Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Last House on Needless Street

By: Catriona Ward

Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." - Stephen King

"Christopher Ragland delivers a story featuring three unreliable narrators, all keeping secrets . . . Ragland's story is a discomforting listen that is difficult to pause." - AudioFile Magazine,... Read more

Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret

By: Benjamin Stevenson

Narrated by: Barton Welch

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita Prose), Ernest Cunningham mysteries. Unwrap all the Christmas staples: presents, family, an impossible murder or two, and a deadly advent calendar of clues. If Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club kissed under the mistletoe.My name’s Ernest... Read more

Daisy Darker

By: Alice Feeney

Narrated by: Stephanie Racine

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Stephanie Racine's talented narration helps create an atmospheric backdrop for this dark mystery."- AudioFile

This program is read by longtime narrator Stephanie Racine who has voiced numerous New York Times, U.S. and U.K. bestselling audiobooks.

Author Alice Feeney reads the acknowledgments on this program.

The New York Times bestselling Queen... Read more

The Brutal Telling

By: Louise Penny

Narrated by: Ralph Cosham

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ralph Cosham delivers a delightful accent for Gamache and invests all the characters with small-town likability." —AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

The wise and beleaguered Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines The Brutal Telling, the fifth book in Louise Penny's #1 New York Times bestselling series.

Chaos is coming, old... Read more

Beartooth

By: Callan Wink

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“Skip Yellowstone for this rawer version of the West.”—New York Times Book Review Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of survival in this taut, propulsive novel reminiscent of the works of Peter Heller and Donald Ray Pollock. In an aging, timber house hand-built into the Absaroka-Beartooth... Read more

Flowers in the Attic

By: V.C. Andrews

Narrated by: Mena Suvari

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the enduring gothic masterpiece Flowers in the Attic—the unforgettable forbidden love story that earned V.C. Andrews a fiercely devoted fan base and became an international cult classic.

At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden—blond, innocent, and fighting for their lives…

They were a perfect... Read more

An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good

By: Helene Tursten

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren

Length: 3 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and . . . no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home.



Ever... Read more

Absolution

By: Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe surprise fourth volume in Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach series―and the final word on one of the most provocative and popular speculative fiction series of our time.When the Southern Reach trilogy was first published a decade ago, it was an instant sensation, celebrated in a front-page New York Times... Read more

The Ritual

By: Adam Nevill

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With... Read more

Voyage of the Damned

By: Frances White

Narrated by: Nathan Foad

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

THE TIKTOK SENSATION FROM THE UK HAS COME TO NORTH AMERICA!
 
“Magical, murderous, romantic romp through a fantasy world as colorful as it is captivating.” Thea Guanzon, New York Times bestselling author of THE HURRICANE WARS

A mind-blowing murder mystery on a ship full of magical passengers. If Agatha Christie wrote fantasy, this would be it!

For a... 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

A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage

By: Asia Mackay

Narrated by: Georgia Tennant & Kyle Soller

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Two former serial killers trying to keep their past buried realize that old habits die hard in this “wildly original, razor-sharp thriller” (Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark).

“An invaluable manual that I return to again and again.”―Hugh Grant

I wasn't smashing the patriarchy; I was killing it.... Read more

'Salem's Lot

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 17 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

SOON TO BE A NEW FILM, STREAMING ON MAX FALL OF 2024 • #1 BESTSELLER • Writer Ben Mears has returned to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.    ... Read more

An Impossible Impostor

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Angèle Masters

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–nominated author Deanna Raybourn.

London, 1889. Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian beau Stoker are summoned by Sir Hugo Montgomerie,... Read more

The Sympathizer

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

Narrated by: Francois Chau

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Now an HBO® Original Limited Series on Max, and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, a startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent years: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

The winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as seven... Read more

The Maidens

By: Alex Michaelides

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith & Louise Brealey

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

"Between the three of them, author Alex Michaelides and narrators Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith cast a spell that will have listeners glued to this suspenseful novel every chance they get." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

"The audiobook is narrated primarily by actor Louise Brealey, who has given life to complex female... 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

The Blackhouse

By: Peter May

Narrated by: Peter Forbes

Length: 12 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author and dramatist Peter May comes the Barry Award-winning The Blackhouse, the first book in the Lewis Trilogy -- a riveting mystery series set on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides.

When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that bears similarities to a brutal killing on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and... Read more

The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

Narrated by: Risa Mei

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime foes crash the party in this hilariously entertaining novel by Jesse Q. Sutanto, bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties.

After an ultra-romantic honeymoon across Europe, Meddy Chan and her husband Nathan have landed in Jakarta to spend Chinese New... Read more

The Year of the Witching

By: Alexis Henderson

Narrated by: Brianna Colette

Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut.
 
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet's word is law, Immanuelle Moore's very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so... Read more

Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

Narrated by: Peter Kenny

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE!

"You've gotta read Ascension by Nicholas Binge. Old-school creepy. . .five-star horror."—Stephen King

"Smartly paced, deploying twists and turns strategically to keep the reader moving. . . The ideas are big and the journey is a whole lot of fun." —The New York Times

"[An] excellent page-turner. . . a... Read more

As Good as Dead

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: Bailey Carr, Kristen DiMercurio, Robert Fass, L...

Length: 15 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

THE MUST-READ MULTIMILLION BESTSELLING MYSTERY SERIES—A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER NOW ON NETFLIX! • The final book in the series that reads like your favorite true crime podcast or show. By the end, you'll never think of good girls the same way again...

Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation... Read more

Vantage Point

By: Sara Sligar

Narrated by: Adam Ewer, Helen Laser & Jess Nahikian

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features multicast narration.

Succession meets Megan Abbott in this seductive, technological suspense about the dramatic downfall of one of America’s most affluent families.

"Terrifying and uncanny.” —Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters

The old-money Wieland family has it all—wealth, status, power. They’re... Read more

False Value

By: Ben Aaronovitch

Narrated by: Kobna Holdbrook-Smith

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The eighth book of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.

Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with... Read more