True Crime bestsellers

The Secret History of the Rape Kit

A True Crime Story

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

“The Secret History of the Rape Kit by Pagan Kennedy is a hard read, especially if you're a survivor, but it's such a necessary book. It's a history of how the rape kit came to be, but it's also an examination of the flaws in the system around it. And by the end, you do get to see where they're trying to come up with a better way, so there's some... 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

The Wager

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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

“I loved this nautical true story of mutiny on the high seas. The men lived by such a strict code. What IS to be done when the captain loses the confidence and respect of some of his crew? In a culture and atmosphere where your RANK determines whether your account of events is to be read, let alone believed, it makes for a very interesting... 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

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

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

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

“The three sections of the book each cover a different part of this bizarre and unbelievable but true murder mystery: the investigation, the trial, and the aftermath. Each time I finished a section, I kind of assumed the interesting part was over. And each time I was WRONG. This book kept me guessing all the way to the end, and then some. 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

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of... 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

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

“This mesmerizing, unbelievable true story of many people who were accused, found guilty, and convicted of crimes they didn't commit is very startling and eye-opening. I can't stop thinking about it and wondering how the U.S. judicial system got here and what we can do to help make it be better. This book should be read, shared, and remembered. 5... Read more

The Sinners All Bow

Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!

One of Amazon’s Best History Books of January

Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America.

On a... 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 Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

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

“One of the best books I read in 2024. Wright Thompson is a true poet and masterfully weaves his personal connection with Mississippi with the tragic legacy of Emmitt Till. Highly recommended. Plus, Wright Thompson is the PERFECT reader for the audiobook. 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

“Rosen deftly explores how language, the law, politics and the media impact our perceptions of 'madness', while also telling us the moving life story of his genius childhood friend Michael who is battling schizophrenia. Well-researched. Moving. Thought-provoking. Unforgettable. 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

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

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

“Anybody can be vulnerable and fall victim to someone taking advantage of them. This true account was very compelling. Some disturbing actions are beyond the reach of the law. Read more

All That Is Wicked

A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
Length: 9 hours

Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind.

Edward Rulloff was a... Read more

We Keep the Dead Close

A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

By: Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

“As much a journey for the writer as it is for the reader, this book solves a murder but leaves us with many unanswered questions. We Keep the Dead Close challenges us to question our assumptions as well as the paths we use to arrive at those assumptions. Delving into the academic culture of Harvard, the misogyny of the 1960s, and the burgeoning... Read more

A Mother's Reckoning

Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

By: Sue Klebold
Narrated by: Sue Klebold
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four... Read more

The Fort Bragg Cartel

Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces

By: Seth Harp
Length: TBA

A groundbreaking investigation into a string of unsolved murders at America’s largest military base, and what the crimes reveal about drug-trafficking and impunity among elite special operations soldiers

Two dead bodies were discovered in a forested area of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2020. One, William “Billy” Lavigne, was a member of Delta... 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

Tell Me Everything

The Story of a Private Investigation

By: Erika Krouse
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“Erika has a face that makes strangers tell her their deepest secrets. After a chance encounter with a lawyer in a bookstore, she finds herself starting a job as a private investigator, despite her lack of formal experience. The case that dominates the book concerns the pervasive rape culture and constant coverups of the University of Colorado... 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

“An overwhelmingly obsessed Michelle McNamara dissects the decades old trail of tragedy, trauma and ongoing taunts by the elusive East Area Rapist in her investigative crime thriller “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” published posthumously after her unexpected demise. Dubbed the “Golden State Killer” by McNamara herself, his crime spree started with 50... 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

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

Opus

The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church

By: Gareth Gore
Narrated by: Gareth Gore
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.

