Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

I Is For Innocent - Abridged

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Morley Shine, a fellow PI, dies from a heart attack, Kinsey Millhone takes over the seemingly simple task of gathering evidence for Lonnie Kingman, a local attorney immersed in a civil suit.

Stakes are high. David Birney, acquitted of his wealthy wife's murder five years ago, got his hands on her fortune. Now Kingman wants to divest Birney... Read more

The Devil's Workshop - Abridged

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Stephen J. Cannell

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams.  In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons lab known as the Devil's... Read more

Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels Collection - Abridged

By: Arthur Conan Doyle & Bert Coules

Narrated by: Clive Merrison, Full Cast & Michael Williams

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes with Michael Williams as Watson in these four adventures from the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle stories

A Study In Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear

A Study in Scarlet introduces the most famous partnership in fiction, as Watson is drawn into Holmes's... Read more

A Perfect Spy - Abridged

By: John le Carré

Narrated by: Full Cast, Michael Maloney, Bill Paterson & Jul...

Length: 2 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Julian Rhind-Tutt is Magnus Pym in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast adaptation of John le Carré’s superb spy novel

Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile

‘Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.’

So says Magnus Pym, the spy of the title; and he has betrayed a lot in his life – countries, friends, family and... Read more

Cold Hit - Abridged

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully series

Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"—a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back... Read more

With No One As Witness - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Delicately textured. . . achingly compassionate. . . gripping. . . . It’s one of George’s best, and that’s saying something.” —Seattle Times
The #1 New York Times bestselling author’s chilling 13th novel in the Inspector Lynley series
Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley faces the greatest challenge of his career.When an adolescent boy’s nude body... Read more

Maigret: Collected Cases - Abridged

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Full Cast, Maurice Denham & Michael Gough

Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Maurice Denham is the famous French detective Maigret and Michael Gough is his creator Georges Simenon in these five classic radio dramatisations.

Parisian detective Jules Maigret first appeared in print in 1931, and went on to feature in 76 novels and 28 short stories. An enduringly popular character, his adventures have been adapted on radio... Read more

Sharp Edges - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Jayne Ann Krentz

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Love’s passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz!

She put her art on the line—and her heart in his hands...

Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she’s been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island—an artistic... Read more

Black Light - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Beau Bridges

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Only one thing stands between a son and his father's killer: forty years of lies. . .

On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child.  His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out.  And his grief will lead him back to the place where he was... Read more

Unspeakable - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Gary Cole

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Tropic of Night - Abridged

By: Michael Gruber

Narrated by: Margaret Whitton

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow living under an assumed identity in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so Jane hopes.Then the killings start, a series of ritualistic murders that terrifies all of Miami. The investigator is Jimmy Paz, a Cuban-American... Read more

Too Many Have Lived - Abridged

By: Griffith Chase & Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of only three Sam Spade short stories, this one involves a blackmailing poet, a seductive chanteuse, her rough-hewn stage-door-johnny, and, of course, murder. Recorded before a live audience in New York. Read more

La viuda silenciosa - Abridged

By: Sara Blædel

Narrated by: Gloria Tarridas

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

 Tras una larga excedencia, Louise Rick vuelve al trabajo como jefa de la recién creada Unidad Móvil de Investigación. La Policía de Fionia les ha pedido ayuda tras el asesinato de una posadera en Tåsinge, y es allí donde Louise conoce a su nuevo equipo por primera vez.  La policía no tiene muchas pistas sobre el asesinato, pero cuando Louise... Read more

Casa Familia - Abridged

By: Nathalie Pagie

Narrated by: Inge Ipenburg

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Razend spannende vakantiethriller die niet mag ontbreken in je koffer! Een survivalweekend in de Belgische Ardennen lijkt voor journaliste Tara Linders de uitgelezen kans om haar nieuwe collega's beter te leren kennen. Alleen heeft ze een bloedhekel aan survival en in groepen is ze ook niet op haar best. Liever gaat ze in haar eentje op pad om... Read more

