Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Scarlet Pimpernel

By: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Narrated by: Roe Kendall

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its... Read more

Silent Snow

By: Steve Thayer

Narrated by: David Birney

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

In this sequel to the best-selling thriller The Weatherman, an investigative reporter embarks on a personal quest for justice and revenge.In the midst of a savage Minnesota blizzard, investigative reporter Rick Beanblossom receives an anonymous note— much like the one Charles Lindbergh and his family received when their infant son... Read more

Shock

By: Robin Cook

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying... Read more

Die for Love

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a... Read more

Lion in the Valley

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Susan O’Malley

Length: 10 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The 1895–96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband, Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son, Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshur is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through... 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

Vengeance - Abridged

By: Stuart Kaminsky

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Three years ago, Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State's Attorney's office in Cook County, Illinois, and headed for Key West. Sidetracked by fate when his car broke down in Sarasota, Florida, he decided to stick around, making ends meet by doing some investigative work for local attorneys. Asked to locate the missing wife... 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

The Rose Rent

By: Ellis Peters

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A late spring in 1142 has the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey dismayed, for there may be no roses by June 22. For three years, wealthy young widow Judith Perle has rented her house to the monks for the price of a single white rose each year, in honor of her late husband. When nature finally complies, a pious monk is sent to pay the rent—and found... Read more

A Change of Gravity

By: George V. Higgins

Narrated by: Adams Morgan

Length: 17 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

For court clerk Ambrose Merrion, life was about people taking care of one another. For Danny Hilliard, politics was a matter of acquiring the power to make sure that society did just that. With Merrion shrewdly managing Hilliard’s campaigns as a rising politician, the two friends made an excellent team.But trouble starts brewing when Merrion... Read more

Devil-May-Care

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Ellie and Henry are young, rich, in love, and engaged. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, Ellie is happy to accept hereccentric Aunt Kate's request that shehouse-sit atKate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. Conventional Henry,... Read more

Legend in Green Velvet

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Scotland is Susan’s passion and obsession, and the opportunity to join a Highland dig is a dream come true for the young archaeology student. But then a sinister stranger slips Susan a cryptic message in ancient verse—and is later found viciously slain. A mysterious peril has unexpectedly emerged from the mists to haunt Susan, sending her... Read more

Everybody Dies - Abridged

By: Lawrence Block

Narrated by: Robert Forster

Length: 5 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life, one of stability and respectability— even the New York streets don't look so mean anymore. He's married to a woman he loves, and wonder of wonders, he's actually gotten around to becoming an officially licensed private investigator. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew' ... 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

Prime Cut - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cheesecake, beefcake, and a pair of dueling caterers whet someone's appetite for murder in this sinfully delicous novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Sticks & Scones

Caterer Goldy Schulz is convinced things couldn't get worse. An unscrupulous rival is driving her out of business. An incompetent contractor has left her precious... Read more

9 Scorpions - Abridged

By: Paul Levine

Narrated by: Gerry Bammon

Length: 4 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Lisa Fremont is a rising young lawyer gifted with a brilliant mind, natural beauty -- and an alluring sensuality. A newly hired law clerk on the staff of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Truitt, Lisa has a bright future. She also has a past that her curriculum vitae doesn't reveal....Long before she was Lisa Fremont, Esquire, she was Angel, an... Read more

Summer of the Dragon

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A good salary and an all-expenses-paid summer spent a sprawling Arizona ranch is too good a deal for fledgling anthropologist D. J. Abbott to turn down—especially when it's six hundred miles from home. What does it matter that her rich new employer and benefactor, Hank Hunnicutt, is a certified oddball who is presently funding all manner of... Read more

Bloodstream - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With her acclaimed novels Harvest and Life Support, Tess Gerritsen has injected a powerful dose of adrenaline into the medical thriller. Now, Gerritsen melds page-turning suspense with chilling realism as a small-town doctor races to unravel the roots of a violent outbreak—before it destroys everything she loves.

Lapped by the gentle waters of... Read more

Sunset Limited - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective Dave Robicheaux returns to center stage in an incendiary new novel by James Lee Burke. A gripping tale of racial violence, class warfare, and the sometimes cruel legacy of Southern history, Sunset Limited is a stunning achievement, confirming Burke's place as one of America's premier stylists as well as master storytellers.

The... Read more

The Seventh Sinner

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient Temple of Mithra. From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness and discovered the corpse of Albert, one of her fellow students, she was afraid.Not even the comforting presence of... Read more

Gatekeeper - Abridged

By: Philip Shelby

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gatekeeper features a labyrinthine setting—from the chambers of the American embassy in Paris to the stoops and back alleys of New York City—stocked with characters whose ambition, cunning, and technological sophistication are intolerant of any threat to their conspiratorial will to power.

Hollis Freemont has arrived in Paris to begin her job at... Read more

Term Limits - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Politics and riveting suspense collide in this white-knuckled thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin—soon to be a major motion picture.

In one bloody night, three of Washington’s most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American... Read more

Fortunes of War - Abridged

By: Stephen Coonts

Narrated by: Richard Gilliland

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Tokyo, a squad of fanatic Japanese nationalists force their way into the Imperial Palace and behead the emperor. It is a grisly first move in a sinister conspiracy to take advantage of a weakened Russia and invade oil-rich Siberia. The goal? World domination. The price? A third world war. Bound by a secret protocol to come to Russia's aid in... Read more

The Greatest Mysteries of All Time

By: Otto Penzler

Narrated by: Roscoe Lee Browne

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The fifth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time is an intriguing anthology of crime and suspense short stories by some of the most renowned writers in the field. This unique collection of master writers includes the usual suspects such as Patricia Highsmith and Mickey Spillane, but also writers better known for other genres, such as Isaac... Read more