True Crime bestsellers

The Art Thief

A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

“This true crime story seemed so much like a thrilling novel, it was difficult to believe that it is actually all true! If you appreciate bizarre, fast-paced nonfiction, this is a great one to pick up! Read more

The Wager

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Dion Graham & David Grann
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“Since a lot of the book is drawn from actual sailor's diaries, listening to it feels like you're hearing a salty sea dog's confessional! Apart from that it's got everything you'd want in a swashbuckling adventure: mutiny, shipwreck, scurvy and colonialist criticism. Read more

Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“This book is as good as everyone says. I knew I didn't know a ton about the troubles in Northern Ireland, but I didn't know HOW much I didn't know. This book turns a rather complex, sometimes dry (if you're not Irish or a war history person) subject into a story of intrigue, weaving the conflict's history with the stories of a few men and women... Read more

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

“One of the most horrific chapters in American history is brought back to the national consciousness with alarming detail in Killers of the Flower Moon. After the Osage Indian Nation strikes oil, its members become rich beyond their wildest dreams, only to encounter a vast and murderous conspiracy that will leave more than 60 members of the... Read more

The Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

By: Wright Thompson
Narrated by: Wright Thompson
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

“This is the story/history of the kidnapping, torture and murder of 14 year old Emmett Till in Mississippi in the summer of 1955. It is a reckoning with the horrors and injustices that Black Americans face daily, even today, but specifically in the South. It is a history of the insular community surrounding this (and other) murders. It is the... Read more

The Secret History of the Rape Kit

A True Crime Story

By: Pagan Kennedy
Narrated by: Claire Danes
Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

“Rape kits have always been something I was aware of and have taken advantage of having access to. The increase of true crime interest has made us all aware of these tools in our legal system but I’ve never questioned how they got here. I never considered how much advocacy was needed. This is an engaging, devastating, and necessary history of the... Read more

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

“Cara Robertson's first book details the events surrounding the infamous murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. Based entirely on primary sources: trial transcripts, contemporary accounts, and even recently discovered letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden is an in-depth discussion of the... Read more

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

“Empire of Pain is a masterpiece, a patient and rich profile of three generations of Sacklers, full of brilliance, ambition, and greed, in which Oxycontin, the pill that made them billions while leading many thousands to addiction and death, doesn't appear until halfway through the tale. A riveting and authoritative new classic in one of my very... Read more

The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

“The Devil in the White City is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Set amidst the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Erik Larson's historical narrative interweaves the stories of two men who would come to define it, for better and for worse. One is Daniel Burnham, chief architect of the Fair, who threw his entire being into creating a... Read more

Manhattan Cult Story

My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Spencer Schneider
Narrated by: Austin Rising
Length: 8 hours

Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as... Read more

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn & Patton Oswalt
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

“It’s not just the horrifying story of the Golden State Killer, but also the story of victims and survivors. It’s a timeline of DNA technology and the investigation techniques that influenced the trajectory of this case and others like it. It’s also the story of Michelle and the impact this case will continue to have on anyone with an interest in... Read more

By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle
Narrated by: Rebecca Nagle
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

“In 2020, the Supreme Court affirmed the reservation of Muscogee Nation in a stunning victory for Indigenous land rights. Alternating between the case and the wider history of tribal sovereignty, removal, and resistance in Oklahoma, By the Fire We Carry is an engaging, infuriating account of Indigenous people's ongoing fight to exist in their own... Read more

Blazing Eye Sees All

Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age

By: Leah Sottile
Narrated by: Leah Sottile
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

In this "unflinching and wildly entertaining" investigation of the modern New Age movement in America, a journalist aims to understand how women like Amy Carlson (the leader of Love Has Won) and others become devoutly invested in their beliefs (Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords).

Today, tarot cards, astrology and crystals are everywhere... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more

Story of a Murder

The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen

By: Hallie Rubenhold
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
Length: 16 hours 56 minutes

This is the story of a murder, not a murderer . . .

In this epic examination of one of the most infamous murders of the twentieth century, bestselling author of The Five, Hallie Rubenhold, gives voice to those who were never properly heard--the women.

