Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Wayfaring Stranger - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2015 Audie Award Finalist for Thriller/Suspense

In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man’s unforgettable life.

In 1934, sixteen-year-old Weldon Avery Holland happens upon infamous criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after one of their notorious armed robberies. A... Read more

Corporate Bodies - Abridged

By: Simon Brett

Narrated by: Simon Jones

Length: 2 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Charles Paris, an out-of-work actor, takes a star gig as a forklift driver in a Delmoleen Company corporate video. Something about Delmoleen is deeply troubling to Charles. That “happy family” facade may be just that. Mockery, jealousy, lust, envy, they all seem to be pervasive. Still, the work is easy and the money is good; it's even fun... Read more

Death Dance - Abridged

By: Linda Fairstein

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Linda Fairstein takes readers behind the scenes of New York City's theater world -- from Lincoln Center to the lights of Broadway -- in a riveting novel, rich with her trademark blend of cutting-edge legal issues, skillful detective work, and heart-stopping suspense.

Teaming up with longtime friends -- NYPD's... Read more

Pegasus Descending - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dave Robicheaux is back in a dangerous mystery that involves stolen money, gritty casinos, and a beautiful girl with connections to his past.

When a nice young woman named Trish Klein blows into Louisiana, passing hundred-dollar bills in local casinos, detective Dave Robicheaux senses a storm bearing down on his new life of contentment.... Read more

Attack - Unsichtbarer Feind (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

Narrated by: Detlef Bierstedt

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pendergasts Schützling Corrie Swanson untersucht in der ehemaligen Silberminenstadt Roaring Forks die exhumierten Leichen von elf Minenarbeitern. Laut einem Tagebucheintrag von Arthur Conan Doyle soll ein Killer-Grizzly die Männer aufgefressen haben. Eine einzigartige Studienarbeit für die Kriminologiestudentin! Doch in dem heute exklusiven... Read more

Blood Lure - Abridged

By: Nevada Barr

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this mystery in Nevada Barr’s New York Times bestselling series, District Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is betrayed by nature itself, as a most unnatural evil stalks its prey in the pristine West…Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park—Anna’s home away from home when she is sent on a... Read more

Der Geiger - Abridged

By: Mechtild Borrmann

Narrated by: Nina Goldberg

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In einer Nacht im Mai 1948 verliert der begnadete Geiger Ilja Grenko seine beiden wertvoll¬s¬ten Schätze: seine Familie und seine Stradivari. Erst dem eigensinnigen Sascha Grenko, Iljas Enkel, wird es viele Jahrzehnte später gelingen, Licht in das grausame Geschehen von damals zu bringen. Doch der Preis dafür ist hoch - viel zu hoch ... Der neue... Read more

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Vol. 3 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Bob Bailey & various performers

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the show called “the best of the best of radio’s golden age” come these six suspenseful episodes of Johnny Dollar’s far-flung private investigations, starring Bob Bailey in thirty quarter-hour episodes.First heard on network radio in 1948, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar chronicled the adventures of freelance insurance investigator Johnny... Read more

First Daughter - Abridged

By: Eric Van Lustbader

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jack McClure lost his daughter. Now it's his job to make sure the president-elect doesn't lose his.
For eight years, America has been led by a president hell-bent on aggressive foreign policy and re-building the nation on Christian values. A new administration is on its way in, but the president has a few power moves left to see his legacy... Read more

Tropic of Night - Abridged

By: Michael Gruber

Narrated by: Margaret Whitton

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow living under an assumed identity in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so Jane hopes.Then the killings start, a series of ritualistic murders that terrifies all of Miami. The investigator is Jimmy Paz, a Cuban-American... Read more

The 6th Target - Abridged

By: James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a horrifying attack leaves one of the four members of the Women's Murder Club struggling for her life, the others fight to keep a madman behind bars before anyone else is hurt.

And Lindsay Boxer and her new partner in the San Francisco police department run flat-out to stop a series of kidnappings that has electrified the city: children... Read more

The Coffin Dancer - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Joe Mantegna

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major television series starring Russel Hornsby, Arielle Kebbel, and Michael Imperioli, “Lincoln Rhyme is more relentless than ever” (People) and Jeffery Deaver delivers “supercharged tension” (USA TODAY) in this New York Times bestselling suspense masterwork.

