Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Land of Echoes

By: Daniel Hecht

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucretia (Cree) Black is a parapsychologist whose investigative methods include in-depth historical research and psychological analysis. When she’s asked by her former mentor, renowned neuropsychiatrist Mason Ambrose, if she would examine the case of a fifteen-year-old boy suffering from bizarre and frightening symptoms, Cree refuses to get... 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

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

Last Boat to Cadiz

By: Barnaby Conrad

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Europe, 1945: Hitler is dead; the Third Reich is an open wound. Amid the chaos, a man like no other makes his way south through France and into Spain. No one will stand in his way and live. Only idealistic young Wilson Tripp, American vice consul in the city of Seville, stands to discover the man’s true identity and the stunning threat he... Read more

Murder in the Museum

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Carole Seddon and her bohemian neighbor Jude find that even the cultured can be crass when it comes to murder.The life of Esmond Chadleigh, noted poet and children’s author, is celebrated in the halls of Bracketts House. Nevertheless, most of Chadleigh’s work remains out of print, which leaves Bracketts House out of funds. An American literature... Read more

Black Water Transit

By: Carsten Stroud

Narrated by: Bruce Reizen

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Jack Vermillion is a businessman with a problem: a son with a criminal record who is in trouble again. This time, Jack's kid is looking at twenty-five to life in maximum security. And there's nothing Jack can do...or is there?Black Water Transit is Jack's container ship company, and when Jack is approached by a man wanting to ship his gun... Read more

Queen’s Ransom

By: Fiona Buckley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard has a mandate from the secretary of state to spy on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. Although she has already proven herself worthy of the Queen's gratitude, Ursula now must travel to France, where civil war may break out at any moment, to hand carry a letter from Elizabeth to the Queen Mother and Regent, Catherine.... Read more

To Ruin a Queen

By: Fiona Buckley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

As the thrilling adventures continue for Ursula Blanchard, secret agent for Queen Elizabeth I, she finds herself in France, reunited with her husband, Matthew de la Roche, in a passionate but flawed relationship. But when Ursula learns that her daughter, Meg, has mysteriously disappeared, she immediately sets out on a frantic and dangerous... Read more

Paradise Salvage

By: John Fusco

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 14 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Paradise Salvage is both a taut thriller and a lyrical coming-of-age story following twelve-year-old Nunzio Paradiso’s last summer of innocence.For Nunzio, each new wreck towed into Paradise Salvage is a desultory gift from Fortune, a random opportunity for discovery. But on a hot summer day in 1979, in the trunk of an abandoned Pontiac... Read more

A Mortal Bane

By: Roberta Gellis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Roberta Gellis, acclaimed author of The Roselynde Chronicles, brings medieval London to life—and death—with this tale of splendor and squalor.Magdalene la Batarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. She and her women are expected to engage in a number of sinful activities, but bloody murder isn't one of them—until Baldassare,... Read more

Death Qualified

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 15 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Five years ago, Barbara Holloway gave up practicing law, disillusioned with a profession that put politics before justice. Then she receives a phone call, with a simple message: “I need you.”Nell Kendricks’ husband disappeared seven years earlier, abandoning his young family. Nell hasn’t seen him since—until the day he arrives at the edge of her... Read more

Temporary Sanity

By: Rose Connors

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Martha "Marty" Nickerson, a Cape Cod district attorney turned defense lawyer, must defend a man who shot his son's presumed killer—on live television. The only possible defense is insanity, but the grieving father refuses to say he was crazy when he pulled the trigger.Marty and her partner in love and law, Harry Madigan, are already stretched... Read more

Murder in Foggy Bottom

By: Margaret Truman

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Once it was a swamp. Now Foggy Bottom is swimming with real-estate sharks. When a man is found stabbed to death in this trendy D.C. neighborhood, it is major news. But within forty-eight hours the nation is gripped by a fear that leaves this comparatively small crime in the dark. Three passenger planes are shot out of the sky. Everywhere—in law... Read more

