True Crime audiobooks

Trace

By: Rachael Brown

Narrated by: Rachael Brown

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Every cop has a case that dug its claws in and would not let go. For veteran detective Ron Iddles, it was his very first homicide case – the 1980 murder of single mother Maria James at the back of her Melbourne bookshop. He never managed to solve it, and it still grates like hell. Maria’s two sons, Mark and Adam, have lived in a holding pattern... Read more

The Astonishing History of Assassins

By: John Harpoon

Narrated by: Gregory Felter

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Throughout history, the act of assassination has been a tool of power, vengeance, and politics, often carried out in the shadows and shrouded in secrecy. From the ancient world to modern times, assassins have played pivotal roles in shaping the course of history. Yet, the nature of assassination has evolved, reflecting the complex interplay of... Read more

A Shrink in the Clink

By: Tim Watson-Munro

Narrated by: Tim Watson-Munro

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

DRUG LORDS. BLACK WIDOWS. CONTRACT KILLERS. MASS MURDERERS. PSYCHOPATHS. EVIL GENIUSES. No one gets closer to Australia’s craziest characters than Tim ‘Doc’ Watson-Munro, a criminal psychologist with 40 years’ experience assessing the mad, bad and dangerous. Tim started his career in the country’s toughest jail – ‘a shrink in the clink’ – and... Read more

True Colours

By: Lisa Davies

Narrated by: Julie Nihill

Length: 9 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

An innocent young woman, violently attacked in her family home by a total stranger and left to die. Beaten repeatedly and soaked with petrol as her home burned, Lauren Huxley's life was hanging by a thread. Lauren's battle to survive caused an outpouring of public love and support. The crime was so horrific, so senseless, anyone who read about... Read more

Murder on Easey Street

By: Helen Thomas

Narrated by: Helen Thomas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were savagely murdered in their house on Easey Street, Collingwood – stabbed multiple times while Suzanne’s 16-month-old baby slept in his cot. Although police established a list of more than 100 ‘persons of interest’, the case became one of the most infamous unsolved crimes in... Read more

I, Mick Gatto

By: Mick Gatto & Tom Noble

Narrated by: Simon Westaway

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mick Gatto in his bestselling autobiography finally reveals the man behind the headlines. Gatto's unique position – of knowing all the players in the Gangland Wars but not being involved in drug trafficking – gave him a remarkable perspective to watch the battles unfold. I, Mick Gatto is an extraordinary insight into a colourful and mysterious... Read more

Road to Nowhere

By: Mark "Chopper" Read

Narrated by: Andy McPhee

Length: 5 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

‘This book is about my journey through the Australian prison system. You’ll have heard a few of these stories before, but not like this. It’s a step-by-step history of my twenty-three years behind bars; what day to day life was really like in jail, what I did to survive and why I’ll never go back. It’s not a nice story. I was not a nice... Read more

When The Hangman Came to Galway

By: Dean Ruxton

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

As the train rattled westward on the outskirts of Dublin, James Berry didn’t stand out amongst his fellow passengers, but they couldn’t see the long, Italian silk rope coiled in the black leather bag by his side, nor the white cap and pinion straps, nor the revolver in his coat pocket. Galway, the winter of 1885. The violent murders of John... Read more

Mandatory Murder

By: Steven Schubert

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

At first it looked like a swag, said the grader driver who found the body just off the road outside the outback town of Katherine. Police identify the dead man as Ray Nicefero, who'd recently appeared in court for aggravated assault and breaching a domestic violence order. Three days later, the constabulary rounds up three young local suspects:... Read more

Killer Instinct

By: Donald Grant

Narrated by: John Derum

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant asks, what is it about murder that fascinates us? Is it the chill whisper of fear reminding us we too can kill? Grant describes ten true murder cases, each with unique triggers. For most of us, murder is an arm's length experience, close enough to frighten and fascinate yet far enough not to traumatise. For... Read more

Missing

By: Barry Cummins

Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan

Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From 1950 to the present day, there have been almost 900 long-term missing people in Ireland. The equivalent of a vibrant village, all gone, vanished without a trace. Where did they go? Are they dead or still alive somewhere? How many have been murdered? How many killers have got away with their crimes? RTÉ journalist Barry Cummins has... Read more

