Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Lost Empress

By: Steve Robinson

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author Steve Robinson comes a bold new Jefferson Tayte mystery.On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route between Canada and England. The disaster saw a loss of life comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and yet her tragedy has been forgotten.When genealogist Jefferson Tayte is shown a locket... Read more

A Grave Matter

By: Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Returning to her childhood home, Lady Kiera Darby hopes her beloved brother Trevor and the merriment of the Hogmanay Ball will distract her. But when a caretaker is murdered and a grave is disturbed at nearby Dryburgh Abbey, Kiera is once more thrust into the cold grasp of death.

While Kiera knows that aiding in another inquiry will only... Read more

Not Quite a Wife

By: Mary Jo Putney

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jo Putney counts two RITA Awards and two Romantic Times Career Achievement Awards among her honors. When sexy spymaster Lord James Kirkland rekindles the heat with his estranged wife, Laurel, the two must deal with the consequences of their tryst while trying to reconcile their past with an unknown future. Read more

Enchantress

By: Maggie Anton

Narrated by: Mozhan Marno

Length: 15 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Fantastic tales of demons and the Evil Eye, magical incantations, and powerful attractions abound in Enchantress, a novel that weaves together Talmudic lore, ancient Jewish magic, and a timeless love story set in fourth-century Babylonia. One of the most powerful practitioner of these mysterious arts is Rav Hisda's daughter, whose innate... Read more

A Ticket To Oblivion - The Railway Detective, Book 11 (Unabridged)

By: Edward Marston

Narrated by: Nick McArdle

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Imogen Burnhope and her maid Rhoda board a non-stop train to Oxford to visit her Aunt Cassandra, who waits on the platform at Oxford station where the train terminates, to greet them. Only they never arrive. All the passengers alight but the two women are nowhere to be seen. The train is searched and the coachman swears he saw them board... Read more

First Impressions

By: Charlie Lovett

Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling literary mystery costarring Jane Austen from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale

Charlie Lovett first delighted readers with his New York Times bestselling debut, The Bookman’s Tale. Now, Lovett weaves another brilliantly imagined mystery, this time featuring one of English literature’s most popular and beloved... Read more

Gretel and the Dark

By: Eliza Granville

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating and atmospheric historical novel about a young girl in Nazi Germany, a psychoanalyst in fin-de-siècle Vienna, and the powerful mystery that links them togetherGretel and the Dark explores good and evil, hope and despair, showing how the primal thrills and horrors of the stories we learn as children can illuminate the darkest... Read more

Motoring Tales

By: E. F. Benson, Rudyard Kipling & A. J. Alan

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

As the invention of the automobile enabled quicker travel and enhanced the lives of the early motorists, it also gave new impetus to a generation of story writers.

Automobiles were unusual, unfamiliar beasts. They combined speed and danger with an uncanny ability to break down at unexpected moments, catapulting the unhappy traveller into new... Read more

The May Bride

By: Suzannah Dunn

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Seymour finds herself in the midst of scandal and intrigue at Wolf Hall, in Suzannah Dunn's masterful new novel of the Tudor era.Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol is the perfect match for Edward, as well as being a breath of fresh air for... Read more

The Marquis Takes a Bride

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 4 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Jennie Bemyss is in a position that any intelligent young lady would envy. The wealthy, worldly Marquis of Charrington has proposed a marriage of convenience that will leave him free to pursue his pleasures and leave Jennie free of his undoubtedly depraved desires.At the same time, handsome, charming Guy Chalmers, whom Jennie has loved... Read more

Ginny

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Poor Ginny Bloggs! She had inherited a fortune, a magnificent country estate, and her benefactor's disgruntled relatives, a quartet of querulous schemers horrified to find themselves at the mercy of a low, common girl, a total stranger—the coal merchant's daughter!The handsome Lord Gerald de Fremney had pledged to keep the more unruly relatives... Read more

Lady Margery’s Intrigue

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Vanessa Benjamin

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At age twenty-three, the petite Lady Margery has already graced the rows of wallflowers for many a season. With the one exception of Charles, the Marquess of Edgecombe and the only man who ever dances with her, Lady Margery will have nothing to do with men; what's more, she does not even particularly like Charles.Bored beyond words, she firmly... Read more

