Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Neighbor - Abridged

By: Lisa Gardner

Narrated by: Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne & Kirsten Potter

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From a master of suspense comes a chilling novel that explores the dangers lurking closer than you think. Because even in the perfect family, you never know what is going on behind closed doors….

This is what happened…

It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy—a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from... Read more

The Triumph of Katie Byrne - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still haunted by the tragedy.  Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself but also for her two old friends.  Her big chance comes when she is discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play.  A promising love... Read more

No Place Like Home - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In a riveting and unputdownable thriller from the Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever—her childhood home.

At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was... Read more

The Passage - Abridged

By: Justin Cronin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 14 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”

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NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The... Read more

Vengeance is Mine - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Deborah lee Johnson

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He was a nice guy. Now he's dead. That's all Hammer knows about the stiff in the hotel room. But that isn't enough because Hammer suspects murder while the cops are calling it a suicide. Without a license or a gun, Hammer is pushing his way through a swirl of sex-and-game clubs, high priced models and not just a little blackmail. Someone is... Read more

Lunch with the Deadly Dozen - Abridged

By: Peter Berry

Narrated by: Marston York

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This group likes to stay active in retirement—by catching killers . . . Widowed and in his sixties, Thomas Quinn has been asked to lunch by Lexington Smith, the leader of a covert team who call themselves The Twelve. When Quinn accepts the invitation to join the group, he finds himself united with other retired experts—from a surgeon to a... Read more

First Family - Abridged

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, a child is kidnapped at a presidential retreat and two former Secret Service agents must become private investigators in a desperate search that might destroy them both.

A daring kidnapping turns a children's birthday party at Camp David, the presidential retreat, into a national security nightmare.

Former... Read more

Remote Control - Abridged

By: Stephen White

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Stephen White proves once again that he "writes thrillers of the first order" (Nelson DeMille) in this powerful, unforgettable novel of morality, justice—and cold-blooded murder... A shocking act of violence plunges clinical psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory into the most challenging and dangerous case of his... Read more

A Devil is Waiting - Abridged

By: Jack Higgins

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Jack Higgins has written some of the best suspense fiction of the past fifty years,” wrote the San Diego Union-Tribune, and the Strand Magazine agreed: “With fresh plots, interesting characters and vibrant settings, Jack Higgins has firmly cemented his reputation as one of the world’s most successful thriller writers.” And in his new novel, a... Read more

Terror Stalks the Class Reunion - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Sally Kirkland

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From The Anastasia Syndrome, her bestselling collection of short fiction, Terror Stalks the Class Reunion is a riveting, unabridged audio production.

Lovely young Kay Crandall has come back for the reunion of a high school where she once taught. But Kay cannot guess that the happy occasion is about to turn into a nightmare, as she falls into the... Read more

The Bad Wife - Abridged

By: Sarah Edghill

Narrated by: Helen Keeley

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A married woman's lust for a stranger compels her to risk everything, in this new suspense by the bestselling author of His Other Woman. It's just a small picture in the local paper—Katie can't explain why it sets her heart racing. But hiding the photo of local GP Joe Harvey in her bag sets in motion a chain of events that will dramatically... Read more

Not in the Flesh - Abridged

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Tim Curry

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.”

When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred... Read more

Stowaway and Milk Run - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bestselling author and Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark draws on her career as a young Pan American Airway flight attendant to create these tales of adventure and intrigue from her first two published stories.

In Stowaway, a courageous flight attendant helps a desperate young man of the underground escape the Soviet police. In Milkrun, a... Read more

U.S.S. Seawolf - Abridged

By: Patrick Robinson

Narrated by: David McCallum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

By the close of the twentieth century, China had gathered secret information concerning United States military surveillance and guided-missile technology.Now, in 2005, the technology is in production in China's new breed of submarine-based long-range missiles. The dragon has stirred.Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security... Read more

Grabsüchtig: Ein Violet-Grave-Mystery-Thriller - Abridged

By: Felicity Green

Narrated by: Michaela van de Loo

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ein neuer Fall für Violet Grave … und diesmal wird es persönlich. Violet Grave, Friedhofsliebhaberin mit besonderer Verbindung zu Verstorbenen, muss das Geheimnis um die Gabe ihrer eigenen Vorfahrin Cora ausgraben. Dabei könnte helfen, dass der bekannte Autor und begeisterte Spiritist William Delaney Byrne die Geschichte Coras als Roman... Read more

Soul Harvest - Abridged

By: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a devastating earthquake sends the world into chaos, Nicolae Carpathia institutes a worldwide rebuilding campaign in an effort to restore order and control. His rage increases exponentially when he hears that an evangelistic effort has succeeded in the greatest harvest of souls that has ever happened.Meanwhile, Rayford Steele and Buck... Read more

Long Time Gone - Abridged

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: Harry Chase

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling master J. A. Jance brings back J. P. Beaumont -- one of the most enduring and endearing characters in contemporary fiction -- in a riveting story about a shocking, long-buried case of murder ...After more than twenty years of distinguished service with the Seattle Police Department, Jonas Piedmont Beaumont is now... Read more

The Guests - Abridged

By: Charlotte Stevenson

Narrated by: Emmy Rose

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A chilling novel by the author of The Serial Killer's Son: They weren't invited. But they refuse to leave . . . Tamsin is being haunted by what she calls the Shadows. But she won't make the mistake of confiding in her family again, even when her relationship with her teenage daughter suffers as a result. As each day passes, the presence of... Read more

Swing, Brother, Swing - Abridged

By: Ngaio Marsh

Narrated by: Anton Lesser

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer? Read more

Dark State [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jack Slater

Narrated by: Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Wyn Delano, Emlyn ...

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"If you come after the CIA’s most feared assassin, there’s one cardinal rule: Don’t miss.

America is under attack. Thousands lie dead after simultaneous strikes across the country. The day will come to be known as Bloody Monday.

Jason Trapp, codename ‘Hangman’, was a covert operative whose feats became the stuff of legend. He was the tip of the... Read more

18 Seconds - Abridged

By: George D. Shuman

Narrated by: Lindsay Crouse

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Investigative consultant Sherry Moore is blind and stunningly beautiful, with the extraordinary ability to "see" the deceased's last eighteen seconds of memory by touching the corpse. A head injury at age five left her without sight and prevented her from remembering her past. When Sherry discovers she has the sight, she learns to use her gift... Read more

Night Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

John Sandford's bestselling Lucas Davenport series continues with the fast-paced, compelling thriller, Night Prey. A series of deaths leads to the possibility of a brutal serial killer of unusual skill and savagery. And if Lucas is right, the killer is just getting warmed up... Read more

Red Dragon - Abridged

By: Thomas Harris

Narrated by: Thomas Harris

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A quiet summer night...a neat suburban house...and another innocent, happy family is shattered -- the latest victims of a grisly series of hideous sacrificial killings that no one understands, and no one can stop. Nobody lives to tell of the unimaginable carnage. Only the blood-stained walls bear witness.

All hope rests on Special Agent Will... Read more

Turn of the Screw - Abridged

By: Henry James

Narrated by: Virginia McKenna

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. ... Read more