: Xochitl Gonzalez
Narrated by: Jessica Pimentel, Jonathan Gregg & Stacy Gonzalez
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

“Anita and Raquel are your every day Latinx women, whose passionate and 'loud' presence are weaponized as 'other' or to be 'tamed'. In this novel, you see both sides of this coin in such a visceral way that it will leave you breathless. Gonzalez holds no punches and the amazingly talented narrators of this audiobook reflected that pure... Read more

Rules of Engagement

By: Stacey Abrams & Selena Montgomery
Narrated by: January LaVoy
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Love is a game of chance in this romantic suspense novel by New York Times bestselling author and American politician and activist Stacey Abrams, writing under her pen name, Selena Montgomery.

Dr. Raleigh Foster, an operative for a top-secret intelligence organization, knows that her undercover work has its risks. So she doesn't hesitate when... Read more

Harlem Shuffle

A Novel

By: Colson Whitehead
Narrated by: Dion Graham
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

“Colson Whitehead's Harlem Shuffle is a historical fiction mystery set in 1960s Harlem. A furniture salesman playing both sides, Ray occasionally gets rid of his cousin Freddie's stolen goods. When Freddie involves him in a heist that goes south, Ray's life turns upside down. Harlem Shuffle. shows the changing landscape of Harlem with a side of... Read more

Rhode Island Red

A Nanette Hayes Mystery: Book #1

By: Charlotte Carter
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year • The first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water.

Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off...again, and when she offers a fellow busker a... Read more

Dead Dead Girls

A Harlem Renaissance Mystery: Book #1

By: Nekesa Afia
Narrated by: Shayna Small
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

“If you are looking for a Harlem Renaissance mystery that will keep you guessing until the end with great sapphic representation, this is the book for you! Louise is well known as 'Harlem's Hero' for escaping her kidnapper and saving other girls at the age of sixteen. Fast forward, Louise just wants to live a normal life. However, when girls... Read more

A Deadly Inside Scoop

Ice Cream Parlor Mystery

By: Abby Collette
Narrated by: Chandra Skyye
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

“This adorable culinary cozy set in a small town near Cleveland will certainly leave you craving ice cream! Marketing-savvy Bronwyn has recently moved back home from New York to revamp and reopen the family-run ice cream parlor started years earlier by her grandparents. Amidst all her preparations, the only thing she wasn’t expecting on opening... Read more

The Whitewashed Tombs

Emma Djan Investigation: Book #4

By: Kwei Quartey
Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Vicious hate crimes are rocking the LGBTQ+ community in Accra, and prejudice and politics threaten to stymie PI Emma Djan’s efforts to find the killer. Author Kwei Quartey tackles a timely and deeply personal issue as a very-real anti-gay bill threatens to tear Ghana apart if ratified by the president.

Marcelo Tetteh, a twenty-seven-year-old... Read more

Last Seen in Lapaz

Emma Djan Investigation: Book #3

By: Kwei Quartey
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

When a whirlwind romance leads to a brutal murder and the disappearance of a young Nigerian woman, PI Emma Djan resorts to dangerous undercover work to track her down in Accra.

Just as things at work are slowing down for PI Emma Djan, an old friend of her boss’s asks for help locating his missing daughter. According to her father, Ngozi had a... Read more

Sleep Well, My Lady

Emma Djan Investigation: Book #2

By: Kwei Quartey
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

In the follow-up to the acclaimed series debut The Missing American, PI Emma Djan investigates the death of a Ghanaian fashion icon and social media celebrity, Lady Araba.

Hard-hitting talk show host Augustus Seeza has become a household name in Ghana, though notorious for his lavish overspending, alcoholism, and womanizing. He’s dating the... Read more

The Missing American

Emma Djan Investigation: Book #1

By: Kwei Quartey
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Accra private investigator Emma Djan's first missing persons case will lead her to the darkest depths of the email scams and fetish priests in Ghana, the world's Internet capital. When her dreams of rising through the Accra police ranks like her late father crash around her, 26-year-old Emma Djan is unsure what will become of her career. Through... Read more

The Violin Conspiracy

A Novel (Good Morning America Book Club)

By: Brendan Slocumb
Narrated by: JD Jackson & Brendan Slocumb
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

“The TLDR version of this review is "I loved it." All the things I pack into the word love is astounding. I quite honestly don't know where to begin. I had to sit with this book and these feelings for a long time before I felt I could even begin to translate what was happening in my head and in my heart into words. I felt seen by this book. Fish... Read more

My Sister, the Serial Killer

A Novel

By: Oyinkan Braithwaite
Narrated by: Adepero Oduye
Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

“Does family always come first? In My Sister, the Serial Killer, a resentful older sister continues to enable her younger sister's serial killer tendencies. If you are looking for a dark and sardonic crime story, I recommend this unique audiobook! Read more

Charcoal Joe

An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Easy Rawlins Series: Book #14

By: Walter Mosley
Narrated by: Michael Boatman
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Walter Mosley’s indelible detective Easy Rawlins is back, with a new detective agency and a new mystery to  solve.

Picking up where his last adventures in Rose Gold left off in L.A. in the late 1960s, Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins finds his life in transition. He’s ready—finally—to propose to his girlfriend, Bonnie Shay, and start a life together. And... Read more

Murder on the Red River

The Cash Blackbear Mysteries: Book #1

By: Marcie R. Rendon
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

A murdered man in a field. The sheriff needs Cash—a twenty-something tough, smart Indian woman with special seeing powers.Cash and Sheriff Wheaton make for a strange partnership. He pulled her from her mother’s wrecked car when she was three. He’s kept an eye out for her ever since. It’s a tough place to live—northern Minnesota along the Red... Read more

The Ninja Daughter

The Lily Wong Series: Book #1

By: Tori Eldridge
Narrated by: Natalie Naudus
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

An action-packed thriller about a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja with family issues who fights the Los Angeles Ukrainian mob, sex traffickers, and her own family to save two desperate women and an innocent child.After her sister is raped and murdered, Lily Wong dedicates her life and ninja skills to the protection of women. But her mission... Read more

Secret Identity

A Novel

By: Alex Segura
Narrated by: Aida Reluzco
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

This program features original sound design.

From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books.

It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the creative zeal of Marvel... Read more

Winter Counts

A Novel

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

“Weiden’s book is a thriller with an important social and political message. Following a Lakota ‘enforcer’ who enacts extrajudicial punishment to fill the gaps in the legal system, Winter Counts is a twisty new addition to the growing Indigenous literature canon. Weiden’s exploration of the injustices of reservation life is vital. Read more