Fiction audiobooks

The Last Temptation - Abridged

By: Val McDermid

Narrated by: Guerin Barry

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Mapping the minds of murderers is what Dr. Tony Hill does better than anyone. So when a twisted killer starts targeting psychologists across Northern Europe, Hill is the obvious choice to track the executioner's mental and physical journey.Except that Tony, still bearing the scars of past cases, doesn't want to do this anymore.But the killer is... Read more

Robert Ludlum's The Paris Option - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum & Gayle Lynds

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

For 30 years, Robert Ludlum's novels have set the standard for the finest in international intrigue and suspense. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in almost every country in the world, Ludlum's books have been read by hundreds of millions of readers, and are acknowledged as classics in the field. Now, after the bestselling The Hades Factor... Read more

Hard Eight - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The #1 bestselling phenomenon continues in the eighth Stephanie Plum novel. The stakes get higher, the crimes get nastier, the chases get faster, and the men get hotter.

This time Stephanie, Morelli, Ranger. Lula, Valerie, and Grandma Mazur are strapped in for the ride of their lives. Stephanie is hired to find a missing child. But things aren't... Read more

Hot Six - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Debi Mazar

Length: 3 hours

Abridged: Yes

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli join forces to find the madman killer who shot and barbecued the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos.

Carlos Manoso, street name Ranger, is caught on video just minutes before the crime occurs. He's at the scene, he's with the victim, and he's the... Read more

Robert Ludlum's The Cassandra Compact - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum & Philip Shelby

Narrated by: Frank Muller

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Covert-One returns in the thrilling new series from the bestselling master of international suspense

For over thirty years, Robert Ludlum has been acknowledged as the master of international suspense and intrigue. With an unbroken string of bestsellers in nearly every country around the world, his audios have been heard by tens of millions of... Read more

Virgin Heat - Abridged

By: Lawrence Shames

Narrated by: Jonathan Cook

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

For ten years Angelina Amaro has kept a secret. She is in love with Sal Martucci, the man who betrayed her father, Mafia godfather Paul Amaro, and sent him away to prison. Ever since ratting out the Godfather, Sal has been on the run. Abandoning the humdrum life of the Witness Protection Program, now he is in Key West, tending bar and running... Read more

Robert Ludlum's The Hades Factor - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum & Gayle Lynds

Narrated by: Joseph Campanella

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Robert Ludlum has been acclaimed as the master of .suspense and international intrigue for over twenty-five years. His many books have thrilled millions of readers, reaching the top of bestsellers lists the world over and setting a standard that has never been surpassed. Now, from the imagination of one of America's greatest storytellers comes... Read more

High Five - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Debi Mazar

Length: 2 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Out of bail skippers and rent money, Stephanie throws caution to the wind and follows in the entrepreneurial footsteps of Super Bounty Hunter, Ranger, engaging in morally correct and marginally legal enterprises. So, a scumball blows himself to smithereens on her first day of policing a crack house and the sheik she was chauffeuring stole the... Read more

The Fountainhead - Abridged

By: Ayn Rand

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Fountainhead studies the conflict between artistic genius and social convention, a theme Ayn Rand later developed into the idealistic philosophy knows as Objectivism. Rand's hero is Howard Roark, a brilliant young architect who won't compromise his integrity, especially in the unconventional buildings he designs. Roark is engaged in... Read more

Lando: The Sacketts

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Josh Hamilton

Length: 4 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In Lando, Louis L’Amour has created an unforgettable portrait of a unique American hero.

For six long years Orlando Sackett survived the horrors of a brutal Mexican prison. He survived by using his skills as a boxer and by making three vows. The first was to exact revenge on the hired killers who framed him. The second was to return to his... Read more

Death of a Village

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The aromas of wild thyme and Highland heather waft through Lochdubh, home to M. C. Beaton’s lanky policeman, Hamish Macbeth. Yet what the likeable village constable senses in his latest case is the acrid scent of fear as an entire town is entrapped in something dark and deadly.Yet, as he deftly investigates the summer’s high crimes and... Read more

April Fool Dead

By: Carolyn Hart

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When seasonal mischief turns deadly, bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband, Max, must again close the book on a killer, in this delightful new whodunit from the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award–winning author.

