Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Life Expectancy

By: Dean Koontz

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy—a story that... Read more

State of Fear

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 18 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers another action-packed techo-thriller in State of Fear.

When a group of eco-terrorists engage in a global conspiracy to generate weather-related natural disasters, its up to environmental lawyer Peter Evans and his team to uncover the subterfuge.
 
From Tokyo to Los Angeles, from Antarctica... Read more

A King's Ransom - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking... Read more

State of Fear - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 6 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Crichton delivers an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride mixing cutting edge science and action-packed adventure in State of Fear.In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a laboratory experiment for a beautiful visitor.In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology,... Read more

The Flight of the Phoenix

By: Elleston Trevor

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

They are twelve men who shouldn’t be alive. They have survived the sudden blinding sandstorm that crippled their air freighter; survived a desperate crash landing in the Sahara of Central Libya; survived to face the slow, dry, agonizing death of the desert, for no rescue plans will seek their unscheduled flight.Twelve men with one hope: to build... Read more

Fatherland

By: Robert Harris

Narrated by: Anton Lesser & Full Cast

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Anton Lesser stars as a Berlin detective who stumbles upon the 20th century's most terrifying secret in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Robert Harris's bestselling novel. The year is 1964, and it's a week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Nazi Germany won the Second World War, Churchill is living in exile in Canada, Joseph Kennedy is... Read more

Paul Temple And The Lawrence Affair

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help... Read more

Paul Temple And The Jonathan Mystery

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Full Cast, Marjorie Westbury & Peter Coke

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio’s most popular serials. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats – a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of... Read more

Quarry

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Old Man Hass is concerned by the near-catatonic behavior of his daughter, Grady. The young woman showed up at his doorstep a few days earlier, refused to admit that anything was wrong, and has been wandering around the farm, not talking and barely eating. The Nameless Detective thinks the old farmer would have been better off calling a... Read more

Paul Temple And The Conrad Case

By: Francis Durbridge

Narrated by: Peter Coke, Marjorie Westbury & Full Cast

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabited a sophisticated, well-dressed world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham... Read more

By Order of the President - Abridged

By: W.E.B. Griffin

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Over the years, W.E.B. Griffin's stories of the military and police, told with crackling realism and rich characters, have won him millions of fans and acclaim as "the dean of the American war adventure" (Publishers Weekly). Now he vaults into the present day with a series as exciting as anything he has ever written.

At an airfield in Angola,... Read more

Black Wind

By: Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt must work with his children to unravel old battle plans from WWII to prevent a present-day massacre in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.

In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure. Kept secret from all but a few select officials, two submarines... Read more

Last to Die - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In an exciting new series that critics have called ""John Grisham meets Robert Ludlum,"" Miami criminal defense lawyer Jack Swyteck faces his biggest challenge yet.Tatum Knight is a former contract killer. Ruthless. Conniving. And he's Jack's newest client. Tatum is the older brother of Jack's best friend, Theo. Theo himself spent time on death... Read more

The Informant - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

By the author of the bestselling The Pardon, this fast-paced novel teams a resourceful FBI agent and an embattled journalist in a hunt for two men -- a serial killer and his elusive informant.When an informer chooses Miami Tribune crime reporter Michael Posten as his conduit, giving him information about murders that haven't yet taken place,... Read more

Found Money - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Mark Blum

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Single mother Amy Parkens feels trapped by a boring job, low pay, and no time for her young daughter. But that's before $200,000 in cold, hard cash arrives in an unmarked box. Desperately needing the money, Amy fears a setup or a connection to her mother's suicide 20 years earlier. So she sets out to find the source.A decent, responsible... Read more

The Abduction - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Allison Janney

Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

U.S. Attorney General Allison Leahy is the nation's top law enforcement officer and the Democrtas' best chance for holding on to the Oval Office. But she has powerful competition in Republican Lincoln Howe, a retired fourstar general and bona finde Africa-American hero. They are running neck and neck, and seemingly nothing can break the... Read more

Beyond Suspicion - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Tom Wopat

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After six exciting thrillers in seven years, bestselling author James Grippando is at last bringing back the main character from his blockbuster debut novel, The Pardon.Criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck doesn't handle many civil cases. But this one is different. His client, Jessie Merrill, is a gorgeous ex-girlfriend who's being sued.At the trial,... Read more

Trojan Odyssey - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
 
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a... Read more

Black Wind - Abridged

By: Clive Cussler & Dirk Cussler

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Legendary oceanographer Dirk Pitt must work with his children to unravel old battle plans from WWII to prevent a present-day massacre in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.

In the waning days of World War II, the Japanese tried a last desperate measure. Kept secret from all but a few select officials, two submarines... Read more

Under Cover of Darkness - Abridged

By: James Grippando

Narrated by: Ron McClarty

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm, Gus Wheatley has found success–as well at money, power, and prestige. He thinks nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top. Until his wife, Beth, vanishes.Beth's disappearance coincides with a series of brutal murders the FBI dubs the ""bookend... Read more

Twisted

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: Lindsay Crouse

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman’s New York Times bestseller Billy Straight she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate Petra is once again at the center... Read more

Shark Mutiny - Abridged

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: David McCallum

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is the year 2007, and the Chinese are poised to challenge America's superiority on the open sea and upset the delicate balance of oil power in the Middle East and the free passage of the world's giant tankers.The Chinese Navy, in partnership with Iran, has laid a minefield clean across the Strait of Hormuz, holding the world's oil supply... Read more

Kilo Class - Abridged

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It's one of the stealthiest, most dangerous underwater warships ever built . . . silent at under five knots, and capable of a massive nuclear warhead punch. It's the weapon every Third World dictator covets. It's the 240-foot long Russian Kilo Class submarine and Russia seems perfectly willing to sell it to anyone - including China.The U.S.... Read more

Twisted - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: Lindsay Crouse

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has helped psychologist Alex Delaware crack tough cases in the past. And in Jonathan Kellerman’s New York Times bestseller Billy Straight she took the lead in the desperate hunt for a teenage runaway stalked by a vengeful murderer. Now the complex and wryly compassionate Petra is once again at the center... Read more