NYPD criminalist Lincoln Rhyme joins his brilliant protégé Amelia Sachs, in the... Read more

Chances Part 1 - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The book that introduced the world to Lucky Santangelo, offered in a special, two-part audio adaptation read by Jackie Collins—the unforgettable saga of the woman who conquered Las Vegas in Lucky and became Hollywood's top Lady Boss, the hot-blooded beauty who millions of readers know as a gambler, a lover, and a woman who's never afraid to take... Read more

Sliver of Truth - Abridged

By: Lisa Unger

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ridley Jones is being careful about where she steps and trying to get on with her life when a seemingly mundane act–picking up a few envelopes of prints at a photo lab–puts her at the nexus of a global network of crime. A shadowy figure of a man appears in almost every picture she’s taken in the last year, lurking just far enough away to make... Read more

Sizzling Sixteen - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 3 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a "lucky" bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck. . . .

BAD LUCK:

Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be... Read more

The Double Bind - Abridged

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As the New York Times has said, “Few writers can manipulate a plot with [Chris] Bohjalian’s grace and power.” Now he is back with an ambitious new novel that travels between Jay Gatsby’s Long Island and rural New England, between the Roaring Twenties and the twenty-first century.
When college sophomore Laurel Estabrook is attacked while riding... Read more

Ostfriesengrab [Ostfriesenkrimis, Band 3] - Abridged

By: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Narrated by: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im zauberhaften Park von Schloss Lütetsburg wird eine weibliche Leiche gefunden. Der Mörder hat sie wie eine Elfe in den blühenden Sträuchern drapiert - eine Botschaft für Hauptkommissarin Ann-Kathrin Klaasen. Unter Hochdruck versuchen die Kommissarin und ihr Team weitere Morde zu verhindern, während die Liebe zwischen Ann-Kathrin und ihrem... Read more

Speaking In Tongues - Abridged

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

​From the New York Times bestselling author of Coffin Dancer and The Final Twist comes a gripping story about Two men of words, one who seeks only peace—the other, violence.

Tate Collier, once one of the country's finest trial lawyers, is trying to forget his past. Now a divorced gentleman farmer, land developer, and community advocate in rural... Read more

Goodnight Nobody - Abridged

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Emily Skinner

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner’s unforgettable story of adjusting to suburbia—and all the surprises hidden behind its doors.

For Kate Klein, a semi-accidental mother of three, suburbia has been full of unpleasant surprises. Her once-loving husband is hardly ever home. The supermommies on the playground routinely snub her. Her... Read more

Ostfriesenfeuer [Ostfriesenkrimis, Band 8] - Abridged

By: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Narrated by: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Das traditionelle Osterfeuer am Nordseestrand fiel in diesem Jahr etwas anders aus als sonst. Denn aus den verkohlten Resten ragten am nächsten Morgen menschliche Knochenreste. Als eine weitere Leiche auf einem Spielplatz gefunden wird, ahnt die frisch verheiratete Hauptkommissarin Ann Kathrin Klaasen, dass dieser Mörder nicht einfach nur tötet.... Read more

Der Kölner Dom - Abridged

By: Albert Fetzer

Narrated by: Christian Brückner, Joachim Kerzel, Matthias Ha...

Length: 1 hour 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Im Auditorium Maximum der Universität zu Köln findet der internationale Kongreß für Mediävistik und Kirchengeschichte statt. Der Gastredner, Professor A. H. Riman, hält einen Vortrag über den ersten Dom-baumeister Gerhard von Rile und den Bau des Kölner Domes. Dabei überrascht Riman sein Auditorium immer wieder mit intimen Details zum... Read more

Der Maquisard - Abridged

By: Wolfgang Altendorf

Narrated by: Werner Kreindl & Hans-Christian Blech

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inspektor Leclerc wird an das Sterbebett Ernest Boulangers gerufen. Der ehemalige Kassierer einer Bank hat seine Aussage bezüglich eines lange zurück liegenden Überfalls auf seine Bank zu korrigieren. Sein Geständnis reicht bis in die Zeit des Zweiten Weltkrieges zurück, als Boulanger dem französischen Widerstand, dem Maquis, angehörte. Er... Read more

Dashiell Hammett - Sam Spade ermittelt - Abridged

By: Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Detektiv Sam Spade ermittelt in zwei Fällen im Amerika der 30er Jahre. Im ersten Fall geht es um viel Geld aus einer Erbschaftsangelegenheit, beim zweiten bringt die Widmung eines Buches Spade auf die richtige Spur. Read more

Dashiell Hammett - Der Engel vom ersten Stock - Abridged

By: Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: Gunter Schoß

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Der Engel vom ersten Stock - Amerika in den 30er Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts. Mr. Brigham schreibt für populäre Zeitschriften. Nachts wird in seiner Wohnung eingebrochen. Er überwältigt den Täter. Die Geschichte, die ihm erzählt wird, rührt ihn. Kann er sie als seine Story verkaufen? Oder hat die Sache einen Haken? Die Nägel in Mr.... Read more