Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Black Orchids

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe has left his comfortable brownstone for the promise of a remarkably rare black orchid at a flower show—but before Wolfe and his perennially hardy sidekick, Archie Goodwin, have a chance to stop and smell the roses, a diabolically daring murder takes place right under their noses and puts a blight on the proceedings. Now Wolfe's fancy... Read more

A Right to Die

By: Rex Stout

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

When a bright young heiress with a flair for romance and one too many enemies is found brutally murdered, Nero Wolfe and his sidekick, Archie, find themselves embroiled in a case that is not as black and white as it first appears.



Susan Brooke has everything going for her.  Men would have killed themselves to marry her, and, in fact, one... Read more

The Hunters

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 19 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The first two novels in W. E. B. Griffin’s exciting new Presidential Agent series, By Order of the President and The Hostage, immediately raced up the bestseller lists. Told in “punchy prose that connects like a right hook” (Chicago Tribune), they were further proof that “Griffin just keeps on getting better” (Booklist). The Hunters picks up... Read more

Sliver of Truth - Abridged

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ridley Jones is being careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when a seemingly mundane act–picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab–puts her at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she’s taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make... Read more

The Hunters - Abridged

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 18 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Delta Force Major Charley Castillo returns in the third crackling adventure in Griffin's #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

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The Killing Moon - Abridged

By: Chuck Hogan

Narrated by: John Slattery

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Donald Maddox has returned to his sleepy Massachusetts hometown after fifteen years away. Although he has no law enforcement background, he finds a job as an auxiliary patrolman -- on a local police force known to inspire more fear than trust. When the brutal murder of a local resident shatters the isolation of this forgotten place, triggering... Read more

The Nanny Murders

By: Merry Jones

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Mary Higgins Clark comes this deliciously written woman-in-jeopardy novel from a wonderful new talent.Zoe, a single mother with an adopted daughter, discovers that one of her neighbors could be a serial killer. Someone is busily dismembering Philadelphia's terrified nannies. Zoe and a mysteriously scarred detective named... Read more

The Whale’s Footprints

By: Rick Boyer

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

What starts as a pleasant summer on Cape Cod for Doc and Mary Adams turns suddenly chilling when their house guest is murdered in his bed—with the very pills that control his epilepsy. Their son Jack becomes the prime suspect. After all, the victim had been Jack’s rival both at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and for the attention of a... Read more

Billingsgate Shoal

By: Rick Boyer

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

First, a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore. Then, a young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found floating lifeless in the water.Doc Adams, the unhappy friend of the unlucky aquarian, has just been launched through the stormy seas and blood-flecked sands of the Cape Cod coast to plumb the depths of a murder he... Read more

The Thirty Nine Steps

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Peter Joyce

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the first "espionage thrillers" and an acknowledged classic, The Thirty-Nine Steps well deserves its accolades as one of the best adventure stories of all time. Leaving aside the improbable denouement, the fast paced, brilliantly conceived narrative still excites and carries one along with the sheer suspense of the manhunt - a recurring... Read more

Murder Unprompted

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

“I want you all out—gone—dead—exterminated!” Alex Household had cried when, after a lifetime of struggle, he lost the starring role in a new play to an actor who couldn’t remember his lines. But did that mean that it was Alex who had shot the leading man dead during his climactic speech? Charles Paris, for one, could see many logical suspects,... Read more

Darkness in Him

By: Andrew Lyons

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when you face the true test of your moral character? What happens when you fail that test?When Jake Conason goes to a party at his Jefferson University fraternity house, he’s sitting on top of the world. He’s got great grades, a gorgeous girlfriend, and an almost certain acceptance to his dream law school. He’s golden, set to ride a... Read more

The Cliff House Strangler

By: Shirley Tallman

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

When nineteenth-century attorney Sarah Woolson defied convention by opening her own San Francisco law firm, she found that clients—paying clients, that is—were wary of a woman managing their legal affairs. Just as her patience and her money are running out, Sarah attends a séance at San Francisco’s Cliff House that turns out to be much more than... Read more

