Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Taste of Innocence - Abridged

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens created the world of the Cynsters, she introduced readers to aristocratic British society, where arranged marriages are the norm and love is a dangerous indulgence. For no gentleman is this more true than Charles Morwellan, but, as Lord Meredith, he must marry, so he offers for his... Read more

Secret Asset - Abridged

By: Stella Rimington

Narrated by: Emma Fielding

Length: 4 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With her debut novel, At Risk, Stella Rimington introduced us to Liz Carlyle–a smart, impassioned MI5 intelligence officer whose talents and ambitions are counterbalanced by an abiding awareness of her job’s moral complexities. In Secret Asset, we are plunged back into her high-stakes, high-tension world.
Liz has always been particularly... Read more

Palace Council - Abridged

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK, INSPIRATION FOR THE UPCOMING MGM+ ORIGINAL SERIES • A gripping political thriller set against the backdrop of Watergate, Vietnam, and the Nixon White House.

Philmont Castle is a man who has it all: wealth, respect, and connections. He's the last person you'd expect to fall... Read more

Daddy's Girl - Abridged

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she secretly feels like Faculty Comic Relief. She loves her family, too, but as a bookworm, doesn't quite fit into the cult of Greco football, headed by her father, the team captain. The one person whom she feels most connected to is her colleague Angus Holt, a guy with a brilliant mind,... Read more

Flesh and Bone - Abridged

By: Jefferson Bass

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Bill Brockton, the founder of the world-famous Body Farm, is hard at work on a troubling new case. A young man's battered body has been found in nearby Chattanooga, and it's up to the talented Dr. Brockton to assemble the pieces of the forensic puzzle. Brockton is brought into the case by the rising star of the state's medical examiners,... Read more

The Big Kill - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The rain clawed at the windows of the bar.  Hammer was angry and wanted to be left alone.  But when he sees a desperate guy abandon his kid in a bar just to step outside and get blown away, Hammer's mood switches from bad to worse.  By the time he reaches the dead body, he knows he will have to pound his way through a world of thugs and wiseguys... 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

My Gun is Quick - Abridged

By: Mickey Spillane

Narrated by: Stacy Keach

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

He called her Red.  She called him in from the cold.  For one short moment in the big, hard city they were friends--and then the girl turned up dead.  Mike Hammer will walk through walls to find out who she was and why she died, even if he doesn't like the answers he gets.  Even if they are all about a seamy network of call-girls, blackmail, and... Read more

Sudden Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revenge is the engine which powers this entry in John Sandford's Prey series starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. Read more

What Came Before He Shot Her - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The brutal, inexplicable death of Inspector Thomas Lynley's wife has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Even more horrifying is that the trigger was apparently pulled by a twelve-year-old boy. What were the circumstances that led to his final act of desperation? That story begins on the other side of London in rough North... Read more

Murder in the Casbah and The Tankerville Club - Abridged

By: Anthony Boucher & Denis Green

Narrated by: Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From 1939 to 1946 Americans gathered around the radio to listen to The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-featuring Basil Rathbone as the high-strung crime-solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.

Witty, fast-paced and always surprising, these great radio plays, written by the prolific writing team of Anthony Boucher and... Read more

Depth Charge [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Jack Slater

Narrated by: Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Wyn Delano, Mark H...

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The clock is ticking.In the North Pacific, the crew of a deep-sea recovery ship, the MV Challenger, are mercilessly gunned to death. Only one man survives, adrift in the ocean, and hundreds of miles from land.In the deserts of Iraq, a clandestine meeting between one of the world's foremost assassins and his ruthless benefactor sets in train a... Read more

The Zero - Abridged

By: Jess Walter

Narrated by: Christopher Graybill

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.From its opening scene—when hero cop Brian Remy wakes up to find he's shot himself in the head—novelist Jess Walter takes us on a harrowing tour of a city and a country shuddering through the... Read more

Cry Wolf - Abridged

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the rural parishes of Louisiana's French Triangle, young women are disappearing one by one, only to turn up on the banks of the bayou, strangled and cast aside where they are sure to be found. But there is one trophy the killer prizes above all others, one woman who must be silenced forever.…Attorney Laurel Chandler did not come back to Bayou... 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

Double or Nothing - Abridged

By: M. D. Baer

Narrated by: a full cast & Michael Greene

Length: 2 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

North San Diego County. A gifted pianist. A beautiful violinist. A multi-million dollar land deal. A story of intrigue, mystery, and murder in the comic-noir tradition.What is an Audio Movie? It's an image rich listening experience – a combination of narration, full-cast dialogue, music, and layered sound design created specifically for audio.... Read more

Dead Wrong - Abridged

By: J. A. Jance

Narrated by: Debra Monk

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Juggling a family and a career is never easy—and it's becoming a real challenge for Sheriff Joanna Brady. Coping with the impending delivery of her second child as well as a staff shortage, the last things Joanna needs are two serious crimes.First, the body of an unidentified man is found in the desert, all of his fingers savagely severed.... Read more

Flashback - Abridged

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The five-week New York Times bestseller.Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key West. This island paradise has secrets it would keep; not... 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

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

La Mata - Abridged

By: Jaliah J.

Narrated by: Jacqueline Kolajka

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ich halte einen Moment ein ... dieser Geruch ... süß, salzig ... die Wärme und der Blick auf das Meer ... wir sind zu Hause. Dalia Mendez ist an einem Punkt in ihrem Leben angekommen, an dem sie das Gefühl hat, alles stürzt über ihr zusammen. Der tägliche Kampf auf der Arbeit und die Trennung vom Vater ihrer Tochter setzen ihr zu, und obwohl... Read more

A Stranger Is Watching - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Betty Buckley

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two years after Nina Peterson's brutal murder her husband Steve is still fighting to bring the killer to justice. Their six-year-old son Neil remains haunted by the terrible vision of the murderer's hands wrapped around his mother's throat. And Sharon Martin, who has grown to love both Steve and Neil, wishes only to ease their pain and... Read more

The Escape - Abridged

By: David Baldacci

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Special Agent Puller's brother is the country's most wanted criminal, but his conviction points to a cover-up--and a dangerous enemy bent on burying the truth in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.

It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They... Read more

Voodoo River - Abridged

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history and report back.It seems all too clear cut. But when he gets to Louisiana and begins his search, he... Read more