Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

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

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

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

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

Liberation Movements

By: Olen Steinhauer

Narrated by: Bo Foxworth, Lorna Raver, Robertson Dean, Jane ...

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1975, a People’s Militia homicide investigator is on a plane for Istanbul when it is hijacked by Armenian terrorists. Before the Turkish authorities can fulfill the hijackers’ demands, the plane explodes in midair.Two investigators, a secret policeman and a homicide detective, are assigned to the case. Both believe that their superiors are... Read more

Sleight of Hand

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

When a seemingly simple case turns complicated, respected attorney Barbara Holloway must rethink her game plan.Gregarious Las Vegas entertainer and ex-con Wally Lederer claims he's turned his life around, but when Jay Wilkins, a childhood friend, accuses Wally of stealing a valuable artifact, it's up to Barbara to ferret out the truth. Wally... Read more

South Beach Shakedown

By: Don Bruns

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to South Beach, where the nights are way too hot and the days can leave you dead in the water.Someone is about to make a killing in the music industry. Why would songwriting legend Gideon Pike disappear just as his 30-year career turns a multimillion-dollar profit?Music columnist Mick Sever goes looking for his missing friend Gideon Pike... Read more

The Dark Door

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Private investigator Charlie Meiklejohn is called in by insurance companies to follow the trail of a suspected serial arsonist. The arsonist, Carson Danvers, has been on a fanatical crusade since the loss of his wife and son, burning down a series of old, shut-up wooden buildings in which random outbreaks of madness and murder have been... Read more

Pursuit

By: Thomas Perry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 12 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Thirteen bodies are found in a Louisville restaurant. When the police can find no suspect or motive, the family of one of the victims seeks the services of the enigmatic and solitary Roy Prescott, known for his ability to find people who don’t want to be found.Working outside the law and willing to do what the police can’t, Prescott hunts the... Read more

Christopher’s Ghosts

By: Charles McCarry

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

With cinematic scope and masterful pacing, Charles McCarry delivers a haunting parable of a man confronted with the ghosts of an entire generation’s brutal history.The grand tale begins in 1939 Berlin, where young Paul Christopher and his family are struggling against the rise of Nazi totalitarianism. The Christophers are known to be sympathetic... Read more

Outsourced

By: R. J. Hillhouse

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Intelligence, espionage, and even war have been transformed by the War on Terror. With the CIA on the ropes and the armed forces stretched thin, the United States and its allies have turned to private organizations for vital inside information.Camille Black's Black Management is one of these private military corporations. She is approached by... Read more

A Deniable Man

By: Sol Stein

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Susan Whitcomb, a brilliant New York trial lawyer, has learned her craft from the best in the field: her millionaire Columbia law teacher and would-be lover, Farlan Adams. But she will need every shred of the rigorous mental training he has given her when, without warning, she is catapulted into the vicious world of international... Read more

The Snack Thief

By: Andrea Camilleri

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

When an elderly man is stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an Italian fishing trawler is machine-gunned by a Tunisian patrol boat off Sicily's coast, only Inspector Montalbano, with his keen insight into human nature, suspects the link between the two incidents. His investigation leads to the beautiful Karima, an impoverished... Read more

White Blood

By: James Fleming

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The son of an English father and a Russian mother, Charlie Doig is a big man—big in stature, in spirit, and in sexual appetites. A naturalist, he roughs it around the world collecting specimens for museums. In 1914, he is on a mission for the Academy of Science in Russia when war breaks out. His pay is stopped and his companion goes off to... Read more