Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

B Is for Burglar - Abridged

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 2 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Finding wealthy Elaine Boldt seems like a quickie  case to Kinsey Millhone. The flashy widow was last  seen wearing a $12,000 lynx coat, leaving her  condo in Santa Teresa for her condo in Boca Raton. But  somewhere in between, she vanished. Kinsey's case  goes from puzzling to sinister when a house is  torched, an apartment is burgled of... Read more

Private Screening - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Christopher Reeve

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Thrilling.... PRIVATE SCREENING succeeds on all counts. It's a footrace of a read, daring you to put it down."
ATLANTA JOURNAL & CONSTITUTION
The nation is stunned silent when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead in front of his rock-star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant. Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord dares to defend the... Read more

The Lasko Tangent - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Lasko is a self-made millionaire who's got the ear of the president and a talent for using it to get what he wants. Read more

The Plague Tales - Abridged

By: Ann Benson

Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Guzman, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the Papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted against his will to serve as a Plague Doctor in the court of England's Edward III. Unfolding in a... Read more

Los Alamos - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The suspense novel for all others to beat . . . [a] must read.”—The Denver Post

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL

It is the spring of 1945, and in a dusty, remote community, the world’s most brilliant minds have come together in secret. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who... Read more

The Curse of the Pharaohs

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson and her archaeologist husband are busy raising their young son; yet Amelia dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Happily, circumstances are about to demand their immediate presence in Egypt. Sir Henry Baskerville had just discovered a tomb in Luxor when he promptly died under... Read more

The Judas Judge - Abridged

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: Bruce Greenwood

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney is weeks away from trading in his badge for a rancher's hat, when six murders are committed at a remote campground in New Mexico. Most of the evidence points to the work of a spree killer, but peculiarities at one crime scene suggest another grisly possibility: that five random people have been shot to... Read more

Deadly Decisions - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When innocent blood is spilled, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan deciphers the shattering truth it holds in this exciting thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.

Nine-year-old Emily Anne Toussaint is fatally shot on a Montreal street. A North Carolina teenager disappears from her home, and parts of her skeleton... Read more

Lethal Seduction - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jackie Collins brings back her savvy heroine from the L.A. Connections series in this erotically charged, suspense-laced New York Times bestseller about secret obsession and deadly passion.

Caught between two lovers, Madison Castelli's sex life is in overdrive. But when she discovers someone close to her is... Read more

Mrs Pollifax Unveiled

By: Dorothy Gilman

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The 14th in the Mrs. Pollifax series, Mrs. Pollifax Unveiled joins its predecessors as a delightful source of entertainment and suspense. After all her harrowing adventures in various parts of the world, America's most endearing and unlikely CIA agent is bored with her gardening.When headquarters calls with a deadly mission, she's ready with... Read more

The Indwelling - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Indwelling, book number seven in the best-selling Left Behind series, marks the beginning of the second half of the seven year Tribulation period. The question of who killed Nicolae at the end of book number six, Assassins, will be answered. Readers will experience the horrors of God's judgment and the hope of salvation as they follow... Read more

Standoff

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Enid Graham

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving down Interstate 20 on her way to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation. But her itinerary is rewritten when she hears on the radio that the teenage daughter of a well-known Fort Worth multi-millionaire has been kidnapped, at least that's the official report. In truth, she is pregnant and has run away with her... Read more

The Empty Chair - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a gripping TV series starring Russell Hornsby and Michael Imperioli! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Bone Collector and The Devil’s Teardrop a spine-chilling thriller that puts renowned criminalist Lincoln Rhyme against the ultimate opponent—Amelia Sachs, his own brilliant protégé.

A quadriplegic since a beam crushed his... Read more

Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko & John Weisman

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

Till Death

By: William X. Kienzle

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

UNHOLY DEATH

For years, a little group of priests and nuns have struggled together to recover from the rule of virtual slavery imposed upon them by tyrannical Father Angelico, now thankfully gone to his reward. But for some of them the group is no longer a godsend. The ties that once bound beloved Father Rick Casserly, beautiful former nun Dora... Read more

Midnight Come Again

By: Dana Stabenow

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 10: A Kate Shugak Novel

Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow has written numerous atmospheric crime novels featuring the very prickly, very human Kate Shugak, but her novels also have a scene-stealing costar: Alaska, unforgiving, breathtaking, dangerous, and beautiful. Stabenow's evocation of this wilderness, combined with her talent for... Read more

Before I Say Good-Bye

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Goodbye.

When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of... Read more

Before I Say Good-Bye - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Goodbye.

When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of... Read more

Nicolae - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new world leader rises dramatically and pursues the growing Tribulation Force…Two years have passed since the widespread disappearance of a large part of the world’s population. Now a global war has ensued, with the Red Horse of the Apocalypse ravaging the earth and the Tribulation Force seeking to oppose the rise of the Antichrist.Will the... Read more

The Brethren

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison.

One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. And the third, for a career-ending drunken joyride.

Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons ... Read more

An Embroidered Shoe

By: BaoRui Zhang

Narrated by: BaoKa

Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1948, before the collapse of the Kuomingtang, a secret party by the name of the Plum Blossom was set up with the goal of infiltrating the government and waiting for an opportunity to rise. Long Fei, an agent of the KMT planned a secret rendezvous with Bai Wei, the daughter of Plum Blossom Party's leader, to locate the Plum Blossom Painting,... Read more

The Rainmaker

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 16 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A taut and terrific page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) from the master of the courtroom thriller

“Great fun to read . . . The complex plotting is Grisham’s major accomplishment.”—Los Angeles Times

In development as a USA Network series starring John Slattery

It’s summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy... Read more

Protect and Defend

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 20 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A compelling new novel from Richard North Patterson- a major departure, and that confirms his place among the most important popular novelists at work today.

A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court.  His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose... Read more

Merrick

By: Anne Rice

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In her mesmerizing new novel, the author of The Vampire Chronicles and the saga of the Mayfair Witches demonstrates once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of myth and magic. Here, in a magnificent tale of sorcery and the occult, she makes real for us a hitherto unexplored world of witchcraft.

At the center is the... Read more