Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Daddy's Girl - Abridged

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she secretly feels like Faculty Comic Relief. She loves her family, too, but as a bookworm, doesn't quite fit into the cult of Greco football, headed by her father, the team captain. The one person whom she feels most connected to is her colleague Angus Holt, a guy with a brilliant mind,... Read more

The Spellman Files - Abridged

By: Lisa Lutz

Narrated by: Ari Graynor

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the award-winning author of The Accomplice and The Passenger comes the first novel in the hilarious Spellman Files mystery series featuring Isabel “Izzy” Spellman (part Nancy Drew, part Dirty Harry) and her highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators.

Meet Isabel “Izzy” Spellman, private investigator. This... Read more

White Jazz - Abridged

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: Jerry Orbach

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.

Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own... Read more

L.A. Confidential - Abridged

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: David Strathairn

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as corrupt as the criminals.

Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol. For the three L. A. P. D. detectives involved, it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careers. Read more

In the Best Families

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The aging millionairess has a problem: where is her young playboy husband getting all his money? To help find the answer, Archie infiltrates a party at her palatial estate. But her late-night murder ruins the festive mood . . . and a letter bomb from a powerful crime boss makes Nero Wolfe do the unthinkable—run for his life. Suddenly Archie... Read more

Murder By the Book

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

Introduction by David Handler

It wasn’t Leonard Dykes’s writing style that offended. But something in his unpublished tome seemed to lead everyone who read it to a very unhappy ending. Now four people are dead, including the... Read more

Christine Falls

By: John Banville & Benjamin Black

Narrated by: Timothy Dalton

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It's not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It's the living. One night, after a few drinks at an office party, Quirke shuffles down into the morgue where he works and finds his brother-in-law, Malachy, altering a file he has no business even reading. Odd enough in itself to find Malachy there, but the next morning, when the haze has lifted,... Read more

Falling

By: Christopher Pike

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Love hurts. FBI agent Kelly Feinman knows this is true. While she is recovering from an attack by a serial killer called the “Acid Man,” her husband leaves her. Physically and emotionally scarred by the murderer, Kelly feels she will never be the same. She is cut off not only from her husband and child, but also from her fellow FBI agents, who... Read more

Might As Well Be Dead

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

“It is always a treat to read a Nero Wolfe mystery. The man has entered our folklore.”—The New York Times Book Review

Eleven years ago, wealthy Nebraska businessman James Herold gave his only son, Paul, a very raw deal. Now he wants Nero Wolfe to track Paul down so that he can make amends. But what if the young man doesn’t want to be found . . .... Read more

If Death Ever Slept

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

With Nero Wolfe on the job, you'd think murderers would take caution. But even the master detective can't stop a killing, especially if it's an inside job—right under the roof of his client, millionaire Otis Jarrell.

What's more, it's Jarrell's own missing revolver that the killer uses. Wolfe must find the truth behind the scandals in Jarrell's... Read more

Homicide Trinity

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s a wily killer who dares to strike on Nero Wolfe’s hallowed turf—and leave a corpse strangled with Wolfe’s own soup-stained tie. But no sooner does the gourmandizing sleuth clean up this first course of murder than he faces a gun-toting wife who serves up a confession of homicidal intent—only to become the sole suspect when the corpus... Read more

Dry Ice

By: Stephen White

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KILL MEPsychopath Michael McClelland escapes from a mental hospital to exact revenge against those responsible for his confinement, including psychologist Alan Gregory and his family. McClelland has the upper hand-secrets from Alan's past that set a diabolical game in motion. Read more

PARIS TROUT - Abridged

By: Pete Dexter

Narrated by: Charles S. Dutton

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. Read more

Diamond Solitaire

By: Peter Lovesey

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

One-time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods.Weeks later, she is still unclaimed. Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent little girl and takes on the challenge of uncovering her identity.Now Diamond is... Read more

telefonpower

By: Claudia Fischer

Narrated by: Gisa Bergmann & Heiko Grauel

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Erstaunlich: Telefonieren betrifft jeden, vorbereitet und trainiert sind jedoch die wenigsten. Dabei ist das Telefon auch in Zeiten des Internet das wichtigste Kommunikationsmedium im Business. Durch professionelles Telefonverhalten stellt sich das Unternehmen nach außen positiv dar, schlechte Telefongewohnheiten wirken in die... Read more

Poodle Springs - Abridged

By: Raymond Chandler & Robert Parker

Narrated by: Elliott Gould

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Hardboiled, cynical detective Philip Marlowe is back. Though married to a wealthy heiress, he is not content to lounge around the pool. It isn't long before Marlowe is mired in a gambling case involving bigamy, pornography, and murder in the posh desert community of Poodle Springs. Read more

The Assassin

By: Andrew Britton

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 16 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a year has passed since Ryan Kealey prevented the assassination of multiple world leaders in the nation’s capital. While his work is brilliant, he’s considered damaged goods. Now he’s about to become a key player in a plot of unimaginable scale. For something big is about to go down in New York City.When a top Iranian source reveals... Read more

The Watchman

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: James Daniels

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole (The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction…Larkin Conner Barkley lives like... Read more

Capitol Threat

By: William Bernhardt

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Oklahoma attorney Ben Kincaid came to Washington, D.C., to defend a senator caught in
a red-hot sex scandal turned murder case, he never dreamed he’d end up trading the courtroom for the Senate chamber. And after his not-so-distinguished client stepped down, Ben found himself appointed to complete the sullied senator’s term. Now, having... Read more

Looks to Die For

By: Janice Kaplan

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous decorator to the stars. But when her husband is accused of murdering a young wannabe actress, Lacy finds out she has a killer instinct for hunting down murderers as well as antique furniture.



Cleverly marrying the... Read more

Storm Runners

By: T. Jefferson Parker

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Matt Stromsoe has come a long way since his wife and son were killed in an explosion meant for him. Wounded severely in both body and spirit, Stromsoe gave up the last thing that held any meaning for him - his job on the police force - and proceeded to hit rock bottom, hard. That was a lifetime ago, and finally the spiral of personal... Read more

The Taste of Innocence - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens created the world of the Cynsters, she introduced readers to aristocratic British society, where arranged marriages are the norm and love is a dangerous indulgence. For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, but, as Lord Meredith, he must marry, so he offers for his... Read more

Der Unendliche

By: Peter Lerf

Narrated by: Various

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Als Katie eines Nachts gefesselt und geknebelt in einer dunklen unheimlichen Höhle aufwacht – beobachtet von einem geheimnisvollen Mann – denkt sie zuerst an eine Entführung. Doch als sie immer tiefer in die Abgründe seiner finsteren Seele blicken kann, begreift Katie, dass die Gefahr noch viel größer ist, als sie bisher angenommen hat. Eine... Read more

Conspiracy in Death

By: J. D. Robb

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

With the precision of a surgeon, a serial killer preys on the most vulnerable souls of the world's city streets. The first victim: a sidewalk sleeper, found dead in New York City. No bruises, no signs of struggle. Just a laser-perfect, fist-sized hole where his heart had once been. Lieutenant Eve Dallas is assigned to investigate. But in the... Read more