Historical Fiction audiobooks

A Beautiful Blue Death

By: Charles Finch

Narrated by: James Langton

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Lenox, Victorian gentleman and armchair explorer, likes nothing more than to relax in his private study with a cup of tea, a roaring fire and a good book. But when his lifelong friend Lady Jane asks for his help, Lenox cannot resist the chance to unravel a mystery.



Prudence Smith, one of Jane's former servants, is dead of an apparent... Read more

Wicked Autumn

By: G. M. Malliet

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Tudor has adapted well to his post as vicar of St. Edwold's in the idyllic village of Nether Monkslip. The quiet village seems the perfect home for Max, who has fled a harrowing past as an MI5 agent. But this new-found serenity is quickly shattered when the highly vocal and unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead at the... Read more

Nightwoods

By: Charles Frazier

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons returns with a dazzling new novel of suspense and love set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s.
 
Charles Frazier puts his remarkable gifts in the service of a lean, taut narrative while losing none of the transcendent prose, virtuosic storytelling, and insight into human... Read more

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore

By: Stella Duffy

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A bravura performance: a witty, moving, sexy book that bursts with as much color and excitement as the city of Constantinople itself." -Financial Times Roman historian Procopius publicly praised Theodora of Constantinople for her piety-while secretly detailing her salacious stage act and maligning her as ruthless and power hungry. So who was... Read more

Page from a Tennessee Journal

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Casaundra Freeman

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Daughter of Union County comes an intimate and heart-pounding novel about two families—one black, one white—colliding against the explosive backdrop of the post–Civil War South.It’s been fifty years since the Civil War ended, but the racial divide is as rigid and unforgiving as ever. For two families in the rural South,... Read more

Paris Noire

By: Francine Thomas Howard

Narrated by: Madisun Leigh

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The dawn of postwar Paris in the 1940s: for one family, it’s a time of celebration, danger, and liberating romance in a breathtaking novel by the author of The Daughter of Union County.Paris in 1944 is emerging from a devastating war. So are proud Martinican immigrants Marie-Thérèse Brillard and her two children, Collette and Christophe. In... Read more

Red Flags

By: Juris Jurjevics

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A novel of soldiers and spies in the highlands of VietnamArmy cop Erik Rider is enjoying his war until he’s sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote highland province.Rider lands in Cheo Reo, home to hard-pressed soldiers, intelligence operatives, and profiteers of all stripes. The tiny US contingent and its unenthusiastic Vietnamese... Read more

The Thirteenth Bullet

By: Cotton Smith

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Best-selling author Cotton Smith writes action-packed Westerns with a flair few others can match. In The Thirteenth Bullet, young Irishman Time Carlow has just been inducted into the legendary ranks of the Texas Rangers. With the help of his uncle Kileen, Time runs down a bloodthirsty gang and brings them to justice. But back in town, the... Read more

Abilene Gun Down

By: Jory Sherman

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Spur Award winner Jory Sherman has been called "a national treasure" by best-selling author Loren D. Estleman. Originally a poet, Sherman crafts his Westerns with a dazzling style of prose that has earned rave reviews from critics and peers alike. Word on the Owlhoot Trail says Jed Brand is a cattle rustler and a murderer of three men-one of... Read more

Deuces Wild

By: Dusty Richards

Narrated by: Alan Nebelthau

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dusty Richards bases his scores of Western novels on extensive research on the Old West. With an unflinching view of the violence and cruelty that marked both sides of the Indian conflicts, he spins the riveting tale of Apache scout Deuces. Unjustly condemned for murder, he escapes his guard and disappears into the wilderness. Now hot on his... Read more

Reign of Madness

By: Lynn Cullen

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed author behind the historical fiction gem The Creation of Eve, Lynn Cullen penned this gripping tale of love and madness, royal intrigue, and marital betrayal set during Spain's Golden Age. Upon the death of Queen Isabella, Juana of Castile ascends to the Spanish throne. But her reign is fraught with danger as her husband, Philippe... Read more

Lion of the Sun

By: Harry Sidebottom

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Mesopotamia, AD 260, Ballista faces yet another enemy, the man the Syrians call the Lion of the Sun.Betrayed by his most trusted advisor, Roman Emperor Valerian has been captured by the Sassanid barbarians. The shame of the vanquished beats down mercilessly like the desert sun as the frail old emperor prostrates himself before Shapur, king of... Read more

