Fiction audiobooks

Tourist Season

By: Carl Hiaasen

Narrated by: George Wilson

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Hiaasen's best-selling novels are funny and sardonic. Hilarious postcards of south Florida, they also decry the lurid commercialism that is draining and paving the tropical landscape. Tourist season is swinging into high gear in Miami. So are the activities of a bizarre terrorist group determined to keep... Read more

A Good Year

By: Peter Mayle

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine?and set in, bien sûr, Provence.

Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily... Read more

Unnatural Exposure

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: C.J. Critt

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Filled with tension and continual surprises, Unnatural Exposure is a thrilling chapter in Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta's life--and a triumph for #1 New York Times best-selling author Patricia Cornwell. The body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill. Scarpetta initially believes the clues mirror that of... Read more

Nocturne

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: Michele Pawk, Frederick Weller, Boyd Gaines & B...

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense -- stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your... Read more

Demons

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

For the Nameless Detective, investigations involving matters of the heart are to be avoided at all costs. When an old poker buddy asks him to help frazzled and distraught Kay Runyon, whose husband, Victor, is having a clandestine affair with a mystery woman named Nedra, Nameless unwillingly relents, but he soon discovers there is much more at... Read more

Scarecrow - Abridged

By: Matthew Reilly

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The newest action thriller from the author of the bestselling Ice Station and Area 7 marks the return of Shane "Scarecrow" Schofield in his fastest, most nail-biting challenge yet

It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world—commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today.... Read more

Kane and Abel - Abridged

By: Jeffrey Archer

Narrated by: Jeff Harding

Length: 3 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The mega-bestselling novel that made Jeffrey Archer a star, Kane and Abel, “a sprawling blockbuster!”—Publishers Weekly

TWO STRANGERS BORN WORLDS APART. ONE DESTINY THAT WOULD DEFINE THEM BOTH...

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski, one the son of a Boston millionaire, the other a penniless Polish immigrant—born on the same day near the turn... Read more

The Bookman's Promise - Abridged

By: John Dunning

Narrated by: George Guidall

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Cliff Janeway is back! The Bookman's Promise marks the eagerly awaited return of the award-winning crime novel series that helped the nation turn on to first-edition book collecting.

The Bookman's Promise juxtaposes past and present as Denver ex-cop and bookman Cliff Janeway searches for a book and a killer.

The quest begins when an old woman --... Read more

Above and Beyond - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Kate Forbes

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

LETTERS OF LOVE
The letters Kyla sent to her husband, Sergeant Richard Stroud, stationed a world away, spoke of a love that stretched across the ocean and held the young couple together. But when tragedy ended their marriage too soon, Kyla was left a widow with a newborn son. And Richard left behind only a metal box filled with his wife's... Read more

The Truelove

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey... Read more

The Ionian Mission

By: Patrick O'Brian

Narrated by: Patrick Tull

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Shoved into a temporary command in "that rotten old Worcester," Aubrey is off to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's blockade of the French port of Toulon, where he will be dispatched by Admiral Harte (unfortunately the same Admiral Harte he cuckolded years ago) on a secret mission that promises to embroil Aubrey in political conflict.... Read more

The John Updike Audio Collection

By: John Updike

Narrated by: John Updike

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories reflect so accurately, life was still unsettling, and Updike chronicles telling moments both joyful... Read more

Ransom

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes... Read more

Ransom - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A violent crime brings together four lives in Danielle Steel’s sixtieth bestselling novel, the story of a mother’s courage, a family’s terror, and a triumph of human strength and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds.

Outside the gates of a California prison, Peter Morgan is released after four long years and vows to redeem himself in the eyes... Read more

A Death in Vienna - Abridged

By: Daniel Silva

Narrated by: Tony Goldwyn

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during ... Read more

Bone Key

By: Les Standiford

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1931, a storm passes through the Florida straits, soon followed by a devastating explosion aboard a freighter, The Magdalena. Decades later, John Deal, the brooding real-estate developer and hero of eight previous Standiford mysteries, is traveling to Key West to talk over a prospective project with an old friend of his father's, the wealthy... Read more

The Last Crossing - Abridged

By: Guy Vanderhaeghe

Narrated by: Ensemble Cast

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

This epic tale sweeps across continents and time, hovers over a key area in American History, and deftly realizes the humanity of a whole cast of characters. Read more

Doomsday Rider - Abridged

By: Ralph Compton & Joseph A. West

Narrated by: Terry Evans

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Buck Fletcher, framed for a murder he did not commit, is presented with an intriguing offer that may stave his sentence and give him another shot at the freedom he rightly deserves. With a hardened bounty hunter on his tracks, Fletcher must rescue a senator’s disgraced daughter and make it out of Arizona alive, before the senator's minions--or... Read more

The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Maltese Falcon is the definitive masterpiece of the hard-boiled detective genre. It introduces legendary PI Sam Spade, a loner who follows his own code and the rules of the street as he zeros in on his partner’s killer and the famous jewel-encrusted bird. Humphrey Bogart immortalized the tough-guy detective in the classic 1941 film. Read more

Galloway: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A desperate stand. . .

Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he had escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he would try to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him.

But the brothers were about to find worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the... Read more

The Birth of Venus - Abridged

By: Sarah Dunant

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.

But their... Read more

Dead Ringer - Abridged

By: Lisa Scottoline

Narrated by: Kate Burton

Length: 5 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Then her wallet goes missing. And Bennie's life goes crazy.Someone is posing as the outspoken, blue-eyed, blond attorney and is wreaking havoc around town, apparently determined to destroy everything Bennie loves. Only one person can pull off this double deception -- Bennie's identical twin sister, Alice Connelly. But as far as Bennie knows,... Read more

The Family - Abridged

By: Mario Puzo

Narrated by: Philip Bosco

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Dazzling, passionate, a masterwork that ranks with Puzo’s best.”
—Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguys“One of his most satisfying works….A thoroughly entertaining posthumous present from one of the masters of popular fiction.”
—BooklistMario Puzo’s final masterwork. A sweeping epic saga of corruption, greed, treachery, and sin, The Family is... Read more

To Have and to Hold

By: Jane Green

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

When Alice's wealthy—and much coveted—teenage crush, Joe, asks her to marry him, she is prepared to trade in her dream of a cottage filled with children, animals and home-cooked meals for what he has in mind for her: stilettos, blond highlights, and a diet. She tells herself that she's happy to sacrifice for love, especially when every woman in... Read more