Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Voted by the British Crime Writers’ Association as the ""Best Crime Novel of all Time""Hercule Poirot comes out of retirement in one of Agatha Christie’s ten favorite novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been... Read more

A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer

By: Maxie Dara

Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder is not her department. 

It’s not like it used to be. Modern-day grim reapers wear business casual, not black cloaks, and they don’t carry scythes, they work for S. C. Y. T. H. E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), where the Department of Natural Causes is the least exciting gig. And that’s how Kathy... Read more

The Five Year Lie

By: Sarina Bowen

Narrated by: Kathleen Early, Gary Tiedemann & Jason Clarke

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“I devoured this book in one day, and I guarantee you will too.”—Julie Clark, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight and The Lies I Tell“An expertly woven story of love, revenge, and murder. In a world where so many books feel so similar—this was a refreshingly unique read and an addictive blend of love and mystery that I couldn’t... Read more

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By: Kate Atkinson

Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After Life

In 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department of MI5 tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of British Fascist sympathizers, she discovers the work to... Read more

The Stone Witch of Florence

By: Anna Rasche

Narrated by: Soneela Nankani

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“A feast of a novel, The Stone Witch of Florence is erudite, transportive, and addicting. Magical in every sense of the word.” —Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author of The Cloisters

A woman's secret. A deadly Plague. Unleash the hidden magic…

1348. As the Black Plague ravages Italy, Ginevra di Gasparo is summoned to Florence after nearly a... Read more

Bad Actors

By: Mick Herron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

In London’s MI5 headquarters a scandal is brewing that could disgrace the entire intelligence community. The Downing Street superforecaster—a specialist who advises the Prime Minister’s office on how policy is likely to be received by the electorate—has disappeared without a trace. Claude Whelan, who was once head of MI5, has been tasked with... Read more

The Lighthouse Witches

By: C. J. Cooke

Narrated by: Eva Feiler, Lesley Harcourt, Jess Nesling & Jos...

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more!

"Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar

Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this... Read more

Liar City

By: Allie Therin

Narrated by: Joel Leslie

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

A 2023 AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER

A murder has Seattle on edge, and it falls to a pacifist empath—and a notorious empath hunter—to find the killer before it's too late

It’s the middle of the night when part-time police consultant and full-time empath Reece gets an anonymous call warning him that his detective sister needs his help. At an... Read more

The Black Echo

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in the first novel of the "thrilling" Harry Bosch series (New York Times Book Review).For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal . . .... Read more

You Shouldn’t Have Come Here

By: Jeneva Rose

Narrated by: Andi Arndt & Andrew Eiden

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Everything I want in a thriller. Sexy, shocking, and tense with an ending I never saw coming. Jeneva Rose is the queen of twists.”—Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe highly anticipated new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and One of Us Is... Read more

Ace of Spades

By: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge & Tapiwa Mugweni

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an author's note read by the author.

Gossip Girl meets Get Out in Ace of Spades, a YA contemporary thriller by debut author Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé about two students, Devon & Chiamaka, and their struggles against an anonymous bully.

All you need to know is . . . I’m here to divide and conquer. Like all great tyrants do.... Read more

Blessed Water

By: Margot Douaihy

Narrated by: Mara Wilson

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Tattooed from her neck to her toesand sporting a gold tooth as sharp as her wisecracks, Sister Holiday struggles to stay on the righteous path. Never one to make things easy for herself, she’s committed to taking her permanent vows with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and joining former fire inspector Magnolia Riveaux’s latest venture,... Read more

The River

By: Peter Heller

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A Nominee for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver Post

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship... Read more

Love Letters to a Serial Killer

By: Tasha Coryell

Narrated by: Andi Arndt

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.

Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah... Read more

The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

Narrated by: JD Jackson, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Joy Nash, ...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR *New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America’s history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial... Read more

End of Story

By: A. J. Finn

Narrated by: Helen Laser

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

For fans of Knives Out comes a spellbinding thriller from the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window“I’ll be dead in three months. Come tell my story.”So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp... Read more

The Butcher Game

By: Alaina Urquhart

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & Joe Knezevich

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.   Destruction follows the ruthless serial killer, Jeremy Rose, the Bayou Butcher,... Read more

The Secrets We Kept: Reese's Book Club

By: Lara Prescott

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan, Cynthia Farrell, Mozhan Marnò...

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--inspired by the true story of the CIA plot to infiltrate the hearts and minds of Soviet Russia, not with propaganda, but with the greatest love story of the twentieth century: Doctor Zhivago.

At the height of the... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where... Read more

The Survivors

By: Jane Harper

Narrated by: Stephen Shanahan

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper

Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.

The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he... Read more

Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Two ordinary women make a deadly pact to take revenge for each other after being pushed to the brink in this “unguessable and unputdownable” (Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author) psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn and Alfred Hitchcock.

One dark evening on New York City’s Upper West Side, two strangers... Read more

Blacktop Wasteland

By: S. A. Cosby

Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White

Length: 11 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Notable Books of 2020

"Narrator Adam Lazarre-White's voice exudes confidence and depth; his performance is an example of how the best audiobooks deliver pure storytelling." -- AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner

A husband, a father, a son, a business owner…And the best getaway driver east of the Mississippi.

This... Read more

One by One

By: Freida McFadden

Narrated by: Alyson Krawchuk

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A night spent sleeping on dirt and leaves is not how Claire Matchett expected to spend her vacation. She thought this would be a break from the stresses of work and raising her young children. A chance to repair her damaged marriage. A week of hiking and hot tubs with two other couple friends. It sounded like heaven. Then Claire’s minivan breaks... Read more

The Next Mrs. Parrish

By: Liv Constantine

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie, Scott Brick, Suzanne Elise Free...

Length: 10 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The thrilling sequel to the million-copy-bestselling Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Mrs. Parrish!
 
“Delicious and shocking.”—Jeneva Rose
“A brilliant page-turner.”—Lisa Gardner
“One hell of a ride!”—Andrea Bartz
 
CBS NEW YORK BOOK CLUB PICK • Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon... Read more