Historical Fiction audiobooks

Saint Brigid’s Bones

By: Philip Freeman

Narrated by: Fiona Hardingham

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

In an evocative Celtic novel set in a time when druids roamed the land, lively young Sister Deirdre embarks on a mission to find the stolen bones of her convent's patron saint.In ancient Ireland, an island ruled by kings and druids, the nuns of Saint Brigid are fighting to keep their monastery alive. When the bones of Brigid go missing from... Read more

The May Bride

By: Suzannah Dunn

Narrated by: Nicola Barber

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Jane Seymour finds herself in the midst of scandal and intrigue at Wolf Hall, in Suzannah Dunn's masterful new novel of the Tudor era.Jane Seymour is a shy, dutiful fifteen-year-old when her eldest brother, Edward, brings his bride home to Wolf Hall. Katherine Filliol is the perfect match for Edward, as well as being a breath of fresh air for... Read more

Riders on the Storm

By: Ed Gorman

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1967, a brutal murder in the midst of an anti–Vietnam War group sparks an investigation by Sam McCain, in Ed Gorman's most politically charged mystery yet.When we last saw Sam McCain he had been drafted to fight the war in Vietnam. But Sam's military career ended in boot camp when he was accidentally shot in the head and forced to spend three... Read more

The Tempting of Thomas Carrick

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 14 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

What happens when fate, love, and passion collide?The #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to Scotland with a tale of two lovers irrevocably linked by destiny and passion.Thomas Carrick is a gentleman driven to control all aspects of his life. As the wealthy owner of Carrick Enterprises, located in bustling Glasgow, he... Read more

Jane and the Twelve Days of Christmas

By: Stephanie Barron

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Christmas Eve, 1814. Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at the Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather beneath the mistletoe for the twelve days of Christmas festivities, Jane and her circle are in a celebratory... Read more

Enter Pale Death

By: Barbara Cleverly

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

One morning before dawn at her regal country estate, Lady Lavinia Truelove is crushed to death by a horse. Classified as "death by misadventure," this appears a gruesome accident, but Scotland Yard detective Joe Sandilands suspects foul play—a misgiving he is struggling to separate from his personal grievances toward Sir James Truelove, who is... Read more

The Rest Is Silence

By: James R. Benn

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 11 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When an unidentified corpse washes ashore at Slapton Sands on England's southern coast, US Army captain Billy Boyle and his partner, Lieutenant Piotr "Kaz" Kazimierz, are assigned to investigate. The Devonshire beach is the home to Operation Tiger, the top secret rehearsal for the approaching D-day invasion of Normandy, and the area is... Read more

The Death’s Head Chess Club

By: John Donoghue

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Debut author John Donoghue presents a suspenseful new novel about the improbable friendship between a Nazi officer and a Jewish chess player in Auschwitz.SS Obersturmführer Paul Meissner arrives in Auschwitz from the Russian front wounded and fit only for administrative duty. His most pressing task is to improve camp morale, so he establishes a... Read more

Motor City Burning

By: Bill Morris

Narrated by: Richard Small

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the critically acclaimed author of Motor City, Detroit comes alive in a powerful and thrilling novel set amid the chaos of the 1960s race riots and the serenity of baseball's opening day.Willie Bledsoe, once an idealistic young black activist, is now a burnt-out case. After leaving a snug berth at Tuskegee Institute to join the Student... Read more

Really the Blues

By: Joseph Koenig

Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly

Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Piron thinks that performing in jazz clubs in Nazi-occupied Paris is bad enough, but when the drummer in his band is found facedown in the Seine and the police start asking questions, he realizes that his trouble is just beginning.Paris, 1941. American jazz musician Eddie Piron has lived in the City of Light since before the war began. But... Read more

The Forbidden

By: Frank Tallis

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The Alienist meets The Exorcist in Tallis' novel of psychological suspense, as an ambitious young doctor explores the dangerous border between science and the supernatural.1873. When the ambitious Doctor Paul Cl├®ment takes a job on the island of Saint S├®bastien, he has dreams of finding cures for tropical diseases. After witnessing the... Read more

