The Spoken Word
A Moroni Traveler Novel
The Moroni Traveler Series: Book #5
- By: Robert R. Irvine
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Description
"How many times have I told you? Never get involved with the church hierarchy."
Words of wisdom, surely, but Moroni Traveler can't seem to take his father's advice. Salt Lake City private investigators, Moroni and his father, Martin, maintain an uneasy truce with the Church of Latter-day Saints. But Moroni owes a debt to his boyhood friend Willis Tanner, now one of the top-ranking officials in the LDS, and Willis has come to collect. Lael Woolley, grandniece of the First Prophet, the head of the Mormon church on earth, has been kidnapped, and the prophet believes only Traveler, a gentile, can rescue her. Moroni agrees, although reluctantly—in Salt Lake City you just don't say no to the LDS. He and his father set out to find Lael with carte blanche from the prophet and the assistance of three enterprising, offbeat drifters who live in the lobby of the Travelers' office building. Their search takes them around the state and into the church's extensive genealogical records, pointing to a subversive Mormon feminist group that may or may not be responsible for Lael's disappearance.
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The Moroni Traveler Series Series

Baptism for the Dead
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 4 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Moroni Traveler finds it a blessing and a curse to be named for the angel that graces the top of the temple looming over Brigham Young's city. The ex–football star–turned–private detective has returned to Salt Lake City, a town he once called home.
During a spring blizzard, Moroni meets Penny Varney, the ungodly daughter of a powerful high... Read more »
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The Angels’ Share
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Salt Lake City is hotter than hell. The Church of the Latter-day Saints is about to celebrate Pioneer Day, in honor of the Saints who crossed half a continent searching for a home. And in the sun-scorched streets, PI Moroni Traveler, fallen Saint and former football star, is searching for a vicious serial killer. The murderer's calling card is a... Read more »
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Gone to Glory
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 5 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
Ace shortstop Pepper Dalton has finally learned to hit—or so it seems to the good people of Salt Lake City. Moroni Traveler, a private eye named for an angel and cut from the same cloth as his hell-bent father, is hired to prove that Pepper did not kill his sister with a baseball bat. A boyhood hero of Moroni's, Pepper is living, potbellied... Read more »
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Called Home
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The isolated town of Wasatch sits in Mormon country—a hard place where right and wrong are as clear as night and day. But smoke from nearby mountain wildfires swirls menacingly through the streets, as unsettling as the dark secrets so zealously guarded by Brigham Young's faithful.
Moroni Traveler, a PI named for an angel, is an outsider—an... Read more »
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The Spoken Word
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
"How many times have I told you? Never get involved with the church hierarchy."
Words of wisdom, surely, but Moroni Traveler can't seem to take his father's advice. Salt Lake City private investigators, Moroni and his father, Martin, maintain an uneasy truce with the Church of Latter-day Saints. But Moroni owes a debt to his boyhood friend Willis... Read more »
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The Great Reminder
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Major Lewis Stiles is dying of cancer, but he wants all his affairs in order before he is “called home.” To that end he wants to hire Moroni Traveler and his father, Martin, to track down one of the prisoners he was responsible for during World War II. Unseen since his mysterious disappearance from the POW camp at Cowdery Junction, Utah, Karl... Read more »
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The Hosanna Shout
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 5 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Moroni Traveler, the Salt Lake City investigator heralded by the New York Times Book Review as "a true rebel hero in the classic private-eye tradition," finds himself working on a very personal case as he and his adoptive father, Martin, look for the three-year-old child who may or may not be Moroni's son. Tracking down a lead, the two men end... Read more »
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Pillar of Fire
By: Robert R. Irvine
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 5 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Named after a Mormon saint, Moroni Traveler may be Salt Lake City's only gentile private eye that still maintains uneasy contact with the Church of Latter-day Saints. This case finds the former pro football player reluctantly accepting a charge from one of the church leaders to investigate the enigmatic, self-effacing faith healer Jason Thurgood.... Read more »
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