True Crime audiobooks

Spies in the Family

By: Eva Dillon

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed... Read more

The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it seems, we hear stories about hackers. Hackers breaking into the computers of banks, governments, and corporations. Some are criminals, coding to exploit and destroy. Others are activists, using their tools to challenge institutions and fight for freedom. But often these characters linger in the shadows. Who are they? What makes... Read more

The Cases That Haunt Us

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Violent, provocative, shocking. Call them what you will … but don’t call them open and shut.Did Lizzie Borden murder her own father and stepmother? Was Jack the Ripper actually the Duke of Clarence? Who killed JonBenet Ramsey? America’s foremost expert on criminal profiling and twenty-five-year FBI veteran John Douglas, along with author and... Read more

Zodiac

By: Robert Graysmith

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover’s lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He... Read more

The Case of Abraham Lincoln

By: Julie M. Fenster

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1856, he became drawn to the case of the gruesome murder of a blacksmith named George Anderson. Lincoln was asked... Read more

People Who Eat Darkness

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave. The seven months in between had seen a massive search for the missing girl involving Japanese policemen, British private detectives, and... Read more

Tinseltown

By: William J. Mann

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's... Read more

Duel with the Devil

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out... Read more

Never Enough

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife, three young children, and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe." That marriage—to investment banker Robert Kissel—ended one November night in 2003 in their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour when Robert... Read more

Hack Attack

By: Nick Davies

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voice mail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for the Guardian, knew it didn't add up. He began to investigate and ended up... Read more

Poison Candy

By: Elizabeth Parker & Mark Ebner

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In August 2009, former madam Dalia Dippolito conspired with a hit man to arrange her ex-con husband’s murder. Days later, it seemed as if all had gone according to plan. The beautiful young Dalia came home from her health club to an elaborate crime scene, complete with yellow tape outlining her townhome and police milling about. When Sgt. Frank... Read more

Final Destination: Disaster

By: George Jehn

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Final Destination: Disaster informs the public, for the very first time, of what actually precipitated the controversial sale of Eastern Airlines—at one time the second largest airline in the free world—to Frank Lorenzo’s Texas Air Corporation, which led to its certain demise. This unbelievable story is written by an eighteen-year veteran... Read more

A Very English Scandal

By: John Preston

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for a television mini-series starring Hugh Grant, now a nominee for an Emmy AwardA behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secretsAs a member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and ’70s, Jeremy... Read more

Target: JFK

By: Robert K. Wilcox

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of a mysterious, dashing stuntman-turned-spy who may have been behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination.His name was René Dussaq. He was born in Buenos Aires and educated in Geneva and Cuba. He was a daring WWII paratrooper who parachuted behind enemy lines for dangerous undercover work in support of the French Resistance. He was a... Read more

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

By: Martin Corona & Tony Rafael

Narrated by: Jacob Vargas

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life.
 
Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life... Read more

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much

By: Mark Shaw

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Murder in the Family

By: Burl Barer

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. After an... Read more

Dance with the Devil

By: David Bagby

Narrated by: Allan Edwards

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds... Read more

Two Truths and a Lie

By: Ellen McGarrahan

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

EDGAR AWARD FINALIST • A private investigator revisits the case that has haunted her for decades and sets out on a deeply personal quest to sort truth from lies.
 
CLUE AWARD FINALIST • “[A] haunting memoir, which also unfolds as a gripping true-crime narrative . . . This is a powerful, unsettling story, told with bracing honesty and skill.”—The... Read more

Ghost of the Innocent Man

By: Benjamin Rachlin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.

During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of... Read more

Because You Loved Me

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A LIFE TAKEN
Jeanne Dominico’s fiancé found her body on her kitchen floor. More than forty stab wounds and blows to her head with a blunt instrument had cut her life short. What monster had struck in the heart of a peaceful New England town?A TRUST BETRAYED
Jeanne was a hard-working single mother. Nicole, her fourteen-year-old daughter was on the... Read more

Perfect Poison

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Serial Killer on Ward C In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse—so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the “Angel of Death.” Yet most... Read more

If Looks Could Kill

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

“A great true crime story…Readers will feel the effects of Phelps’ skill from beginning to end.” - Stephen SingularBig and brash, Jeff Zack didn’t hide his rough lifestyle. And when he died, it was in plain sight: executed in the parking lot of a BJ’s Wholesale Club in Akron, Ohio, by a motorcycle-riding assassin dressed in black.“Phelps uses a... Read more

Lethal Guardian

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Family Feud
A real estate lawyer in Connecticut’s moneyed seaside communities, Beth Ann Carpenter, 30, had beauty, brains, and success. But she wanted more—namely guardianship of her two-year-old niece, Rebecca, daughter of Beth’s estranged sister, Kim. When Kim married Anson “Buzz” Clinton, 28, a former male exotic dancer deemed an unsuitable... Read more