Sounds of Suspense

This list of mystery audiobooks was created by Audiofile Magazine .

	James Lee Burke. Read by Will Patton. Purple Cane Road Everyman hero Dave Robicheaux confronts the secrets of his long-forgotten past in a shattering tale of revenge, murder, and a mother's haunting legacy.... (Abridged Cassette)
	Harlan Coben. Read by Steven Weber. Tell No One For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible-that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive. (Abridged Cassette)
	Michael Connelly. Read by Dick Hill. Trunk Music A detective investigating a murder is fired for his efforts because his probe disrupted an FBI sting operation. He is Hieronymous Bosch of the Los Angeles police department who was investigating the slaying of a movie producer. A tale of Hollywood films, crooked money and crooked cops. (Abridged Cassette)
	Arthur Conan Doyle. Performed by a full cast. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close - the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. (Cassette)
	Graham Greene. Read by Martin Jarvis. The Third Man Graham Greene's tale of mystery and intrigue in postwar Vienna begins when pulp fiction writer Rollo Martins arrives in town looking for an old friend, Harry Lime. When Harry turns up dead under mysterious circumstances, Rollo feels compelled to investigate--a decision that will plunge him headlong into a web of romance, danger, corruption, and deceit. (Unabridged Cassette)
	Thomas Harris. Read by Kathy Bates. Silence of the Lambs A novice FBI agent, Clarice Starling, profiles the maniac cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, using one genius psychopath's mind to track down another elusive killer, and risking her life in the process. (Abridged CD)
	P.D. James. Read by Michael Jayston. A Certain Justice When distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends young Gary Ashe for the brutal murder of his mother, the case is, for her, simply another opportunity to demonstrate her brilliance in the courtroom. But there are unexpected and terrifying consequences. Within weeks Aldridge is found dead at her desk, a bloodstained barrister's wig on her head. And as Dalgliesh and his team attempt to make sense of events, the murders continue, inexorably spiraling into fresh complexities of horror. (Unabridged Cassette)
	Dennis Lehane. Read by Thomas J.S. Brown. Prayers for Rain Boston private eye, Patrick Kenzie teams up with Angela Gennaro to find the psychopath who drove a woman to suicide. (Unabridged Cassette, Abridged Cassette)
	Anne Perry. Read by Davina Porter. Face of a Stranger His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detecive. But the accident that felled him has left him with only half a life; his memory and his entire past have vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the brutal murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which makes Monk's efforts doubly difficult, since he's forgotten his professional skills along with everything else.... (Unabridged Cassette)
	Lisa Scottoline. Read by Barbara Rosenblat. The Vendetta Defense Judy Carrier, a law firm associate, takes on a homicide case. By all accounts, Pigeon Tony is guilty, but the subtleties of the case suggest he doesn't deserve to go to prison. Carrier thinks she may get her client off the hook. Until the vendetta comes to life, and a deadly case of murder takes an even deadlier twist. (Unabridged Cassette & CD)