Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Ivanhoe - Abridged

By: Sir Walter Scott

Narrated by: Brian Cox

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in the 12th century, during the reign of Richard the Lionheart, Ivanhoe tells of the love of Wilfred of Ivanhoe for the Lady Rowena, his father Cedric’s ward. Cedric intends Rowena for the oafish Athelstane, and banishes his son. 'The love of battle is the food upon which we live – the dust of the mêlée is the breath of... Read more

Killing Time

By: Linda Howard

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1985, with much fanfare, a time capsule was buried under the front lawn of a small-town county courthouse, to be reopened in 2085. But just twenty years later, in the dead of night, the capsule is dug up, its contents stolen. That same night, one of the contributors to the capsule is brutally slain in his home - with no sign of forced entry... Read more

Two Trains Running - Abridged

By: Andrew Vachss

Narrated by: David Joe Wirth

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Electrifying, compelling, and ultimately terrifying, Two Trains Running is a galvanizing evocation of that moment in our history when the violent forces that would determine America’s future were just beginning to roil below the surface.

Once a devastated mill town, by 1959 Locke City has established itself as a thriving center of vice tourism.... Read more

To the Power of Three - Abridged

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Powerful….A gripping tale that is a mystery only in the same sense as To Kill a Mockingbird was….Brilliant, insightful, moving.”
—Chicago Sun-TimesThere are excellent reasons why New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman has won the Edgar®, Agatha, Anthony, Nero Wolfe, and every other major award the mystery genre has to offer. To the... Read more

The Twelfth Card

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.

“Deaver’s labyrinthine plots are astonishing”(The New York Times Book Review) in this bestselling thriller featuring a hitman who is out to kill a young girl in Harlem and in order to save her, Lincoln Rhyme has to solve a cold case that’s... Read more

Appaloosa

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A richly imagined novel of the Old West, as spare and vivid as a high plains sunset, from one of the world's most talented performers.

It was a long time ago, now, and there were many gunfights to follow, but I remember as well as I remember anything the first time I saw Virgil Cole shoot. Time slowed down for him. Always steady, and never fast... Read more

The Twelfth Card - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION EVENT FROM NBC, STARRING RUSSELL HORNSBY, ARIELLE KEBBEL, AND MICHAEL IMPERIOLI.

“Deaver’s labyrinthine plots are astonishing”(The New York Times Book Review) in this bestselling thriller featuring a hitman who is out to kill a young girl in Harlem and in order to save her, Lincoln Rhyme has to solve a cold case that’s... Read more

Embroidered Truths

By: Monica Ferris

Narrated by: Melissa Hughes

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

After her good friend Godwin has a nasty quarrel with John, his significant other, full-time needlework shop owner and part-time sleuth Betsy Devonshire finds herself with a roommate. Betsy doesn't mind having company, though Godwin is restless and unhappy over the sudden break-up. But sadness turns to grief when Betsy and Godwin discover John... Read more

Sofie Metropolis

By: Tori Carrington

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Sofie’s a young Greek-American woman living in Queens. If you’d asked her a few months ago what she’d be doing now, she’d have replied, “I’m going to be married to a wonderful guy and working at my father’s, or maybe my grandfather’s, Greek restaurant.” That was before Sofie caught the groom in a compromising position with her maid of honor just... Read more

Four to Score

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: C. J. Critt

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A Featured Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club and a Main Selection of the Mystery Guild

Janet Evanovich, bestselling author of One for the Money, Two for the Dough, and Three to Get Deadly, scores big with Four to Score, her most thrilling Stephanie Plum adventure yet.

Working for her bail bondsman cousin Vinnie,... Read more

Devil's Corner

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time -- and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine... Read more

Plan of Attack

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 14 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Dale Brown is the author of fourteen New York Times bestsellers, and now in Plan of Attack, he provocatively turns our attention to the threat of a nuclear attack that is beyond our imaginings.U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. Keeping a keen eye on what's going on... Read more

The Third Secret

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Explosive in both its pace and its revelations, The Third Secret is a remarkable international thriller. Bestselling author Steve Berry tackles some of the most controversial ideas of our time in a breakneck journey through the history of the Church and the future of religion.

Fatima, Portugal, 1917: The Virgin Mary appears to three peasant... Read more

Double Indemnity

By: James Cain

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.Performed by James Naughton Read more

Devil's Corner - Abridged

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline delivers a knockout stand-alone thriller featuring a young federal prosecutor who risks her life to bring down the kingpin of a conspiracy responsible for murders in West Philly.Assistant U.S. Attorney Vicki Allegretti goes to meet a confidential informant and finds herself facing a loaded 9 mm... Read more

Air Battle Force - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: David McCallum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

On America's newest combat base, U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan and his crew of daring engineers are devising the air combat unit of the future. Known as Air Battle Force, it can launch concentrated, stealthy, precision-guided firepower to any spot on the globe within hours. And soon McLanahan and his... Read more

Act of War - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: Larry Pressman

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Dale Brown pits a group of seasoned military veterans and young techies against a consortium of international terrorists, determined to destabilize the global economy through a series of attacks on oil refineries around the world. Read more

Plan of Attack - Abridged

By: Dale Brown

Narrated by: J.K. Simmons

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Dale Brown is the author of fourteen New York Times bestsellers, and now in Plan of Attack, he provocatively turns our attention to the threat of a nuclear attack that is beyond our imaginings.U.S. Air Force aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan has been demoted and moved back to a desk job. Keeping a keen eye on what's going on... Read more

Middle of Nowhere

By: Ridley Pearson

Narrated by: Ridley Pearson

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The "blue flu" has struck the Seattle Police Force and the majority of officers are on an unofficial strike. Overworked and understaffed, detective Lou Boldt is committed to remaining on the job no matter what. But when a string of robberies and the brutal near-murder of a female cop descend on the city, the pressure of being a nearly one-man... Read more

The Last Coyote

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Suspended from his job with the LAPD, Harry Bosch must face the darkest parts of his past to track down his mother's killer . . . even if it costs him his life.Harry Bosch's life is on the edge. His earthquake-damaged home has been condemned. His girlfriend has left him. He's drinking too much. And after attacking his commanding officer, he's... Read more

The Concrete Blonde

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.The Dollmaker was the name of the serial killer who had stalked Los Angeles ruthlessly, leaving grisly calling cards on the faces of his female victims. Now with a single faultless... Read more

The Inside Ring

By: Mike Lawson

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

“The video begins with the President walking toward a marine helicopter . . .”

From a bluff overlooking Georgia’s untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide and in the... Read more

The Campaign

By: Marilyn Tucker Quayle & Nancy Tucker Northcott

Narrated by: Marilyn Quayle

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A suspenseful political thriller about a Christian politician written by a Washington insider. Read more

Velocity

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: Michael Hayden

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Dean Koontz’s unique talent for writing terrifying thrillers with a heart and soul is nowhere more evident than in this latest suspense masterpiece that pits one man against the ultimate deadline. If there were speed limits for the sheer pulse-racing excitement allowed in one novel, Velocity would break them all. Get ready for the ride of your... Read more