Welcome to Brash Audio… where you can listen to the best crime novels in existence. A brash claim? You bet it is. But our award-winning, critically acclaimed authors prove it with their amazing, unforgettable stories… read for you by some of the most talented audiobook performers in the business.
We’ve got it all: psychological thrillers, murder mysteries, international espionage, and police procedurals from established masters of the craft—as well as premiere books from the boldest new voices in crime fiction.
So settle back and browse through our fantastic, ever-growing library of unmissable mysteries, terrific thrillers and compelling crime novels—and then treat yourself to hours of great storytelling.
15 MINUTES TO LIVE
By Phoef Sutton (also read by)
“Phoef Sutton has a wonderful and unique voice. This is a romantic tale, full of suspense and human emotion. It’s also funny in its own special way. Once I started it, I couldn’t stop.”
—Janet Evanovich
“Just brilliant. A twisty, turny, thriller. Every time you think you’ve got it, it races ahead of you.”
—Steven Moffat, creator of SHERLOCK
Carl’s first love returns and rekindles their sexually-charged romance. There’s just one problem. She died three weeks ago. Is she an imposter? A ghost? Or is the answer even more chilling? A brilliant thriller from a multiple Emmy-Award winning writer.
ATLANTA DEATHWATCH
By Ralph Dennis, read by Shawn Compton
Jim Hardman was a mediocre Atlanta cop until he was wrongly accused of corruption and thrown off the force. Now he works as an unlicensed PI, trouble-shooter and bodyguard… often partnered with his drinking buddy Hump Evans, a black, ex-NFL player who supports his playboy lifestyle by working as hired muscle. Hardman is hired by The Man, a black mobster, to investigate the murder of his white girlfriend, a college student. It’s a case that plunges Hardman and Evans into the center of a violent street war that stretches from Atlanta’s seedy back alleys to the marbled corridors of power.
BONITA FAYE
By Margaret Moseley, read by Carol Herman
“One of the funniest, most resourceful and optimistic heroines you’ll ever come across.”
—Dallas Morning News
When small-town girl Bonita Faye’s abusive husband, car salesman and fishing guide is killed, she begins an adventurous new life that takes her from Poteau, Oklahoma to Paris and back again in a story of murder and redemption… and more murder… stretching over three decades.
THE CHARLESTON KNIFE IS BACK IN TOWN
By Ralph Dennis, read by Shawn Compton
The second novel in the unforgettable Hardman series by Ralph Dennis. Five kids rip off a gambling party attended by Hump Evans and some of Atlanta’s criminal and political elite. Hardman is hired to recover the loot and find the kids before they are caught and butchered by a hitman from Charleston with a very sharp knife.
DEAD MAN’S BADGE
By Robert E. Dunn, read by Don Alfredano
“Fans of Clint Eastwood’s spaghetti westerns will find a lot to like.”
—Publishers Weekly
Career criminal Longview Moody, on the run from killers, assumes his dead, twin brother’s identity as the new Chief of Police of a Texas town that’s being terrorized by a Mexican drug cartel. To pull off the deadly deception, Longview desperately works to become the kind of cop and man that his brother was. But when the two lives he’s living converge, he’s forced to embrace the violence within him to get justice…and vengeance.
EYE of the storme
By W.L. Ripley, read by J. Rodney Turner
A young co-ed is raped by a country music legend in Branson, the “NashVegas” of Missouri. Ignored by the police, she turns to TV newswoman Sandy Collingsworth for help. Sandy’s investigation stirs up a hornet’s nest of corruption and crime, putting her in the mob’s crosshairs …something her boyfriend Wyatt Storme, a freelance troubleshooter, won’t abide. Storme rolls into Branson like a hurricane with his buddy Chick Easton, an unhinged ex-CIA operative, to settle the score with his own brand of justice.
THE GOLDEN GIRL AND ALL
By Ralph Dennis, read by Shawn Compton
Hardman is hired to find Peggy Holt, a drug dealer, stripper, and serial seductress who has kidnapped her six-year-old daughter from her ex-husband. Peggy has disappeared into an Atlanta underworld populated by the dirty cops, crooked lawyers, and violent mobsters that she’s bedded and betrayed… and who keep coming back for more. The only way Hardman can find her is to follow the trail of corpses that she’s left in her wake without becoming one himself.
HAIL STORME
By W.L. Ripley, read by J. Rodney Turner
“For those of us who still feel an ache for the immortal John D. MacDonald, there might finally be a replacement on the horizon.”
—Tampa Tribune
The first Wyatt Storme novel. Storme is hunting in Missouri when he stumbles upon a hidden field of marijuana… and becomes embroiled in a deadly conspiracy of corruption, drug-trafficking and organized crime.
THE LAST GOOD PLACE
By Robin Burcell, read by Travis Baldree
“A fabulous reboot of a beloved classic.”
—J.T. Ellison, NY Times bestselling author
SFPD Detectives Al Krug and Casey Kellog hunt a serial killer in a race-against-the-clock investigation that propels them into the deadly intersection of politics, real estate, media and vice. A stunning new crime novel in the series that became the hit TV show THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
MILICENT LE SUEUR
By Margaret Mosely, read by Jan Ross
“For the little schizo in all of us.”