The Lazarus Curse

By: Tessa Harris

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

London, 1782. The sole survivor of an ill-fated expedition to Jamaica has gone missing upon his return home. Dr. Thomas Silkstone had been entrusted to catalog all the New World specimens and therefore feels compelled to investigate the disappearance. Meanwhile, a rumor circulates that a potion with the power to raise the dead is afoot, and the... Read more

Plague Land

By: S. D. Sykes

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 11 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

In this chilling historical mystery, young girls go missing from a medieval English village, and Lord Oswald de Lacy must find the killer before tragedy strikes again.Oswald de Lacy was never meant to be the Lord of Somershill Manor. Dispatched to a monastery at the age of seven, sent back at seventeen when his father and two older brothers are... Read more

The Curse of the House of Foskett

By: M. R. C. Kasasian

Narrated by: Lindy Nettleton

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The highly anticipated second novel in the charming, sharply plotted Victorian crime series starring a detective duo to rival Holmes and Watson125 Gower Street, 1882. Sidney Grice once had a reputation as London's most perspicacious personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless... Read more

Gretel and the Case of the Missing Frog Prints

By: P. J. Brackston

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch's Daughter comes the story of Gretel, all grown up and investigating the disappearance of Albrecht Dürer's treasured frog prints.Bavaria, 1776. When Albrecht Dürer the Much Much Younger's frog prints go missing, he knows exactly where to turn for help. Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now... Read more

A Match for Marcus Cynster

By: Stephanie Laurens

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Laurens returns to rugged Scotland with a dramatic tale of passionate desire, unwavering devotion, and a match too powerful to deny.Restless and impatient, Marcus Cynster waits for fate to come calling. He knows his destiny lies in the lands surrounding his family home, but what will his future be and... Read more

Valley of the Shadow

By: Ralph Peters

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 16 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Ralph Peters returns with the third installment in his award-winning series on the Civil War.In the Valley of the Shadow, they wrote their names in blood.From a daring Confederate raid that nearly seized Washington, DC, to a stunning reversal on the bloody fields of Cedar Creek, the summer and autumn of 1864... Read more

A Dangerous Place

By: Jacqueline Winspear

Narrated by: Orlagh Cassidy

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . .  In Jacqueline Winspear‘s  powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies,... Read more

The Heroes' Welcome

By: Louisa Young

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

April 1919. Six months have passed since the armistice that ended the Great War. But new battles face those who have survived.Only 23, former soldier Riley Purefoy and his bride, Nadine Waveney, have their whole lives ahead of them. But Riley’s injuries from the war have created awkward tensions between the couple, scars that threaten to shatter... Read more

Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

By: Anne Blankman

Narrated by: Heather Wilds

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Anne Blankman returns to the shadowy and dangerous world of 1930s Germany in this thrilling sequel to Prisoner of Night and Fog, perfect for fans of Code Name Verity.The girl known as Gretchen Whitestone has a secret: She used to be part of Adolf Hitler's inner circle. More than a year after she made an enemy of her old family... Read more

Mademoiselle Chanel

By: C. W. Gortner

Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel

Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel—the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman’s daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the most influential and controversial figures... Read more

The Invention of Fire

By: Bruce Holsinger

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the acclaimed medieval mystery A Burnable Book once again brings fourteenth-century London alive in all its color and detail in this riveting thriller featuring medieval poet and fixer John Gower—a twisty tale rife with intrigue, danger mystery, and murder.Though he is one of England’s most acclaimed intellectuals, John Gower is no... Read more

Four Nights With the Duke

By: Eloisa James

Narrated by: Susan Duerden

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

Eloisa James returns with another fabulous romance in her New York Times bestselling Desperate Duchesses series!As a young girl, Emilia Gwendolyn Carrington told the annoying future Duke of Pindar that she would marry any man in the world before him—so years later she is horrified to realize that she has nowhere else to turn.Evander Septimus... Read more

Girl in the Moonlight

By: Charles Dubow

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of Indiscretion returns with a scorching tale of love, passion, and obsession, about one man’s all-consuming desire for a beautiful, bewitching, and beguiling woman.Since childhood, Wylie Rose has been drawn to the charming, close-knit Bonet siblings. But none affected him more than the enchanting Cesca, a girl blessed with... Read more