Virtual Front Room - Thrillers and Mysteries

The Devil's Playground

A Novel

By: Craig Russell
Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

A riveting 1920s Hollywood thriller about the making of the most terrifying silent film ever made, and a deadly search for the single copy rumored still to exist, from the internationally acclaimed author of The Devil Aspect.

"An excellent, engrossing historical horror novel."—New York Times Book Review
"Rich and riveting...a masterful thriller."... Read more

Killingly

By: Katharine Beutner
Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

Massachusetts, 1897: Bertha Mellish, “the most peculiar, quiet, reserved girl” at Mount Holyoke College, is missing.

As a search team dredges the pond where Bertha might have drowned, her panicked father and sister arrive desperate to find some clue to her fate or state of mind. Bertha’s best friend, Agnes, a scholarly loner studying medicine,... Read more

All the Demons Are Here

A Novel

By: Jake Tapper
Narrated by: Meg Price & Rob Shapiro
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

From the bestselling author of The Devil May Dance and The Hellfire Club comes a breathtaking thriller that explores the chaotic underworlds of the 1970's after an AWOL US Marine returns home to a strange and dangerous country. It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder's kids, are grown up—and in trouble. US Marine Ike has... Read more

Burn the Negative

By: Josh Winning
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

*Long-listed for the Bram Stoker Award*

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade…and the curse that haunted it is reawakened.

Fresh off the plane in L.A., here to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren sees a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car.  It’s... Read more

Zero Days

By: Ruth Ware
Narrated by: Imogen Church
Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

“When summer arrives, lots of people turn to romantic comedies and light beach reads. I, on the other hand, lean toward dark thrillers, with murders and adrenaline fueled suspense. Ruth Ware is always a reliable source for my kind of book, and her newest, Zero Days, does not disappoint. When Jacintha “Jackie” Cross becomes the prime suspect in... Read more

The Only One Left

A Novel

By: Riley Sager
Narrated by: Christine Lakin & Dawn Harvey
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“A must listen! Dual voices sent shivers up my spine and Sager spun this tale of murder, deceit, and family. Up until the last few sentences I was guessing. A powerful story to remind us that not everyone is who they seem. If you are a lover of gothic tales this is the perfect modern gothic thriller. Read more

None of This is True

A Novel

By: Lisa Jewell
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Ayesha Antoine, Louise Brealey, Alix Dunmore, Elliot Fitzpatrick, Lisa Jewell, Thomas Judd, Dominic Thorburn, Nicola Walker & Jenny Walser
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

“I enjoy a good thriller - and this one fit the bill! Interesting premise, believable characters, good storytelling and plot twists. The narrators did a great job giving each person a voice, making it pleasurable to listen. Read more

The Last Dance of the Debutante

By: Julia Kelly
Narrated by: Marisa Calin
Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

In this “glorious dance through the traditional glamour and suffocating expectations of a bygone era” (Genevieve Graham, USA TODAY bestselling author), a group of young women are swept up in a life-changing journey as they become three of the last debutantes to be presented to Queen Elizabeth II.

When it’s announced that 1958 will be the last... Read more

Counterweight

A Novel

By: Djuna
Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company’s monomaniacal endeavor to build the world’s first space elevator

An “antic, madcap noir with flair" (Wired) and “fast-paced... Read more