Fiction audiobooks

Sacred Sins - Abridged

By: Nora Roberts

Narrated by: Carolyn McCormick

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, the bestselling author of Carnal Innocence and The Reef turns up the heat in this classic tale, available for the first time in hardcover-the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer...  and on the verge of surrendering to a dangerous love.

In the last lazy days of... Read more

A Separate Peace - Abridged

By: John Knowles

Narrated by: Matthew Modine

Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Gene was a lonely, introverted intellectual.  Phineas was a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete.  What happened between them at school one summer  during the early years of World War II is the  subject of A Separate Peace. A  great bestseller for over thirty years--one of the  most starkly moving parables ever written of the  dark forces that... Read more

The Gemini Contenders - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Anthony Heald

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Salonika, Greece: December 1939. In the dead of night, a clandestine order of monks embarks on a desperate mission: to transport a mysterious vault to a hiding place high in the Italian Alps. The sinister cache, concealed for centuries, could rip apart the Christian world. Now, as the Nazi threat marches inexorably closer, men both good and evil... Read more

God Is My Broker - Abridged

By: Brother Ty, John Tierney & Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With this latest work of fiction, a collaboration with New York Times writer, John Tierney, Christopher Buckley promises to be every bit as hilarious and witty as in his previous audiobook, Thank You For Smoking. In God Is My Broker, Buckley aims his sharp humor at the self-help gurus; and the likes of Stephen Covey, Anthony Robbins, and Deepak... Read more

Fat Tuesday - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's latest romantic thriller is set against the lively and decadent backdrop of New Orleans--where, to avenge the acquittal of his partner's murderer, a policeman kidnaps the defense lawyer's wife. Read more

Lightning - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Howard McGillin

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As a partner at one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manages to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty.  But Alex feels blessed with her life and happy marriage--until lightning strikes her.  Suddenly a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down when tests reveal... Read more

The Killing Game - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Becky Ann Baker

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A merciless killer on the hunt...an innocent child in his sights...a woman driven to the edge to stop him...

The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been found. He knows that as one of the nation's top forensic sculptors she'll insist on identifying the nine... Read more

Memoirs of A Geisha - Abridged

By: Arthur Golden

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with... Read more

Breakfast in Bed - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Robin Mattson

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hurt one too many times in the past, Sloan Fairchild isn't interested in love. Instead, she pours all her energy into running her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. But when her best friend asks her to house her fiance for a month, Sloan opens the doors of Fairchild House to Carter Madison...and meets a man who turns her world—and her concept of... Read more

Demolition Angel - Abridged

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Crais is at the top of his game, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It’s Silence of the Lambs meets Speed. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as... Read more

Icon - Abridged

By: Frederick Forsyth

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines.

It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy.  An interim president sits powerless in Moscow as his nation is wracked by famine and inflation, crime and corruption,... Read more

Payment in Blood - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in... Read more

Tough Cookie - Abridged

By: Diane Mott Davidson

Narrated by: Cherry Jones

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A deliciously deadly novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Prime Cut.

“A surprisingly tart and savory reading experience.”—The Washington Post Book World

When caterer Goldy Schulz is offered a temporary stint hosting a cooking show for PBS, she jumps at the chance. After all, she could use the money—not to mention the great... Read more

And Then You Die - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Iris Johansen is a master storyteller whose thrilling novels go straight to the heart of suspense.  Now the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Long After Midnight and The Ugly Duckling returns with her most nerve-shattering novel ever, a story of deadly greed and global terror.  

A seasoned photojournalist, Bess Grady has honed her... Read more

The Copper Beech - Abridged

By: Maeve Binchy

Narrated by: Fionnula Flanagan

Length: 2 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Copper Beech is as soothing as a cup of tea.”—People
 
In the little Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials—and those of their loves—into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarrig’s closed... Read more

The Mauritius Command - Abridged

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The fourth of the Aubrey/Maturin series opens with Captain Jack Aubrey gloomily ashore on half-pay until Stephen Maturin arrives with secret orders for Aubrey to take a frigate to the Cape of Good Hope under a commodore's pennant. Once there he is to mount an expedition against the French-held islands of Mauritius and La Reunion. But the... Read more

Malice - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice.

At seventeen, the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues.

And to everyone's horror, Grace will not tell the... Read more

Harm Done - Abridged

By: Ruth Rendell

Narrated by: Christopher Ravenscroft

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On the day Lizzie came back from the dead, the police and her family and neighbors had already begun to search for her body. She had been missing for three days. Never an articulate child, between her confusion and amnesia she could not plausibly describe where she'd been or why she'd been away. Soon after, a convicted pedophile is released back... Read more

Nothing but the Truth - Abridged

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the stakes have never been higher.

Dismas knows his wife,... Read more

Gates of Fire - Abridged

By: Steven Pressfield

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after... Read more

The Ugly Duckling - Abridged

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Robin Mattson

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If fate suddenly made you more beautiful that you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare?

The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only in fairy tales. Nell Calder deserved a happy ending.... Read more

Mirror Image - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: John Fleming

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm... Read more

The Devil's Workshop - Abridged

By: Stephen J. Cannell

Narrated by: Stephen J. Cannell

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Stacy Richardson is a microbiology graduate student at the University of Southern California, taking her final doctoral exams.  In the middle of her "Quals," Stacy learns that her husband, head of the university's Microbiology Department, has "committed suicide" while on sabbatical at a super-secret bio-weapons lab known as the Devil's... Read more

For the Sake of Elena - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge—where Elena was a student at St. ... Read more