Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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 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

Chiefs

By: Stuart Woods

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 17 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Over 40 years ago, Stuart Woods found a battered chief-of-police badge in his grandmother's house. It had belonged to his grandfather, who had been shot in the line of duty. The story of the lawman's death inspired Woods to write Chiefs. This novel won an Edgar Award and was made into a popular TV miniseries.In 1919, Delano, Georgia appoints its... Read more

Stalemate

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killer Dreams comes a terrifying new thriller that will leave you guessing–and gasping–till the final nerve-racking page. The suspense begins with a phone call and leads forensic sculptor Eve Duncan to the trail of a killer even killers fear to face.

Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice... Read more

Spider Mountain

By: P. T. Deutermann

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Ex-cop Cam Richter agrees to do a favor for a park ranger: investigate the assault of a young woman in a remote area of Appalachia. Since he knows the terrain better than anyone, the victim's family is hoping that Cam can break a case that local cops can't—or maybe don't want to—solve.Cam has no idea how dangerous his search will become. Because... Read more

The Machiavelli Covenant - Abridged

By: Allan Folsom

Narrated by: Jeremy Davidson

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Allan Folsom returns with a high octane thriller in The Machiavelli Covenant.

In Europe for a crucial NATO summit in Warsaw, US President John Henry Harris is ordered by a secret cabal within his own administration to have the president of France and the chancellor of Germany assassinated. Refusal, he knows, will mean his death. Afraid to trust... Read more

Stalemate - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killer Dreams comes a terrifying new thriller that will leave you guessing–and gasping–till the final nerve-racking page. The suspense begins with a phone call and leads forensic sculptor Eve Duncan to the trail of a killer even killers fear to face.

Eve Duncan has turned down the job twice... Read more

Indigo Slam

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: David Stuart

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole--until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes.Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by three kids to find their missing father, Elvis now must pick up the cold pieces of a drama that began... Read more

Hard Truth - Abridged

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just days after marrying Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon moves to Colorado to assume her new post as district ranger at Rocky Mountain National Park. When two of three children who'd gone missing from a religious retreat reappear, Anna's investigation brings her face-to-face with a paranoid sect—and with a villain so evil, he'll make the... Read more

Blackout - Abridged

By: John J. Nance

Narrated by: John J. Nance

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Minutes after a Boeing 747 rises majestically into a Hong Kong sunset, a flash splits the darkening sky. The pilot—suddenly blinded and doubled over in pain—fumbles in the dark in a frantic effort to gain control as the huge jet shudders through its descent. Kat Bronsky, FBI agent and terrorism specialist, is assigned the hunt for a... Read more

Remote Control - Abridged

By: Stephen White

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Stephen White proves once again that he "writes thrillers of the first order" (Nelson DeMille) in this powerful, unforgettable novel of morality, justice—and cold-blooded murder... A shocking act of violence plunges clinical psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory into the most challenging and dangerous case of his... Read more

Grave Sight

By: Charlaine Harris

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlaine Harris writes bestselling mysteries described by Booklist as “gripping and spicy.” Grave Sight draws listeners into the intriguing world of Harper Connelly, a young woman with a unique gift: she can “see” the dead and how they died.A teenage girl missing from a small Ozarks town may have been murdered. Hired by local police, Harper... Read more

True Evil

By: Greg Iles

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours

Abridged: No

A Southern doctor is pulled into a terrifying ring of murderous secrets in this “engrossing…full-tilt thriller” (The Washington Post) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and the Penn Cage series.Dr. Chris Shepard has never seen his new patient before. But the attractive young woman with the scarred face... Read more

Hannibal Rising

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Thomas Harris

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed. 

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him... Read more

The Better Angels of Our Nature

By: S. C. Gylanders

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of Shiloh, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, a mysterious visitor appears at General William Tecumseh Sherman’s camp. Without family or home, with only a uniform and the name of Jesse, this prepossessing stranger is an intriguing mix of naiveté and wisdom, ignorant of the most basic conventions of warfare yet uncannily... Read more

The Boss

By: Stanley Pottinger

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Most Precious Commodity On Earth

From the author of the megabestselling The Fourth Procedure and A Slow Burning comes an unsettling and bold new thriller set in the high-stakes, no-holds-barred world of oil, where a driven man can make his fortune and a beautiful woman can win her soul–or both can lose their lives.
Spin Patterson is a Texas... Read more

The Last Detective

By: Peter Lovesey

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry.So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested... Read more

Baltimore Blues

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Deborah Hazlett

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In a city where someone is murdered almost every day, attorney Michael Abramowitz’s death should be just another statistic. But the slain lawyer’s notoriety—and his taste for illicit midday trysts—make the case front-page news in every local paper except the Star, which crashed and burned before Abramowitz did. A former Star reporter who knows... Read more

Hollywood Station

By: Joseph Wambaugh

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you're patrolling Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, neither a good reputation nor the lessons of scandals past will help you keep... Read more

Brother Odd

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: David Aaron Baker

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

No one could have imagined Odd Thomas ever leaving the perfect quirky comfort of Pico Mundo, least of all Odd himself. The little desert town that nurtured Odd all his life is the locus of everything he holds dear–his loyal friends, his ghostly confidants, and the place where he loved and lost his soul mate, the irreplaceable Stormy Llewellyn.... Read more

Next

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes a devilishly clever, breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and genetic ownership shatters our assumptions.Welcome to our genetic world.Fast, furious, and out of control.This is not the world of the future—it's the world... Read more

The Alibi Club

By: Francine Mathews

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

It's the city's most infamous after-hours haunt-a glittering hotbed of deals and debaucheries. The sordid death of Philip Stilwell sends shock waves through the Alibi Club...for there's much more to Stilwell's untimely end than a sex game gone wrong. His murder and the desperate attempt to keep a deadly weapon out of German hands will bring... Read more

Next - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics: Next.
 
Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why... Read more

Sunset Express

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: David Stuart

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

When a wealthy entrepreneur is accused of murder in Los Angeles, wisecracking private eye Elvis Cole is hired to prove that the evidence was corrupted and becomes suspicious about the defense attorney's motivations.Prominent restaurateur Teddy Martin is facing charges in his wife's brutal murder. But he's not going down without spending a bundle... Read more