Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Cross Bones - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Michele Pawk

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As fresh and shocking as today’s headlines, a “chilling” (People) Temperance Brennan novel in which a harrowing excavation unearths a terrible tragedy never laid to rest—from New York Times bestselling author and world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs.

They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the... Read more

Skull Session

By: Daniel Hecht

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 17 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite his brilliance, Paul Skoglund hasn't held a steady job for years, partly because of his Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disorder that forces his body into wild swings and to blurt out tragically inappropriate words. When his wealthy aunt asks him to take on the repairs of her magnificent hunting lodge, he is in no position to refuse.... Read more

Love Her to Death

By: Linda Palmer

Narrated by: Celeste Lawson

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of Linda Palmer’s first book in the series, Love Is Murder, listeners are treated to the return of Morgan Tyler, feisty head writer for the TV soap opera Love of My Life. Her imagination is always at work, churning out the scenes that fill many a fan’s daytime with drama. But when fiction becomes stranger—and more... Read more

False Testimony

By: Rose Connors

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a lawyer do with a client who may be a liar—or worse? Marty Nickerson struggles with that very issue as she defends two men who are surely guilty—or are they?Charles Kendrick, the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts, has been named a "person of interest" in connection with the disappearance of his twenty-five-year-old... Read more

The Unknown Soldier

By: Gerald Seymour

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 16 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Hidden in the vastness of the Saudi Arabian desert, a camel caravan of fugitives moves slowly toward its goal. Deep in the sand and out of sight are the men they seek, leaders of al-Qaeda, regrouping to strike again. One man in the caravan stands out for his strength and self-discipline. His identity is masked, his past blanketed from memory.... Read more

The Unbidden Truth

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When a well-bred client hands Barbara Holloway a large retainer and asks for complete anonymity, the Oregon attorney is both intrigued and suspicious. The woman, a respected music professor and member of a group that sponsors worthy causes involving women, wants Barbara to defend Carol Fredricks, a gifted young pianist who stands accused of... Read more

Trick of the Eye

By: Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Artist Faith Crowell is nearly forty and feels—with some relief, some regret—that she's now safely past the age of passion, obsessive love, and unsatisfied longings. Concentrating on contenting herself with a solitary life in Manhattan, complete with cat, comfy apartment, and a successful if hardly brilliant career, Faith is shocked when grande... Read more

A Personal Devil

By: Roberta Gellis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberta Gellis, the acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, is in top medieval form with this second tale of life—and death—in twelfth-century London.Magdalene la B├ótarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. Together with the handsome Sir Bellamy of Itchen, she solved the murder of Baldassare the Messenger, but this... Read more

Bag Of Bones

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Stephen King

Length: 21 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful tale of grief, love’s enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.

Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls... Read more

Very Bad Deaths

By: Spider Robinson

Narrated by: Spider Robinson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The heartbroken recluse…The hardboiled cop…The walking wounded telepath… And the serial killer.Russell Walker retreats from the shock of his wife's death by becoming a hermit in the woods of British Columbia. However, it seems the world won't let him escape so easily, for he finds himself thrust into a precarious role as intermediary between a... Read more

Now You See Her

By: Cecelia Tishy

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Regina Cutter is the mother of two grown children and the victim of her husband's midlife crisis.Out of a marriage, an income, and a place to live, Regina has relocated to Boston's Back Bay, where her psychic aunt has bequeathed her a townhouse—and some paranormal ability. Adjusting to her new middle-class life and taking on a new job as a... Read more

Death at Wentwater Court

By: Carola Dunn

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

This first installment of a delightful cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly stumbles across a corpse.No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is... Read more

Out of Mind

By: Catherine Sampson

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

After earning rave reviews with Falling off Air, Catherine Sampson’s second novel has British documentary filmmaker Robin Ballantyne in Cambodia filming a documentary about land mines. But her main goal is to get information about a friend of hers who disappeared mysteriously.Working on documentaries for the Corporation, Robin’s latest project... Read more