True Detective

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mob-choked Chicago of 1932, private detective Nathan Heller may be willing to risk his life to earn a Depression dollar, but he never sacrifices his sardonic wit. Now, author Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) reissues the contemporary classic that introduces the wise-cracking Nathan Heller in all his guts and glory.When Mayor Cermak’s... Read more

True Crime

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

1934 Chicago dazzles with fast action and calculating, cold-blooded mean¬ness as private detective Nate Heller combs Chicago’s North Side looking for John Dillinger. But things take a turn for the strange when self-aggrandizing G-Man Melvin Purvis shoots down a Dillinger double in front of the Biograph Theater.Full of muscle and oozing Chicago’s... Read more

Wrapped

By: Jennifer Bradbury

Narrated by: Elissa Steele

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Agnes Wilkins is standing in front of an Egyptian mummy, about to make the first cut into the wrappings, about to unlock ancient (and not-so-ancient) history.

Maybe you think this girl is wearing a pith helmet with antique dust swirling around her.

Maybe you think she is a young Egyptologist who has arrived in Cairo on camelback.

Maybe she would... Read more

The Taker

By: Alma Katsu

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 14 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of The Hunger—hailed by Stephen King as “deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down”—comes a hauntingly atmospheric tale filled with alchemy, lust, and betrayal.

True love can last an eternity…but immortality comes at a price.

On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting another quiet evening... Read more

Juneteenth

By: Ralph Ellison

Narrated by: Joe Morton

Length: 14 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of bestselling Invisible Man—the classic novel of African-American experience—this long-awaited second novel tells an evocative tale of a prodigal of the twentieth century. Brilliantly crafted, moving, and wise, Juneteenth is the work of an American master.

"Tell me what happened while there's still time," demands the dying... Read more

The Ronin’s Mistress

By: Laura Joh Rowland

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Japan, 1703. On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder a man who stood at the center of the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin two years before. Clearly this was an act of revenge—but why did they wait so long? And is there any reason they should not immediately be ordered to commit ritual suicide? Sano Ichiro,... Read more

Defender of Rome

By: Douglas Jackson

Narrated by: Cornelius Garrett

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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This riveting and action-packed historical thriller from bestselling author Douglas Jackson is real edge of your seat stuff! Perfect for fans of Simon Scarrow and Ben Kane.

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Vienna Twilight

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Detective Inspector Oskar Reinhardt finds that young women are being slain in an unnerving—and ingenious—manner, with a small, almost undetectable, hat pin. For Dr. Max Liebermann, the killer is unique in the annals of psychopathology, one who murders in the midst of consensual love. Is the culprit a patient, one who swears he has a double, a... Read more

The Eleventh Plague

By: Jeff Hirsch

Narrated by: Dan Bittner

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In an America devastated by war and plague, the only way to survive is to keep moving.In the aftermath of a war, America's landscape has been ravaged and two-thirds of the population left dead from a vicious strain of influenza. Fifteen-year-old Stephen Quinn... Read more

Two for Sorrow

By: Nicola Upson

Narrated by: Davina Porter

Length: 14 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1903. Two women are hanged in Holloway Prison for killing babies. More than thirty years later, their crimes resurface with shocking consequences. When Josephine Tey sets out to write a novel about Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, the notorious Finchley baby farmers sentenced to death for a string of newborn murders, she has no idea that... Read more

Tales of Troy and Greece

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Master storyteller Andrew Lang draws on his classical learning to recount Homeric legends of the wars between the Greeks and the Trojans. Paris, the lovely Helen of Troy, Achilles, Hector, Ulysses, the Amazons, and the Trojan Horse all figure in this magical introduction to one of the greatest legends ever told. Also included in this book are... Read more

A Terribly Strange Bed

By: Wilkie Collins

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A winning streak at a downmarket gambling den in Paris leads to a lavish drinking spree. The offer of coffee to help sober up is not all that it first seems. Our protagonist finds himself in a strange bed for the night in a house of thieves and murderers. And it turns out to be a very strange bed indeed... a bed cunningly designed with murder in... Read more