Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

City of Stairs

By: Robert Jackson Bennett

Narrated by: Alma Cuervo

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An atmospheric and intrigue-filled novel of dead gods, buried histories, and a mysterious, protean city--from one of America's most acclaimed young fantasy writers. The city of Bulikov once wielded the powers of the gods to conquer the world, enslaving and brutalizing millions-until its divine protectors were killed. Now Bulikov has become just... Read more

Notes on an Execution

By: Danya Kukafka

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno & Jim Meskimen

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL • NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR“Defiantly populated with living women . . . beautifully drawn, dense with detail and specificity . . . Notes on an Execution is nuanced, ambitious and compelling.” —Katie Kitamura, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (Editors' Choice)""A searing... Read more

Under The Dome

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Raul Esparza

Length: 34 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Don’t miss the “harrowing” (The Washington Post) #1 New York Times bestselling thriller from master storyteller Stephen King that inspired the hit television series, following the apocalyptic scenario of a town cut off from the rest of the world.

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and... Read more

Inheritance

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley & Nora Roberts

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an author's note read by Nora Roberts, sharing her inspiration for The Lost Bride Trilogy and the incredible personal history behind these stories.

Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts—a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for... Read more

Beyond Reach

By: Karin Slaughter

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

With over 13 million copies of her books sold in twenty-two countries, #1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter delivers “crime fiction at its finest.” Now she returns to Grant county, Georgia where the lightning-fast plot, vivid forensic detail, and heart-stopping suspense will thrust readers into the darkest corners of their own... Read more

No One Goes Alone

By: Erik Larson

Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt & Erik Larson

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson comes his first venture into fiction, an otherworldly tale of intrigue and the impossible that marshals his trademark approach to nonfiction to create something new: a ghost story thoroughly grounded in history.

Pioneering psychologist William James leads an expedition to a remote isle in search... Read more

Hour of the Witch

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Grace Experience, Saskia Maarleveld, Danny Camp...

Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Flight Attendant: “Historical fiction at its best…. The book is a thriller in structure, and a real page-turner, the ending both unexpected and satisfying” (Diana Gabaldon, bestselling author of the Outlander series, The Washington Post).

A young Puritan woman—faithful, resourceful,... Read more

Things in Jars

By: Jess Kidd

Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In this “miraculous and thrilling” (Diane Setterfield, #1 New York Times bestselling author) mystery for fans of The Essex Serpent and The Book of Speculation, Victorian London comes to life as an intrepid female sleuth wades through a murky world of collectors and criminals to recover a remarkable child.

Bridie Devine—flame-haired, pipe-smoking... Read more

The Alienist

By: Caleb Carr

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 20 hours

Abridged: No

A new breed of evil in Old New York

New York, 1886: Lower Manhattan's underworld is ruled by a new generation of cold-blooded criminals...Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt battles widespread corruption within the department's ranks...and a shockingly brutal murder sets off an investigation that could change crime-fighting forever.

In the... 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

My Best Friend’s Exorcism

By: Grady Hendrix

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A heartwarming story of friendship and demonic possessionThe year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act … different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s... Read more

The Alice Network

By: Kate Quinn

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 15 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption. 1947. In the chaotic... Read more

The Horizontal Man

By: Helen Eustis

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an... Read more

The Art of Theft

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlotte Holmes, Lady Sherlock, is back solving new cases in the Victorian-set mystery series from the USA Today bestselling author of The Hollow of Fear.

As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork—or rather, made away with the... Read more

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door.“I just loved how intriguing the mystery is but also the dynamics between a grandmother, a mother, and a teenage daughter."" —Reese WitherspoonThink: Gilmore Girls, but with murder.High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to... Read more

Killers of a Certain Age

By: Deanna Raybourn

Narrated by: Jane Oppenheimer & Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

“This Golden Girls meets James Bond thriller is a journey you want to be part of.” -Buzzfeed

Older women often feel invisible, but sometimes that’s their secret weapon.

They’ve spent their lives as the deadliest assassins in a clandestine international organization, but now that they're sixty years old, four... Read more

Joyland

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Michael Kelly

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book....Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved” (Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime).

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as... Read more

UNSUB

By: Meg Gardiner

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

From award-winning author Meg Gardiner, co-author of Michael Mann’s Heat 2--A riveting psychological thriller inspired by the never-caught Zodiac Killer, about a young detective determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier.

Caitlin Hendrix has been a Narcotics detective for six... Read more

An Art Lover's Guide to Paris and Murder

By: Dianne Freeman

Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Former Countess of Harleigh, Frances Hazelton, is among a throng of pleasure seekers and art lovers in the City of Lights. But what catches her eye most is the art of murder …

Frances and her husband, George, have two points of interest in Paris. One is an impromptu holiday to visit the Paris Exposition. The other is personal. George’s Aunt Julia... Read more

Moral Injuries

By: Christie Watson

Narrated by: Miranda Raison

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

“Heart-pounding. Soul-wrenching. A psychological thriller that dives into the dark beauty and madness of medicine. What a catharsis to see women bound by friendship and love and ambition peel away the layers of who they are at work. We see them bare their teeth and their souls. It is Big, Little Lies meets Grey’s Anatomy in this delicious and... Read more

Gone Girl

By: Gillian Flynn

Narrated by: Julia Whelan & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 19 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes

ONE OF TIME'S 100... Read more

Well-Schooled in Murder

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Donada Peters

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mystery series now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly 

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the... Read more

When She Was Me

By: Marlee Bush

Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Twin sisters Cassie and Lenora are inseparable. Ever since that night, they’ve been on their own, and that’s how they like it. As the sole permanent residents of Cabin Two, their refuge on an isolated Tennessee campground, the twins manage to stay away from prying eyes, probing questions, and true-crime junkies. The peace and quiet is almost... Read more

Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

Narrated by: Victoria Villarreal

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Gabriela Menchaca and Edwin Saucedo are hardworking, undocumented employees at the Detmer Foods chicken plant in Springdale, Arkansas, just a stone’s throw from the trailer park where they’ve lived together for seven years.

While dealing with personal tragedies of their own, the young couple endures the brutal, dehumanizing conditions at the... Read more