The Huntress
by Kate Quinn
Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Three narrators, two timelines, one Nazi war criminal on the loose — and Saskia Maarleveld makes every voice feel like a different person entirely.
- Great if you want: WWII fiction driven by fierce women with moral weight
- Listening experience: propulsive multi-POV thriller; alternating timelines sustain tension across 19 hours
- Narration: Maarleveld's accent range — Russian, British, American — is seamless and distinct
- Skip if: juggling three POVs across two timelines frustrates you
About This Audiobook
Three storylines converge across the aftermath of the Second World War: Nina Markova, a Soviet Night Witch bomber pilot who survives behind enemy lines and becomes the prey of a Nazi murderess called the Huntress; Ian Graham, a British war correspondent turned Nazi hunter who teams up with Nina to catch the one target who has eluded him; and Jordan McBride in postwar Boston, a teenage girl who begins to suspect that her new stepmother may be hiding something monstrous in her past.
Saskia Maarleveld navigates the novel's three timelines and its large ensemble with the controlled authority of a narrator who never loses the thread even as the histories interweave. Her performance distinguishes the three protagonists clearly while maintaining the emotional continuity across storylines, and her handling of the war's violence and the postwar reckoning gives the novel its appropriate gravity. The audiobook won a Goodreads Choice Award; Maarleveld's performance is central to why.
