Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Tragedy of Y

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Some bizarre things have been happening to the eccentric Hatter family. First, the body of York Hatter is recovered from the ocean. But he didn't drown. He died of poison. Next, another poisoning occurs in the Hatters' old mansion in New York's Greenwich Village. This time the police have a witness. But what a witness! She is a blind, deaf mute.... Read more

The Tragedy of Z

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Rachel Dulude

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this third Drury Lane novel, the elderly detective is aided by Patience Thumm in the investigation of the mysterious death of a corrupt state senator. Senator Fawcett, a man with many enemies, is found stabbed to death in his study. Patience and her father, Inspector Thumm, try to unravel the web of circumstantial evidence that has enmeshed... Read more

It Had to Be You

By: Jill Churchill

Narrated by: Wendy Dillon

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

March 3, 1933, the day before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster have agreed to help out at a nursing home next door to their own cottage, dubbed Grace & Favor. The convalescent home is full of colorful characters, including a cantankerous old man named Sean Connor. The day the Brewsters arrive, he slips... Read more

Saturnalia

By: Lindsey Davis

Narrated by: Christian Rodska

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

It is the Roman holiday of Saturnalia. The days are short, the nights are for wild parties. A general has captured a famous enemy of Rome and brings her home to adorn his triumph as a ritual sacrifice. The logistics go wrong: she acquires a mystery illness—then a young man is horrendously murdered and she escapes from house arrest.Marcus Didius... Read more

The Wicked Ways of Alexander Kidd

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the New York Times bestselling tradition of Lynsay Sands, Karen Hawkins, and Monica McCarty comes the second book in Paula Quinn's new sinfully sexy Scottish romance series.An Innocent StowawayAs the sheltered niece of a Highland chief, Caitrina Grant longs for adventure beyond the lush hills of Scotland. So when a pirate ship glides into the... Read more

The Vintner’s Daughter

By: Kristen Harnisch

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert

Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The Loire Valley, 1895. When seventeen-year-old Sara Thibault's father is killed in a mudslide, her mother sells their vineyard to a rival family whose eldest son marries Sara's sister, Lydia. But a violent tragedy compels Sara and her sister to flee to New York, forcing Sara to put aside her dream of following in her father's footsteps as a... Read more

The Seduction of Miss Amelia Bell

By: Paula Quinn

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A highland rogueEdmund MacGregor will do anything to save Scotland from English rule—even kidnap Lady Amelia Bell for ransom. As the daughter of a duke and the chancellor's betrothed, she's the perfect pawn in this game. But from the moment he first lays eyes on his spirited captive, he can't resist stealing a kiss.An adventurous ladyLady... Read more

The Body Snatchers Affair

By: Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini

Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell & Mark Peckham

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Drug lords, missing millionaires, corrupt cops. It’s just another day for the Carpenter and Quincannon Detective Services.Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take the detectives from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens.John Quincannon must search a Chinatown opium den for his client's... Read more

Fear

By: Gabriel Chevallier

Narrated by: Clive Chafer

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1915, Jean Dartemont heads off to the Great War, an eager conscript. The only thing he fears is missing the action. Soon, however, the vaunted "war to end all wars" seems like a war that will never end: whether mired in the trenches or going over the top, Jean finds himself caught in the midst of an unimaginable, unceasing slaughter. After he... Read more

Potent Pleasures

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 15 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Nothing is more seductive than temptation.Reckless desire sends Charlotte Daicheston into the garden with a dashing masked stranger. He's powerful and unforgettable, a devastatingly handsome footman who lures her—not against her will—into a grand indiscretion at a masquerade ball. Then he vanishes.Several years later, after Charlotte has made... Read more

Midnight Pleasures

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In the night, all rules are forgotten …Eloisa James, the acclaimed author of Potent Pleasures, returns to Regency England with an unforgettable new heroine—a genteel but naughty innocent who gets more than she bargains for when she finally says yes to love.To her legions of adoring suitors, it comes as quite a shock when Lady Sophie York rejects... Read more

Carbide Tipped Pens

By: Ben Bova & Eric Choi

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbe...