In the Name of Ishmael

By: Giuseppe Genna

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Politics, terror, and spellbinding literary gamesmanship are at the heart of this daring fiction debut. Set in fogbound, wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the group's heavily protected and enigmatic leader. Expertly weaving a... Read more

City of Masks

By: Daniel Hecht

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 15 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Introducing Cree Black, a parapsychologist with a haunted past.When Lila Beauforte takes up residence in her ancestral home, the 150-year-old Beauforte House in the Garden District of New Orleans, she is terrified by ghostly apparitions. The family reluctantly calls Cree Black for help. Based out of Seattle, Cree, a parapsychologist with a... Read more

Bone of Contention

By: Roberta Gellis

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Magdalene la B├ótarde obeys William of Ypres, her great patron, as a vassal obeys his overlord—even though William would laugh if he knew how she felt. However, when King Stephen summons his barons to a great council in Oxford, William can smell the stink of treason—and he has enemies who might spread that stink over him. He needs a safe place... Read more

The Big Heat

By: William P. McGivern

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder was in the air. A cop had killed himself, and every crook in town knew that would be sure to bring on the big heat. It all started innocently enough, when a cop committed suicide. It was worry over ill health, said his wife. Detective Dave Bannion wasn't so sure, but when he started digging, he was told to lay off—fast! Instead, he turned... Read more

So Shall We Stand

By: Elyse Larson

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Caught in a frightening web of espionage, two determined friends search for truth and a way out.Nella Killian, widowed when her husband’s plane was shot down during the London blitz, returns home to Wales determined to build a normal life for her young daughter. But when she inadvertently uncovers evidence that raises questions about the death... Read more

Burning Moon

By: Richard Barre

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Off California’s San Miguel Island, a fishing boat struggles in the battering-ram seas and blinding rain of a sudden squall.On the beach near his home, private investigator Wil Hardesty is approached by a Vietnamese fisherman. Vinh Tien is not convinced that the disappearance at sea of his only son was the accident it was ruled. Wil, a Vietnam... Read more

Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara

By: Alan Vanneman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Alan Vanneman extends the boundaries of the Sherlock Holmes canon in this crafty new novel featuring the world’s greatest literary detective.A late-night summons takes Holmes and Dr. Watson from the cozy Victorian comforts of Baker Street on to the Orient Express, where they travel the breadth of Europe to exotic Constantinople. But danger’s... Read more

An Unpardonable Crime

By: Andrew Taylor

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Allan Poe is an American boy in England, a child standing on the edge of mysteries. In 1819, two Americans arrive in London. Soon afterward a bank collapses, a man is found horribly mutilated on a building site,another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district, a deathbed vigil ends in theft,and an... Read more

Rogue Cop

By: William P. McGivern

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the station houses to the joy houses, they knew about Mike Carmody. He was the best cop money could buy, and when the Syndicate boys said jump, Carmody knew just how high. But they couldn’t buy Carmody’s kid brother Eddie—and when Eddie turned against them, the Mob snuffed him out like a nickel cigar.Now Carmody’s coming after them—savage... Read more

To Shield the Queen

By: Fiona Buckley

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Rumor has linked Queen Elizabeth I to her master of horse, Robin Dudley. As gossip would have it, only his ailing wife, Amy, prevents marriage between Dudley and the queen. To quell the idle tongues at court, the queen dispatches Ursula Blanchard to tend to the sick woman's needs. But not even Ursula can prevent the "accident" that takes Amy's... Read more

Murder in Montparnasse

By: Howard Engel

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

It’s autumn 1925, and a killer uncannily like England’s Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets of Paris and preying on young women. Michael Ward is a journalist newly arrived to the Left Bank. When he falls in with Jason Waddington, an expatriate American writer who introduces him to the cafe scene and his crowd of writers and artists, Ward... Read more