Fiction audiobooks

A Grave Denied

By: Dana Stabenow

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Book 13: A Kate Shugak Novel

Everyone knew Len Dreyer, a handyman for hire in the Park near Niniltna, Alaska, but no one knew anything else about him. Even Kate Shugak hired him to thin the trees on her 160-acre homestead and was planning to ask him to help build a small second cabin on her property for Johnny Morgan, a teenaged boy in her care.... Read more

After the Plague

By: T.C. Boyle

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of emotional keys. The sixteen stories gathered here... Read more

Jane and the Ghosts of Netley

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In her seventh captivating adventure, Jane Austen finds her crime-solving mettle put to the test in a confounding case of intrigue, murder, and high treason. Among the haunted ruins of an ancient abbey, Jane is drawn into a shadow world of dangerous secrets and traitorous hearts where not only her life is at stake--but the fate of England.

Jane... Read more

The Night Watcher

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author John Lutz comes a lightning-paced thriller of a city gripped by a killer's savage reign of terror. 

Someone is killing wealthy Manhattanites. One by one, the victims are discovered in luxurious high-rise apartments. Bound, gagged—brutally murdered in the "safety" of their own homes, by someone whose modus operandi is as... Read more

Vendetta

By: Ed Gorman

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Madsen became a priest to atone for a life of violence and a wartime tragedy and thought he had put away his gun for good. But then a grief-stricken young woman who's like a daughter to him sets out on a quest of vengeance, and Madsen is forced to take up the gun again as he sets out to save her from herself. 

What Madsen doesn't know is... Read more

Silence Is Golden

By: Jeanne M. Dams

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

"The good old days" aren't all they're cracked up to be . . . at least in Jeanne M. Dams's turn-of-the-century novels. Her woman on the spot, Hilda Johansson, a maid in the Studebaker household in South Bend, sees what's going on among the rich, suffers what's going on among the less fortunate . . . and has no trouble telling it like it is. In... Read more

The Italian Quartet

By: Jane Candia Coleman

Narrated by: Gabrielle De Cuir

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Italian Quartet, Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place of myth, belonging as much to Homer and Prospero as to the present, Sara discovers that she is at the center of Olivia's obsessive desire to possess the secret of... Read more

Whitehorse

By: Katherine Sutcliffe

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Childhood sweethearts Leah Starr and Johnny Whitehorse had nothing in common. She was a senator's daughter. He was the grandson of an Apache medicine man and the local "bad boy." But their passion made the rest of the world seem unimportant until a cruel deception forced them apart. Years later, Leah has returned to her hometown, burdened with... Read more

Engaged to Die

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

At the Death on Demand Bookstore - "the best mystery bookstore east of Atlanta" - somebody always seems to turn up dead. In Hart's latest installment, charming owners Annie and Max Darling return to investigate a mysterious death at an art gallery opening on their South Carolina island. When heiress and gallery owner Virginia Neville hosts a... Read more

The Gathering

By: William X. Kienzle

Narrated by: Edward Holland

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Way back in the 1940s, they had all been young together. Inseparable pals Mike and Manny, both preparing for the priesthood . . . Mike’s beautiful twin sister, Rose, and her best friend Alice, sharing a dream of becoming nuns . . . shy altar boy Stanley and everybody’s good friend, Bob Koesler, also headed for the priesthood. Six Detroit... Read more

The Practical Heart

By: Allan Gurganus

Narrated by: Dan Cashman

Length: 15 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In his fictional Falls, North Carolina–a watchful zone of stifling mores–Allan Gurganus’s fond and comical characters risk everything to protect their improbable hopes from prejudice, poverty, betrayal. Seeking warmth and true connection, they shield themselves and loved ones while creating a rarely-glimpsed world of valor, minor grandeur,... Read more

Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In her sixth engrossing outing, Jane Austen employs her delicious wit and family ties to the Royal Navy in a case of murder on the high seas. Somewhere in the picturesque British port of Southampton, among a crew of colorful, eccentric, and fiercely individual souls, a killer has come ashore. And only Jane can fathom the depths of his ruthless... Read more

