Fiction audiobooks

Murder for Love, Murder for Men

By: Otto Penzler, William J. Caunitz, John Gardner,...

Narrated by: Susan Anspach

Length: 4 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Crimes of passion are as old as love itself. A man, a woman, a weapon: it's the perfect recipe for love gone wrong. And Murder for Love: Murder for Men is the perfect— and only— collection of love stories with a delectable devious twist: Murder. Eight works of short fiction from the very best male writers inside— ... Read more

The Dead Sea Cipher

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It was the start of a grand adventure in a land of antiquity: a rare opportunity to visit biblical places rich in tradition and shrouded in mystery. But in the middle of Beirut, a world away from everything she knows, Dinah Van der Lyn suddenly hears angry voices through the wall of her hotel. The voices are followed by a crash and cries for... Read more

Murder for Love, Murder for Women

By: Otto Penzler, Bobbie Ann Mason, Carol Higgins C...

Narrated by: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Length: 4 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field. These eight thrilling never-before-published stories include: • “ For Whom the Beep Tolls” by Carol Higgins Clark
• “ ... Read more

Hard Times - Abridged

By: Charles Dickens

Narrated by: Paul Scofield

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the squalor of a textile town, successful businessman and arch-pragmatist Thomas Gradgrind, proclaiming that he is a self-made man, teaches his children to suppress their imaginations and embrace hard facts. He arranges the marriage of his daughter Louisa to Josiah Bounderby, an unattractive, boastful manufacturer who is thirty years older... Read more

Sudden Prey - Abridged

By: John Sandford

Narrated by: Jay O. Sanders

Length: 3 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Revenge is the engine which powers this entry in John Sandford's Prey series starring superslick Minnesota cop Lucas Davenport. When a dangerous female bank robber is killed in a shootout, her even more dangerous husband escapes from prison and begins a campaign of retribution against the families of Davenport and his team. Read more

The James Joyce Collection

By: James Joyce

Narrated by: Gabriel Byrne

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In short stories, poems, and monumental novels, James Joyce set out to discover the meaning of his nationality, simultaneously celebrating and ridiculing the history of Ireland in the brilliant style that has made him the most towering figure in the literary landscape of the early 20th century. In this audio, Dublin-born Gabriel Byrne brings to... Read more

Treasure Island - Abridged

By: Robert Stevenson

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey,... Read more

Cold Fall - Abridged

By: John Gardner

Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove

Length: 2 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The night that Flight 229 was blown apart upon landing at Washington's Dulles Airport— killing almost 400 passengers aboard— James Bond embarked on a mission that would become an obsession. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? Was it a straightforward act of terrorism, an assassination aimed at... Read more

Timepiece - Abridged

By: Richard Paul Evans

Narrated by: Richard Thomas

Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Christms Box and A Christmas Memory comes a story tracing the lives of a family through reflective diary entries on love, loyalty, and forgiveness.

April 3, 1912. "Is this life, to grasp joy only to fear its escape? The price of happiness is the risk of losing it."

So reads one of the many wise... Read more

Heaven's Prisoners - Abridged

By: James Lee Burke

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

James Lee Burke’s second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou as he seeks a quieter life.

Vietnam vet Dave Robicheaux has turned in his detective’s badge, is winning his battle against booze, and has left New Orleans with his wife for the tranquil beauty of Louisiana’s bayous. But a plane crash on the Gulf... Read more

Stranger in a Strange Land

By: Robert A. Heinlein

Narrated by: Christopher Hurt

Length: 16 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with “psi” powers—telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, telekinesis, teleportation, pyrolysis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others—and complete innocence regarding the mores of man.After... Read more

In Heaven as on Earth

By: M Peck

Narrated by: David Dukes

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Daniel, a successful author-psychiatrist, awakens to discover he has survived his death. Two spiritual “greeters” introduce Daniel to the afterlife, guiding him in this new environment. He learns that each soul projects what it wishes to experience, and each must learn to let go of attachments through loving psychotherapy. Throughout his... Read more

