Short Stories audiobooks

Fallen in Love

By: Lauren Kate

Narrated by: Justine Eyre

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story.

A USA Today bestseller
More than 3 million series copies in print!

And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories intersect over the course of a romantic Valentine’s Day in medieval England. Miles and Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a... Read more

Recalculating

By: Jennifer Weiner

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

After Maureen's husband dies, she imagines that the years of abuse are over, but while looking for the Halloween decorations in the attic, Maureen finds a gift-wrapped GPS with her name on the box: an early birthday present from her late husband. When the voice from the machine starts giving her sinister directions, she learns that sometimes the... Read more

The Short Stories Of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A superb collection of stories that will enthral both young and old. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the world's great storytellers, exhibiting astounding versatility in his narration, as he ranges between science fiction (in "When the World Screamed"), mystery and adventure (in "The Lost Special"), horror (in "The Leather Funnel"), action and... Read more

Grievous Sin

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 12 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The birth of their baby girl has filled Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Detective Peter Decker, with joy mingled with sorrow, since complications have ensured that they can have no more children. But the situation is grim at the hospital, which has been devastated by severe budget cutbacks and staff shortages. And when a respected... Read more

False Prophet

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

LAPD Detective Peter Decker doesn’t know quite what to make of Lilah Brecht. The beautiful, eccentric spa owner and daughter of a faded Hollywood legend, Lilah was beaten, robbed, and raped in her own home—and claims to have psychic powers that enable her to see even more devastating events looming on the horizon. With his heart and mind on his... Read more

Prayers for The Dead

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 13 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The brutal murder of Dr. Azor Sparks in an alley behind a restaurant is greeted with public outrage and a demand for swift, sure justice. But the investigation into the well-known surgeon’s death is raising too many questions and providing too few answers for homicide detective Lieutenant Peter Decker.Why, for example, would the family of a man... Read more

Justice

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The cruel and bizarre slaying of a beautiful teen leads Detective Decker into the dark heart of an exoticsubculture: the seamy, sometimes violent world of Southern California's rootless, affluent youth. But even the confession of a disturbed kid with cold ""killer eyes"" cannot soothe Decker's inner torment. For he knows in his gut this crime... Read more

Sanctuary

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Las Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled with dead ends. Then a second dealer is found murdered in Manhatten, catapulting Decker and his... Read more

The Who's Afraid Stories

By: Pamela Douglas

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

All children love to be read a story and the author believes that reading to children at an early age encourages a love of books and a desire to be able to read themselves.

These are a collection of READ TO stories for younger children. They are all about different animals who are each afraid of the one thing most inconvenient to their lives.... Read more

The Short Stories Of Robert Louis Stevenson

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Six outstanding tales of suspense and adventure by the master storyteller. "Markheim" "The Bottle Imp" "The Body Snatcher" "The Suicide Club – Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts" "The Suicide Club – The Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk" "The Suicide Club – The Adventure of the Hansom Cabs" Read more

Gun Games

By: Faye Kellerman

Narrated by: Mitchell Greenberg

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

“[Kellerman] does for the American cop what P. D. James has done for the British mystery, lifting it beyond its genre.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch“No one working in the crime genre is better.”
—Baltimore SunIn Gun Games, the sensational Faye Kellerman once again showcases Peter Decker of the LAPD and Rina Lazarus, arguably the most popular husband... Read more

6 Nouvelles de Tchekov

By: Tchekhov

Narrated by: Juliette Lancrenon

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Angoisse, Chez la maréchale de noblesse, Le malheur, Les rêves, L'uniforme du capitaine et Vieillesse sont autant de nouvelles qui reconstituent l'atmosphère, les mœurs et les rêves d'une époque, celle de Tchekhov, celle de la Russie éternelle des grands auteurs et créateurs russes. A écouter séparément, elles sont des fables, parfois hilarantes... Read more

Mr. Mulliner Speaking

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In the bar-parlor of the Angler's Rest, a bucolic English pub, Mr. Mulliner tells his amazing tales, holding the assembled company of pints of stout and whiskeys and splash in the palm of his expressive hand. Here you can discover what happened to the man who gave up smoking, share a frisson when the butler delivers something squishy on a silver... Read more

The Uninnocent

By: Bradford Morrow

Narrated by: Charlie Thurston, Joe Barrett & Rachael Warren

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Bradford Morrow's stories have garnered him awards such as the O. Henry and Pushcart prizes and have given him a devoted following. Now gathered here for the first time is a collection of his finest gothic tales. A young man whose childhood hobby of collecting sea shells and birds' nests takes a sinister turn when he becomes obsessed with... Read more

Death at the Excelsior

By: P.G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Inside a quiet boarding house on the waterfront, a man stares up to the ceiling with sightless eyes. The tight lipped landlady proclaims that it is murder. Can an upscale detective agency penetrate to the bottom of the mystery? Read more

Where Love Is, God Is

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Martin is an old cobbler with a good trade, but has had a hard life. His soul is now embittered against God. When he hears a mysterious voice calling him in the middle of the night, his soul seems to lighten and awake to answer the call. Read more

The Artist of Disappearance

By: Anita Desai

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Anita Desai ruminates on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and its realities in three perfectly etched novellas. Set in India in the not-too-distant past, the dramas illuminate the ways in which Indian culture can nourish or suffocate. All... Read more

Vacations from Hell

By: Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Claudia Gray, Maur...

Narrated by: Tara Sands

Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Written by some of today’s most exciting teen authors, Vacations from Hell offers five unique takes on a universal experience—unforgettable trips.This third Hell collection features stories of vacations that take a serious turn for the worse when paranormal elements interfere.Claudia Gray’s teen witch falls for the wrong guy on her family’s... Read more

Drummers Drumming (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Final story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season It’s Christmas Eve, but the criminals never stop working, so neither do the police. The raid is on … but things don’t go entirely to plan… Read more

Twelve Days of Winter Omnibus edition (short stories)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season – from the No. 1 bestseller Stuart MacBride On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Twelve days, twelve stories. Meet Fat Billy Partridge, possibly the... Read more

The Queer Feet

By: G.K. Chesterton

Narrated by: B.J. Harrison

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A man has died. But there's really no mystery in that. His heart failed, that's all. But when Father Brown goes into a room to write down the man's final confession, he is distracted by the strange way in which someone is walking outside his door. From the gait of the queer feet, he deduces all. Read more

Pipers Piping (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleventh story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season What could be more festive than a trip to see Santa at the local shopping centre? Depends on who’s gunning for Santa… Read more

Lords A Leaping (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Tenth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season Lord Peter Forsyth-Leven, MSP, is about to discover that having it all just means you’ve got more to lose… Read more

Ladies Dancing (short story)

By: Stuart MacBride

Narrated by: Ian Hanmore

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Ninth story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season Kayleigh’s a professional. But lap-dancing has rules. And when someone breaks the rules… Read more