Darkling I Listen

By: Katherine Sutcliffe

Narrated by: Alyssa Bresnahan

Length: 16 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

At the end of three long years in the penitentiary, movie star Brandon Carlyle's bad boy career is on the skids. He seeks sanctuary with his beloved aunt and uncle, who live in the tiny, eccentric town of Ticky Creek, Texas. But there's nothing about Ticky Creek that's truly peaceful. The local corrupt sheriff who put him away the first time is... Read more

Naughty Or Nice

By: Eric Jerome Dickey

Narrated by: Various

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author spices things up with something hot.

In Naughty or Nice, Eric Jerome Dickey explores the lives of three sisters, each with their own man problems. But this holiday season, Frankie, Livvy, and Tommie McBroom are not only getting together, but finally getting it together—and discovering what family,... Read more

Waking Samuel

By: Daniel Coyle

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

After the loss of her only son, Sara Black finds herself spending more and more time at the Seattle hospital where she is a nurse, tending to "the tall man," the victim of a gunshot wound whose identity has remained a provocative riddle-until he starts talking. As the man she knows as Samuel draws Sara into a strange and chilling story about his... Read more

Retribution

By: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just started driving after his wife died and wound up in front of a Dairy Queen in Sarasota, Florida.

He now... Read more

The Night Spider

By: John Lutz

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

John Lutz is fascinated by the nighttime dangers that await women alone. In THE NIGHT SPIDER, he improvises a new variation on this theme with a thriller about a serial killer who preys upon women living in high-rises. With few visible means of entry, the mysterious stalker kills women while they sleep in their beds behind securely locked doors.... Read more

Resolved - Abridged

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: Lee Sellars

Length: 4 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tanenbaum's done it again: Resolved is a complex, suspenseful tale of justice in the Big Apple, as a vengeful and sadistic killer sets his sights on the man who put him away -- New York Chief Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp.
The fifteenth installment in Robert K. Tanenbaum's blistering New York Times bestselling series sees Karp up... Read more

High Druid of Shannara: Jarka Ruus - Abridged

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

More than a quarter of a century after The Sword of Shannara carved out its place in the pantheon of great epic fantasy, the magic of Terry Brooks’s New York Times bestselling saga burns as brightly as ever. Three complete series have chronicled the ever-unfolding history of Shannara. But more stories are still to be told—and new adventures have... Read more

Mission Flats - Abridged

By: William Landay

Narrated by: Ron Livingston

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob

Former D.A. William Landay explodes onto the suspense scene with an electrifying novel about the true price of crime and the hidden corners of the criminal justice system. Only an insider could so vividly capture Boston’s gritty underworld of cops and criminals. And only a natural... Read more

The Devil's Banker - Abridged

By: Christopher Reich

Narrated by: Campbell Scott

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hailed as “the John Grisham of Wall Street” by the New York Times, Christopher Reich returns to the world he knows so well--the dangerous, dazzling world of high finance and international intrigue. In this ingeniously crafted thriller, the bestselling author of Numbered Account and The First Billion introduces his most complex and engaging hero... Read more

The Sword of Shannara - Abridged

By: Terry Brooks

Narrated by: Charles Keating

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Sword of Shannara is the first volume of the classic series that has become one of the most popular fantasy tales of all time.

Long ago, the wars of the ancient Evil ruined the world. In peaceful Shady Vale, half-elfin Shea Ohmsford knows little of such troubles. But the supposedly dead Warlock Lord is plotting to destroy everything in his... Read more

Soon

By: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrated by: Steve Sever

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

2004 Christy Fiction award winner!

Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is good at it. He is determined to expose underground religion—flush it out, expose it, and kill it—until his... Read more

The Sinner - Abridged

By: Tess Gerritsen

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon and The Apprentice comes a chilling new novel of suspense featuring Boston medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles, on the deadly trail of an anonymous madman who’s committed an unholy crime.

Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of... Read more