Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Witch of Babylon

By: D.J. McIntosh

Narrated by: James Yaegashi

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

D.J. McIntosh's The Witch of Babylon won an Arthur Ellis Award prior to its publication. Here Turkish-American art dealer John Madison gets caught up in a deadly conspiracy involving a stolen aritfact stretching from ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day Iraq. Aided by an archaeologist and a photojournalist, John navigates a tricky landscape filled... Read more

The Most to Lose

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

“Some day, when you have the most to lose…I’ll take it all.”Jonah Armstrong, Earl of Haywood, and the Duke of Hadleigh were best friends until a scandal involving Hadleigh’s fiancée destroyed their friendship. Three years later, Jonah returns from the Crimea as a war hero and London’s most eligible bachelor, setting the gossip afire and fanning... Read more

Silent Revenge

By: Laura Landon

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In just six days, Lady Jessica Stanton will turn twenty-five and inherit enough money to make her one of England’s wealthiest women. And when that happens, her stepbrother Colin will swoop in to take it all—along with her freedom. The only solution: find a husband strong enough to stand up to Colin. But even if she’s able to find someone able to... Read more

Towards Zero & Ordeal by Innocence - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

TWO BESTSELLING MYSTERIES IN ONE GREAT PACKAGE! TOWARDS ZEROOne of Agatha Christie’s own ten favorite novels, Towards Zero puts Superintendent Battle and Inspector Leach on the case as they investigate the murder of an elderly widow.What is the connection among a failed suicide attempt, a wrongful accusation of theft against a schoolgirl, and... Read more

Wicked Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

The most reckless and fierce of the MacLeod brothers, Quinn is a prisoner of the god inside him, tormented by his inability to save his family from slaughter. His fury governs him, and day by day he loses himself to the darkness in his soul. But Quinn has a profound yearning for a woman's love. . . .

Raised by Druids, the achingly beautiful... Read more

Park Lane

By: Frances Osborne

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's
unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an
office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she
takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly
caught up in lives of its inhabitants—in particular, those of its... Read more

Burning Tower

By: Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Return to the "vivid and unusual" (Kirkus Reviews) world of Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's The Burning City, where the fire god has retreated into myth, leaving the residents of Tep's Town unprotected for the first time in their history.Unfortunately, a fiery fate isn't the only danger Tep's Town is facing. Monsters are coming forth from the... Read more

Silver Lies

By: Ann Parker

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 13 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The crooked, the greedy, and those with a checkered past—they all came to Leadville with the same purpose: Get in, get rich, get out.As 1879 draws to a close, silver fever burns hot in the Rocky Mountain boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. Unfortunately for Joe Rose, an assayer of precious metals, death stakes its own claim. Joe’s body is found... Read more

Island of Bones

By: Imogen Robertson

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 14 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Imogen Robertson's skillfully constructed historical suspense novels featuring the forthright Mrs. Harriet Westerman and reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther continue to attract a growing readership. Set in late 18th-century England, Island of Bones follows the pair as Crowther reluctantly returns to his family estate. A centuries-old tomb has... Read more

Die Tore des Himmels (Gekürzte Fassung) - Abridged

By: Sabine Weigand

Narrated by: Dana Geissler

Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Regentin, Rebellin, Heilige: wer war Elisabeth von Thüringen wirklich? Seit ihrer Kindheit ist die junge Adlige Gisa die Vertraute von Elisabeth, der Landgräfin von Thüringen. Sie weiß, wie zerrissen Elisabeth ist zwischen ihrer Liebe zum machtbewussten Landgrafen Ludwig und ihrer Suche nach einem gottgefälligen, einfachen Leben. Gisa erlebt,... Read more

Forbidden Highlander

By: Donna Grant

Narrated by: Antony Ferguson

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Fallon McLeod has gifts any
warrior would covet—fierce strength, unmatched skill, even immortality.
But those gifts have come at a price that puts everyone he loves at
risk. Only when his brother, Quinn, is taken captive does Fallon leave
the seclusion of his Highland home to seek the king's aid. And though
every woman at court would gladly... Read more

Das Geheimnis der Alchemistin - Abridged

By: Susann Rosemann

Narrated by: Petra Glunz Grosch

Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Heidelberg / Pfalz 1399: Matti wächst als Findelkind auf einer Burg im Pfälzer Wald auf. Ihre Ziehmutter, Josefa, ist eine entfernte Verwandte des Burgherrn. Sie hat damals als Hebamme das Mädchen entbunden, ohne genau zu wissen, wer die verzweifelte junge Frau eigentlich war, die Hilfe suchend auf die Burg gekommen war. Für ihre... Read more

Phantasmagoria

By: Madelynne Ellis

Narrated by: Roxy Isles

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Another wonderfully decadent piece of historical erotica featuring a very Gothic menage...