Saint Brigid’s Bones

By: Philip Freeman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In an evocative Celtic novel set in a time when druids roamed the land, lively young Sister Deirdre embarks on a mission to find the stolen bones of her convent's patron saint.In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery alive. When the bones of Brigid go missing from... Read more

Those Endearing Young Charms

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have my pride. I have sworn to marry the girl, and marry her I will."After ten long years, the Earl of Devenham has returned to wed Mary Anstey, only to find that their feelings for each other have cooled off considerably. Nevertheless, they both put on bright faces for the benefit of family and friends.But Mary's younger sister Emily sees... Read more

Riders on the Storm

By: Ed Gorman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1967, a brutal murder in the midst of an anti–Vietnam War group sparks an investigation by Sam McCain, in Ed Gorman's most politically charged mystery yet.When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sam's military career ended in boot camp when he was accidentally shot in the head and forced to spend three... Read more

A Brief History of Seven Killings

By: Marlon James

Narrated by: Robertson Dean, Cherise Boothe, Dwight Bacquie,...

Length: 25 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager, and injured several others. Marley would go on to perform at the free concert on December 5,... Read more

Playing for the Commandant

By: Suzy Zail

Narrated by: Emily Foster

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A young Jewish pianist at Auschwitz, desperate to save her family, is chosen to play at the camp commandant's house. How could she know she would fall in love with the wrong boy?"Look after each other…and get home safe. And when you do, tell everyone what you saw and what they did to us."These are Hanna's father's parting words to her and her... Read more

The Counterfeit Heiress

By: Tasha Alexander

Narrated by: Bianca Amato

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In Tasha Alexander's novel The Counterfeit Heiress, after an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. ... Read more

Darling Beast

By: Elizabeth Hoyt

Narrated by: Ashford McNab

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A MAN CONDEMNED . . .

Falsely accused of murder and mute from a near-fatal beating, Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne has escaped from Bedlam. With the Crown's soldiers at his heels, he finds refuge in the ruins of a pleasure garden, toiling as a simple gardener. But when a vivacious young woman moves in, he's quickly driven to distraction . .... Read more

A Lady at Willowgrove Hall

By: Sarah E. Ladd

Narrated by: Carmel O'Donovan

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Her secret cloaks her in isolation. His secret traps him in a life that is not his own. They will have to learn to trust one another in order to find freedom in this Regency romance.England, 1819—Cecily Faire carries the shame of her past wherever she treads, knowing one slip of the tongue could expose her disgrace. But soon after becoming a... Read more

The Free

By: Brian Ruckley

Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

They are the most feared mecenary company the kingdom has ever known.
Led by Yulan, their charismatic captain, the Free have spent years selling their martial and magical skills to the highest bidder -- winning countless victories that have shaken the foundations of the world. Now they finally plan to lay down their swords.

Yet when Yulan is... Read more

Vango: Between Sky and Earth

By: Timothée de Fombelle

Narrated by: David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In a world between wars, a young man on the cusp of taking priestly vows is suddenly made a fugitive. Fleeing the accusations of police who blame him for a murder, as well as more sinister forces with darker intentions, Vango attempts to trace the secrets of his shrouded past and prove his innocence before all is lost. As he crisscrosses the... Read more

The Goddess of Small Victories

By: Yannick Grannec

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller & Dawn Harvey

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Princeton University, 1980. A young and unambitious librarian named Anna Roth is assigned the task of retrieving the records of Kurt Gödel—the most fascinating and hermetic mathematician of the twentieth century. Her mission consists of befriending and ultimately taming the great man's widow, Adele, a notoriously bitter woman set on taking... Read more

Ralph Compton Brimstone Trail

By: Ralph Compton & Marcus Galloway

Narrated by: Kevin Orton

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

GOD HELP HIM Before hearing the call of the Lord, Paul had seen more than his share of sin-- mostly his own. But since he came to minister to the small town of Pueblito Verde, most of what he sees are tamer transgressions. Knowing his own past, Paul believes the occasional mistake doesn' t make someone truly evil. But some men are more evil than... Read more