Police & Detective Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror

Hanging by a Thread

"Betsy is still new enough to Excelsior, Minnesota, to not know a scandal when she causes one. So when she hires Foster Johns to fix her roof, the resulting uproar has her needled. The whole town has pinned a five-year-old unsolved double murder on him. Betsy believes Johns when he says he isn't guilty. But she'll have to use every stitch of her sleuthing skills to tie up all the loose ends and prove his innocence once and for all."

Monica Ferris (Author), Susan Boyce (Narrator)

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Endangered Species

"Tough, likable park ranger Anna Pigeon is back in another high-spirited outdoors adventure/mystery. Anna has been assigned a three-week posting on Georgia's isolated Cumberland Island. Despite the breathtaking natural setting, Anna finds time weighing heavily as she works tedious fire pre-suppression duty. Her boring routine is shattered when a sudden plane crash in the inland palmetto thickets calls her and the other members of the fire crew to action. When Anna and the crew investigate, they discover the plane was sabotaged. Suspicions smolder over the accident which killed both the pilot and his passenger, Cumberland's lone law enforcement ranger. Even the usually unflappable Anna is shocked by the desperate cold-bloodedness of the crime. Will protecting the island come at a price even Anna is unwilling to pay?"

Nevada Barr (Author), Cindy Williams (Narrator)

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Sucker Bet

"A hardened ex-cop, Tony Valentine now nabs hustlers who rob casinos, and the Micanopy Indian Reservation Casino in South Florida desperately needs his expertise. A blackjack dealer has rigged a game, dealt a player eighty-four winning hands in a row, and then disappeared. But the missing dealer is part of an even bigger, far deadlier scheme. Valentine’s trail leads him to Rico Blanco, a ruthless gangster who once worked for John Gotti; his shady, elusive partner-in-crime, Victor Marks; and a bombshell named Candy Hart, a hooker with dreams of love—a combination tailor-made to double-cross. It appears they have a con going down involving a cocky, filthy-rich Brit and his millions of dollars. Valentine’s challenge: to figure out how all the pieces of the seamy puzzle fit together . . . before his luck runs out and his life goes bust."

James Swain (Author), Paul Boehmer (Narrator)

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[German] - Schattensaiten 4 - Tödlicher Atem

"Ungläubig starrten alle auf das Zeitungsfoto. Das war doch der Mann, den sie seit Tagen beobachtet hatten. Und doch war das Bild über einhundert Jahre alt. Hatten sie sich geirrt? Mit der neuen Mitbewohnerin war auch ein Geheimnis in die WG gezogen. Warum war Frauke immer so müde und schweigsam? Hatte sie etwas zu verbergen? Daniel, Anne, Claudia und Christian setzen alles daran, dieses Rätsel zu lösen. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine jahrhundertealte Gefahr. Das Böse lauert verborgen und von allen unerkannt. Leider ahnen sie nicht, dass ihr Gegner schon über ihre Nachforschungen Bescheid weiß und tappen so unverhofft in die offene Falle."

Katja Behnke (Author), Various (Narrator)

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Destination Monterey

"Fresh off her first assignment as a travel writer, former investigative reporter Samantha “Sam" Powers is ready for a new adventure. When her editor at Carmel Today magazine instead asks her to write a travel piece about the local Monterey County area as part of a special issue around the upcoming Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament, Sam is initially hesitant. Not only is she not particularly fond of the sport of golf, Sam has had plenty of reasons to stay away from her hometown for the past dozen years. Truthfully, if it weren't for her ailing father (Carmel-by-the-Sea’s former police chief), she wouldn't have come back at all. Ultimately, Sam takes the assignment. As she tours the scenic locales of Carmel Valley, Big Sur, Pacific Grove, and Pebble Beach, Sam ends up unearthing a cold case involving the disappearance of the previous editor of Carmel Today. Dangerously in over her head, Sam knows she will have to call on some friends—including the detective she met on her previous assignment to Maui—to solve the suspicious incident and come out alive. Will the unexpected puzzle help her gain a new appreciation for her hometown or will the Monterey area be the last place Sam ever sees? “Destination: Monterey” is the second in the Destination Murder Mystery series. Readers can expect exotic locales, a behind-the-scenes look at the travel industry, and the twists and turns expected from a quality mystery."

Ann Shepphird (Author), Lauren Davis (Narrator)

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[German] - Schattensaiten 3 - Die lebende Statue

"Anne zittert, als sich der kühle Stahl der Messerklinge an ihre Kehle drückt. Sie ist völlig hilflos. Hoffentlich können ihre Freunde ihr beistehen. Ein Zeitungsartikel über eine verschwundene Statue auf dem Friedhof ruft Daniel, Anne, Christian und Claudia erneut auf den Plan. Die Täter haben keine Spuren hinterlassen, der einzige Zeuge hat nur eine geheimnisvolle Geigenmelodie gehört. Steckt Schedoni alias der Schneemann hinter dem vermeintlichen Diebstahl? Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich, als auch in der Universitätsbibliothek und im Naturkundemuseum eingebrochen wird. Die Freunde sind gezwungen zu handeln. Sie müssen Schedonis Vorhaben vereiteln, wenn sie nicht zulassen wollen, dass Anne in Gefahr gerät."