1800 - Three years after escaping to London with her bisexual lovers, Bella Rushdale wakes one morning to find their delicate ménage a trois about to shatter. Vaughan, Marquis of Pennerley has left abruptly and without any explanation.

Determined to reclaim... Read more

Pictures at an Exhibition

By: Camilla Macpherson

Narrated by: Penelope Freeman

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

'An enchanting debut' Woman's Own

November 1942

Dear Elizabeth,
I've got myself a new project, to cheer myself up a bit. It has absolutely nothing to do with the war effort. We're completely starved of art in London these days. Anything decent was stashed away by the authorities years ago.But the National Gallery is going to dust off one... Read more

Hungry Tales

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 3 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry presents a quirky collection of stories starring a whole cast of the ever-popular undead—including one story written exclusively for Blackstone Audio.Calling DeathA nonviolent zombie story set in AppalachiaChokepointA semi-sequel to Dead of Night in which four army reservists are assigned to... Read more

In Sunlight and in Shadow

By: Mark Helprin

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 29 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Helprin's enchanting and sweeping novel asks a simple question: can love and honor conquer all?New York in 1947 glows with postwar energy. Harry Copeland, an elite paratrooper who fought behind enemy lines in Europe, returns home to run the family business. In a single, magical encounter on the Staten Island ferry, the young singer and... Read more

The Jewels of Paradise

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Donna Leon has won heaps of critical praise and legions of fans for her bestselling mystery series featuring Commissario Guido Brunetti, one of contemporary crime fiction's most beloved characters. With The Jewels of Paradise, Leon takes readers beyond the world of the Venetian Questura in her first stand-alone novel. Caterina Pellegrini is a... Read more

When Johnny Came Marching Home

By: William Heffernan

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Trapped in what appears to be an endless bloodbath - vividly presented with Heffernan's meticulous historical research - three boys gradually begin to change until their close-knit childhood ties are little more than a fractured memory. By war's end, one boy is dead, one returns a physically crippled and emotionally compromised man, and the... Read more

The Californios

By: Louis L'Amour

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 5 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Captain Sean Mulkerin comes home from the sea to find his family home in jeopardy. After the death of his father, Sean’s determined mother, Eileen, took it upon herself to run the sprawling Rancho Malibu—until a fire destroyed her hard-earned profits. Now, on the edge of financial ruin, Eileen hopes Sean can help them find a way out. The rumor... Read more

Toby’s Room

By: Pat Barker

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1917 and Elinor Brooke, a young painter, is studying art in London while her beloved brother Toby serves on the front as a medical officer. When Toby goes missing and is presumed dead, the devastated Elinor refuses to accept it. A letter she finds hidden among his belongings reveals that Toby knew he wasn’t coming back and implies that his... Read more

Death and the Maiden

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Ida Rosenkranz is top diva at the Vienna Opera, but she's gone silent for good after an apparent laudanum overdose. Learning of her professional rivalries and her scandalous affairs with older men, Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt and Dr. Max Liebermann suspect foul play instead. Their investigation leads them into dark and dangerous... Read more

Between Two Fires

By: Christopher Buehlman

Narrated by: Steve West

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

His extraordinary debut, Those across the River, was hailed as "genre-bending Southern horror" (California Literary Review) and "graceful [and] horrific" (Patricia Briggs). Now Christopher Buehlman invites readers into an even darker age—one of temptation and corruption, of war in heaven and of hell on earth.And Lucifer said, "Let us rise... Read more

The Uninvited Guests

By: Sadie Jones

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A grand old manor house deep in the English countryside will open its doors to reveal the story of an unexpectedly dramatic day in the life of one eccentric, rather dysfunctional, and entirely unforgettable family. Set in the early years of the twentieth century, award-winning author Sadie Jones’s The Uninvited Guests is, in the words of... Read more

In Need of a Good Wife

By: Kelly O'Connor McNees

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping historical audio of 19th century America about a group of unforgettable women who seek to remake their destinies.
     After Clara Bixby is abandoned by her husband and fired from her job in a New York City tavern, she has nowhere to turn. Though the Civil War has ended, life remains uncertain, especially for single women. But when... Read more