Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Defense for the Devil

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

In her three previous appearances, attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort of cases no one else wants, all hopeless messes. With the help of her father, Frank, she has pulled through each time. But even from the start, this new case is different.Mitch Arno always meant bad news for the coastal town of Folsum, Oregon. When they ran him... Read more

The Quiller Memorandum

By: Adam Hall

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 7 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

You are a secret agent working for the British in Berlin. You are due to go home on leave, but you are being followed by the enemy—or your own people. A man meets you in the theater and briefs you on a plot to revive the power of Nazi Germany. You do not believe him, but you remember that one of the suspects mentioned was a senior SS officer you... Read more

The Secret Lovers

By: Charles McCarry

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Early one morning in West Berlin, a nervous courier delivers the handwritten manuscript of a dissident Russian novel to Paul Christopher. Minutes after the handoff, the courier's spine is neatly snapped by an impact with a passing black sedan.Meanwhile, in Rome, Christopher's wife Cathy takes a famous film director as a lover to stir her husband... Read more

Candles Burning

By: Tabitha King & Michael McDowell

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 15 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Author Michael McDowell, known for his chilling Blackwater series, left behind the unfinished manuscript of Candles Burning upon his death in 1999. His close friend, Tabitha King, has taken up where he left off, weaving a Southern gothic fabric of murder, guilt, innocence, corruption, and survival, in the voices of the living and the... Read more

The Man Who Smiled

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A disillusioned Inspector Kurt Wallander is thrown back into the fray as both hunter and hunted in this fourth adventure from Sweden’s master of crime and mystery.Crestfallen, dejected, and spiraling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Wallander had made up his mind to quit the police force for... Read more

Faceless Killers

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a crime of senseless violence. On a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse, an elderly farmer was bludgeoned to death, his wife left to die with a noose around her neck. As if this didn’t present enough problems for Ystad police inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word, his only tangible clue, was “foreign.” If publicized,... Read more

The Dogs of Riga

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In this case, it is Detective Kurt Wallander’s obstinate desire to see that justice is done that brings the truth to light.On the Swedish coastline, two bodies, victims of grisly torture and cold execution, are discovered in a life raft. With no witnesses, no motives, and no crime scene, Detective Wallander is frustrated and uncertain he has the... Read more

The White Lioness

By: Henning Mankell

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker, but when his alibi turns out to be airtight, Wallander begins to realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex and dangerous. Eventually, his... Read more

Vicious Circle

By: Robert Littell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

An Israeli government minister is assassinated in the home of his mistress. Days later, Elihu, an aging and decorated Mossad officer, leads his final raid, killing a Hamas leader in his bed while barely escaping with his own life.Out of this familiarly cyclical scenario, the action moves into the near future, when the global community, united... Read more

The Last Refuge

By: Chris Knopf

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Sam Acquillo is at the end of the line. A middle-aged corporate dropout living in a ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea, Sam has abandoned friends, family, and a big-time career to sit on his porch, drink vodka, and stare at the Little Peconic Bay.But then the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, and it seems that... Read more

Relative Danger

By: Charles Benoit

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Doug Pearce, just fired from his steady job in the brewery, has never strayed far from home. But he’s always been fascinated by stories of his dead Uncle Russ, the family black sheep. So when an old friend of his uncle invites him to Toronto, he accepts. On arrival, he learns that wealthy and glamorous Edna has an agenda: she has assembled... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more

Two Time

By: Chris Knopf

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Acquillo—ex-boxer, ex–corporate executive, and accidental hero of The Last Refuge—can't seem to stay out of trouble. All he really wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka, and hang out with his dog, Eddie. But when a car bomb outside a trendy waterfront restaurant kills a prominent financial... Read more

The Cemetery Yew

By: Cynthia Riggs

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

There's more than one reason the new West Tisbury police chief officially made ninety-two-year-old Victoria Trumbull her deputy. For one thing, Victoria knows just about everything about everyone in Martha's Vineyard, not to mention their ancestors. Victoria may be afflicted with the usual aches and pains that descend on nonagenarians—she has a... Read more

Evil, Inc.

By: Glenn Kaplan

Narrated by: Glenn Kaplan

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Ken Olson’s world is shattered by a crime his company must cover up at any cost. Stripped of everything but his passion for justice, Olson discovers the dark and dangerous world behind the corporate jets—the hired killers who secretly do the corporation’s dirtiest work, the clandestine offshore bank accounts, and the greedy machinations of the... Read more

Kingdom of Lies

By: Lee Wood

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 16 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

When a woman turns up drowned on the grounds of a royal estate, Sergeant Keen Dunliffe of Leeds, West Yorkshire, is hoping it’s just a case of a drunken skinny-dipping accident. But when the woman turns out to be a historian, whose specialty is eighteenth-century English royalty and politics and who was attending a conference at a local... Read more

Mr. Standfast

By: John Buchan

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In this third novel following the espionage exploits of war hero Richard Hannay, the successful brigadier general is recalled from active service on the Western Front for another round in the spy game. His mission: infiltrating an antiwar league to bring down a network of German spies. Reluctantly posing as a pacifist, Hannay takes up his old... Read more

Small Vices

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Burt Reynolds

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Spenser finds himself fighting for his life when he takes on a murder case for Ellis Alves, a Black man with a criminal record who says he was framed. From Boston's back streets to Manhattan's elite, Spenser and Hawk search for suspects. But when an assassin with a .22 puts Spenser in a coma, is the chance for justice dead? Read more

The Blood Spilt

By: Åsa Larsson

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Sun Storm comes this disturbing, entrancing, beautifully crafted mystery, winner of Sweden’s Best Crime Novel award and an international sensation.It’s midsummer in Sweden, when the light lingers through dawn as the long winter finally ends. In this magical time, a brutal killer strikes, and the murder of a female priest sends... Read more

Black Monday

By: R. Scott Reiss

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

A plague that will cause the death of millions. A plague that will destroy countries. A plague that will plunge the world into a dark age. A plague that will make nobody sick. This thriller is reminiscent of Michael Crichton's best.When a Muslim cleric predicts planes will fall from the sky, America braces for a terrorist attack. But when the... Read more

Mildred Pierce

By: James M. Cain

Narrated by: Christine Williams

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Mildred Pierce had gorgeous legs, a way with a skillet, and a bone-deep core of toughness. She used those attributes to survive a divorce and poverty and to claw her way out of the lower middle class. But Mildred also had two weaknesses: a yen for shiftless men and an unreasoning devotion to a monstrous daughter. Out of these elements, Cain... 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 Skirt Man

By: Shelly Reuben

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Every small town has an eccentric or two, and Killdeer, New York, is no exception. Morgan Mason attracts more than a few stares and resentment from locals when he drives through town on his tractor wearing a skirt. But minor small-town annoyances become more serious when the Skirt Man is killed in a tragic house fire in what some say is a case... 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