Fiction audiobooks

Malice - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In her 37th bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruelest kind of malice.

At seventeen, the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. It is not the first time, and a brutal crime ensues.

And to everyone's horror, Grace will not tell the... Read more

Nightshade - Abridged

By: John Saul

Narrated by: Lee Meriwether

Length: 5 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

A master of horror and psychological suspense, John Saul taps into our darkest, most deeply guarded fears. Now the New York Times bestselling author of The Blackstone Chronicles and The Right Hand of Evil has created his most gripping novel yet, the terrifying story of an innocent teenager who must confront the sins of the past and a corrupting... Read more

Just as I Am - Abridged

By: E. Lynn Harris

Narrated by: Michael Boatman & Brenda Braxton

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

E. Lynn Harris's blend of rich, romantic storytelling and controversial contemporary issues like race and bisexuality have found an enthusiastic and diverse audience across America. Readers celebrate the arrival in paperback of his second novel, Just As I Am, which picks up where Invisible Life left off, introducing Harris's appealing and... Read more

Flower Net - Abridged

By: Lisa See

Narrated by: Elaina Erika Davis

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Flower Net, Lisa See gives us a China not often seen: An extraordinary nation that is at once admirable and frightening.

Here the veil is ripped away from modern China--its venerable culture, its teeming economy, its institutionalized cruelty--and the inextricable link between China's fortunes and America's  is underscored.

In the depths of a... Read more

The Horse Whisperer - Abridged

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Peter Coyote

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A forty-ton truck hurtles out of control on a snowy country road, a teenage girl on horseback in its path.  In a few terrible seconds the life of a family is shattered.  And a mother's quest begins -- to save her maimed daughter and a horse driven mad by pain.  It is an odyssey that will bring her to...

The Horse Whisperer

He is the stuff of... Read more

The Prodigal Spy - Abridged

By: Joseph Kanon

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 6 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What if the Communist witch-hunts of the 1950s had actually uncovered a spy? The bestselling author of Los Alamos returns with a thrilling new novel of suspense, romance, and intrigue.  

Washington, 1950.  The trouble with history, Nick Kotlar's father tells him, is that you have to live through it before you know how it'll come out.  And for... Read more

Nothing but the Truth - Abridged

By: John Lescroart

Narrated by: Dylan Baker

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Guilt and The 13th Juror comes an electrifying new thriller--a novel in which San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy faces the case of his career. This time his family is involved--and for Hardy, a devoted husband and father, the stakes have never been higher.

Dismas knows his wife,... Read more

Payment in Blood - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The Lynley books constitute the smartest, most gratifyingly complex and impassioned mysteries now being published.”—Entertainment Weekly

The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in... Read more

Breakfast in Bed - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Robin Mattson

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Hurt one too many times in the past, Sloan Fairchild isn't interested in love. Instead, she pours all her energy into running her elegant bed-and-breakfast inn. But when her best friend asks her to house her fiance for a month, Sloan opens the doors of Fairchild House to Carter Madison...and meets a man who turns her world—and her concept of... Read more

The Scorpio Illusion - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Robert Ludlum

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Amaya Bajaratt is beautiful, elusive, deadly—and she has set in motion a chilling conspiracy that a desperate government cannot stop. An accomplished assassin and mistress of disguise and deception, she has set in motion the boldest act of terrorism yet conceived.

Tyrell Hawthorne was a naval intelligence officer—one of the best—until the ... Read more

Cold Sassy Tree - Abridged

By: Olive Ann Burns

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

If the preacher's wife's petticoat showed, the ladies would make the talk last a week. But on July 5, 1906, things took a scandalous turn. That was the day E. Rucker Blakeslee, proprietor of the general store and barely three weeks a widower, eloped with Miss Love Simpson—a woman half his age and, worse yet, a Yankee! On that day,... Read more

I Thee Wed - Abridged

By: Amanda Quick

Narrated by: Janet McTeer

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

It isn't easy making a living as a lady's companion when one possesses a sharp tongue and an original mind. That's why Emma Greyson has gone through three such positions in six months. Her current post at a tiresome country house party has her bored to tears—until an extraordinary encounter with the legendary Edison Stokes leads to a secret... Read more

A Sudden Change of Heart - Abridged

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrated by: Margaret Whitton

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From master storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford comes a magnificent new novel, a powerful, moving story of two women, two families, and an extraordinary friendship challenged by tragedy and a devastating secret from the past....

Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best friend....

Nothing hurts like the truth.  A truth that has... Read more

Demolition Angel - Abridged

By: Robert Crais

Narrated by: Patricia Kalember

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“Crais is at the top of his game, and Demolition Angel delivers the goods. With a bang. . . . It’s Silence of the Lambs meets Speed. . . . Crais knows how to press all the right buttons in keeping the story line taut and the action, well, explosive.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as... Read more

Fortune's Hand - Abridged

By: Belva Plain

Narrated by: Ken Howard

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this remarkable new novel, Belva Plain creates a brilliant portrayal of a man's descent from idealistic beginnings into a world of dishonesty and greed--and of the two women who love him. Robb MacDaniel, a schoolteacher with noble intentions, comes into a little money, enabling him to go to law school.  Upon graduation, he goes to work for a... Read more

Trans-Sister Radio - Abridged

By: Chris Bohjalian

Narrated by: Elizabeth Kim

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Four people in a small Vermont village are about to have their lives inexorably intertwined by the uncertainties of love . . . and the apparent absolutes of gender.        

Schoolteacher Allison Banks, the long-divorced mother of a teenager on the cusp of college, has at last fallen in love. The object of her desire? Dana Stevens, a professor at... Read more

Miracle Cure - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Scott Bryce

Length: 5 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

With each successive bestseller, including Extreme Measures and Critical Judgment, ER physician turned author Michael Palmer sets a new standard for medical suspense...writing "wrenchingly scary," (Publishers Weekly) "chillingly sinister"(Denver Post) novels packed with all the cutting-edge authenticity only a doctor could prescribe.  Now, in... Read more

Fat Tuesday - Abridged

By: Sandra Brown

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown's latest romantic thriller is set against the lively and decadent backdrop of New Orleans--where, to avenge the acquittal of his partner's murderer, a policeman kidnaps the defense lawyer's wife. Read more

The Wedding - Abridged

By: Danielle Steel

Narrated by: J. R. Horne

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Simon Steinberg, a major movie producer, and Blaire Scott, an award-winning television writer, are among the most respected couples in Hollywood. They have defied the clichés, keeping their marriage together for decades. Their children—Samantha, Scott, and Allegra—are successful and happy, but must face challenges we fear for our own... Read more

Sea Change - Abridged

By: James Powlik

Narrated by: Jameson Parker

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: Yes

BENEATH THE CALM SURFACE A DEADLY TERROR AWAITS.

In the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, two fishermen are the first to feel the heat. Then a young girl, playing innocently by the seashore--before dying an agonizing death. Now the media have a story. Reporters, scientists, and government officials are descending on the coastline, searching... Read more

Little Green Men - Abridged

By: Christopher Buckley

Narrated by: Mark Linn-Baker

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about aliens and pundits . . . and how much they have in common.
        
The reluctant hero of this... Read more

Well Schooled in Murder - Abridged

By: Elizabeth George

Narrated by: Derek Jacobi

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

When 13-year-old Matthew Whateley goes missing from a prestigious West Sussex public school, Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help.

Lynley, his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon St. James begin a search for a child -- then for a child killer!

Lynley and Havers sense evil behind the school's... Read more

The Loop - Abridged

By: Nicholas Evans

Narrated by: Stephen Lang

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A pack of wolves makes a sudden savage return to the Rocky Mountain ranching town of Hope, Montana, where a century earlier they were slaughtered by the thousands. Now shielded by law as an endangered species, they reawaken an ancient hatred that will tear a family, and ultimately the town, apart.

At the center of the storm is Helen Ross, a... Read more

Critical Judgment - Abridged

By: Michael Palmer

Narrated by: Megan Gallagher

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients.  It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages.  As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby's superiors... Read more