Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Bridge of Sighs

By: Olen Steinhauer

Narrated by: Ned Schmidtke

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In this auspicious literary crime debut, an inexperienced homicide detective struggles amid the lawlessness of a post–World War II Eastern European city. It’s August, 1948, three years after the Russians “liberated” this small nation from German occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital’s rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of... Read more

The Best Defense

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Kate Wilhelm returns to the marvelous milieu of Death Qualified with this page-turning legal thriller.The neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon, is blue-collar; the cafe holds only three tables and four booths. But it’s the only place attorney Barbara Holloway feels both productive and peaceful. Laptop computer on the table, coffee refilled regularly... Read more

Turncoat

By: Aaron Elkins

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Pete Simon's all-American life was everything he had ever wished for: a good home, a satisfying career, and a marriage still strong and loving after nearly twenty years. But in the days following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, everything was about to change. It begins with the appearance of a stranger at his door. The next day his wife... Read more

Social Crimes

By: Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Dark secrets lurk beneath the glamour and glitter of New York’s high-society life in this riveting tale of murder, obsession, and revenge. Jo Slater, one of the grandest of New York’s grande dames is knocked off her pedestal when her husband of twenty years dies under strange circumstances and leaves his fortune to a mysterious French countess.... Read more

Fallout

By: James W. Huston

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

TOPGUN instructor Luke Henry quits the Navy to start a private aerial combat school in Nevada. A lucrative contract with the US government brings him twenty Russian MiG-29 fighter planes—on the condition that he train a group of Pakistani Air Force pilots handpicked by the Department of Defense.Luke is hesitant to train fighters from another... Read more

The Story of Henri Tod

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: James Buschmann

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1961 in Berlin, and the Cold War is at its most chilling. Suave CIA agent Blackford Oakes has come to investigate.Brilliant, charismatic, and with a tragic past, Henri Tod is head of Bruderschaft, the underground anti-Communist organization. Oakes will need his help in cracking the dark plots the Eastern bloc powers are hatching. And the... Read more

The Torso in the Town

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A dinner party at an English mansion with some stuffy, not-very-close friends is not exactly Jude's cup of tea—but the practically mummified torso of a woman found in the cellar is right up her alley. There is no way of knowing how long the dead body has been there, or even who it once was. Intrigued by this new mystery, Jude elicits the help of... Read more

Saving the Queen

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: James Buschmann

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

President Truman is near the end of his term in office, and Great Britain has a new queen. It is 1952, the Cold War is heating up, and vital military secrets are falling into Soviet hands. The CIA faces a delicate dilemma—for the source of the leaks has been traced directly to the Queen's chambers. The situation must be resolved but without... Read more

The Dark Tunnel

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When university professor Robert Branch learns of the death of his best friend, he knows that it couldn't have been suicide. The murder was arranged by a Nazi espionage group operating on campus. He also knows that the Nazis will have him eliminated, too, as soon as it is convenient. He's even narrowed his choice of executioner down to three: a... Read more

Flash Point

By: James W. Huston

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 19 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

With the same daredevil flying action found in Top Gun and the riveting storytelling that has established James W. Huston's reputation, here is an explosive novel that takes listeners from the cockpits of carrier-based naval fighters to the inside of the CIA and the Mossad, as one man's determination to avenge a wrongful death has the potential... Read more

Colour Scheme

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Even down in New Zealand, war-fueled spy fever is running wild. Near the decaying sulphur springs of Colonel and Mrs. Claire, the strange lights and signals being sent to foreign ships at sea indicate that there's a spy in their midst.Soon an even darker sign appears: a health-seeker with untoward intentions meets his demise in the boiling mud... Read more

Malice Prepense

By: Kate Wilhelm

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Forget about Grisham, Turow, and all those other scribbling ex-lawyers. The best writer of legal mysteries working today is Kate Wilhelm of Eugene, Oregon.When he was a kid, Teddy Wendover had an accident that left him stunted at the mental age of eight. Physically, he's six-foot-two and twenty-eight years old, but he acts and thinks just like a... Read more

Other People

By: Sol Stein

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

What does a man know about love? This is the story of three very different men in love with the same woman. It is also the story of that woman, Francine Widmer: twenty-seven, beautiful, intelligent, resourceful, and insistent on running her own life.Suddenly, control of Francine’s life is torn apart when she is raped. Finding the doctors and... Read more

The Death Collectors

By: Jack Kerley

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's ‘Art of the Final Moment’ remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes – and half a dozen... Read more

Sole Survivor

By: Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Narrated by: Johanna Ward

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead -- no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She... Read more

To Wear the White Cloak

By: Sharan Newman

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

After an absence of a year, Catherine LeVendeur and her husband Edgar are glad to return to Paris. When they enter the house, however, they are shocked by the discovery of the dead body of a Knight Templar. Although innocent, Catherine fears that she or her family will be incriminated. Her father Hubert has recently announced his Jewish roots... Read more

The Difficult Saint

By: Sharan Newman

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This novel in Newman's series of medieval mysteries featuring Catherine LeVendeur takes place in the twelfth century amidst Europe's religious and political turbulence and intolerance. Catherine, wife of one-handed Edgar, daughter of a Jewish merchant, and mother of two small children, is a Christian convert. Agnes, her estranged sister, has... Read more

Last Ditch

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Ricky Alleyn has come to the picturesque fishing village of Deep Cove to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder. For in a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident. And when Ricky himself disappears, the case... Read more

Spinsters in Jeopardy

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

En route to a family vacation on the French Riviera, Inspector Roderick Alleyn glimpses from the train a shocking tableau. In a moonlit window, a white-robed figure raises a knife to a woman's shadow. Thus begins his incognito exploration of the Chateau of the Silver Goat, where a jet-set cult's "Way of Life" could spell death for a maiden lady... Read more

Final Curtain

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder gets into the act in Ngaio Marsh's wittiest and most readable novel—and aShakespearean actor takes his final bow.Beautiful Troy Alleyn, artist wife of Inspector Alleyn, had been warned about the famed old Shakespearean actor Sir Henry and his eccentric household. But she was not prepared for the acts of malice and mischief that would... Read more

Artists in Crime

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling yarn, the art of detection gets clouded by desire.It was a bizarre pose for beautiful model Sonia Gluck—and her last. For in the draperies of her couch lay a fatal dagger, and behind her murder lies all the intrigue and acid-etched temperament of an artist's colony. Called in to investigate, Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick... Read more

Canapés for the Kitties

By: Marian Babson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

The outcry when Conan Doyle pushed Sherlock Holmes over the Reichenbach Falls and the dismay when Freeling shot Van der Valk are nothing compared to the chaos that ensues when Lorinda Lucas tries to dispose of Miss Petunia and her siblings, Lily and Marigold. Not only does the lid blow off the fictional village of St. Waldemar Boniface, but the... Read more

Tucker’s Last Stand

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

William F. Buckley's bestselling Blackford Oakes novels have set a new standard for stylish espionage entertainment. Now Buckley sends Oakes on his most thrilling adventure yet.The year is 1964. Faced with a hard-hitting presidential campaign and a deteriorating situation in Vietnam, Lyndon Johnson dispatches Oakes and a swashbuckling soldier of... Read more

The Eagle Heist

By: Raymond Austin

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An Eagle Security armored truck carrying sixteen million dollars worth of diamonds and three million in cash disappears in Washington, DC. Days later, the harpoon-impaled body of one of the guards floats to the banks of the Potomac River. Six months later, with the case gone cold, ex-Virginia cop-turned-private investigator Beauford Sloan leaves... Read more