Wassermanns Zorn (gekürzt) - Abridged

By: Andreas Winkelmann

Narrated by: Simon Jäger

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In dunklen Gewässern lauert das Grauen ... Eingekeilt zwischen Baumwurzeln und Treibgut liegt im seichten Teil des Sees eine Frauenleiche - ertränkt. Gleich an ihrem ersten Tag im Morddezernat muss sich Manuela Sperling mit dieser toten Prostituierten und einer irritierenden Spurenlage befassen: Das Wasser in der Lunge des Mordopfers stammt... Read more

Personal - Abridged

By: Lee Child

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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“The best one yet.”—Stephen King
 
Someone has tried to kill the French president. How many snipers can shoot from three-quarters of a mile with total confidence? John Kott—a U.S. Army marksman gone bad—is one of them. After fifteen years in prison, he’s out . . . and... Read more

The Third Bullet - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Buck Schirner

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s not even a clue. It’s a whisper, a trace, a ghost echo, drifting down through the decades via chance connections so fragile that they would disintegrate in the puff of a breath. But it’s enough to get legendary former Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger interested in the events of November 22, 1963, and the third bullet that so decisively ended... Read more

Last to Die - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For the second time in his short life, Teddy Clock has survived a massacre. Two years ago, he barely escaped when his entire family was slaughtered. Now, at fourteen, in a hideous echo of the past, Teddy is the lone survivor of his foster family’s mass murder. Orphaned once more, the traumatized teenager has nowhere to turn—until the Boston PD... Read more

Brennende Lügen - Abridged

By: Rick Mofina

Narrated by: Frank Stieren

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein entführtes Kind. Eine schwerverletzte Mutter. Ein ungelöster Mordfall. An einem ganz gewöhnlichen Morgen geht Maria Colson mit ihrem kleinen Sohn Dylan zum Einkaufen. Nur ein paar Sekunden lässt sie ihn aus den Augen – dann ist der Kinderwagen leer. Maria versucht noch, die Entführer zu stoppen, aber sie wird brutal auf die Straße gestoßen,... Read more

Dracula - Abridged

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Of the many admiring reviews Bram Stoker's Dracula received when it first appeared in 1897, the most astute praise came from the author's mother, who wrote her son: "It is splendid. No book since Mrs. Shelley's Frankenstein or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror."

A popular bestseller in Victorian England,... Read more

Corporate Bodies - Abridged

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, takes a star gig as a forklift driver in a Delmoleen Company corporate video. Something about Delmoleen is deeply troubling to Charles. That “happy family” facade may be just that. Mockery, jealousy, lust, envy, they all seem to be pervasive. Still, the work is easy and the money is good; it's even fun... Read more

One Breath Away - Abridged

By: Heather Gudenkauf

Narrated by: Susan Ericksen

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her most emotionally charged novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf explores the unspoken events that shape a community, the ties between parents and their children and how the fragile normalcy of our everyday life is so easily shattered.In the midst of a sudden spring snowstorm, an unknown man armed with a gun... Read more

Mord auf Frauenchiemsee - Abridged

By: Ina May

Narrated by: Hildegard Meier

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein Blitz zerstört die vorweihnachtliche Ruhe auf der Chiemseeinsel: In der gespaltenen Klostereiche wird eine mumifizierte Frauenleiche aus der Zeit der Hexenverfolgung entdeckt. Kurz darauf wird eine junge Novizin ermordet aufgefunden, gefesselt wie für eine Hexenprobe. Schwester Althea macht sich auf der Insel und im Klosterarchiv auf... Read more

Küstenblues - Abridged

By: Jobst Schlennstedt

Narrated by: Nils Nelleßen

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Kriminalhauptkommissar Birger Andresen wird Zeuge eines schweren Verkehrsunfalls. Eine junge Frau stirbt vor seinen Augen. Doch der eigentliche Schock folgt erst noch. Im Kofferraum findet die Polizei eine weitere Leiche. Es ist Sylvia Grunewald, Tourismus-Chefin in Timmendorfer Strand und Mutter der Todesfahrerin - und sie wurde mit mehreren... Read more