Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Unspeakable

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: John Henry Cox

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Carl Herbold enjoys being bad.  After all, he is terrifyingly good at it.  Stimulated by violence, he and his brother, Cecil, had easily graduated from juvenile delinquents to full-blown killers.  And Carl, now serving a life sentence in an Arkansas penitentiary, carries out a daring escape with a fellow inmate and is on his way back to where he... Read more

The Alibi

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Dennis Redfield

Length: 14 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Born into a fine old Charleston family, Hammond Cross is determined to be the city's next district attorney-without sacrificing his integrity. Prosecuting the sensational murder of real estate magnate Lute Pettijohn could be his ticket into the office. Yet while Hammond anticipates his success, someone near him is plotting his downfall--

Steffi... Read more

Omerta

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Michael Imperioli

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“A splendid piece of crime fiction . . . a fitting cap to a tremendous career . . . Through it all, Puzo keeps the heat on and keeps the reader enthralled with his characters and his story.”—The Denver Post

To Don Raymonde Aprile’s children, he was a loyal family member, their father’s adopted “nephew.” To the FBI he was a man who would rather... Read more

The Chamber

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Alexander Adams

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the corridors of Chicago's top law firm:

Twenty-six-year-old Adam Hall stands on the brink  of a brilliant legal career. Now he is risking it  all for a death-row killer and an impossible case.  

Maximum Security Unit, Mississippi State  Prison:

Sam Cayhall is a former Klansman  and unrepentant racist now facing the death penalty  for a fatal... Read more

The Runaway Jury

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 14 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Every jury has a leader, and the verdict belongs to him.In Biloxi, Mississippi, a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake beginsroutinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least one juroris convinced he's being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an... Read more

Hannibal

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Daniel Gerroll

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Invite Hannibal Lecter into the palace of your mind and be invited into his mind palace in turn. Note the similarities in yours and his, the high vaulted chambers of your dreams, the shadowed halls, the locked storerooms where you dare not go, the scrap of half-forgotten music, the muffled cries from behind a wall.

In one of the most eagerly... Read more

Gone for Soldiers

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 19 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

With his acclaimed New York Times bestsellers Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure, Jeff Shaara expanded upon his father's Pulitzer Prize-winning Civil War classic, The Killer Angels--ushering the reader through the poignant drama of this most bloody chapter in our history. Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen... Read more

Tough Cookie - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling series that inspired the Hallmark Mystery Curious Caterer Original Movies

“A surprisingly tart and savory reading experience.”—The Washington Post Book World

When caterer Goldy Schulz is offered a temporary stint hosting a cooking show for PBS, she jumps at the chance. After all, she could use the money—not to... Read more

Playing for the Ashes - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession.... Read more

Well Schooled in Murder - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

When 13-year-old Matthew Whateley goes missing from a prestigious West Sussex public school, Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help.

Lynley, his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon St. James begin a search for a child -- then for a child killer!

Lynley and Havers sense evil behind the school's... Read more

The Search - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Cynthia Nixon

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He strikes without warning....he kills without mercy....he's only just begun....

Iris Johansen, the New York Times bestselling author of The Killing Game and The Face of Deception, delivers a gripping new novel of breathtaking suspense and explosive adventure. It is the story of a courageous woman who is coerced into tracking down a ruthless... Read more

Nightshade - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Lee Meriwether

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A master of horror and psychological suspense, John Saul taps into our darkest, most deeply guarded fears. Now the New York Times bestselling author of The Blackstone Chronicles and The Right Hand of Evil has created his most gripping novel yet, the terrifying story of an innocent teenager who must confront the sins of the past and a corrupting... Read more

Demolition Angel - Abridged

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Crais is at the top of his game, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It’s Silence of the Lambs meets Speed. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as... Read more

Gone for Soldiers - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: George Hearn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

In... Read more

Gates of Fire - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after... Read more

Sea Change - Abridged

By: James Powlik

Narrated by: Jameson Parker

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

BENEATH THE CALM SURFACE A DEADLY TERROR AWAITS.

In the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, two fishermen are the first to feel the heat. Then a young girl, playing innocently by the seashore--before dying an agonizing death. Now the media have a story. Reporters, scientists, and government officials are descending on the coastline, searching... Read more

Trouble in Paradise - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Richard Masur

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the ne plus ultra of detective fiction.  But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for addition to the Parker literary canon.  "A novel as fresh as it is bold...Parker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace and assurance as... Read more

Night Passage - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Richard Masur

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't... Read more

Silent Treatment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Adam Arkin

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin.  Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how... Read more

The Patient - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Lisa Harrow

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With one nerve-shattering New York Times bestseller after another, Michael Palmer has demonstrated his extraordinary ability to create medical thrillers that are at once relentlessly suspenseful and chillingly realistic. And now the former ER physician returns with the stunning and explosive tale of a gifted neurosurgeon drawn into a world of... Read more

Natural Causes - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Natasha Richardson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal

Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's... Read more

Miracle Cure - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Scott Bryce

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With each successive bestseller, including Extreme Measures and Critical Judgment, ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense...writing "wrenchingly scary," (Publishers Weekly) "chillingly sinister"(Denver Post) novels packed with all the cutting-edge authenticity only a doctor could prescribe.  Now, in... Read more

Extreme Measures - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: John Pankow

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has... Read more

Critical Judgment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients.  It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages.  As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors... Read more