Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

A Promise to Believe In - Abridged

By: Tracie Peterson

Narrated by: Aimee Lilly

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Life's tough on the Montana Territory, especially for the three sisters running the Gallatin Roadhouse---guilt-ridden Gwen, romantic Beth, and headstrong Lacy. Gwen was married at 22, but her husband, Harvey, died 10 days later. When his brother, Hank, turns up looking for stocks he claims Harvey stole, Gwen's perplexed. Will Hank steal her heart? Read more

A Body to Die For - Abridged

By: Kate White

Narrated by: Kate Walsh

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Bailey Weggins, the very clever and the very irreverent true crime writer for Gloss, a leading women's magazine, is in desperate need of a little R&R after solving the murder of her boss' nanny. A trip to the Cedar Inn and Spa seems like the perfect remedy. Bailey, totally full of Zen after her deep tissue massage, looks forward to all of... Read more

Cat in an Indigo Mood - Abridged

By: Carole Douglas & Andrea Thompson

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

At the Blue Dahlia, where homicide detective Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, she finds a dead woman lying in the parking lot. The words "she left" are spray-painted nearby. Soon, a second anonymous woman is found dead in another parking lot. Is a serial killer at work? Will the tough lieutenant have to resort to accepting help from... Read more

Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt - Abridged

By: Carole Douglas & Robert Forster

Narrated by: Andrea Thompson

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a holiday trip to the Big Apple, Midnight Louie, a hard-boiled, hairy-chested, 19-pound black tomcat detective, returns home to death on the Nile. Two battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel cause a dead body to rise to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Temple Barr— Louie's redheaded, high-heeled human... Read more

The Broken Hearts Club - Abridged

By: Ethan Black

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A banker with a smile that conceals a devilish impulse, a literary agent who is quick to anger, a mechanic with a desperate need to be liked, and a psychologist who keeps all their secrets— as well as his own— meet every week in the dingy back room of a New York City bar. These men have one thing in common: They all... Read more

Trust Me on This - Abridged

By: Donald Westlake

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What would it take to lure a serious young newswoman from a respectable New England paper to the most notorious supermarket tabloid in America? How about a promise of a salary that's triple what she's making? Sara Joslyn is fresh from journalism school and ready to take on the world. She has to settle for a sensational gossip rag where no low is... Read more

Jolie Blon's Bounce - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dave Robicheaux is back in this powerful New York Times bestseller that takes him into the underbelly of New Iberia’s mafia to solve the brutal murder of two teenage girls.

When a beautiful teenage girl is killed, New Iberia police detective Dave Robicheaux senses that the most likely suspect, Tee Bobby Hulin, is not the actual killer. Though a... 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

Body Double - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Anne Heche

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles literally meets her match–and must face a savage serial killer and shattering personal revelations–in the brilliant new novel of suspense by the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Sinner.
Dr. Maura Isles makes her living dealing with death. As a pathologist in a major metropolitan... Read more

Downtown - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Stephen Macht

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ed McBain, author of the best-selling 87th Precinct series, takes us Downtown in this harrowing tale of a lone out-of-towner running for his life in New York CIty. Meet Michael Barnes, a Florida orange grower who finds himself in a Wall Street bar with a couple of hours to kill. It's a couple of hours that almost kill him, as he's swindled,... 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

The Kill Artist - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Once a key operative in secret Israeli-intelligence missions, Gabriel Allon is on the run from his past, assuming a quiet life as a meticulous restorer of priceless works of art. But now he is being called back into the game. The agent with whom he is teamed hides behind her own beautiful mask–as a French fashion model. Their target: a cunning... Read more

Dreaming the Eagle - Abridged

By: Manda Scott

Narrated by: Clare Higgins

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.

Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg” ). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial ... Read more

Good Morning, Killer - Abridged

By: April Smith

Narrated by: Christine Baranski

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An electrifying new thriller that brings back the complex, strong-willed, often-maverick FBI agent—Ana Grey—whom we first met in the author’s stunning debut novel, North of Montana.

This time Special Agent Grey is working on a kidnapping case—a fifteen-year-old named Juliana has been abducted in Santa Monica. Grey’s counterpart in the Santa... 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

The Fourth Durango - Abridged

By: Ross Thomas

Narrated by: Robert Culp

Length: 2 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

There's the Durango in Colorado, the one in Mexico, and the one in Spain; then there's the fourth one— the California town where the Franciscans forgot to fund a mission. Now, all it has going for it is the climate— and its hideout industry. Kelly Vines, a disbarred attorney, and his father-in-law Jack Adair, a former... Read more

The Interpretation of Murder - Abridged

By: Jed Rubenfeld

Narrated by: Ron Rifkin

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud arrives in New York. Among those waiting to greet him is Dr. Stratham Younger, a gifted physician who is one of Freud’s most ardent American supporters. And so begins the visit that will be the great genius’s first–and only–journey to America.
The morning... Read more

Cinderella - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Attorney Matthew Hope had hired Otto Samalson to conduct a simple marital investigation— so how does Samalson end up dead on a deserted highway? Hope's search for an answer takes him into Florida's drug underworld on the trail of a hooker— one who has the style and looks necessary to transform herself into a high-class... Read more

Puss in Boots - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A long shadow looms above the wife of filmmaker Carlton Markham. Then a hand clamps over her mouth, and a blade sinks into her back. Blood splatters on the film reel case beside her, and a young life is cut short. Lawyer Matthew Hope gets a call from Markham, who's been arrested for his wife's murder, but he says he didn't do it. Witnesses fly... Read more

Stalking Horse - Abridged

By: Bill Shoemaker

Narrated by: Bruce Boxleitner

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Raymond Starbuck ruined star jockey Coley Killebrew's reputation— so why is Coley cutting a deal with him? When Killebrew was barred from the track after a race-fixing scandal, he also lost his irresistible girlfriend, Francie Dorn. Starbuck says that if Coley can keep some unsavory cronies from muscling in on the old Magnolia Park... 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

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Howard Duff, Steven Dunne & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sam Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. The character of Sam Spade was created by writer Dashiell Hammett in 1930 for his crime story The Maltese Falcon, and for most people, the character is closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who... Read more

Bangkok 8 - Abridged

By: John Burdett

Narrated by: B.D. Wong

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Electrifying, darkly comic, razor-edged—a thriller unlike any other.

Under a Bangkok bridge, inside a bolted-shut Mercedes: a murder by snake—a charismatic African American Marine sergeant killed by a methamphetamine-stoked python and a swarm of stoned cobras.

Two cops—the only two in the city not on the take—arrive too late. Minutes later, only... Read more

The Cry of the Halidon - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Robert Foxworth

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For $2 million, scientist Alex McAuliff is hired by Dunstone, Ltd. to survey the geology of Jamaica's dark, mysterious interior. There is a catch: no one can know Dunstone is involved. When British Intelligence learns of Alex's mission, they let him in on a little secret: the last survey team never made it home. McAuliff' s reception... Read more