For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of the most profitable banks in the world—until one day, in... Read more

The Killing Fields of East New York

The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood

By: Stacy Horn
Narrated by: EJ Lavery
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old... Read more

The Sing Sing Files

One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian
Narrated by: Dan Slepian
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

“Bristling with urgency, empathy, and determination…this is investigative journalism at its best and most necessary.”—AudioFile

The author's podcast, Letters from Sing Sing, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

This program is read by the author and features sound design and original archival sound recordings from Sing Sing maximum-security prison,... Read more

American Kingpin

The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

By: Nick Bilton
Narrated by: Will Damron
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it
 
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone... 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

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

Tremors in the Blood

Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector

By: Amit Katwala
Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Late one evening in the summer of 1922, Henry Wilkens burst through the doors of the emergency room covered in his wife’s blood. But was he a grieving husband or a ruthless killer who conspired with bandits to have her murdered? To find out, the San Francisco police turned to technology and a new machine that had just been invented in Berkeley... Read more

Beverly Hills Noir

Crime, Sin, & Scandal in 90210

By: Scott Huver
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Featured in Vanity Fair
Beverly Hills Noir explores the city’s true crime history, delving deep inside cases
that made headlines, scandals that engulfed Hollywood legends, and more
strange-but-true tales that could only happen in the 90210.
Beverly Hills Noir chronicles an assortment of jaw-dropping true crime stories
spanning the legendary city’s... Read more

Death in the Air

The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.

London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five... Read more

The King of Diamonds

The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief

By: Rena Pederson
Narrated by: Erin Dion
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena... Read more

Four Shots in the Night

A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

By: Henry Hemming
Narrated by: Jamie Parker & Henry Hemming
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Four Shots in the Night is the story of a political murder: the killing of an IRA member turned British informant. 

The search for justice for this one man's death—his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit—would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns,... Read more

The Ghost Club

A Penguin Audiobook Original

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
Length: 4 hours 1 minute

This audio original from the acclaimed author of American Sherlock, and the host of multiple true-crime podcasts, including Wicked Words, tells the fascinating story of the supernatural, and the club that united some of the world's most illustrious thinkers.

For more than a century, some of the world’s most important thinkers and leaders—men like... Read more

A Killer by Design

Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

By: Ann Wolbert Burgess
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Written by the forensic nurse who transformed the way the FBI profiles and catches serial killers, this thought-provoking book takes an intimate look at the creation of the Behavioral Science Unit–the inspiration for Hulu’s Mastermind documentary. In the 1970s, the FBI created the "Mindhunters" (better known as the Behavioral Science Unit) to... Read more

The Dinosaur Artist

Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy

By: Paige Williams
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).

In 2012, a New York auction... Read more

The Peepshow

The Murders at Rillington Place

By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Nicola Walker
Length: TBA

*Named a Best Book of 2024 by FT * Longlisted 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

American Kompromat

How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

By: Craig Unger
Narrated by: Jason Culp
Length: 12 hours 23 minutes

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**

Kompromat n.—Russian for "compromising information"

This is a story about the dirty secrets of the most powerful people in the world—including Donald Trump.

It is based on exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources—intelligence officers in the CIA, FBI, and the KGB, thousands of ... Read more

The Scientist and the Spy

A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage

By: Mara Hvistendahl
Narrated by: James Lurie & Mara Hvistendahl
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
 
In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under... Read more

The Rent Collectors

Exploitation, Murder, and Redemption in Immigrant LA

By: Jesse Katz
Narrated by: Jesse Katz
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

"A searing account of gang violence and its consequences . . . Macedo's grim story, expertly documented by Katz, cries for a documentary series to follow his fortunes as, after years in prison, he strives for redemption. A masterful work of true crime—and, to be sure, true punishment." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred review)



Baby-faced teen Giovanni... 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

Identity

Murder, Fraud and the Making of a Garda Forensic Expert

By: John Sweetman
Narrated by: Aiden Kelly
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

When a violent incident in his stationed town led John Sweetman into the Garda Technical Bureau with incriminating evidence, the course of his life changed dramatically. As a young garda struggling with personal demons, he went from being on verge of leaving the force to finding his true calling.

John spent the next 25 years as a detective garda... 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

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

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

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