Fiction audiobooks

The Descent - Abridged

By: Jeff Long

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In Tibet, while guiding trekkers to a holy mountain, Ike Crockett discovers a bottomless cave. When his lover disappears, Ike pursues her into the depths of the earth....In a leper colony bordering the Kalahari Desert, a nun named Ali von Schade unearths evidence of a proto-human species and a deity called Older-than-Old....In Bosnia, Major... Read more

McNally's Dilemma - Abridged

By: Lawrence Sanders

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.
Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case; the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. After finding... Read more

Transfer of Power - Abridged

By: Vince Flynn

Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes

Length: 4 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This “roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he must stop a massacre in Washington, DC, and save the president before terrorists reach the White House.

The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of... Read more

Heartwood - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke's lush prose, cracking story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimarron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland show Burke at his best in exploring classic American themes -- the sometimes... Read more

The Vanishing Men

By: Martin Greenberg, Jan Grape, Susan Dunlap, Edwa...

Narrated by: David Ackroyd

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

This superb collection of nine detective stories focuses on the police procedural genre where crime investigation takes on a sense of reality. Written by some of the greats— including Edgar Award Grand Masters Tony Hillerman, Edward D. Hoch, John D. MacDonald, and Ed McBain— these classic stories include:
• “ ... Read more

Duane's Depressed

By: Larry McMurtry

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Surrounded by his children, who all seem to be going through life crises, and his wife, who is wrestling with her own demons, small-town Texas local Duane Moore can't seem to make sense of his life anymore. To the perplexity of his family and friends, he ditches his pickup, starts walking everywhere, and moves to a crude shack six miles out of... Read more

Death Du Jour - Abridged

By: Kathy Reichs

Narrated by: Katherine Borowitz

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

When a recent skeleton among ancient bones raises questions—and danger—forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan is the only one who can solve the case in this “triumphant second appearance” (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs.

Tempe Brennan is stuck teaching an archaeology field school for students at UNCC... Read more

Hermit's Peak - Abridged

By: Michael McGarrity

Narrated by: Ed J Araiza

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hermit’s Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest.

When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State Police, inherits an unexpected windfall of 6,400 acres of... Read more

Dangerous Kiss - Abridged

By: Jackie Collins

Narrated by: Jackie Collins

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The seductively beautiful, street-smart, and powerful Lucky Santangelo, star of four of Jackie Collins's previous international bestsellers—Chances, Lucky, Lady Boss, and Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge—returns in Dangerous Kiss.

In Chances, Lucky grew up in a top crime family; in Lucky, she was married three times; in Lady Boss, she took on Hollywood... Read more

Song of the Exile - Abridged

By: Kiana Davenport

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the last innocent days of pre-World War II Honolulu, two people meet almost by chance: Keo, a gifted jazz trumpeter native to the islands, and Sunny, a fiercely independent beauty of Hawaiian and Korean heritage. As their love grows, youth and ambition propel them into a world that is spiraling into madness. From New Orleans to Paris to... Read more

The Fencing Master - Abridged

By: Arturo Reverte

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It is 1868, and Spain teeters on the brink of revolution. Don Jaime de Astarola is Spain's greatest fencing master— a man of honor, an anachronism— priding himself on the precision and dignity of his ancient art, and the perfector of the deadly unstoppable sword thrust technique. His friends spend their days in cafes... Read more

Back to the Moon - Abridged

By: Homer Hickam

Narrated by: Michael R. LeGault

Length: 4 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A renegade rocket man haunted by his past. A beautiful daredevil who thinks she can do it all -- until she finds herself on the adventure of her life. A death-defying mission so risky, so audacious, that no one would try it...unless the fate of the world depended on its success.
Thirty years after man's first lunar landing, retired NASA engineer... Read more

Alvin Journeyman - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 4 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.In an alternate frontier where America is ruled by folk magic and mysterious charms, hexes, and potions, a man like Alvin Miller is an extraordinary person. The seventh son of a seventh son, Miller is a "Maker," with the power to create a new future for America. But first, he must defeat his ancient enemy, the... Read more

Turn of the Century - Abridged

By: Kurt Andersen

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

As big and exciting as the next century, this is a novel of real life at our giddy, feverish, topsy-turvy edge of the millennium. Turn of the Century is a good old-fashioned novel about the day after tomorrow--an uproarious, exquisitely observed panorama of our world as the twentieth century morphs into the twenty-first, transforming family,... Read more

Close Range

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Frances Fisher, Campbell Scott & Bruce Greenwood

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.

Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this collection of stories about loneliness, quick violence, and wrong kinds of love. In "The Mud Below,"... Read more

Falling Bodies - Abridged

By: Andrew Mark

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An eloquent illumination of the condition, Falling Bodies is an extraordinary debut novel of love and loss, despair and renewal, and the promise -- and limitations -- of the laws of physics.
Jackson's wife and two children are gone -- taken away in the blink of an eye by a terrible car accident. A professor of physics, Jackson can mathematically... Read more

The Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

High Exposure - Abridged

By: David Breashears

Narrated by: Michael Gross

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For famed cinematographer, adventurer, and mountaineer David Breashears, the terrifying experiences on Mount Everest during the deadly 1996 season became the defining moment of his life. By 1995, Breashears had already twice reached Mt. Everest's summit. Then he faced the greatest challenge of his life: to scale the 29,028-foot peak while... Read more

Every Dead Thing - Abridged

By: John Connolly

Narrated by: Titus Welliver

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tortured and brilliant private detective Charlie Parker stars in this thriller by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly.

Former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker is on the verge of madness. Tortured by the unsolved slayings of his wife and young daughter, he is a man consumed by guilt, regret, and the desire for revenge. When his... Read more

Eye of the Beholder - Abridged

By: Jayne Ann Krentz

Narrated by: Jayne Atkinson

Length: 4 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A hard-edged businessman and a beautiful art expert make a tantalizing mind-body connection at a new age resort until a killer threatens their piece of paradise in this “fun-filled and sensational tale by the incomparable Jayne Ann Krentz” (RT Book Reviews).

Alexa Chambers has a flair for style, an eye for art, and a reputation in tatters after... Read more

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

By: Stephen King

Narrated by: Anne Heche

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—uniquely frightening suspense about a young girl lost in the woods as night falls, with only the voice of her beloved Red Sox relief pitcher to sustain her and help her survive—maybe.

During a six-mile hike on the Maine-New Hampshire branch of the Appalachian Trail, nine-year-old Trisha... Read more

Dark Victory - Abridged

By: William Shatner

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

For three full decades, on television and in film, actor William Shatner has portrayed one of the legendary heroes of science fiction: James Tiberius Kirk, captain of the Starship Enterprise™. Although Kirk was believed to have perished at the conclusion of Star Trek® Generations™, his amazing literary resurrection led to an acclaimed trilogy of... Read more

Prentice Alvin - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Nana Visitor

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Book 3 of The Tales of Alvin Maker.From the 18th century into the early years of the 19th, Americans— traveling to find new homes and new lands— crossed the Appalachian Mountains and moved across the Northwest Territory, spreading west to the banks of the great river. But in this alternate frontier America, the men and... Read more

Enchantment - Abridged

By: Orson Card

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The moment Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed: atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay still as death. But beneath the foliage a malevolent presence stirred, sending the 10-year-old scrambling for safety. Years later, Ivan is an American graduate... Read more