Historical Fiction audiobooks

Gideon's Call

By: Peter Leavell

Narrated by: Barrie Buckner

Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Leavell’s award-winning debut novel is a touching and inspiring tale of surprising heroism amid the horrors of the Civil War. Tad, a slave boy of exceptional hidden gifts, comes of age just as the Civil War erupts in coastal South Carolina. An unlikely deliverer, the young man’s hopes remain buried under a crushing weight of abuse and... Read more

Summer's Horses

By: Ralph Cotton

Narrated by: Brian Hutchison

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

USA Today best-selling author Ralph Cotton's work has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In Summers' Horses, horse trader Will Summers is known for his ability to intimidate just about anyone. When the infamous Bendigo Brothers steal Summers' horses, they can't imagine the trouble they've just gotten themselves into. Tracking the men like a... Read more

Unmasking the Duke's Mistress

By: Margaret McPhee

Narrated by: Julia Franklin

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Writing with a velvety touch, Margaret McPhee stirs passions with tales that harken back to a more romantic age - while raising pulses in the here and now. McPhee is at her scandalous best in Unmasking the Duke's Mistress, which features Arabella, a fallen woman about to don the mask of Miss Noir at Mrs. Silver's House of Pleasures. Arabella's... Read more

The Mystery of the Blue Jar

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing... Read more

The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal... Read more

The King of Clubs

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has greatly distressed the Prince's fiancée, the famous dancer Valerie Saintclair. The only other witnesses seem to be a family of four who were playing bridge near an open window when she staggered in, crying ""Murder!"" Read more

The Red Signal

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to tell them of the last time he saw the red signal when... Read more

The Plymouth Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels. Read more

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by... Read more

Of Noble Birth

By: Brenda Novak

Narrated by: Alison Larkin

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England…though not as a captive aboard a pirate’s ship.Pirate captain Nathaniel Kent’s strategy for exacting revenge on his coldhearted father involved taking a valuable hostage…not a seamstress he mistakenly thinks is his half sister.Yet fate has designs... Read more

The Dead Shall Not Rest

By: Tessa Harris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The brilliant anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone returns in the second installment of Tessa Harris' vivid and compelling mystery series set in 1780s London.It is not just the living who are prey to London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game—dug up from fresh graves and sold to unscrupulous men of science. Dr. Thomas Silkstone... Read more

Vicar's Daughter to Viscount's Lady

By: Louise Allen

Narrated by: Jilly Bond

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of over 25 Regency romances, best-selling author Louise Allen presents the second installment of her Transformation of the Shelley Sisters series. Pregnant Arabella Shelley is shocked when the father of her unborn child dies. Fearing the child's illegitimacy, the man's brother, the inscrutable Viscount Hadleigh, demands that Bella... Read more

A Quilter's Holiday

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

Narrated by: Christina Moore

Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Elm Creek Quilters are home for the holidays in this heartwarming Christmas story from New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Chiaverini. For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. This year,... Read more

Beguiling the Beauty

By: Sherry Thomas

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A multiple RITA Award winner, Sherry Thomas delivers critically acclaimed romances to fans the world over. In Beguiling the Beauty, young widow Venetia Easterbrook harbors a deep hatred for the Duke of Lexington. Aboard an ocean liner, she seeks revenge by seducing him while disguised as another woman. But her plan backfires when she falls for... Read more

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A young banker is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a transatlantic journey to New York, and appeals to Hercule Poirot to clear his name. Poirot learns the identities of the three people who hold keys to the locked trunk, but it won't be as easy to identify the true thief… Read more

Jane in Search of a Job

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other StoriesJane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts have been... Read more

The Mystery of the Spanish Chest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 1 hour 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Major Hastings and Hercule Poirot are not interested in the mystery of the Spanish Chest, which has been reported in the papers so often that it seems to be an entirely closed case. But, when Hastings persuades Poirot to attend a fabulous party given by Lady Chatterton, they discover someone sequestered upstairs who is desperate for their help.... Read more

Mademoiselle Boleyn

By: Robin Maxwell

Narrated by: Suzan Crowley

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

When her father is assigned the task of spying on the French Court, the charming and sweetly innocent Anne Boleyn is delighted by the thought of a new adventure. And she is not to be disappointed, for her beautiful sister, Mary, has been handed a mission: to let herself be seduced by the King of France in order to uncover his secrets.... Read more

The Shadow on the Glass

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At Mr. and Mrs. Unkerton's party in Greenway's House, Mr. Satterthwaite learns of a haunted window: no matter how many times it is replaced, it always contains the image of a gentleman in a plumed hat. When gunshots are heard, Satterthwaite finds that two of the guests have been shot dead, which is shortly followed by a sighting of the gentleman... Read more

The Rajah’s Emerald

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and... Read more

The Witch's Daughter

By: Paula Brackston

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 13 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins…
In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save... Read more

The Tragedy of Marsdon Manor

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

An aging, heavily-insured country squire whose estate is in financial ruin is thought to have committed suicide. Hercule Poirot investigates, in the guise of a representative of the victim's insurance company, to uncover the identity of the real murderer. Read more

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Poirot to locate him before a crucial conference, to avert an international crisis. Read more

The Merchant of Dreams

By: Anne Lyle

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New... Read more