Historical Fiction audiobooks

Stringer on the Mojave

By: Lou Cameron

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dead men don't tell tales. Neither do dead women or children. And when their corpses have been dryin' out in the desert sun for fifty years, there's nary a whisper left of what happened. So when the six Mojave mummies are found near Esperanza, it's up to Stringer to get the story. But someone in Esperanza wants him to just plain git.First,... Read more

The Air We Breathe

By: Andrea Barrett

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1916, Americans are debating whether to enter the First World War. There are “preparedness parades,” and headlines report German spies. But in an isolated community in the Adirondacks in upstate New York, the danger is barely felt. At Tamarack Lake the focus is on the sick. Wealthy tubercular patients live in private cure... Read more

The Anatomy of Ghosts

By: Andrew Taylor

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be haunting Jerusalem, since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds.Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts, a stinging... Read more

The Attenbury Emeralds

By: Jill Paton Walsh

Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The recovery of the magnificent gem in Lord Attenbury's dazzling heirloom launched a shell-shocked young aristocrat on his career as a detective in 1921. Thirty years later, a happily married Lord Peter has just shared the secrets of that mystery with his wife, the detective novelist Harriet Vane. Suddenly, the new Lord Attenbury—grandson of... Read more

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

By: James Weldon Johnson

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man takes place in post Reconstruction era America and follows the story of a young biracial male. Johnson poses a complex dilemma: because the “Ex-Colored Man,” which is the only name by which the protagonist is referred, represents what, at the time was, a social contradiction of race... Read more

The Bughouse Affair

By: Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan & Meredith Mitchell

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Bughouse Affair, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, undertake what initially appear to be two unrelated investigations. Sabina's case involves the hunt for a ruthless lady "dip" who uses fiendish means to relieve her victims of their valuables at Chutes Amusement... Read more

The Execution of Sherlock Holmes

By: Donald Thomas

Narrated by: John Telfer

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Drugged, manacled, condemned to a dank cell in the depths of London's infamous Newgate prison, the world's greatest literary detective awaits execution by a vengeful crew of formidable enemies. Escape is impossible; death, a certainty. But not for Sherlock Holmes, who, in a stunning display of intellect and derring-do, will elude his hangman's... Read more

The Ghosts of Ragged-Ass Gulch

By: Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Nick Sullivan

Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Ravaged by time and abandoned by the people who once flocked there in search of golden nuggets, Ragged-Ass Gulch is a ghost town. What's left is a small, proud, and close pack of people who aren't looking for change. But change seems to be afoot as several mysterious fires plague the town. That's where the Nameless Detective comes in. Read more

The Girl in the Blue Beret

By: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by a true story, the bestselling author of In Country offers a gorgeous, haunting novel about an airline pilot coming to terms with his past, and searching for the people who saved him during World War II. After Marshall Stone's B-17 bomber was shot down in occupied Europe in 1944, people in the French Resistance helped him escape to... Read more

The Moon Looked Down

By: Dorothy Garlock

Narrated by: Susanna Burney

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie Heller and her family emigrated from Germany to the small town of Victory, Illinois, well before WWII began. But now that the war has deeply affected the town, local residents are beginning to turn a cold shoulder toward them. Then tragedy strikes when a train is derailed, and the Heller family is unfairly blamed. With paranoia and... Read more

The Oriental Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

By: Ted Riccardi

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is dead—or so most of the world thinks. His fatal plunge over the Reichenbach Falls as he struggled with his archenemy, Moriarty, has been widely reported. But Holmes has escaped and is alive. In his immediate circle, only Holmes's brother, the lethargic genius Mycroft, knows of his survival. Even Dr. Watson thinks that the great... Read more

The Quality of Mercy

By: Barry Unsworth

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Barry Unsworth returns to the terrain of his Booker Prize–winning novel Sacred Hunger, this time following Sullivan, the Irish fiddler, and Erasmus Kemp, son of a Liverpool slave ship owner who hanged himself. It is the spring of 1767, and to avenge his father’s death, Erasmus Kemp has had the rebellious sailors of his father’s ship, including... Read more

The Red Door

By: Charles Todd

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Lancashire, England: June, 1920. Who was the woman who lived and died behind the red door? What did she see before she died? And who was the man who never came home from the Great War, for the simple reason that he had never really gone? How is the woman's death linked to his disappearance? And why is Scotland Yard blind to the connection, even... Read more

The Second Objective

By: Mark Frost

Narrated by: Erik Steele

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

It is fall 1944, Germany is losing, and the Americans are starting to hope they'll be home for Christmas. Lieutenant Colonel Otto Skorzeny, "Hitler's Commando," famed for his daring rescue of the imprisoned Mussolini, has just received orders for Operation Greif: he is to assemble a new brigade of two thousand men, all of whom speak English, and... Read more

The Wild Girl

By: Jim Fergus

Narrated by: Christian Baskous

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teenager, he heads West, hoping to leave his troubles behind by joining the 1932 Great Apache Expedition on their search for the young son of a wealthy Mexican landowner who was kidnapped by wild Apaches. But the expedition’s goal becomes compromised when they encounter a wild Apache girl in a Mexican jail cell,... Read more

Three Hands in the Fountain

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Sharing a ewer of Spanish red with his old friend and new partner Petronius Longus, Marcus Didius Falco is on the spot when a man cleaning the local fountain makes a gruesome discovery: a human hand that suggests its owner met a terrifying fate. Naturally, Falco and Petro, formerly of the Vigiles, want to seize on it as their first big case. The... Read more

Through a Glass, Darkly

By: Donna Leon

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

On a spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced with the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, who has made violent threats against Ribetti. Brunetti's curiousity is... 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

Yvonne Goes to York

By: M. C. Beaton

Narrated by: Helen Lisanti

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead employer’s legacy of five thousand pounds has allowed spinster Hannah Pym to resign from housekeeping and enjoy traveling the English countryside by coach. But adventure soon finds Miss Pym in the form of runaway brides, spirited heiresses, and international refugees, who continue to test her expert matchmaking skills.The shy Miss Yvonne... Read more

Calamity Town

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town.At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.The mystery author is... Read more

Loss of Innocence

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

From acclaimed author Richard North Patterson comes a sweeping family drama of dark secrets and individual awakenings, set against the backdrop of the tumultuous summer of 1968.America is in a state of turbulence, engulfed in civil unrest and uncertainty. Yet for Whitney Dane—spending the summer of her twenty-second year on Martha's... Read more

The Dragon’s Teeth

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Eccentric multimillionaire Cadmus Cole hires Ellery Queen to investigate a case but won't say what it is. When Cole dies mysteriously at sea, Queen and his partner, Beau Rummell, must navigate a thicket of complications that includes a fifty-million-dollar legacy, two beautiful but avaricious women vying for the inheritance, a will with some odd... Read more

The Golden Goose

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Old Slater O'Shea, the golden goose, was ruler of a peculiar roost. A gaggle of free-loading O'Sheas were lazing around the mansion, letting Slater foot the bills, while they waited for him to die and leave them his money. But Uncle Slater was in fine health, and someone got tired of waiting. When Slater went upstairs for a little nip before his... Read more

The Tragedy of X

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In New York City in the early 1930s, a man is poisoned on a crowded streetcar during rush hour. Everyone sees Longstreet die—but no one sees the killer. Inspector Thumm's few clues all lead up a blind alley. He finally seeks the aid of Drury Lane—retired Shakespearean actor, master of disguise, and amateur sleuth. Seated amid the splendor of the... Read more