Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

A Darkness More Than Night - Abridged

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch crosses paths with FBI profiler Terry McCaleb in the most dangerous investigation of their lives.

Harry Bosch is up to his neck in a case that has transfixed all of celebrity-mad Los Angeles: a movie director is charged with murdering an actress during sex, and then staging her death to make it look like a suicide.... Read more

Gegenspieler - Bischoff und Pirlo ermitteln (Autorisierte Lesefassung) - Abridged

By: Arno Strobel & Ingo Bott

Narrated by: Sascha Rotermund & Dietmar Wunder

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Zwei Bestseller-Autoren, eine Idee: Mörderfinder Max Bischoff und Strafverteidiger Anton Pirlo ermitteln das erste Mal gemeinsam Karl Müller, Partner der Düsseldorfer Starkanzlei Müller & Mahler, wird tot aufgefunden, nur wenige Tage, bevor er zu den umstrittenen, von seiner Kanzlei entwickelten TaxEx-Steuersparmodellen hätte aussagen... Read more

The Red-Headed League - Abridged

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 1 hour 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In "The Red-Headed League" by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes investigates a peculiar job offer made exclusively to red-headed men. When the job suddenly disappears, Holmes and Dr. Watson uncover a deeper plot involving a criminal scheme. Using his sharp deductive skills, Holmes unravels the mystery, leading to a surprising and clever... Read more

La Liga de los Pelirrojos - Abridged

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

En "La liga de los pelirrojos" de Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes investiga una peculiar oferta de trabajo hecha exclusivamente a hombres pelirrojos. Cuando el trabajo desaparece de repente, Holmes y el Dr. Watson descubren una trama más profunda relacionada con un plan criminal. Utilizando sus agudas habilidades deductivas, Holmes... Read more

Just Take My Heart - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 4 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling Queen of Suspense delves into a legal battle over the guilt or innocence of a man accused of murdering his wife, weaving in the mysterious medical phenomenon of a heart transplant recipient inheriting their donor’s traits and memories.

After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police... Read more

O Sistema do Doutor Tarr e do Professor Fether - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

No conto "O Sistema do Doutor Tarr e do Professor Fether —, de Edgar Allan Poe, um narrador explora um asilo francês que pratica o inovador "sistema de calmaria —, evitando a contenção física dos pacientes, promovendo um debate sobre a natureza da sanidade e do tratamento psiquiátrico. Read more

Spider Bones - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Linda Emond

Length: 6 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Don’t miss this “whopper” (Publishers Weekly) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs in her “cleverly plotted” (The New York Times) Temperance Brennan series, the inspiration for the hit FOX television series Bones.

John Lowery was declared dead in 1968—the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago... Read more

El Sistema del Doctor Tarr y el Profesor Fether - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

En el cuento de Edgar Allan Poe "El sistema del doctor Tarr y el profesor Fether" un narrador explora un manicomio francés que practica el innovador "sistema del apaciguamiento" evitando las sujeciones físicas a los pacientes, promoviendo un debate sobre la naturaleza de la cordura y el tratamiento psiquiátrico. Read more

Thursday - Abridged

By: David Ridgway

Narrated by: Alex Guilford

Length: 16 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Two conflicting weather systems, after wreaking havoc in North America and the West Indies, come across the Atlantic, the first in the far North, the second moving swiftly past the Azores. Both are held up by a massive anti-cyclone over Northern Russia and intensify, the first in the North Sea off Norway, blowing a hurricane southward, the... Read more

The Devil's Code - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 5 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When Kidd—artist, computer whiz, and professional criminal—learns of a colleague’s murder, he doesn’t buy the official story: that a jittery security guard caught the hacker raiding the files of a high-tech Texas corporation. It’s not what his friend was looking for that got him killed. It’s what he already knew. For Kidd and LuEllen,... Read more

The Couple in the Photograph - Abridged

By: Valerie Keogh

Narrated by: Helen Keeley

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An innocent anniversary gift may lead to the end of a marriage—and the end of a life—in this suspenseful tale by the author of The Perfect Life. On their anniversary, Keri and Nathan Metcalfe's children surprise them by having a honeymoon photo blown up to poster size and displayed around the city, captioned "Twenty-five years of marital... 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

Where are the Children? - Abridged

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Lindsay Crouse

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Queen of Suspense launched her career with this “indescribably suspenseful” (San Francisco Chronicle) classic thriller following a woman whose past holds a terrible secret.

Nancy Harmon long ago fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, and the shocking... 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

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 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

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 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

Three Blind Mice - Abridged

By: Ed McBain

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After Jessica Leeds— wife of a prestigious, wealthy Florida landowner— is brutally raped, three Vietnamese immigrants are charged with the crime. After the trial results in their acquittal, Jessica's husband Stephen vows vengeance. Then, the three immigrants are found savagely murdered. When all of the evidence ties... Read more

HOP-FROG - Abridged

By: Edgar Allan Poe

Narrated by: Voz Sintética

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe explores themes of revenge and freedom. It follows the story of a jester, Hop-Frog, and his close companion, Trippetta, both mistreated by a cruel king and his court. The narrative delves into the limits of endurance and the lengths one will go to reclaim dignity and autonomy. Read more