Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Vapor Trail - Abridged

By: Chuck Logan

Narrated by: J.K. Simmons

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

When the phone wakes Phil Broker on the morning of his forty-eighth birthday -- six months removed from his surviving a January cold snap that (in Absolute Zero) nearly claimed his life -- it's already ninety-two degrees. It's July, and Stillwater, Minnesota, finds itself in the middle of the worst heat wave in local memory.The news on the phone... Read more

Wild Horses - Abridged

By: Dick Francis

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind, and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of and makes his last confession to his visiting film-director friend, Thomas Lyon, whom in his delirium he mistakes for a... Read more

Mord in Highgate. Hawthorne ermittelt [Band 2] - Abridged

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Volker Hanisch

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der erfolgreiche Scheidungsanwalt Richard Pryce wird in seinem Londoner Haus in Hampstead Heath mit einer 2000 Pfund teuren Flasche 1982 Château Lafite Rothschild Pauillac niedergeschlagen und mit dem abgebrochenen Flaschenhals massakriert. An die Wand neben der Leiche ist in grüner Farbe die Zahl 182 gepinselt. Die Polizei beauftragt den... Read more

The First Commandment - Abridged

By: Brad Thor

Narrated by: Armand Schultz

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor, the explosive international thriller featuring Navy SEAL turned Homeland Security operative Scot Harvath, who somewhere, somehow, has left the wrong person alive.

Six months ago: in the dead of the night, five of the most dangerous detainees in the war on terror are... Read more

The Confessor - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Arliss Howard

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

Detective Gabriel Allon returns in this stunning thriller of ancient and modern betrayal, long-buried secrets and unthinkable deeds. In Munich, writer Benjamin Stern enters his flat to find a man leafing through his research. When Stern confronts him, the man shoots him, murmurs a few words in Latin, gathers the papers and leaves. In Venice, art... Read more

5 Levels of Fear - Abridged

By: Sable Jak

Narrated by: Jonathan Lee-Vroman, Anjelica McMillan & Tadd M...

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This four-part microseries follows three urban explorers on a trip into a century-old abandoned mansion: one that has never been explored before.The mansion, frankly, had escaped the notice of almost everyone and has little to no information available about it. Except for the blueprints. And, as it turns out, those aren’t exactly truthful.One of... Read more

Dangerous Assignment, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Brian Donlevy & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1949 NBC brought handsome Irish American actor Brian Donlevy to the radio microphones as international troubleshooter Steve Mitchell in the spy series Dangerous Assignment. Mitchell worked for an unnamed US government intelligence agency, whose boss, “the Commissioner,” dispatched him to world trouble spots. Mitchell’s assignment was to solve... Read more

The Lineup, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bill Johnstone & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the golden age of radio comes twelve episodes of this popular and realistic police procedural.The Lineup was a hard-boiled drama. Like Dragnet, it realistically showed police doing their jobs. The show always began with a police sergeant ordering suspects to stand at attention so that the victim, behind one-way glass, could try to identify... Read more

Absolute Zero - Abridged

By: Chuck Logan

Narrated by: J.K. Simmons

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On one of the coldest nights in Minnesota history, the difference between life and death is literally the blink of an eye for Phil Broker, until recently St. Paul's most successful undercover cop. That blink will convey the urgent warning of a comatose man who knows the dark truth binding Broker to a remarkable cast of characters -- a weary... Read more

Final Theory - Abridged

By: Mark Alpert

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A science professor on the run must find a lost Einstein theory—and keep it from those who might use it to destroy the universe. Don’t miss the “riveting” (Publishers Weekly) doomsday thriller that Booklist calls “a strikingly sweet-natured yet satisfyingly barbed high-tech, high-stakes adventure” in a starred review.

David Swift is called to... Read more

Those Who Trespass - Abridged

By: Bill O'Reilly

Narrated by: Bill O'Reilly

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the mega-bestselling author of The O’Reilly Factor, The No Spin Zone, and Who’s Looking Out for You?, a mystery thriller about the fast-paced and ruthless world of TV journalism.

With three consecutive number one bestsellers, Bill O’Reilly has proved that he’s the king of the nonfiction list. With Those Who Trespass, he extends his... Read more

"A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" - Abridged

By: Holly Jackson

Narrated by: David Sterling

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book summary and Analysis by Loudly, this is an abridged version of the original title A Good Girl's Guide to Murder is a captivating, suspense-filled mystery that will keep you hooked from start to finish. Follow Pippa Fitz-Amobi, a brilliant and determined high school senior, as she takes on an ambitious and dangerous project for her... Read more

Chart Throb - Abridged

By: Ben Elton

Narrated by: Adam Godley

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Brought to you by Penguin.