On February 1, 1910, the vivacious, diamond-adorned music hall performer Belle Elmore suddenly... Read more

The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen
Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

“The best book I have ever read about schizophrenia. Rosen weaves the story of a close friend into the intellectual, social, and cultural fabric that has defined mental illness and schizophrenia in our time. Among other insights, he places the collapse of psychiatric treatment options within the post structural intellectual paradigm. Above all... Read more

Chaos

Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more

There Is No Ethan

How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari
Narrated by: Anna Akbari & Justin Price
Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

“These women were in their 30s and seeking a serious relationship with an interesting and intelligent man, and they each fell for Ethan; hard. They may have recognized red flags, but either consciously or unconsciously, chose to continue their relationships with him. The twisted, manipulative exploitation of these women is infuriating, but it’s... Read more

Framed

Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham & Jim McCloskey
Narrated by: Michael Beck, John Grisham & Jim McCloskey
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

“An excellent and riveting listen about the corruption in the systems we sre supposed to trust the most...You will find several heartbreaking and frustrating stories about falsely convicted people fighting for their life in the justice system. Read if you dare know what can go wrong. Read more

The Peepshow

The Murders at Rillington Place

By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Nicola Walker
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

*Named a Best Book of 2024 by FT * Nominated for the Women's prize for nonfiction*

From the Edgar Award–winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London

In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10... Read more

The Chickenshit Club

Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute ExecutivesWhite Collar Criminals

By: Jesse Eisinger
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).

Why were no bankers put in... Read more

Catch and Kill

Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

By: Ronan Farrow
Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

“A timely, incredibly important account of the difficulties Farrow faced at NBC while working on the Weinstein expose, which he took to the New Yorker and subsequently won a Pulitzer for. The audiobook is grippingly read by Farrow (though the accents he attempts are... let's go with 'confusing'). It's upsetting, sure, but heartening to see the... Read more

All That Glitters

A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield
Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

“More than a high-art true crime tale—an honest and insightful memoir of friendship (that’s still binge-worthy as a tell-all). Read more

The Mother Next Door

Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

By: Andrea Dunlop & Mike Weber
Narrated by: Andrea Dunlop
Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

This program is read by the author.

A groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that investigates Munchausen by Proxy from the host and creator of the award-winning true crime podcast Nobody Should Believe Me.

"I devoured this chilling yet critically important book in 48 hours, unable to believe what I was reading. Dunlop and Weber have written... Read more

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron & John Berendt
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the... Read more

Covered with Night

A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

By: Nicole Eustace
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

“This immersive historical narrative transports you to the landscape, language, politics, and dueling moralities of 1722 Pennsylvania. Historian Nicole Eustace breathes life into the people named in primary sources about the murder of Seneca hunter Sawantaeny. Eustace’s deft modern analysis contrasts colonial self-righteousness with the actual... Read more

Unmask Alice

LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on... Read more

Unmasked

My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes
Narrated by: Paul Holes
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime.

I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

A Story of Violent Faith

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“So often it seems that people approach events like these wondering how someone could possibly do something so terrible. Jon Krakauer bypasses the 'how' and goes immediately for the 'why.' With a keen eye for discrepancies and Scott Brick's intense narration for the audiobook, Krakauer leaves no stone unturned when it comes to detailing what led... Read more

Rogues

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue

"An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR

“Fast-paced...Keefe is a... Read more

The Princess Spy

The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones

By: Larry Loftis
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

“A fascinating (true) look at the indoctrination of a young woman into the international spy trade as WW2 is winding down in Europe. The settings are just what you'd expect- fancy hotels and private dining rooms- as well as tales of how the spies themselves worked their own agendas. A great audiobook, too. Read more

The Next One Is for You

A True Story of Guns, Country, and the IRA's Secret American Army

By: Ali Watkins
Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

From New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins, the long-buried story of how a group of Philadelphia gunrunners armed the IRA at the height of the Troubles—a true-crime saga that illuminates Irish America’s central role in the conflict and its legacy. Northern Ireland, 1975. Violence has erupted on the streets of Belfast. After... Read more

The Feather Thief

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

“A fascinating true crime book, The Feather Thief recounts the theft of more than 200 bird skins from a museum in England. Along the way, Johnson also covers Darwin contemporary Alfred Russel Wallace's travels to acquire birds of paradise, the theory of evolution, and the decimation of bird species in the name of fashion. It is a book about... Read more

The Road to Jonestown

Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime

“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling... Read more

The Cold Vanish

Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

By: Jon Billman
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston, this "authentic and encyclopedic" book examines real-life cases of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace (Roman Dial)—and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them.
 These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace... Read more

Rinsed

From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks

By: Geoff White
Narrated by: Geoff White
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.

