Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Spytime

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

James Jesus Angleton was a legend in the time of spies. Founder of US counterintelligence at the end of World War II, ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America, his name is synonymous with skullduggery and intellectual subterfuge. William F. Buckley Jr. presents a subtle and thrilling fictional account of the spymaster's life.From his... 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

Nasty Breaks

By: Charlotte Elkins & Aaron Elkins

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Lee Ofsted has been hired to teach golf to the executives of a local salvage company on the bucolic Block Island. The setting is lovely, and the $1,000 a day salary will go a long way toward covering her expenses during her third year on the pro tour. But will it be compensation enough for solving a murder?After a bizarre, botched kidnapping of... Read more

The Expendable Spy

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Against the background of a deadly undercover war between the Gestapo and Soviet agents during the collapse of the Third Reich, The Expendable Spy is the hair-raising novel of an audacious American who discovers a secret so big and so appalling that his own intelligence office orders his execution. Read more

The Chill

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Lew Archer knew he shouldn’t have taken the case, but Alex Kincaid seemed so desperate. Kincaid’s loving new bride Dolly had just inexplicably walked out on him, leaving Kincaid more than a little fearful for her sanity—and her safety. So Archer reluctantly agreed to help Kincaid find her. But what he found instead was enough to send a chill... Read more

The Barbarous Coast

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Ross Macdonald is one of the “Big Three” in American hard-boiled detective fiction, along with Chandler and Hammett. In The Barbarous Coast, tough, thoughtful private eye Lew Archer pursues a girl who jackknifed too suddenly from high diving to high living. Archer’s investigation leads him to an ex-fighter with an unexplained movie contract, a... Read more

The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A shadow of unease, a quickening pulse, an unnamed fear breathing on the collar of those who sit alone in their dressing rooms at the great Paris Opera.An unbearable compulsion to glance quickly over a shoulder in the dark corridors to the stage would sometimes reveal a figure in evening clothes moving softly in the shadows—a figure no one could... Read more

The Blue Hammer

By: Ross Macdonald

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this masterful Macdonald mystery, the desert air is hot with sex and betrayal, death and madness, and only Lew Archer can make sense of a killer who makes murder a work of art.The era is the 1970s, the settin, Southern California. Private investigator Lew Archer has been hired to retrieve a stolen canvas reputed to be the work of the... Read more

The Potsdam Bluff

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1945, and Stalin’s army stands poised to conquer Europe. The only way to stop him is for Truman to bluff him down. To make the bluff work, C.G. Brandt, America’s ultra-professional but very human spymaster, is forced to risk everything on Alex Lukas, an undertrained but bilingual secret agent. Lukas must escort a Soviet defector who will... Read more

The Flying Cross

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Someone is murdering the pilots of America’s 107th Aero Squadron. Someone is diverting military funds to a secret place. Someone who looks, talks, and acts just like everyone else is selling his country to the enemy.That someone must be stopped. But there are those in power who are prepared to block the investigation in order to hide the ugly... Read more

A Very Private Plot

By: William F. Buckley

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The year is 1995, and an energetic senator wants to disarm, perhaps even eliminate, the CIA. To accumulate the evidence necessary to persuade the Senate, he needs the cooperation of Blackford Oakes, now retired. He wants an account from Oakes of his covert activity ten years earlier, when he served as chief of covert activities for the CIA. What... 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

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

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

Eleven on Top

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 New York Times

#1 Wall Street Journal

#1 Los Angeles Times

#1 Entertainment Weekly

#1 Publishers Weekly

Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her... Read more

When We Were Orphans

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A masterful novel from one of the most admired writers of our time.Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the... Read more

Eleven on Top - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times

#1 Wall Street Journal

#1 Los Angeles Times

#1 Entertainment Weekly

#1 Publishers Weekly

Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Time for a change, Stephanie thinks. Time to find the kind of job her... Read more

Tailspin

By: Jack D. Hunter

Narrated by: Barrett Whitener

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1945, just after the German surrender, Major Kaufmann of G-2 Counterintelligence receives disturbing reports. Aerial bombs are missing from Italy. German POW airmen are being transferred to France for no obvious reason. A fleet of B17s disappears without a trace. When Kaufmann tries to follow up, his contacts are murdered before he can reach... Read more

Great Expectations - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Hugh Laurie

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The orphan Pip’s terrifying encounter with an escaped convict on the Kent marshes, and his mysterious summons to the house of Miss Havisham and her cold, beautiful ward Estella, form the prelude to his “great expectations.” How Pip comes into a fortune, what he does with it, and what he discovers through his secret benefactor are the ingredients... Read more

Dracula - Abridged

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."

A popular bestseller in Victorian England,... Read more

Crime and Punishment - Abridged

By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Narrated by: Alex Jennings

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police... Read more

When the Day of Evil Comes

By: Melanie Wells

Narrated by: Tari Riggs

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Bizarre Encounter Initiates Extreme Spiritual Battle  Dylan Foster’s carefully constructed, orderly world begins to fray, thread by thread, the day the eyes of hell turn upon her. After a chance encounter with a creepy, sickly looking stranger, her days become punctuated with disturbing, inexplicable events. Desperate for answers, Dylan seeks... Read more

The Scarlet Letter - Abridged

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Elizabeth McGovern

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.' A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real... Read more

Heart of Darkness - Abridged

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Joss Ackland

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

‘The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.’ At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way... Read more