Length: 12 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authorsHard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact—both beneficial and dangerous—of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open... Read more

Black God’s Kiss

By: C. L. Moore

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in the pages of Weird Tales in 1934, C. L. Moore's Jirel of Joiry is the first significant female sword-and-sorcery protagonist and one of the most exciting and evocative characters the genre has ever known. Published alongside seminal works by H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, the five classic fantasy tales included in this... Read more

The Adventure of the Greenbrier Ghost

By: Jonathan Maberry

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Starring Sherlock Holmes, this tale is based on a real-life ghost story from West Virginia. The basis of the story comes from a court case in the nineteenth century in which the testimony of a ghost was entered into evidence, leading to the conviction of a murderer. Jonathan Maberry has thrown Holmes and Watson into the mix for added punch. This... Read more

Glamorous Illusions

By: Lisa T Bergren

Narrated by: Jaimee Draper

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Cora is about to discover who she truly is. It’s the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret about her past… a secret that will radically... Read more

No Safe Harbor

By: Elizabeth Ludwig

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York City, 1897. She came to America searching for her brother. Instead all she's found is a web of danger. Cara Hamilton had thought her brother to be dead. Now, clutching his letter, she leaves Ireland for America, desperate to find him. Her search leads her to a houseful of curious strangers, and one man who claims to be a friend — Rourke... Read more

The Resurrection of Nat Turner, Part 1: The Witnesses

By: Sharon Ewell Foster

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 13 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The truth has been buried more than one hundred years . . . Leading a small army of slaves, Nat Turner was a man born with a mission: to set the captives free. When words failed, he ignited an uprising that left over fifty whites dead. In the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, Nat Turner stormed into history with a Bible in one hand,... Read more

Dark Road Home

By: Elizabeth Ludwig

Narrated by: Eleni Pappageorge

Length: 9 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

The nightmares of her past have found Ana Kavanagh an ocean away.

Ana Kavanagh's memories of Ireland are mostly of fire and pain.

As a girl she survived a blaze that left her an orphan, left her scarred, and left her angry at God. Now in New York, Ana finds a kindred spirit in Eoghan Hamilton, who's struggling with his own anger. His twin... Read more

The Blessed

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 1844 and Lacey Bishop's life is a tangled mess. Estranged from her own family, at age 16 she went to work for a preacher and his wife. When his wife died, the preacher convinced Lacey that the only decent thing to do was to marry him. That way she could continue to act as mother to the little girl who was left on his doorstop. But Lacey... Read more

Peony

By: Pearl S. Buck

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid - an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However, tradition forbids them to wed. How she resolves her love for him and her devotion to her adoptive... Read more

Sinners and the Sea

By: Rebecca Kanner

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

While the fate of the world rested on Noah’s shoulders, the survival of the human race rested on hers. The young heroine in Sinners and the Sea is destined for greatness. Known only as “wife” in the Bible and cursed with a birthmark that many think is the brand of a demon, this unnamed woman — fated to become the mother of all generations... Read more

The Gifted

By: Ann H. Gabhart

Narrated by: Renee Ertl

Length: 13 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Some dreams were meant to come true. Jessamine Brady has been in the Shaker Village for half her young life, but in spite of how she loves her sisters there, she struggles to conform to the strict rules. Instead she entertains dreams of the world outside. When Tristan Cooper seems to step out of those dreams to entice her into the forbidden... Read more

Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate

By: Diana Wallis Taylor

Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In a time of turmoil, one woman will search for love and peace — and find it where she never expected.

Tugged this way and that by fate’s indifferent hand, Claudia’s life is adrift — until she meets Lucius Pontius Pilate and becomes his wife. When they move to the troublesome territory of Judea, she does what she has always done: makes the... Read more

Price of Privilege

By: Jessica Dotta

Narrated by: Amanda McKnight

Length: 13 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Where will she turn when the truth becomes more dangerous than the lie? Having finally discovered the truth of her birthright, Julia Elliston is determined to outwit Chance Macy at his own game. Holding a secret he’d kill to keep, however, is proving more difficult than she imagined. Just when Julia thinks she’s managed to untangle herself from... Read more