Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Pelican Brief - Abridged

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper  on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy  D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly  garroted to death... The next day America learns  that two of its Supreme Court justices have been  assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law  student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was  no... Read more

Gone for Soldiers - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: George Hearn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back 15 years before the momentous conflict he has so brilliantly chronicled, to a time when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War.

In... Read more

Gates of Fire - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after... Read more

Sea Change - Abridged

By: James Powlik

Narrated by: Jameson Parker

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

BENEATH THE CALM SURFACE A DEADLY TERROR AWAITS.

In the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, two fishermen are the first to feel the heat. Then a young girl, playing innocently by the seashore--before dying an agonizing death. Now the media have a story. Reporters, scientists, and government officials are descending on the coastline, searching... Read more

Trouble in Paradise - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Richard Masur

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert B. Parker and his legendary Spenser series have long been considered the ne plus ultra of detective fiction.  But the critics' praise for Jesse Stone's debut in Night Passage proved there was room for addition to the Parker literary canon.  "A novel as fresh as it is bold...Parker's sentences flow with as much wit, grace and assurance as... Read more

Night Passage - Abridged

By: Robert B. Parker

Narrated by: Richard Masur

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't... Read more

Silent Treatment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Adam Arkin

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin.  Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how... Read more

The Patient - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Lisa Harrow

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With one nerve-shattering New York Times bestseller after another, Michael Palmer has demonstrated his extraordinary ability to create medical thrillers that are at once relentlessly suspenseful and chillingly realistic. And now the former ER physician returns with the stunning and explosive tale of a gifted neurosurgeon drawn into a world of... Read more

Natural Causes - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Natasha Richardson

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

“Reinvents the medical thriller.”—Library Journal

Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's... Read more

Miracle Cure - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Scott Bryce

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With each successive bestseller, including Extreme Measures and Critical Judgment, ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense...writing "wrenchingly scary," (Publishers Weekly) "chillingly sinister"(Denver Post) novels packed with all the cutting-edge authenticity only a doctor could prescribe.  Now, in... Read more

Extreme Measures - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: John Pankow

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has... Read more

Critical Judgment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients.  It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages.  As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors... Read more

The Lazarus Child - Abridged

By: Robert Mawson

Narrated by: Allison Janney

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It takes just a moment for a family's life to be changed forever. For a twelve-year-old boy to dash across the street for a pack of peppermints. For his seven-year-old sister to follow him into traffic. For a bus to swerve out of control. And with that terrible moment, a family's search begins for the unlikely miracle that will put together... Read more

The Scorpio Illusion - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Robert Ludlum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly—and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer—one of the best—until the ... Read more

The Matarese Countdown - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Twenty years ago, top agents from the CIA and KGB banded together to bring down the Matarese Circle, an international cabal of powerbrokers and assassins whose sole objective was to achieve worldwide economic domination. Now the bloody Matarese dynasty is back--and the only man with the power to stop it may have already run out of time....

CIA... Read more

The Matarese Circle - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

An international circle of killers, the Matarese will undoubtedly take over the world within just two years. Only two rival spies have the power to stop them: Scofield, CIA, and Talaniekov, KGB. They share a genius for espionage and a life of explosive terror and violence. But though these sworn enemies once vowed to terminate each other, they... Read more

The Gemini Contenders - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men both good and evil... Read more

The Bourne Ultimatum (Jason Bourne Book #3) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
 
At a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s... Read more

The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne Book #1) - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Darren McGavin

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Jason Bourne.

He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets.

There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that... Read more

The Apocalypse Watch - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortresslike mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. But on the eve of his most spectacular success, after three years in deep cover, Harry disappears.
 
Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular... Read more

Nothing but the Truth - Abridged

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the stakes have never been higher.

Dismas knows his wife,... Read more

Playing for the Ashes - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession.... Read more

The Web - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Psychologist-detective Dr. Alex Delaware finds terror in the heart of paradise in this relentlessly sinister novel by America's premier writer of psychological suspense. Three months in paradise, all expenses paid. It's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse. Dr. Woodrow Wilson Moreland, a revered scientist and philanthropist on the tiny... Read more

Survival of the Fittest - Abridged

By: Jonathan Kellerman

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood.  Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.  There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the... Read more