Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

Damascus Countdown - Abridged

By: Joel C. Rosenberg

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 7 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 3 in the bestselling 3-book espionage and spy thriller series that has sold 700,000 copies!"Damascus Countdown is fantastic! Rosenberg always keeps me riveted."
—Rush Limbaugh, radio hostThis time, all eyes are not just on Iran, but on Syria as well.Israel has successfully launched a first strike on Iran, taking out all of their nuclear... Read more

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

A Sudden Change of Heart - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Margaret Whitton

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From master storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a magnificent new novel, a powerful, moving story of two women, two families, and an extraordinary friendship challenged by tragedy and a devastating secret from the past....

Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best friend....

Nothing hurts like the truth.  A truth that has... Read more

Dark Horse - Abridged

By: Tami Hoag

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her latest thriller, New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there can be only one winner--and the losers die trying.

In a trailer in a Florida swamp, time is... Read more

4.50 From Paddington - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Edge of Justice - Abridged

By: Clinton McKinzie

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A woman lies dead in the shadow of a Rocky Mountain peak. To the police who found her, she was just another thrill-seeking climber who fell to her death. But to a cop who has climbed all his life, this fall was no accident. He knows that a killer is in these mountains, and that the next victim has already been chosen. Now the only way to stop a... Read more

The Apprentice - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles—the inspiration for the hit TNT series—continue their crime-solving streak. 

The bestselling author of The Surgeon returns—and so does that chilling novel’s diabolical villain. Though held behind bars, Warren Hoyt still haunts a helpless city, seeming to bequeath his evil legacy to a student all-too-diligent . . . and... Read more

A Pocket Full of Rye - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

After the Funeral - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Loaded Dice - Abridged

By: James Swain

Narrated by: Tony Roberts

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For ex-cop Tony Valentine, life in balmy Florida provides little R&R. In fact, he’s in demand now more than ever. Armed with a special grift sense, Valentine can spot card cheats and even bigger game whose sole purpose on earth is to relieve a casino of its cash. But when his son, who was going to card-counting school, goes missing,... Read more

City of Light - Abridged

By: Lauren Belfer

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today

The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning.

Louisa Barrett has made... Read more

Eight in the Box - Abridged

By: Raffi Yessayan

Narrated by: Stephen Hoye

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: Yes

They call him the Blood Bath Killer -- a man who has now killed two Boston women by sneaking into their homes, filling the bathtub with their blood, and making off with their bodies. And everything suggests that he's poised to strike again.

Out to stop him are two good cops -- Detective Angel Alves and his hard-driven boss, Sergeant Wayne Mooney... Read more

Cat Among the Pigeons - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Survivors Club: A Thriller - Abridged

By: Lisa Gardner

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One of today’s most electrifying suspense novelists, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this masterful new novel, the killer may very well be the one you sympathize with the most....

THE FIRST RULE IS NEVER BLAME THE VICTIM.

They survived what no... Read more

Crooked House - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Body of Lies - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From Iris Johansen, the New York Times bestselling author of The Search and Final Target, comes a taut, fast-paced, and terrifying psychological thriller that pushes the level of suspense to the absolute limit–and beyond. This time forensic sculptor Eve Duncan finds herself matched against a killer who will challenge her skill, test her courage,... Read more

Destination Unknown - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The English Assassin - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva, comes a taut, lightning-paced thriller rooted assuredly in fact: Switzerland's shameful WWII record of profiteering and collaboration with Nazi Germany.

The Unlikely Spy, Daniel Silva's extraordinary debut novel, was applauded by critics as it rocketed onto national... Read more

The Day Before Midnight - Abridged

By: Stephen Hunter

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 2 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“A breathtaking, fascinating look at what could happen—given the possibility of an atomic ‘given.’ A wrap-up you'll never forget.”—Robert Ludlum

The countdown begins when welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his suburban Maryland home ans whisked to the South Mountain MX missile site—a top-secret nuclear complex now taken over by paramilitary... Read more

See Also Proof [Dramatized Adaptation] - Abridged

By: Larry D. Sweazy

Narrated by: A Full Cast, Nanette Savard, Tim Getman, Amanda...

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Marjorie Trumaine, a freelance indexer from rural North Dakota in the 1960s, risks her life to help local law enforcement track down a missing, disabled girl.
Dickinson, North Dakota, 1965. It's a harsh winter, and freelance indexer Marjorie Trumaine struggles to complete a lengthy index while mourning the recent loss of her husband, Hank. The... Read more

Hickory Dickory Dock - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Sparkling Cyanide - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more