Chart Throb.The ultimate pop quest.

Ninety five thousand hopefuls. Three judges. Just one winner.
And that's Calvin Simms, the genius behind the show.

Calvin always wins because Calvin writes the rules. But this year, as he sits smugly in judgement upon the mingers, clingers and blingers whom he has pre-selected in his... Read more

Grenzfall - Der Tod in ihren Augen - Jahn und Krammer ermitteln, Band 1 (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Anna Schneider

Narrated by: Julia Nachtmann

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das Böse sprengt jede Grenze Am Brauneck in Lenggries werden an einer Felswand die Leichenteile einer Frau entdeckt. Doch was auf den ersten Blick wie ein Kletterunfall aussieht, entpuppt sich als grausamer Mord. Kurz darauf tauchen weitere Leichenteile am Achensee in Tirol auf. Stammen sie ebenfalls von der Toten? Doch weshalb sollte der Täter... Read more

12: Dunkle Erkenntnis - Kapitel III - Abridged

By: Benjamin Oechsle

Narrated by: Martin Sabel, Johannes Semm, Susanne Sternberg,...

Length: 1 hour 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nach dem Tod von Goran Rakočević beschließen Daniel Porter und Jerry Finnigan den geplanten Anschlag von Sean Mitchell in den USA zu verhindern. Doch die Weisse Lilie ist mächtiger, als sie bisher angenommen haben. Detective Henry Miles muss unterdessen für das Leben von Samuel Haden einen riskanten Tausch wagen, der fatale Auswirkungen auf... Read more

Envy - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Victor Slezak

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York book editor Maris Matherly-Reed knows a bestseller when she sees one -- even if it is a tantalizing partial manuscript submitted by a writer identified only as P.M.E., with the return address of an obscure island off the Georgia coast. Maris is intrigued enough to search for him.
Her trip to Georgia to meet the mysterious author takes... Read more

The Lost World: A Novel - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING."
--People
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public.
There are rumors that something has... Read more

The Hall of Fantasy, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the horror and mystery series written and produced by radio announcers beginning in 1946.There were several series under the Hall of Fantasy banner, all produced by Richard Thorne. The first originated from radio station KALL in Salt Lake City. Richard Thorne and Carl Greyson were announcers for the station and... Read more

Kreuzberg Blues - Denglers zehnter Fall - Dengler ermittelt, Band 10 (Gekürzte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Wolfgang Schorlau

Narrated by: Frank Arnold

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Kampf um bezahlbaren Wohnraum - Denglers zehnter Fall Georg Dengler fühlt sich in Stuttgart so wohl wie schon lange nicht mehr, und auch mit Olga läuft es besser denn je. Trotz der aufziehenden Corona-Pandemie lässt er sich von ihr überreden, in Berlin zu ermitteln. Dort scheint ein Immobilienhau seine Mieter mit kriminellen Methoden... Read more

Timeline - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medieval site. Suddenly they are swept off to the headquarters of a secretive multinational... Read more

The Fix - Abridged

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Kyf Brewer

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this "perfect 'fix' for the thriller aficionado" (Associated Press) #1 New York Times bestseller, maverick FBI detective Amos Decker must forge an uneasy alliance with the Defense Intelligence Agency to prevent an international incident that could spell the end of the United States as we know it.

Amos Decker witnesses a murder just outside FBI... Read more

Disclosure - Abridged

By: Michael Crichton

Narrated by: John Lithgow

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry; a shattering psychological game of cat and mouse; an accusation of sexual harassment that threatens to derail a brilliant career...this is the electrifying core of Michael Crichton's new novel, the first since Rising Sun.

At the center: Tom Sanders, an up-and-coming executive with DigiCom in... Read more

Osterlächeln - Abridged

By: Marc van der Poel

Narrated by: Claudio Ahlers

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Mann starrte mit unverhohlenem Hass zu ihm herüber. Pfarrer i. R. Ansgar Hansen fragte sich, wo er das Gesicht des fremden Kirchenbesuchers schon einmal gesehen hatte, aber es wollte ihm nicht einfallen. Er seufzte. Sein Gedächtnis ließ ihn in letzter Zeit immer häufiger im Stich, eine der vielen Unannehmlichkeiten, die das Alter mit sich... Read more

Bitterroot - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Following his acclaimed bestseller Purple Cane Road, James Lee Burke returns with a triumphant tour de force.

Set in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana, home to celebrities seeking to escape the pressures of public life, as well as to xenophobes dedicated to establishing a bulkhead of patriotic paranoia, Burke’s novel features Billy Bob Holland,... Read more