Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Daughters of Cain

By: Colin Dexter

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The police had no weapon, no suspect, and no motive.But within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of the victim, Dr.... Read more

Thunder Horse

By: Peter Bowen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Toussaint, Montana, isn’t easily rattled, but an earthquake uncovers an ancient burial ground and the well-preserved bones of a primitive people. When an archeologist is found with a bullet in his back and a dinosaur tooth in his pocket, occasional sleuth Gabriel Du Pré steps in with the wisdom and vision of his Métis ancestors to uncover the... Read more

Phoenix Rising

By: John J. Nance

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 13 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Internationally acclaimed aviation insider and novelist John J. Nance moves with polished ease and compelling authenticity from the cockpit to the boardroom in a world where the “Big Three” US airlines have achieved national dominance—with high prices and poor service. Challenging them comes a new, visionary airline, one that combines a great... Read more

Murder on Nob Hill

By: Shirley Tallman

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Woolson has always dreamed of being a lawyer. The trouble is that, in 1880, everyone believes a woman’s place is in the home.Using her brains and a bit of subterfuge, Sarah finagles her way into a prestigious law firm, becoming an associate attorney and acquiring her very first client, a lovely young society matron accused of murdering her... Read more

Death of a Fool

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

A ritual dance becomes a murderous mambo…The village of South Mardian always observes the winter solstice with an ancient, mystical sword dance, complete with costumed performers. But for one of them, the excitement proves too heady, and his decapitation turns the fertility rite into a pageant of death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must... Read more

The Deepest Water

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Considered “one of the masters of psychological fiction in America” (San Francisco Chronicle), Kate Wilhelm sews up an irresistibly chilling puzzle that will keep listeners captivated until the very end.When Jud Connors, a successful writer, is found murdered in his isolated cabin in the Oregon woods, his daughter Abby sees her world start to... Read more

Barbados Heat

By: Don Bruns

Narrated by: Don Bruns

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Congressman Shapply, a former music insider who now leads the crusade against offensive lyrics in rap songs, is attacked and murdered in front of his Washington, DC, home. His son, Nick, is arrested and charged with the murder. But veteran music journalist Mick Sever, Nick’s best friend, believes his claims of innocence.With the help of an old... Read more

Death on the Downs

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs, nor was it the dilapidated barn in which she sought shelter. What upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two blue fertilizer bags.Thus begins the mystery for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbor Jude, whose... Read more

Borderline

By: Mark Schorr

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Vietnam vet Brian Hanson is in recovery from drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. He's turned his life around, working as a therapist with some of Portland, Oregon's, most troubled citizens. When one of his clients relays a dramatic, paranoid story, it's easy to be dismissive. But when she dies under suspicious circumstances, Hanson... Read more

Cruzatte and Maria

By: Peter Bowen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Montana native Gabriel Du Pré has been hired as a consultant by a group of filmmakers shooting a documentary on the Lewis and Clark expedition. Du Pré is a descendent of a Métis fiddler and voyageur named Cruzatte who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their journey. And Du Pré’s daughter, Maria, has been cast in the role of Sacajawea.But trouble is... Read more

Absolute Certainty

By: Rose Connors

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha “Marty” Nickerson, an assistant district attorney on Cape Cod, speaks for victims of crime and their families and sees the system as a means for doing right. The case of Manuel Rodriguez is a prime example. Rodriguez is accused of brutally murdering a college student, a kind young man with a bright future. Marty has worked hard on this... Read more

Blood Lies

By: Daniel Kalla

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle police department, is haunted by addiction. Two years earlier, a cocaine habit claimed the life of his identical twin, Aaron. Now Ben walks onto the scene of a savage stabbing to learn that the victim, Emily Kenmore, is his former fiancée—another loved... Read more

The River Killings

By: Merry Jones

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Heroine Zoe Hayes, a divorced art therapist with a six-year-old adopted daughter, returns with another gripping tale set in Philadelphia, this time taking place on the famous Boathouse Row.On summer vacation from her job, Zoe takes a sculling class with her best friend, Susan. One evening, while her daughter waits with Susan's children at the... Read more

Star Trap

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Paris has landed a role in a lavish West-End musical. The star, one of England’s most popuar comedians, is adored by the public but despised in the business. He also seems to be behind some strange happenings backstage, including the rehearsal pianist being shot in the hand and an actor falling and breaking his leg. Why would the star... Read more

Deshi

By: John Donohue

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In each life the wheel of karma turns. Asian scholar and martial artist Connor Burke, who continues to labor under the stern tutelage of the master warrior Yamashita Sensei, is drawn once again into a murder investigation when the police discover a link between the victim and a mysterious martial arts sensei named Kita Takanobu. Kita has created... Read more

Season of the Snake

By: Claire Davis

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Winter Range comes a powerful and frightening literary thriller of love, loyalty, and menacing secrets.Nance Able has finally recovered from the violent death of her first husband and is living a new life in the West with her second husband, Ned. When Meredith, her younger, errant sister, decides to move to the same town,... Read more

The Hound of the Baskervilles

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The spectral hellhound, which dogs the descendants of the Baskerville family, has claimed another victim. The ancient legend, and the modern murderous facts are placed before the great Sherlock Holmes. And one of the greatest adventures put to print begins... Read more

A Comedian Dies

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Paris, middle-aged actor turned amateur sleuth, is vacationing at a small English seaside town. Irresistibly drawn to anything theatrical, Charles seeks entertainment at the local music hall and endures a series of not-so-wonderful vaudeville acts in the hope that the man given star billing will be worth watching. This performer, Bill... Read more

Walking Shadow

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

At the Port City Theater Company, the director claims he is being stalked and an actor is shot dead during a performance. But there's more behind the scenes than an overzealous critic—all clues lead to the local Chinese mafia, whose roots run deep in this drab waterfront city. With Hawk and ex-mobster Vinnie assisting, Spenser combs the... Read more

The Russian Hill Murders

By: Shirley Tallman

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Plucky young attorney Sarah Woolson flouts proper Victorian notions of feminine behavior in this nineteenth-century answer to Legally Blonde. Though her own law firm barely tolerates her, and her mother begs her to settle down, Sarah sets out to prove herself in her first criminal trial.When a woman whose husband has died in a sweatshop fire... Read more

The Threat

By: David Poyer

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Assigned to White House duty, Navy commander Dan Lenson battles threats against the president and the nation in this gripping adventure by the author of The Command and Black Storm. Working with a team to analyze and defeat external threats to US security, Dan must deal with a terrorist plot to smuggle in dirty-bomb material using the... Read more

Coyote Wind

By: Peter Bowen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 4 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Montana Mystery Featuring Gabriel Du PréMontana, “the last best place” of the disappearing American West, is the setting of Peter Bowen’s splendid first mystery novel in a series featuring Gabriel Du Pré. A cattle-brand inspector and occasional sheriff’s deputy, Du Pré moves easily among the ranchers, cowboys, Native Americans, barflies,... Read more

Morning Spy, Evening Spy

By: Colin MacKinnon

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Colin MacKinnon, praised by the New Yorker for capturing "the le Carr├® manner," breathes life into historical fact with this gripping, fast-paced novel about the search for bin Laden in the months leading to 9/11. An Afghan resistance fighter of the 1980s, once on the CIA payroll, has come back to haunt the agency. Kareem has become an enemy... Read more

August Heat

By: Andrea Camilleri

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vig├áta and endure the August heat. Montalbano's long-suffering girlfriend, Livia, joins him with a friend—husband and young son in tow—to keep her company during these dog days of summer. But when the boy suddenly disappears into a narrow shaft hidden... Read more