Chance

By: Robert Parker

Narrated by: Burt Reynolds

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura wants to find his daughter's missing husband. At least that's how he puts it to Spenser and Hawk, even though it's clear that Julius isn't telling the whole truth—or maybe not any part of the truth. Something about the case appeals to Spenser's passion for justice, though, and he launches an odyssey that leads him... Read more

Star Trek - Abridged

By: William Shatner

Narrated by: William Shatner

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Just after the events of Star Trek Generations, on the planet Veridian III, ambassador Spock comes to the humble cairn, or stones, that marks the grave of James Kirk. But he is not granted time to ponder the passing of his best friend. The Borg and the Romulan Empire have a use for Kirk, and with some mysterious alien science they resurrect the... Read more

Spider-Man: The Lizard Sanction - Abridged

By: Diane Duane

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A multi-voice, fully dramatized recording -- enhanced with dazzling sound effects
Experience Spider-Man as never before!
The amazing Spider-Man launches into his most harrowing adventure as a trip to Florida turns into a deadly race to prevent disaster! The Lizard is wreaking havoc throughout the Everglades, as he seeks a cure for his dual... Read more

In the Country of Last Things - Abridged

By: Paul Auster

Narrated by: Vanessa Redgrave

Length: 2 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A dystopian novel about one woman' s efforts to preserve her humanity despite great loss.From a life of ease and comfort, Anna Blume embarks on a search for her missing brother. Soon she finds herself trapped in a city obsessed with last things— with the means and manner of death. In this culture of doom, the masses are... Read more

Rogue Warrior - Abridged

By: Richard Marcinko

Narrated by: Richard Marcinko

Length: 2 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret... Read more

Lord of the Dead the Secret History of Byron - Abridged

By: Tom Holland

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Famed nineteenth-century poet and rake Lord Byron travels to Greece and becomes the world’s most formidable vampire—entering a dark, intoxicating world of ancient arts and scorching excesses of evil—in this offbeat book by the author of Slave of My Thirst.

Traveling in the mountains of Greece, Byron falls under the spell of a mysterious fugitive... Read more

Sophie's World - Abridged

By: Jostein Gaaardner & Kitt Weagant

Narrated by: Jacob Needleman

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: Yes

One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls... Read more

The Account - Abridged

By: Roderick Mann

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Julia Lang is a winner— she' s beautiful, vivacious, and the publicity director of London's top hotel. Robert Brand is charismatic and handsome— with his vast fortune he can work magic. Julia and Robert make a golden couple, but when Robert tragically dies, Julia's world suddenly shatters. When his Swiss bank... Read more

Randall and The River of Tim - Abridged

By: C.S. Forrester

Narrated by: AudioscapePlayers

Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1917, the Great War is in full swing. Young Randall is a second lieutenant, and is lucky enough to escape some of the consequences of the conflict by contributing to the invention of a flare, which will be of benefit to the allies. He falls in love with a woman a few years his senior, and with the imminence of death ever in a young man's... Read more

Caesar's Women - Abridged

By: Colleen McCullough

Narrated by: Michael York

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In the blockbuster tradition of The First Man in Rome -- Colleen Mccullough's monumental Masters of Rome series continues.

The man behind the legend...the women behind the man.

Villain or hero? Debated for centuries, the volcanic soul of Julius Caesar comes dramatically to life in the new masterpiece of historical fiction from the #1 bestselling... Read more

Days of Drums - Abridged

By: Philip Selby

Narrated by: Diane Venora

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

The most gripping thriller since Marathon Man

For rookie Secret Service agent Holland Tylo, landing one of the top protection jobs in Washington is a clear sign that her career is right on track. Suddenly it all blows up in her face when Senator Westbourne is gruesomely murdered on her watch. Devastated by the senator's death, censured by her... Read more

Two for the Dough - Abridged

By: Janet Evanovich

Narrated by: Lori Petty

Length: 2 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

AN ALL-NEW UNABRIDGED RECORDING NARRATED BY LORELEI KING!

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dirty Thirty and “most popular mystery writer alive” (The New York Times), Janet Evanovich’s Two for the Dough is irresistibly fun and powerful suspense entertainment featuring beloved bounty hunter Stephanie Plum.

It's the return of Stephanie... Read more