True Crime audiobooks

The Murder of the Century

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police... Read more

The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York’s Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

Even before he was shot dead on... Read more

Pimp

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale—the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all... Read more

Chasing Shadows

By: Fred Burton

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1973, a gunman fired five shots into Colonel Joe Alon, a kind, unassuming Israeli Air Force pilot. As it turned out, Alon wasn't just a pilot and family man - he was a high-ranking Israeli military official and hero of the Israeli Air Force. The assassin was never found and the case was closed. As a counterterrorism special agent, Fred Burton... Read more

The Floor of Heaven

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian... Read more

The Assassin's Accomplice

By: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Assassin’s Accomplice, historian Kate Clifford Larson tells the gripping story of Mary Surratt, a little-known conspirator in the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln, and the first woman ever to be executed by the federal government. A Confederate sympathizer, Surratt ran the boarding house where the conspirators met to plan Lincoln’s... Read more

Tangled Webs

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic.

Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the... Read more

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs

By: Patrick K. O’Donnell

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs is a superbly told story of the men and women of the OSS. They helped write the book on special operations. I was struck by the similarity of the context of their stories to ones I've experienced in different combat situations. This book is a must-read for those in the special operations business today and... Read more

Green River, Running Red

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer.

In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near... Read more

Dead by Sunset

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them.

The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files... Read more

In the Still of the Night

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.

It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and... Read more

Bringing Adam Home

By: Les Standiford & Joe Matthews

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River“The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh’s….A taut, compelling and often... Read more

The Prosecutors - Abridged

By: Gary Delsohn

Narrated by: Gary Delsohn

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Depicting American justice at its best and worst, The Prosecutors lifts the lid off today’s legal system with details that are more shocking and graphic than any television show or bestselling novel.

Allowed unprecedented access inside an urban prosecutors’ office, Gary Delsohn provides a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at how America’s... Read more

Too Late to Say Goodbye

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their life—handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success—but one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the provocation.

Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to... Read more

In the Still of the Night - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.

It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and... Read more

The Killer of Little Shepherds

By: Douglas Starr

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.

At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre... Read more

Black Bird

By: James Keene

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Keene grew up outside of Chicago and was destined for greatness on the football field. By the time he reached his twenties, he was rubbing shoulders with famous actors, porn stars, and the children of powerful politicians. He had it all: cars, girls, and houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade... Read more

The Hilliker Curse

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: James Ellroy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.”

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his... Read more

The Murder Room

By: Michael Capuzzo

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Michael Capuzzo, the author of the New York Times bestseller Close to Shore , brings listeners into the Vidocq Society, a team of the world’s foremost forensic investigators, who meet each month to solve cold cases and bring murderers to justice.

Three of the greatest detectives in the world—a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor... Read more

Alone

By: Tere Duperrault Fassbender & Richard Logan

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A tanker steaming through the deep Northwest Providence Channel of the Bahamas comes across a shocking sight: a lone dinghy carrying Captain Julian Harvey and the body of a young girl. They are all that remain of the ketch Bluebelle, a handsome sixty-foot sailing yacht chartered by the Duperrault family of Green Bay, Wisconsin. But their happy... Read more

Original Gangster

By: Frank Lucas

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In his own words, real-life American gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian Mafia's monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly... Read more

Get Capone

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you've never seen him before. In addition to IRS files, Eig got hold of the personal papers... Read more

A Captain's Duty

By: Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." —President Barack Obama

It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a United States–flagged cargo ship that was carrying, among... Read more

Murder City

By: Charles Bowden

Narrated by: Charles Bowden

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's warring cartels, Juárez is the border city that most brutally exposes the lies that we tell ourselves about globalization, NAFTA, immigration, corruption, and the war on drugs. Once known only as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad and Mogadishu. In this... Read more