Katja Behnke (Author), Various (Narrator)

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Street Boys

"Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience. It’s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city can’t belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one. No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Nazis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city—or die trying. There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen-year-old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self-confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle-aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen-year-old daughter, who helps her father regain his self-respect— and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comrades—with no choice but to aid the street boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Nazi commander shamed by his own sadistic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves. In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterra’s trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page-turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all—and as a singular addition to the novels about World War II."

Lorenzo Carcaterra (Author), Joe Mantegna (Narrator)

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Leslie

"To some she's intelligent and beautiful. To others she's proud and dangerous. At the historically black college of Dillard University in the lush mystical city of New Orleans, the beautiful and serious Leslie Beaudet is struggling with a dark secret of power in a world that is pulling her in many different directions. In the eyes of her Haitian immigrant father, Leslie is a queen who deserves more than the broken dreams and carnage of poverty. To her Black Indian mother, she is a source of pride and strength, a reason for carrying on. To her younger sister, already a mother of two and a high school dropout, Leslie is the only person who cares enough to share her woes. To her brother, she is the victim he failed to protect. To her college peers and teachers, Leslie is a determined, resourceful student, most likely to succeed, yet impenetrably private. When a series of murders befall her New Orlean's community they point in Leslie's direction. Slowly, her friends and relatives realize they've never really known Leslie -- a complicated young woman terrified of failure, struggling with painful family secrets, praying for security that has eluded everyone around her, and craving the power to change her fate, a power that was hidden from her until now...when it's too late to stop her."

Omar Tyree (Author), Heather Alicia Simms (Narrator)

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Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye

"Grammy® Award nominee!It's a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets, but high above the mean streets, a light burns on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, where Guy Noir—hard boiled, world-weary, yet surprisingly articulate—is trying to find the answers to life's questions. In his big swivel chair under the bare bulb beside the beat-up gray file cabinet, he awaits the call of his clientele: the disappointed, the paranoid, the embittered, the rejected—and the hilarious."

Garrison Keillor (Author), Walter Bobbie (Narrator)

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All Our Yesterdays

"They were the Sheridan men, ruled by passion, betrayed by love, heirs to a legacy of violence and forbidden desire.  Gus, Boston's top homicide cop: he knew equally well the backroom politics of City Hall and the private passions of the very rich, a man haunted by the wanton courage and perilous obsessions he inherited from his father... Conn, the patriarch, a lawless cop who spawned a circle of vengeance and betrayal that would span half a century... and Chris, Gus's beloved son, a Harvard lawyer and criminologist, fated to risk everything to break the chain of obsession and rage...  Three generations linked by crime and punishment--cops and heroes, fathers, sons, and lovers united at last by revelations that could bring a family to its knees..."

Robert B. Parker (Author), Ron McLarty (Narrator)

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Street Boys

"Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra’s exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his bestselling Sleepers as a riveting reading experience. It’s late September. The war in Europe is almost won. Italy is leaderless, Mussolini already arrested by anti-Fascists. The German army has evacuated the city of Naples. Adults, even entire families, have been marched off to work camps or simply sent off to their deaths. Now, the German army is moving toward Naples to finish the job. Their chilling instructions are: If the city can’t belong to Hitler, it will belong to no one. No one but children. Children who have been orphaned or hidden by parents in a last, defiant gesture against the Nazis. Children, some as young as ten years old, armed with just a handful of guns, unexploded bombs, and their own ingenuity. Children who are determined to take on the advancing enemy and save the city—or die trying. There is Vincenzo Soldari, a sixteen-year-old history buff who is determined to make history by leading others with courage and self-confidence; Carlo Maldini, a middle-aged drunkard desperate to redeem himself by adding his experience to the raw exuberance of the young fighters; Nunzia Maldini, his nineteen-year-old daughter, who helps her father regain his self-respect— and loses her heart to an American G.I.; Corporal Steve Connors, a soldier sent out on reconnaissance, then cut off from his comrades—with no choice but to aid the street boys; Colonel Rudolph Van Klaus, the proud Nazi commander shamed by his own sadistic mission; and, of course, the dozens of young boys who use their few skills and great heart to try to save their city, their country, and themselves. In its compassionate portrait of the rootless young, and its pitiless portrayal of the violence that is at once their world and their way out, Street Boys continues and deepens Lorenzo Carcaterra’s trademark themes. In its awesome scope and pure page-turning excitement, it stands as a stirring tribute to the underdog in us all—and as a singular addition to the novels about World War II."

Lorenzo Carcaterra (Author), Jonathan Marosz (Narrator)

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[German] - Schattensaiten 2 - Klänge in der Dunkelheit

"Claudia und Christian sind entsetzt: Anne und Daniel sind verschwunden. Wie ist das möglich, eben gerade waren sie doch noch mit ihnen zusammen! Dabei hatte alles so harmlos angefangen: gemeinsame Ferien in einem abgelegenen Haus mitten im Wald. Doch dann erklang diese unheimliche Geigenmelodie und ein alter Sekretär mit einem geheimnisvollen Brief tauchte aus dem Nichts auf. Stehen diese Ereignisse in einem Zusammenhang mit dem Verschwinden von Daniel und Anne? Claudia und Christian beschließen nachzuforschen. Dabei treffen sie auf einen alten Bekannten: den Schneemann! Können sie sich aus seinen Fängen befreien und seine Pläne vereiteln? Es steht viel auf dem Spiel, denn ohne ihre Hilfe sind Anne und Daniel verloren."

Katja Behnke (Author), Various (Narrator)

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