—Harlan Coben
Millicent Le Sueur is an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive bag lady in a rural Southern town who witnesses the hit-and-run killing of a teenage girl. Or so she claims. Some townsfolk believe she killed the girl and made up the story to cover her crime. Battling her neuroses and psychoses, and counting her steps along the way, she tracks a killer she hopes won’t count her as the next victim.
OUTRAGE AT BLANCO
By Bill Crider, read by John Burlinson
“As clean and sharp as a fine Bowie knife.”
—Booklist
“True Grit” meets “Gran Torino” in this blazingly-original crime novel from Anthony Award winner Bill Crider. A noir thriller with a Western bent, this story of revenge is filled with twists and turns you’ll never see coming.
OUTSIDE THE LAW
By Phillip Thompson, read by J. Rodney Turner
“A winner in the tradition of JUSTIFIED.”
—Reed Farrel Coleman, NY Times bestselling author
Colt Harper is the sheriff in a rural Mississippi county who goes up against a Memphis drug cartel and their cold-blooded assassin and will do whatever it take to get justice… even if it means going outside the law.
PIMP FOR THE DEAD
By Ralph Dennis, read by Shawn Compton
A small-town farmer hires Hardman to find his teenage daughter who ran off to Atlanta to become a model…and ended up a hooker. It’s fast work for Hardman, but she’s gunned down minutes after he finds her. To hunt her killer, Hardman and Hump Evans take a deep dive into a bottomless cesspool of vice and greed that could drown them.
THE PREACHER
By Ted Thackrey Jr., read by Shawn Compton
A mysterious, one-eyed stranger wanders into Farewell, New Mexico, a dusty border town rife with corruption. He’s known only as The Preacher, an ex-Priest, ex-Special Forces commando, and now a professional gambler who has given up on his own salvation… but is determined to find justice for a murdered Vietnam vet… even if it means taking on the entire God-forsaken town.
THE PREACHER: ACES & EIGHTS
By Ted Thackrey Jr., read by Shawn Compton
The Preacher, the ex-priest and Vietnam vet turned professional gambler, is playing the highest stakes poker game ever dealt. His opponents are mobsters, arms dealers and terrorists. The jackpot is an atomic bomb. And if he loses, the entire city of Las Vegas will be dealt the Dead Man’s Hand.
THE PREACHER: KING OF DIAMONDS
By Ted Thackrey Jr., read by Shawn Compton
Once he served God as a priest. Once he served his country as a soldier. Now, he serves fate…and his need for redemption…by roaming the country as a professional gambler known only as the Preacher. He brings his high-stakes game of death and justice to a California casino that’s the temple for a deadly cult led by a brilliant psychopath with horrific intentions.
THE SPY KILLER
By Jimmy Sangster, read by James Greville
“Very astutely plotted, with many surprising twists and a sharp bite.”
—New York Times
Ex-British spy John Smith agrees to follow his ex-wife’s cheating husband… and finds himself back in a world of betrayal and espionage.
STORME FRONT
by W.L. Ripley, read by J. Rodney Turner
To help a desperate friend, ex-footballer Wyatt Storme and his hard-charging buddy Chick Easton ride shotgun on an illegal gun shipment…and things go very wrong. The second novel in the action-packed series.
storme warning
By W.L. Ripley, read by J. Rodney Turner
The fourth novel featuring Wyatt Storme, the ex-football player turned troubleshooter that critics are hailing as the long-awaited heir to Travis McGee and Spenser. This time, Storme is hired to protect a bad-boy movie star getting well-deserved death threats.
A TALENT FOR KILLING
By Ralph Dennis, read by Shawn Compton
“Every line is razor sharp and without an ounce of fat. Jason Bourne fans will find a lot to like.”
—Publishers Weekly
Kane was a top CIA assassin. The Agency wiped his memory—but his talent for killing has returned with a vengeance… for anybody who can pay his price.
TEXAS VIGILANTE
By Bill Crider, read by John Burlinson
“Crider’s prose slices through conventions and expectations.”
—Booklist
After her heart-wrenching quest for revenge in Bill Crider’s original western crime novel Outrage at Blanco, Ellie Taine dusts off her guns to dish out more justice in this powerful story of vengeance and violence.
THUNDER STORME
By W.L. Ripley, read by J. Rodney Turner
In the fifith Wyatt Storme novel, Storme takes on the Kansas City mob, the Dixie Mafia and a local crime syndicate vying for control of a casino project.
TOUCHFEATHER
By Jimmy Sangster, read by Helen Taylor
The wild, swinging ’60s espionage thriller is back! Katy Touchfeather is an airline stewardess who’s actually a deadly British spy, tracking a scientist suspected of selling secrets to the Russians.
TRUE GRIFT
By Jack Bunker, read by Harry Dyson
“A breezy page-turner that’s fun-filled and loaded with laughs from the jump.”
—Joseph Wambaugh
“Reader Dyson reports on the action with a rich, almost comforting voice flexible enough to underline Edwards’s sarcastic, mean-spirited criticisms of his team while simultaneously exposing him for the arrogant bully he is. Dyson keeps it light and smart for much of the book, but has no problem turning tough when the game is almost done and blood is spilled.”
—Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
A bankrupt lawyer and a greedy insurance adjuster concoct a simple personal injury scam that goes violently wrong. It’s a wild tale that’s equal parts Elmore Leonard, John Grisham and Carl Hiaasen at their very best.