Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Catch Me When I Fall

By: Nicci French

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Holly Krauss lives her life in the fast lane. A successful, happily married businesswoman, she is loved and admired by everyone she meets.But that’s only one side of Holly. The other takes regular walks on the wild side and is making reckless mistakes.When the two sides of Holly’s life collide, her world quickly spirals out of control. She... Read more

The Hostage

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

By Order of the President, the first novel in Griffin’s crackling new Presidential Agent series, won immediate acclaim from critics and fans alike. “True virtuosity,” praised the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. “Cutting-edge,” agreed Publishers Weekly. “The end leaves readers standing on the tarmac waiting for Castillo and his newly minted band of... Read more

Mad River Road

By: Joy Fielding

Narrated by: Judith West

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexy, suspenseful novel of murder, romance, and revengeAfter spending a year in prison, Ralph Fisher has explicit plans for his first night of freedom: tonight, someone will be held accountable. He goes to murderous lengths to obtain the address of his former wife—the woman he blames for his fate and against whom he has sworn vengeance.... Read more

Got the Look - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

From bestselling author James Grippando comes the newest Jack Swyteck thriller, in a series that critics have called ""riveting,"" ""a winner,"" and ""lapel grabbing."" In Got the Look, Swyteck is up against a killer who's so fiendishly clever and diabolical that even Jack may have at last met his match.Jack Swyteck’s new girlfriend, Mia, is... Read more

The Thanksgiving Day Murder

By: Lee Harris

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a year ago, Natalie Gordon went to buy a balloon at the Thanksgiving Day parade and dissolved into thin air. The police and a private investigator still have no leads. So when Natalie’s despairing husband pleads with ex-nun Christine Bennett to help, she can’t say no.Not only are Natalie’s present whereabouts a mystery, but so is her... Read more

The Lodger

By: Marie Belloc Lowndes

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for Hitchcock's 1927 movie by the same name, as well as a more recent major motion picture from 2009, this award-winning audio of Marie Belloc Lowndes' classic thriller still packs a wallop.An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and mysterious gentleman... Read more

Tales for a Stormy Night

By: various authors, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ro...

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to fright-meisters Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and H. P. Lovecraft.Quicken your pulse with the elegant terror of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and Guy de Maupassant. Chortle at the black glee of H. H. Munro and Ambrose Bierce.These fourteen tales, plays, and... Read more

The Broken Shore

By: Peter Temple

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the homicide squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local person... Read more

Maximum Security

By: Rose Connors

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The winner of the 2002 Mary Higgins Clark Award returns with Cape Cod attorney Marty Nickerson in another riveting legal thriller.Is it ever wise for an attorney to defend her lover's ex-lover?At the request of her law partner and lover, Harry Madigan, attorney Marty Nickerson agrees to defend the beautiful Louisa Rawlings against the charge of... Read more

The Ice Harvest

By: Scott Phillips

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it’s all over,... Read more

Hour of the Cat

By: Peter Quinn

Narrated by: Ned Schmidtke

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

On the eve of World War II, a murder in New York City draws two vastly different men, an American detective and a German intelligence officer, into the gathering storm.The death of a spinster nurse killed in her apartment was one of hundreds of simple homicides, indistinguishable from any other in 1938. A suspect was caught and convicted. Then... Read more

The Smell of the Night

By: Andrea Camilleri

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The Smell of the Night, the sixth mystery in the international bestselling series featuring Inspector Montalbano, brings the shady shenanigans of late twentieth-century international finance to small-town Sicily.Half the retirees in Vigáta have invested their savings with a financial wizard who has disappeared, along with their money and a... Read more

The Miernik Dossier

By: Charles McCarry

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove, Stephen Hoye, Moira Quirk...

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Miernik Dossier is the dazzling first novel, recently reissued, by master spy novelist Charles McCarry. In this riveting, imaginative tale, five international agents embark on a road trip in a Cadillac from Switzerland to the Sudan. Among them are Paul Christopher, an American operative; Kalash el Khatar, the seven-foot-tall Muslim prince;... Read more

The Paperwhite Narcissus

By: Cynthia Riggs

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Cynthia Riggs draws from a lifetime's intimacy with fabled Martha's Vineyard and its people to create an irresistible series filled with murder and a unique atmosphere.When Colley Jameson, the unpopular, egocentric editor of the Island Enquirer abruptly cancels Victoria Trumbull's weekly column, the ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native... Read more

The Tears of Autumn

By: Charles McCarry

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Spun with unsettling plausibility from the events surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and featuring secret agent Paul Christopher,The Tears of Autumnis a tour de force of action and enigma.Christopher, at the height of his powers, believes he knows who arranged the assassination and why. His theory is so destructive of the legend... Read more

Fall of a Philanderer

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1924, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is off on a holiday by the sea with her step-daughter Belinda, Belinda's chum Deva, and Daisy's husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. Daisy is anticipating a relaxing, nondramatic holiday—but Daisy doesn't have that kind of luck. It seems that a low-rent... Read more

After You with the Pistol

By: Kyril Bonfiglioli

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Kyril Bonfiglioli’s wickedly fun mysteries featuring the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai—degenerate aristocrat, amoral art dealer, seasoned epicurean, unwilling assassin, and general knave-about-Picadilly—have been cult classics in the UK since their first publication there in the 1970s.Charlie’s back in After You with the Pistol, along with his new... Read more

Ghost Ship

By: Dietlof Reiche

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki plans to spend her summer vacation waitressing at her father’s seaside restaurant, Ye Olde Seashell Room: a must-see tourist destination with seashell-covered walls and a 230-year-old figurehead from a lost ship, the Storm Goddess. But when the bay mysteriously goes dry and the Storm Goddess suddenly appears, Vicki and her small community... Read more

Sky Woman Falling

By: Kirk Mitchell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, a Modoc Indian from California, and Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker, a Comanche from Oklahoma, are a team sent by the Feds wherever there are problems in tribal territory.This assignment takes them to upstate New York where Brenda Two Kettles, an elder of the Oneida tribe, was found dead in... Read more

Tales for a Winter’s Night

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: William Sutherland

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Tales for a Winter's Night brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics that originally appeared in the Strand between July 1898 and January 1899. When first gathered into one volume in 1908, the book was entitled Round the Fire Stories, since the author recommended that they be read ideally "round the fire" upon a winter's... Read more

His Last Bow

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

A body on the London Underground; the strange disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax; a parcel containing some coarse salt and two freshly severed human ears. This collection of eight world-famous cases from Doctor Watson’s portfolio illustrates the singular mental faculties of Sherlock Holmes. In the course of his investigations, Holmes himself... Read more

The Witness at the Wedding

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The seaside town of Fethering, home to Carole Seddon and her friend Jude, is a place rife with foul play, as evidenced in this sixth mystery in the series.Carole is thrilled with the coming wedding of her once-estranged son, Stephen. She finds it odd, though, that the parents of the bride have no interest in arranging the wedding and seem... Read more

The Last Supper

By: Charles McCarry

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles McCarry has been called the best American espionage writer who ever lived. Now, with the re-release of his classic Paul Christopher series, comes The Last Supper, a tour de force that traces the evolution of the OSS and the CIA from the aftermath of World War I through World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War.To Paul Christopher, the... Read more

A Field of Darkness

By: Cornelia Read

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Madeline Dare, a tough-talking, shotgun-toting ex-debutante, is not your average detective. Then again, not much about her life is what she expected. Born of old money into high society, she married into a Syracuse farming family and a bottom-of-the-food-chain job writing puff pieces for the local newspaper. Her emotional barometer these days... Read more