Puppets

By: Daniel Hecht

Narrated by: Jason Collins

Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The New Jersey State Police started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous television puppet of the 1950s. In a thirteen-month period he had killed seven people: three in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan, and another in the Bronx—all of them found hung up like puppets, strings attached to their limbs. Finally, the murderer was... Read more

One Dangerous Lady

By: Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

No one brings alive the intrigues of the champagne set like Jane Stanton Hitchcock. Now Jo Slater, the wily heroine of her bestselling novel Social Crimes, returns in a dazzling new story of passion, money, and murder.Jo Slater has it all. The queen of Manhattan society, she has dealt successfully with a tricky period in which she lost her... Read more

Tabula Rasa

By: Shelly Reuben

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Arson investigator Billy Nightingale and his brother-in-law, Officer Sebastian Bly, are called in to investigate a house fire that killed two young children. The discovery of a baby hiding underneath the porch put Billy and Sebastian on the trail of a murderous mother while Sebastian and his wife, Annie, raise baby Meredith without revealing her... Read more

36 Yalta Boulevard

By: Olen Steinhauer

Narrated by: Yuri Rasovsky

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Olen Steinhauer's first two novels, The Bridge of Sighs and The Confession, launched an acclaimed literary crime series set in post–World War II Eastern Europe. Now he takes his dynamic cast of characters into the shadowy political climate of the 1960s. State Security Officer Brano Sev's job is to do what his superiors ask, no matter what—even... Read more

Weeping

By: Shelly Reuben

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

"Weeping" is an arson investigator's term, as well as the usual state that befalls a fire's grief-stricken survivors. So it's with some surprise and suspicion that New York arson investigator Fritillary "Tilly" Quilter meets the seemingly unconcerned Faith Browning, whose sister Dorsey has just burned to death in their family home. When Faith... Read more

Falling Off Air

By: Catherine Sampson

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Robin Ballantyne’s life is finally coming together. After learning she was pregnant with twins and being abandoned by her irresponsible boyfriend, Adam, she is settling into life as a single mother.But one night, after putting the children to bed, she hears an argument and suddenly, a body falls past her window. Running outside, she finds the... Read more

Hidden River

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In this electrifying noir thriller, a young Irish ex-cop travels half a world away to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl he once loved.Alexander Lawson is a former detective for Northern Ireland’s police force who, after a disastrous stint in the drug squad, became addicted to heroin and resigned in disgrace. Now twenty-four, sickly, and... Read more

Time’s Fool

By: Leonard Tourney

Narrated by: Tony Jay

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Shakespeare’s London, a world where the stage captures the hearts of every citizen, and where darkness hides dangerous and vengeful creatures. It is in this darkness that Shakespeare finds himself the victim of treachery most foul.When Shakespeare is contacted by his dark mistress, the former love of his life, he is excited to see her... Read more

Dead I Well May Be

By: Adrian McKinty

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

This Irish bad-boy thriller, set in the hardest streets of New York City, introduces us to Michael Forsythe, an illegal immigrant escaping from the Troubles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.Clever, fearless, and handy with a pistol, young Michael is just the fellow to be tapped by Darkey, a New York crime boss, to join his gang of thugs fighting for... Read more

The Hanging in the Hotel

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Hopwicke Country House Hotel once boasted a clientele of the rich and famous. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so owner Suzy Longthorne throws open her doors to welcome the Pillars of Sussex, an elitist group of local businessmen whose social gatherings revolve around drinking and off-color commentary. Short staffed, Suzy... Read more

The Cure

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Suppose a cure for cancer was finally discovered, a cure that would render much of today’s medical and pharmaceutical industry obsolete. How far would the world’s movers and shakers go to control—or destroy—this miraculous panacea?Controversial oncologist Dr. Anson Lunt dies in a suspicious plane crash just as one of his researchers develops... Read more