Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Avenger - Abridged

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Eric Conger

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Frederick Forsyth is back with a Avenger! A heart-stopping thriller of murder, intrigue, deception, and revenge

Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathlon training. But Dexter is no ordinary lawyer. On Sundays, he reads the paper and... Read more

Angels & Demons - Abridged

By: Dan Brown

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Experience the explosive, “intriguing, imaginative, and very suspenseful” (Dale Brown, New York Times bestselling author) classic thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code and Inferno that follows Robert Langdon on a white-knuckled race against time to uncover the darkest secrets of Rome.

An ancient secret... Read more

Darkling I Listen

By: Katherine Sutcliffe

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of three long years in the penitentiary, movie star Brandon Carlyle's bad boy career is on the skids. He seeks sanctuary with his beloved aunt and uncle, who live in the tiny, eccentric town of Ticky Creek, Texas. But there's nothing about Ticky Creek that's truly peaceful. The local corrupt sheriff who put him away the first time is... Read more

Waking Samuel

By: Daniel Coyle

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

After the loss of her only son, Sara Black finds herself spending more and more time at the Seattle hospital where she is a nurse, tending to "the tall man," the victim of a gunshot wound whose identity has remained a provocative riddle-until he starts talking. As the man she knows as Samuel draws Sara into a strange and chilling story about his... Read more

Engaged to Die

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Death on Demand Bookstore - "the best mystery bookstore east of Atlanta" - somebody always seems to turn up dead. In Hart's latest installment, charming owners Annie and Max Darling return to investigate a mysterious death at an art gallery opening on their South Carolina island. When heiress and gallery owner Virginia Neville hosts a... Read more

The Gathering

By: William X. Kienzle

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Way back in the 1940s, they had all been young together. Inseparable pals Mike and Manny, both preparing for the priesthood . . . Mike’s beautiful twin sister, Rose, and her best friend Alice, sharing a dream of becoming nuns . . . shy altar boy Stanley and everybody’s good friend, Bob Koesler, also headed for the priesthood. Six Detroit... Read more

Letter From Home

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Evoking the spirit and hardships of small-town America during World War II, Carolyn Hart's beautifully written story follows a young reporter, Gretchen Gilman, who investigates the puzzling murder of an acquaintance. Gretchen's assignments at the local newspaper weren't very exciting, but the job was a good opportunity for a young woman with... Read more

Firebreak

By: Richard Stark

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Firebreak takes ruthless career criminal Parker to a palatial Montana “hunting lodge” where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters—which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get it past the mansion’s tight security. The forests of Montana are an inhospitable place for a heister when well-laid plans fall... Read more

The Night Spider

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

John Lutz is fascinated by the nighttime dangers that await women alone. In THE NIGHT SPIDER, he improvises a new variation on this theme with a thriller about a serial killer who preys upon women living in high-rises. With few visible means of entry, the mysterious stalker kills women while they sleep in their beds behind securely locked doors.... Read more

Retribution

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.

He now... Read more

A Grave Denied

By: Dana Stabenow

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 13: A Kate Shugak Novel

Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care.... Read more

Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. And only Jane can fathom the depths of his ruthless... Read more

Vendetta

By: Ed Gorman

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Madsen became a priest to atone for a life of violence and a wartime tragedy and thought he had put away his gun for good. But then a grief-stricken young woman who's like a daughter to him sets out on a quest of vengeance, and Madsen is forced to take up the gun again as he sets out to save her from herself. 

What Madsen doesn't know is... Read more

The Night Watcher

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author John Lutz comes a lightning-paced thriller of a city gripped by a killer's savage reign of terror. 

Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged—brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes, by someone whose modus operandi is as... Read more

Sins Out of School

By: Jeanne M. Dams

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

English food is all well and good in its place, but for expatriate amateur sleuth Dorothy Martin, there's nothing like a good Thanksgiving turkey with all the trimmings to make November seem complete. In the midst of the preparations, though, when Dorothy gets a call to help out for one day at the local school because Amanda Doyle just hasn't... Read more

Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In her seventh captivating adventure, Jane Austen finds her crime-solving mettle put to the test in a confounding case of intrigue, murder, and high treason. Among the haunted ruins of an ancient abbey, Jane is drawn into a shadow world of dangerous secrets and traitorous hearts where not only her life is at stake--but the fate of England.

Jane... Read more

Silence Is Golden

By: Jeanne M. Dams

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"The good old days" aren't all they're cracked up to be . . . at least in Jeanne M. Dams's turn-of-the-century novels. Her woman on the spot, Hilda Johansson, a maid in the Studebaker household in South Bend, sees what's going on among the rich, suffers what's going on among the less fortunate . . . and has no trouble telling it like it is. In... Read more

Diary

By: Chuck Palahniuk

Narrated by: Martha Plimpton

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“CAN YOU FEEL THIS?”

Chuck Palahniuk, the bestselling author of Fight Club, Choke, and Lullaby continues his twenty-first-century reinvention of the horror novel in this scary and profound look at our quest for some sort of immortality.

Diary takes the form of a “coma diary” kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a... Read more

Mission Flats - Abridged

By: William Landay

Narrated by: Ron Livingston

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob

Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural... Read more

The Devil's Banker - Abridged

By: Christopher Reich

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hailed as “the John Grisham of Wall Street” by the New York Times, Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well--the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this ingeniously crafted thriller, the bestselling author of Numbered Account and The First Billion introduces his most complex and engaging hero... Read more

Resolved - Abridged

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tanenbaum's done it again: Resolved is a complex, suspenseful tale of justice in the Big Apple, as a vengeful and sadistic killer sets his sights on the man who put him away -- New York Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp.
The fifteenth installment in Robert K. Tanenbaum's blistering New York Times bestselling series sees Karp up... Read more

Soon

By: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

2004 Christy Fiction award winner!

Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion—flush it out, expose it, and kill it—until his... Read more

The Sinner - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Apprentice comes a chilling new novel of suspense featuring Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, on the deadly trail of an anonymous madman who’s committed an unholy crime.

Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of... Read more

The Murder Room

By: P. D. James

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dupayne, a small private museum in London devoted to the interwar years 1919-1939, is in turmoil. As its trustees argue over whether it should be closed, one of them is brutally and mysteriously murdered. Yet even as Commander Dalgliesh and his team proceed with their investigation, a second corpse is discovered. Someone in the Dupayne is... Read more