Historical Fiction audiobooks

River of Destiny

By: Barbara Erskine

Narrated by: Gina Peach

Length: 14 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling author of Time’s Legacy and Lady of Hay comes a thrilling new novel, River of Destiny, an epic story that spans Anglo Saxon Britain, Victorian Suffolk and the present day. Perfect for fans of Kate Mosse’s Labyrinth. On the banks of the River Deben in Suffolk are ancient barns dating back to... Read more

To Wed a Wicked Earl

By: Olivia Parker

Narrated by: Christine Rendel

Length: 8 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

He's on the hunt for a bride . . .Adam Faramond, Earl of Rothbury, needs to find a wife—immediately!—or his beloved grandmother will leave him penniless. But Adam, an unrepentant rake, would reform for only one woman, the woman he's lusted after—and loved—for years. It's rather unfortunate, then, that Miss Charlotte Greene would never consent to... Read more

King's Man

By: Angus Donald

Narrated by: Mike Rogers

Length: 12 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

THE THIRD CRUSADE IS OVER

Richard the Lionheart is bound for England. But with all the princes of Europe united against him . . . can the greatest warrior in Christendom make it safely home?

THE LION IS CHAINED

Captured. Bound. Imprisoned. King Richard's slim hope of salvation rests on one man - a former outlaw, a vengeful earl, a man who scoffs... Read more

Postern of Fate

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of... Read more

Elephants Can Remember

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife.Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies—a... Read more

Dumb Witness

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise.Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more... Read more

The Moving Finger

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.  Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.But all that changes when one of the recipients,... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Dead Man's Folly

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie.Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery. In good faith,... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where... Read more

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A dying man’s bewildering last words pull an inquisitive young man and his beautiful companion into a dangerous web of lethal secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?While playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the... Read more

Nemesis

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s baffling detective story, Nemesis, a letter from a dead man instructs Miss Marple how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime.In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left... Read more

Endless Night

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

One of Agatha Christie’s personal favorites, Endless Night is a critically acclaimed classic crime thriller from the beloved queen of mystery.When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsy’s Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old woman’s warning of... Read more

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death.The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come full circle—they are back once again in the rambling... Read more

Towards Zero

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

One 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 the romantic life of a famous tennis player?To the casual... Read more

Crooked House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

“Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.” --Agatha ChristieDescribed by the queen of mystery herself as one of her favorites of her published work, Crooked House is a classic Agatha Christie thriller revolving around a devastating family mystery.The Leonides are one big happy family... Read more

Three Act Tragedy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison.Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests... Read more

They Came to Baghdad

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic crime adventure novel, They Came to Baghdad, a bright, young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained for when a wounded spy expires in her hotel room.A secret superpower summit is being held in Baghdad, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is... Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from Agatha Christie, the original queen of mystery.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a... Read more

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”A childish... Read more

Evil Under the Sun

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The classic Evil Under the Sun, one of the most famous of Agatha Christie’s Poirot investigations, has the fastidious sleuth on the trail of the killer of a sun-bronzed beauty whose death brings some rather shocking secrets into the light.The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and... Read more

The Sittaford Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder.In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: ""Captain Trevelyan . . . dead . . . murder.""Is this... Read more

Burrows

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyndon B. Johnson is president, Beatlemania is in overdrive, and gasoline costs thirty cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly... Read more

At Bertram's Hotel

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel:... Read more