True Crime audiobooks

The Map Thief

By: Michael Blanding

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.



Once considered a... Read more

The Quiet Don

By: Matt Birkbeck

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

To what extent was Rosario "Russell" Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975? In the CIA's recruitment of gangsters to assassinate Fidel Castro? In organizing the historic meeting of crime chieftains in 1957? Even in the production of The Godfather movie?



Secretive—even reclusive—Russell Bufalino quietly built his... Read more

Newtown

By: Matthew Lysiak

Narrated by: Adam Verner

Length: 7 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

12/14/2012



Sandy Hook Elementary School



Newtown, Connecticut



We remember the numbers: 20 children and 6 adults, murdered in a place of nurture and trust. We remember the names: teachers like Victoria Soto, who lost her life protecting her students. A shooter named Adam Lanza. And we remember the questions: outraged conjecture instantly monopolized... Read more

Vinny Gorgeous

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A vain man of good looks, small means, and no family links to the mob, Vincent "Vinny Gorgeous" Basciano steadily worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to the clink in 2003. But at a time when the Mob was crawling with secret operatives and informants caving to... Read more

Shattered

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king . . . and David Temple was a prince. A former high school and college gridiron star-turned-coach, he had a fairy-tale marriage to bright, vivacious Belinda Lucas, a teacher at the local high school who was so warm and popular her colleagues called her "The Sunshine... Read more

The Cornbread Mafia

By: James Higdon

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and
harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times. In doing
so, he set into motion a series of events that defined him and his associates
as the largest homegrown marijuana syndicate in American history, also known as
the Cornbread Mafia.



Author James Higdon—whose relationship... Read more

Betrayal

By: Robert Fitzpatrick & Jon Land

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 9 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The Jack Nicholson film The Departed didn't tell half of their story. A poor kid from the slums, Robert Fitzpatrick grew up to become a stellar FBI agent and challenge the country's deadliest gangsters. Relentless in his desire to catch, prosecute, and convict Whitey Bulger, Fitzpatrick fought the nation's most determined cop-gangster battle... Read more

The Serial Killer Whisperer

By: Pete Earley

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 13 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Tony Ciaglia had everything a teenager could want—good grades, good athletic skills, and good friends—until he suffered a horrific head injury at summer camp. Pronounced clinically dead three times by helicopter paramedics before he reached a hospital, Ciaglia lapsed into a coma. When he emerged, his right side was paralyzed and... Read more

Operation Family Secrets

By: Frank Calabrese, Jr., Paul Pompian, Keith Zimme...

Narrated by: Todd McLaren

Length: 10 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The Calabrese family of Chicago is a close-knit, middle-class, multi-generational Italian-Irish-American clan. They operate family businesses. They work day and night striving for the American Dream. All three sons forge a bond with their controlling father, Frank Sr., and their soft-spoken favorite uncle, Nick. As a boy, the oldest son, Frank... Read more

The Last Narco

By: Malcolm Beith

Narrated by: John Allen Nelson

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The dense hills of Sinaloa, Mexico, are home to the most powerful drug lord since Pablo Escobar: Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. Responsible for uncountable murders since taking charge of the Sinaloa cartel in the 1990s, and a central figure in the recent surge in drug-related violence and bloodshed, Guzman is among the world's ten most wanted... Read more

The First Family

By: Mike Dash

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Before the Five Families who so notoriously dominated U.S. organized crime for a bloody half-century, there was the one-fingered, surpassingly cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Born into a life of poverty in rural Sicily, Morello became an American nightmare, pioneering the bizarre initiation rituals, imaginative... Read more

Making Jack Falcone

By: Joaquin "Jack" Garcia & Michael Levin

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

At six-foot-four-inches and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. "Big Jack Falcone," as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syndicate and its illegal... Read more

The Brotherhoods

By: Guy Lawson & William Oldham

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 24 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the shocking crimes of NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops convicted in April 2006 of the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their acts behind their badges while they worked for the mob. Their crimes included participation in the murders of at least... Read more

Notorious C.O.P.

By: Matt Diehl & Derrick Parker

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion and even murder, in today's world rappers need rap sheets before they can even hope to have a platinum record. So with all this grandstanding about their criminal nature, why haven't more hip-hop artists been busted for the crimes that they brag of,... Read more

Unholy Messenger

By: Stephen Singular

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas, where he had lived with his family almost his entire life. He was a town compliance officer, a former Boy Scout leader, the president of his church congregation, and a seemingly ordinary father and husband. But Rader's average life belied the existence... Read more

Till Death Do Us Part

By: Matt Birkbeck & Robi Ludwig

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day six people are murdered in the United States by a spouse or intimate partner. The stories of killer spouses capture the public's attention—we wonder how such normal and seemingly happy people can go over the edge. In every relationship there are "extreme moments" where scary feelings surface. But what happens when those feelings turn... Read more

A Very Expensive Poison

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian’s former Moscow bureau chief and author of The Snowden Files and Collusion

On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium—a rare, lethal, and... Read more

Alligator Candy: A Memoir

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.

David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding... Read more

Murder in the Bayou

By: Ethan Brown

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000... Read more

Wolf Boys

By: Dan Slater

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times)

In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. At first glance,... Read more

American Kingpin

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Confidential Source Ninety-Six

By: C.S. 96 & Rob Cea

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A HARROWING JOURNEY INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DRUG CARTELS BY ONE OF THE TOP CRIMINAL INFORMANTS IN U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named... Read more

Agent M

By: Henry Hemming

Narrated by: Henry Hemming

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M.

Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this... Read more

Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism

“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be... Read more