Reading about deadly doings remains as popular a pastime as ever for citizens of stormy Broward’s Rock. Now, with spring newly... Read more

The King of Torts

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Michael Beck

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it... Read more

Haunted Ground

By: Erin M. Hart

Narrated by: Jennifer McMahon

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When farmers cutting turf in an Irish peat bog make a grisly discovery—the perfectly intact body of a young woman with long red hair—archaeologist Cormac O’Callaghan and pathologist Nora Gavin are thrown together by their shared scientific interest in human remains. Because of the preservative effect of the bog, it is difficult to tell whether... Read more

The Devil Wears Prada

By: Lauren Weisberger

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses.

Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job “a million girls would die for.” Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an... Read more

Gods and Generals - Abridged

By: Jeff Shaara

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic The Killer Angels
 
In this brilliantly written epic novel, Jeff Shaara traces the lives, passions, and careers of the great military leaders from the first gathering clouds of the Civil War. Here is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a hopelessly by-the-book military... Read more

Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard

By: Stéphane Mallarmé

Narrated by: Denis Lavant

Length: 1 hour 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Mallarmé explore les différentes possibilités du langage, syntaxiques, phonétiques, jusqu'à élaborer cette grande partition poétique d'une typographie libérée qu'est Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard. Read more

Morgen und Abend (Ungekürzte Lesung)

By: Jon Fosse

Narrated by: Joachim Nimtz

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Morgen und Abend erzählt Jon Fosse von einem großen Thema, dem Tod. Die Geschichte, in deren Mittelpunkt ein einfacher norwegischer Fischer steht, dessen Leben hart und erfüllt war, öffnet den Blick auf das, wovon heute kaum noch jemand spricht. Eine kunstvoll rhythmisierte, ganz schlichte Erzählung des Nobelpreisträgers, die bezaubert und... Read more

Late Bloomer - Abridged

By: Fern Michaels

Narrated by: Michele Pawk

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Buried secrets and past betrayals, old friendships and new beginnings are at the heart of this rich bestseller from the “real and endearing” (Los Angeles Times) Fern Michaels.

Twenty years after a tragic childhood accident, Cady Jordan has returned to her Pennsylvania hometown to care for her beloved grandmother, Lola. A retired movie star, Lola... Read more

The Dante Club - Abridged

By: Matthew Pearl

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Words Can Bleed.
In 1865 Boston, the members of the Dante Club -- poets and Harvard professors Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell, along with publisher J.T. Fields -- are finishing America's first translation of The Divine Comedy and preparing to unveil Dante's remarkable visions to the New World.... Read more

Sense and Sensibility - Abridged

By: Jane Austen

Narrated by: Julie Christie

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Listen to audio presented by Literary Affairs: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.View our feature on Jane Austen.

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.... Read more

The Secret Life of Bees

By: Sue Monk Kidd

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia

Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

An intoxicating debut novel of "one motherless daughter's discovery of...the strange and wonderful places we find love" —The Washington PostSue Monk Kidd's ravishing debut novel has stolen the hearts of reviewers and readers alike with its strong, assured voice. Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily... Read more

La tête de la Gorgone

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Narrated by: Lou Saintagne

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Les Gorgones, aux têtes auréolées de serpents et aux ailes écaillées ont le pouvoir maléfique de changer quiconque les regarde en statue de pierre. Persée, qui doit ramener la tête de Méduse, seule Gorgone mortelle, doit faire preuve de ruse et de courage pour éviter d'être pétrifié. Mais les dieux Hermès et Athena l'accompagnent dans cette... Read more

Jennifer Government - Abridged

By: Max Barry

Narrated by: Patrick Frederic

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jennifer Government is Here to Help!

In Max Barry’s twisted, hilarious vision of the near future, the world is run by giant American corporations (except for a few deluded holdouts like the French); taxes are illegal; employees take the last names of the companies they work for; The Police and The NRA are publicly-traded security firms; the U.S.... Read more