Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Where the Axe Is Buried

By: Ray Nayler

Narrated by: Eunice Wong

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

All systems fail. All societies crumble. All worlds end.

"[C]ompellingly narrated, making for a performance that's difficult to pause." —AudioFile on The Mountain in the Sea

In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip... Read more

Bright Objects

By: Ruby Todd

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The New York Times 10 Best Thrillers of 2024
One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2024
One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2024

A “luminous, unusual, unexpected” (The New York Times) debut novel blending mystery, psychological suspense, astronomy, and romance, in which a young widow faces the life-altering arrival of a rare comet,... Read more

Snow

By: John Banville

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER AWARD*

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

A New York Times Editors’ Choice Pick

“Banville sets up and then deftly demolishes the Agatha Christie format…superbly rich and sophisticated.”—New York Times Book Review

The incomparable Booker Prize winner’s next great crime novel—the... Read more

Sleeping Murder

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense... Read more

Witness 8

By: Steve Cavanagh

Narrated by: Adam Sims

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Author of the “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Kill For Me, Kill for You, the master of psychological thrillers Steve Cavanagh returns.

What if the witness was more twisted than the killer?

Something is wrong with Ruby Johnson.

A former resident of the ultra-elite Manhattan upper class, Ruby... Read more

The Kamogawa Food Detectives

By: Hisashi Kashiwai

Narrated by: Hanako Footman

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time?


Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up... Read more

The Round House

By: Louise Erdrich

Narrated by: Gary Farmer

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable BookFrom one of the most revered novelists of our time, an exquisitely told story of a boy on the cusp of manhood who seeks justice and understanding in the wake of a terrible crime that upends and forever transforms his family.One Sunday in the... Read more

Lightlark

By: Alex Aster

Narrated by: Suzy Jackson

Length: 12 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

WELCOME TO THE CENTENNIAL

Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only one hundred days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each curse is uniquely wicked. To break them—and save themselves and their realms—one ruler will... Read more

The Trespasser

By: Tana French

Narrated by: Hilda Fay

Length: 20 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling novel by Tana French, author of the forthcoming novel The Hunter, is “required reading for anyone who appreciates tough, unflinching intelligence and ingenious plotting” (The New York Times). She “inspires cultic devotion in readers” (The New Yorker) and is “the most important crime novelist to emerge in the past... Read more

The Chestnut Man

By: Soren Sveistrup

Narrated by: Peter Noble

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES2020 Audie Awards® Winner - MysteryFROM THE CREATOR OF THE HIT TELEVISION SHOW THE KILLING, “a full-throttle thriller in the tradition of classic Stieg Larsson” (A.J. Finn).IF YOU FIND ONE, HE’S ALREADY FOUND YOUA psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen.His calling card is a “chestnut man”—a handmade doll made of... Read more

When No One Is Watching

By: Alyssa Cole

Narrated by: Susan Dalian & Jay Aaseng

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

""I was knocked over by the momentum of an intense psychological thriller that doesn’t let go until the final page. This is a terrific read."" – Alafair Burke, New York Times bestselling author
Rear Window meets Get Out in this gripping thriller from a critically acclaimed and New York Times Notable author, in which the gentrification of a... Read more

Gone Girl

By: Gillian Flynn

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes

ONE OF TIME'S 100... Read more

Real Tigers

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

London: Slough House is the MI5 branch where disgraced operatives are reassigned after they’ve messed up too badly to be trusted with real intelligence work. The “Slow Horses,” as the failed spies of Slough House are called, are
doomed to spend the rest of their careers pushing paper, but they all want back in on the action.

When one of their own... Read more

The Night She Disappeared

By: Lisa Jewell

Narrated by: Joanne Froggatt

Length: 11 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of None of This Is True comes “her best thriller yet” (Harlan Coben, New York Times bestselling author) about a young couple’s disappearance on a gorgeous summer night, and the mother who will never give up trying to find them.

On a beautiful summer night in a charming... Read more

Altered Carbon

By: Richard K. Morgan

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 17 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the... Read more

Lock Every Door

By: Riley Sager

Narrated by: Dylan Moore

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
“Looking for a suspense novel that will keep you up until way past midnight? Look no further than Lock Every Door, by Riley Sager.”—Stephen King 
 
No visitors. No nights spent elsewhere. No disturbing the rich and famous residents. These are the rules for Jules Larsen’s new job apartment sitting at the... Read more

The Agathas

By: Kathleen Glasgow & Liz Lawson

Narrated by: Mehr Dudeja, Sophie Amoss & Holly Linneman

Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Who killed Brooke Donovan? It’s the biggest mystery of the summer, and everyone in Castle Cove thinks they know what happened. But they're wrong. Two unlikely friends come together to solve the case in this fast-paced, fun, modern Agatha Christie inspired thriller.

"Part Agatha Christie, part Veronica Mars, and... Read more

The Writer

By: James Patterson & J. D. Barker

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

“Consider blocking out a few hours of uninterrupted reading time” for The Writer, #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson’s “Excellent… perfectly executed … genuinely suspenseful” (Booklist) thriller about a true-crime author swept up in a murder plot.

“Entertaining…one gonzo plot twist follows the next…loads of fun.” (Publishers... Read more

Glory Be

By: Danielle Arceneaux

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The first in a vivid and charming crime series set in the Louisiana bayou, introducing the hilariously uncensored amateur sleuth Glory Broussard. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club.It’s a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local... Read more

The Word is Murder

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Rory Kinnear

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Rory Kinnear ""One of the most entertaining mysteries of the year. It’s also one of the most stimulating, as it ponders such questions as: Which is of greater interest to the reader, the crime or the detective? And: Is the pencil truly mightier than the butcher knife?” — Wall Street JournalNew York Times bestselling author of Magpie... Read more

A Study in Scarlet Women

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

USA Today bestselling author Sherry Thomas turns the story of the renowned Sherlock Holmes upside down in the first novel in this Victorian mystery series....
 
With her inquisitive mind, Charlotte Holmes has never felt comfortable with the demureness expected of the fairer sex in upper class society. But even she never thought that she would... Read more

The Amalfi Curse

By: Sarah Penner

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Carlotta Brentan, Chris Andr...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

“Sarah Penner transported me to the sea-swept cliffs of Positano and introduced me to characters I’ll never forget. A magical read!”
—Emilia Hart, New York Times bestselling author of Weyward

Powerful witchcraft. A hunt for sunken treasure. Forbidden love on the high seas. Beware the Amalfi Curse…

Haven Ambrose, a trailblazing nautical... Read more

Spook Street

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when an old spook loses his mind? Does the Service have a retirement home for aging spies who can no longer remember their secrets are secret? Or are senile spies taken care of in a different, more permanent fashion?

These are the paranoid concerns of David Cartwright, a Cold War–era operative and one-time head of MI5 who is sliding... Read more

A Cornish Recipe for Murder

By: Fiona Leitch

Narrated by: Zara Ramm

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

‘A sparklingly delicious confection to satisfy the mystery reader’s appetite’ Helena Dixon, bestselling author of the Miss Underhay Mysteries Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is back! When popular TV baking contest and national institution ‘The Best of British Baking Roadshow’ rolls into town and sets... Read more