Death on the Derwent

By: Robin Bowles

Narrated by: Heather Bolton

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

When Bob Chappell disappeared from his yacht, moored in the Derwent Estuary near the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania's marina, on the night of 26 January 2009, he left behind his pipe and tobacco – something that his partner of 18 years, Sue Neill-Fraser, knew he would never willingly do. What she didn't know was that despite no body, no weapon, no... Read more

No Justice

By: Robin Bowles

Narrated by: Susan Lyons

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

On 19 July 1995, two young men stumbled upon a skeleton in a disused mineshaft near Bonnie Doon, Victoria. The sensational find was identified as the remains of transgender sex worker Adele Bailey, who had been missing for more than 17 years. How did Adele Bailey die and why was her body hidden in a forgotten mineshaft? Was there a connection... Read more

Crowded House

By: Frank Greaney

Narrated by: Frank Greaney

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In June 2017, a woman picnicking in the Wicklow Mountains stumbled upon something in a ditch that would set in motion a chain of events that horrified the nation. It was the first of 15 dismembered body parts belonging to retired hospital worker Patricia O’Connor. Kieran Greene, the father of three of Patricia’s grandchildren, later handed... Read more

Stalking Claremont

By: Bret Christian

Narrated by: Ant Neate

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early hours of January 27, 1996, after an evening spent celebrating at Club Bayview in the Perth suburb of Claremont, 18-year-old Sarah Spiers called a taxi to nearby Mosman Park. But when the cab arrived, she’d already gone. She was never seen again. Four months later, on June 9, 1996, 23-year-old Jane Rimmer disappeared from the same... Read more

Justice Denied

By: Robin Bowles

Narrated by: David Baldwin

Length: 13 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jaidyn Leskie was the child of Bilynda Williams and Brett Leskie, kidnapped and murdered in Australia in 1997. Despite leads, and the arrest and trial of a prime suspect, Leskie's murder remains unsolved. Despite deciding in 2002 not to hold an inquest into the toddler's death, the case remained in the news for several more years and an inquest... Read more

Great Australian Mysteries

By: Graham Seal

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Australia has always been a land of mysteries. Some are ancient, some are historical and many continue to perplex us today – and will probably continue to do so tomorrow. More often than most of us would like to think, things simply vanish and people disappear without explanation, leaving a trail of heartbreak across generations. Australia also... Read more

The Kelly Hunters

By: Grantlee Kieza

Narrated by: Tamblyn Lord

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train before waging their final bloody gun battle... Read more

The First Stone

By: Helen Garner

Narrated by: Helen Garner, Leigh Sales & Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The controversial book that Helen Garner wrote about the resulting Ormond College sexual harassment case caused a social... Read more

Joe Cinque’s Consolation

By: Helen Garner

Narrated by: Helen Garner

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

In October 1997, a clever young law student at the Australian National University made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests – most of them students – had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of Rohypnol... Read more

Death on Ireland's Eye

By: Dean Ruxton

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 8 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A tragic death, a murder trial and a 170-year-old mystery – but what really happened? Shortly after Maria Kirwan died in a lonely inlet on Ireland’s Eye, it was decided that she had drowned accidentally during a day spent with her husband on the picturesque island. This inquest verdict appeared to conclude the melancholy events that consumed... Read more

Marching Powder

By: Rusty Young

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney & Rusty Young

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. What followed took both men by surprise: they formed... Read more

The Happy Traitor

By: Simon Kuper

Narrated by: Kevin Spink

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

George Blake was the last remaining Cold War spy. As a Senior Officer in the British Intelligence Service who was double agent for the Soviet Union, his actions had devastating consequences for Britain. Yet he was also one of the least known double agents, and remained unrepentant. In 1961, Blake was sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for... Read more

Exposed

By: Caro Meldrum-Hanna

Narrated by: Caro Meldrum-Hanna

Length: 4 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Exposed is an emotionally gripping true-crime series and an extensive investigation into the untold story of the Ghost Train fire at Sydney’s iconic Luna Park. On a winter’s night over forty years ago a deadly fire tore through the Ghost Train ride at Sydney’s Luna Park in 1979, killing seven people – six of them children. After 42 years,... Read more