Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Chile Death - Abridged

By: Susan Wittig Albert

Narrated by: Susan Wittig Albert

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A richly characterized, witty, and suspenseful story of crime and passion in small-town Texas. Read more

O Is For Outlaw - Abridged

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Fans have been fed short rations when it comes to Kinsey Millhone's past. We know of the aunt who raised her, the second husband who left her, the long-lost family up the California coast. But husband number one, vice-cop Mickey Macgruder, remained a mystery, until now. The call came from a guy who scavenges defaulted storage units and came... Read more

Family Honor

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Andrea Thompson

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Sunny Randall is a Boston P.I. and former cop, a college graduate, an aspiring painter, a divorcée, and the owner of a miniature bull terrier named Rosie. Hired by a wealthy family to locate their teenage daughter, Sunny is tested by the parents' preconceived notion of what a detective should be. With the help of underworld contacts, she tracks... Read more

Hard Time - Abridged

By: Sara Paretsky

Narrated by: Jean Smart

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In an instant, the lives of two women collide. One was behind the wheels of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski gets out of her car to look at the woman she almost hit, she begins a long, harrowing descent into a world of shadowy secrets and... Read more

In Big Trouble

By: Laura Lippman

Narrated by: Deborah Hazlett

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

First as a reporter and then as a PI, Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past, and a man she loved and lost. It starts when she gets a newspaper photograph of her old boyfriend with a tantalizing shard of headline attached: In Big Trouble. The answers... Read more

Cold Hit - Abridged

By: Linda Fairstein

Narrated by: Allison Janney

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Renowned sex-crimes prosecutor and bestselling author Linda Fairstein sends her acclaimed heroine—the stylish and steely-nerved D.A. Alexandra Cooper—on a hunt for a killer inside New York City's glitzy art world.

Alexandra Cooper has seen many murder victims, but few more disturbing than the silk-clad body of a woman, her hands and feet tied to... Read more

Assassins - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The best-selling Christian fiction series of all time, Left Behind, reaches a crescendo in this gripping book when Nicolae Carpathia is assassinated, setting the stage for the Great Tribulation. Read more

Darwin's Radio - Abridged

By: Greg Bear

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Darwin's Radio— a cross between the chilling scientific credibility of Michael Crichton and the cutting-edge technology of William Gibson— a terrifying disease forces scientists to race against time to save civilization— if it is not too late. The discovery of concealed remains in a mass grave in Russia... Read more

Tribulation Force - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The planet is changed forever. As the dust settles, sides are drawn and allegiances are formed. Survival is not a given. Caution is warranted now more than ever. What happened, and what do we do next?What would you do if you were in their shoes?Fans of the popular Left Behind series won’t want to miss these exciting audio dramas. Tribulation... Read more

Devil's Teardrop - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Jay Patterson

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A classic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver featuring the intricate forensic detail, masterful plot twists, and harrowing breakneck pace that made A Maiden’s Grave, The Bone Collector, and The Coffin Dancer national bestsellers.

It’s New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1999, and Washington, DC, is under siege. Early in the... Read more

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

By: Victor Hugo

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 22 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

-Written in 1831 before Hugo was forced to flee from Louis Napoleon's France. In this novel-perhaps his most popular-Hugo paints a vivid portrait of medieval Paris. Quasimodo, the one-eyed, hunchbacked refugee; Esmeralda, the dancing gypsy girl, threatened by the gallows; and a world where chaos is in charge-Hugo captures them all in this... Read more

The Seville Communion - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A magnificent old church faces demolition until a handful of supporters rally to save the landmark. But soon the church's defenders begin to die. Accidents or murder? The task of unraveling the mystery falls to the Vatican's handsome and sophisticated Father Lorenzo Quart. But first he must track down the identity of a savvy computer hacker... Read more

McNally's Dilemma - Abridged

By: Lawrence Sanders

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.
Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case; the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. After finding... Read more

Heartwood - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke's lush prose, cracking story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimarron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland show Burke at his best in exploring classic American themes -- the sometimes... Read more

Transfer of Power - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This “roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he must stop a massacre in Washington, DC, and save the president before terrorists reach the White House.

The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of... Read more

The Descent - Abridged

By: Jeff Long

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old....In Bosnia, Major... Read more

The Vanishing Men

By: Martin Greenberg, Jan Grape, Susan Dunlap, Edwa...

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality. Written by some of the greats— including Edgar Award Grand Masters Tony Hillerman, Edward D. Hoch, John D. MacDonald, and Ed McBain— these classic stories include:
• “ ... Read more

Back to the Moon - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Michael R. LeGault

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A renegade rocket man haunted by his past. A beautiful daredevil who thinks she can do it all -- until she finds herself on the adventure of her life. A death-defying mission so risky, so audacious, that no one would try it...unless the fate of the world depended on its success.
Thirty years after man's first lunar landing, retired NASA engineer... Read more

The Fencing Master - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1868, and Spain teeters on the brink of revolution. Don Jaime de Astarola is Spain's greatest fencing master— a man of honor, an anachronism— priding himself on the precision and dignity of his ancient art, and the perfector of the deadly unstoppable sword thrust technique. His friends spend their days in cafes... Read more

Hermit's Peak - Abridged

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: Ed J Araiza

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hermit’s Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest.

When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of... Read more

Death Du Jour - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a recent skeleton among ancient bones raises questions—and danger—forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is the only one who can solve the case in this “triumphant second appearance” (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.

Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC... Read more

Every Dead Thing - Abridged

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more

High Exposure - Abridged

By: David Breashears

Narrated by: Michael Gross

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For famed cinematographer, adventurer, and mountaineer David Breashears, the terrifying experiences on Mount Everest during the deadly 1996 season became the defining moment of his life. By 1995, Breashears had already twice reached Mt. Everest's summit. Then he faced the greatest challenge of his life: to scale the 29,028-foot peak while... Read more

The Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 38 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