Stalked

By: Brian Freeman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 12 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Lieutenant Jonathan Stride knows his partner, Maggie Bei, is in trouble when she reports a deadly crime on a bitter winter night. She’s obviously hiding a terrible secret, and her silence only feeds suspicion. But Maggie isn’t the only one keeping secrets in Duluth. A seductive young woman has disappeared, leaving behind a stash of lurid... Read more

The Seventh Sacrament

By: David Hewson

Narrated by: Saul Reichlin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Back in Rome after their dramatic adventures in Venice, Detectives Costa, Peroni and Leo Falcone are rebuilding their lives. But they team up once again when faced with the sudden appearance of fresh bloodstains on a missing young boy's T-shirt in a small museum exhibit displaying supposed evidence of communication from souls in Purgatory. Soon... Read more

Prodigy

By: Dave Kalstein

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 12 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In the year 2036, the world’s best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education—and developmental drug regimen—available. Graduates go on to dominate in all the top colleges, Forbes 500 companies, and government positions.But when... Read more

Scorpion Strike

By: John J. Nance

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the wake of Operation Desert Storm, a defecting Iraqi scientist has revealed Saddam Hussein's horrifying plans for a devastating counterstrike against his enemies…and the world.With no time to spare, American forces must remobilize to locate and neutralize the underground laboratory where a lethal super-virus is ready to be unleashed. But an... Read more

Jamaica Blue

By: Don Bruns

Narrated by: Don Bruns

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the exotic backdrop of Jamaica and Florida, charismatic rock reporter Mick Sever investigates a reggae band’s involvement with the violent deaths of young girls in this gripping mystery of music and murder.Led by their mysterious and captivating singer Derrick Lyman, the band seems ready for their big break. But after their first... Read more

The Perfect Murder

By: H. R. F. Keating

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

It is Inspector Ghote's bad luck to be landed with the case of the perfect murder at the start of his career with the Bombay Police. As if it were not enough to have to contend with the cunning and important tycoon Lala Varde, Ghote finds himself investigating a mysterious theft of a single rupee from the desk of yet another very important... Read more

Justice

By: Dan Mahoney

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A murderous Robin Hood stalks New York City in a powerhouse new thriller by the bestselling author of Black and White.Detective First Grade Brian McKenna and his partner Cisco Sanchez are chasing a killer that all of New York City is rooting for, a vigilante of supreme technical skill, physical power, and intelligence who signs himself... Read more

Badlands

By: Peter Bowen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

When a secretive millennial cult from California purchases a ranch on the outskirts of the Montana badlands, an eerily silent, dry, and windy dead zone, the Toussaint townsfolk are none too pleased.The cult members keep to themselves, but the suspicious circumstances under which they arrived have Gabriel Du Pré questioning their motives and... Read more

Dead Ground

By: Gerald Seymour

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

One frozen night in Germany, Tracy Barnes witnesses the killing of her lover by the secret police. Years later, when the Wall has crumbled and old enemies are new friends, Tracy encounters the murderer and plans to make him pay.But in a country still at war with itself, Tracy finds that she is being played as a pawn in a far bigger game of... Read more

The Birthday Girl

By: Stephen Leather

Narrated by: Martyn Read

Length: 17 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Tony Freeman rescued Mersiha when she was fighting for her life in war-torn Yugoslavia. Now she is his adopted daughter, the perfect all-American girl – and the past is another country. Or so it seems. But Mersiha has been trained to kill. And when she discovers that Freeman's company is subject to a sinister takeover bid, she decides to help.... Read more

The Murder of the Maharajah

By: H. R. F. Keating

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In the princely state of Bhopore, India, 1930, a handful of Western visitors comes to the opulent Summer Palace to meet the outrageous Maharajah and his entourage. There they meet the Maharajah’s heir, the sensual Porgy, and his English chorus-girl mistress. They meet the enigmatic chief minister, and the aloof British Resident, with his... Read more