Fiction audiobooks

Bloodline - Abridged

By: Sidney Sheldon

Narrated by: Jenny Agutter

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Intelligent, tough, beautiful, and sole heir to a billion-dollar fortune, Elizabeth suddenly finds herself head of an empire after her father mysteriously dies. Surrounded by cash-hungry family members, the young heiress fights to save the family business. And after narrowly escaping death, she realizes that someone is determined to kill her.... Read more

At Home in Mitford - Abridged

By: Jan Karon

Narrated by: Jan Karon

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It’s easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won’t go away. Add an attractive neighbor who begins wearing a path through the hedge. Now,... Read more

Harvest - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Jayne Brook

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this harrowing medical thriller filled with suspense and brilliantly crafted twists, Tess Gerritsen—the author of the acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series that inspired the hit television show—delivers a pulse-pounding tale that “will make your heart skip a beat” (USA TODAY).

For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital... Read more

Cadillac Jukebox

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Mark Hammer

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

James Lee Burke has been hailed as a “national treasure” (Tampa Bay Times), and in his ninth Dave Robicheaux thriller, it’s easy to see why. This taut, twisted tale of corruption in the Louisiana bayou truly brands Burke as “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post).

Aaron Crown comes from a long line of shady Cajun characters, and rumors of Klan... Read more

A Stained White Radiance - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Detective Dave Robicheaux travels to the mountains of Montana to help his best friend and unearths a larger plot that threatens them both.

Oil speculator Weldon Sonnier is the patriarch of a troubled family intimately bound to the CIA, the Mob, and the Klan. Now, the murder of a cop and a bizarre assassination attempt pull Detective Dave... Read more

Simple Simon - Abridged

By: Ryne Douglas Pearson

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

An autistic teenager. A ruthless assassin. An FBI agent who must risk everything to protect an innocent person from a savage.

All three are thrust together when Simon Lynch, a sixteen-year-old savant, unknowingly breaks the newest, most secure code developed by the National Security Agency. Corrupt elements within that government behemoth,... Read more

Ellen Foster - Abridged

By: Kaye Gibbons

Narrated by: Kaye Gibbons

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and run it down through my head until it got easy."

So begins the tale of Ellen Foster, the brave and engaging heroine of Kaye Gibbons's first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Wise,... Read more

Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Glenda Jackson

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In a timeless tale of misguided romance and heartbreak, Jane Austen's first novel of love and marriage is seen through the eyes of two very different heroines, the Dashwood sisters—cautious, level-headed Elinor and impulsive lively Marianne—one representing sense and the other sensibility. In order to achieve the love and happiness they seek,... Read more

Malice Domestic 2

By: Mary Clark, Frances Fyfield, K.K. Beck, Gary Al...

Narrated by: Mason Adams

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Following the success of Malice Domestic 1— recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and called "outstanding" by Publishers Weekly— acclaimed author Mary Higgins Clark serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie style. Featured writers include Amanda Cross, Frances Fyfield,... Read more

Accordion Crimes - Abridged

By: Annie Proulx

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx brings the immigrant experience to life in this stunning novel that traces the ownership of a simple green accordion.

E. Annie Proulx’s Accordion Crimes is a masterpiece of storytelling that spans a century and a continent. Proulx brings the immigrant experience in America to life through the eyes of the... Read more

The Age of Innocence - Abridged

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Joanne Woodward

Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A masterful portrait of desire and betrayal that takes place during the sumptuous Gilded Age, The Age of Innocence questions the morals and assumptions of elite 1870s New York society when "scandal was more dreaded than disease." Newland Archer, gentleman lawyer and heir to one of New York City's best families, is happily anticipating a highly... Read more

Kahless - Abridged

By: Michael Jan Friedman

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For 1500 years, the Klingons have revered him as their first emperor, the legendary warrior who united their people and taught them the meaning of honor, but the truth of his incredible life has been shrouded in myth and fables... until now.

A clone of the original Kahless now reigns as emperor, but the discovery of an ancient scroll throws the... Read more

Final Jeopardy - Abridged

By: Linda Fairstein

Narrated by: Diane Venora

Length: 2 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the former chief of the sex crimes unit of the Manhattan District Attorney’s office comes the bestselling thriller featuring a New York City prosecutor unraveling a terrifying and brutal murder mystery.

Alexandra Cooper, Manhattan’s top sex crimes prosecutor, awakens one morning to shocking news: a tabloid headline announcing her own... Read more

The Dead Sea Cipher

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity: a rare opportunity to visit biblical places rich in tradition and shrouded in mystery. But in the middle of Beirut, a world away from everything she knows, Dinah Van der Lyn suddenly hears angry voices through the wall of her hotel. The voices are followed by a crash and cries for... Read more

Murder for Love, Murder for Women

By: Otto Penzler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carol Higgins C...

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field. These eight thrilling never-before-published stories include: • “ For Whom the Beep Tolls” by Carol Higgins Clark
• “ ... Read more

Murder for Love, Murder for Men

By: Otto Penzler, William J. Caunitz, John Gardner,...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect recipe for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Men is the perfect— and only— collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best male writers inside— ... Read more

Hard Times - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older... Read more

Sudden Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revenge is the engine which powers this entry in John Sandford's Prey series starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. Read more

The James Joyce Collection

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more

Treasure Island - Abridged

By: Robert Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey,... Read more

Heaven's Prisoners - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf... Read more

Cold Fall - Abridged

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The night that Flight 229 was blown apart upon landing at Washington's Dulles Airport— killing almost 400 passengers aboard— James Bond embarked on a mission that would become an obsession. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at... Read more

Timepiece - Abridged

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Christms Box and A Christmas Memory comes a story tracing the lives of a family through reflective diary entries on love, loyalty, and forgiveness.

April 3, 1912. "Is this life, to grasp joy only to fear its escape? The price of happiness is the risk of losing it."

So reads one of the many wise... Read more

In Heaven as on Earth

By: M Peck

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel, a successful author-psychiatrist, awakens to discover he has survived his death. Two spiritual “greeters” introduce Daniel to the afterlife, guiding him in this new environment. He learns that each soul projects what it wishes to experience, and each must learn to let go of attachments through loving psychotherapy. Throughout his... Read more