It's normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of hi-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types... Read more

When the Moon Turns to Blood

Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile
Narrated by: Leah Sottile
Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Inspired by Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven and Jess Walter’s Every Knee Shall Bow, WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD explores modern-day survivalism and end-times extremism through the story of Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell.

When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check... Read more

You'll Never Believe Me

A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist

By: Kari Ferrell
Narrated by: Kari Ferrell
Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

This program is read by the author.

The compelling, edgy, compassionate, laugh-out-loud memoir from Kari Ferrell, formerly known as the "Hipster Grifter"

Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at a young age by a Mormon family in Utah, Kari struggled with questions of self-worth and identity as one of the... Read more

The Innocent Man

Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: Craig Wasson
Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone... Read more

Memorial Drive

A Daughter's Memoir

By: Natasha Trethewey
Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“This is one of those "I'm changed forever" books and having the author, poet Natasha Trethewey read it makes it reverberate in the soul even more. The writing of this memoir is exquisite and the construction of the prose is perfect. The heartbreak and honesty of the author will stay with me. I can't wait to hear back from those I've recommended... Read more

A Better Ending

A Brother's Thirty-Year Quest to Uncover the Truth About His Sister's Death

By: James Whitfield Thomson
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“Haunting and heartfelt...Thomson’s memoir is meticulously recounted with powerful suspense and hard-earned wisdom.” —Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road

A propulsive and moving memoir about a brother’s decades-long investigation into the circumstances surrounding his sister’s tragic death—and his own journey to forgiveness and... Read more

In Bloom

Sweetpea series: Book #0

By: C.J. Skuse
Narrated by: Georgia Maguire
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Sweetpea TV series starring Ella Purnell now on Sky Atlantic! She’s back and killing for two… Rhiannon Lewis should be happy. Her cheating fiancé is in jail – framed for the depraved killing spree she committed. Her ex-lover is... Read more

Lost Girls

An Unsolved American Mystery

By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

New York Times Bestseller • Now a Netflix FilmThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.“Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.”—Washington Post
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert—after running through the oceanfront... Read more

The Good Spy

The Life and Death of Robert Ames

By: Kai Bird
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
 
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63... Read more

The Secret Barrister

Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

By: The Secret Barrister
Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

An anonymous barrister's darkly comic and moving first-hand account of life in the legal system, and how it's failing us all.

The Sunday Times number one bestseller.
Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

‘Eye-opening, funny and... Read more

Crooked

The Roaring '20s Tale of a Corrupt Attorney General, a Crusading Senator, and the Birth of the American Political Scandal

By: Nathan Masters
Narrated by: David H Lawrence XVII
Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

The riveting, forgotten narrative of the most corrupt attorney general in American history and the maverick senator who stopped at nothing to take him down


Many tales from the Jazz Age reek of crime and corruption. But perhaps the era’s greatest political fiasco—one that resulted in a nationwide scandal, a public reckoning at the Department of... Read more

Dancing with the Octopus

A Memoir of a Crime

By: Debora Harding
Narrated by: Debora Harding
Length: 12 hours 28 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Dancing with the Octopus written and read by Debora Harding.

For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire.

One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora... Read more

Defying Hitler

The Germans Who Resisted Nazi Rule

By: Gordon Thomas & Greg Lewis
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 22 hours 1 minute

"A terrifying and timely account of resistance in the face of the greatest of evils.”—Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of The First Wave

An enthralling story that vividly resurrects the web of everyday Germans who resisted Nazi rule

Nazi Germany is remembered as a nation of willing fanatics. But beneath the surface, countless... Read more

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much

The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star and Media Icon Dorothy Kilgallen

By: Mark Shaw
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw’s twenty-fifth book,... Read more

Furious Hours

Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By: Casey Cep
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

“In Cold Blood and To Kill a Mockingbird kept me up reading all night as a teen, and I can now add Furious Hours to the list of couldn’t-put-it-down tomes. I was enthralled, educated, and awestruck by Casey Cep’s well-researched and masterfully written true-crime account of a rural minister, his lawyer, and his killer. Thankfully, Cep discovered... Read more