True Crime audiobooks

Prison Break

By: Arthur Taylor

Narrated by: Christopher Brown & Alina Siegfried

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Arthur Taylor is New Zealand's best known, most influential and colourful career criminal. A household name, he was paroled from prison in 2019 after more than 38 years behind bars. His life story is nothing short of remarkable. He has more than 150 convictions ranging from bank robberies to fraud, theft, escaping and having weapons and... Read more

The Violence Project

By: Jillian Peterson & James Densley

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Using data from groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including direct accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence Project charts new pathways to prevention and innovative ways to stop the social contagion of violence. Peterson and Densley have examined hundreds of data points in the life histories of more than 170 mass... Read more

Killing Juanita

By: Peter Rees

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

On 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen set out on foot through the wintry streets of Sydney's red-light district. The chic heiress and newspaper publisher had a business meeting with a man called Eddie Trigg, a manager at the seedy Carousel Cabaret nightclub in Kings Cross. The following day, Juanita was reported missing. She has not been seen since... Read more

Operation Jungle

By: John Shobbrook

Narrated by: Ant Neate, Matthew Condon & Quentin Dempster

Length: 5 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain-top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only recovered one of the two packages. When narcotics agent John... Read more

Barrenjoey Road

By: Neil Mercer & Ruby Jones

Narrated by: Emma Cary

Length: 8 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Bordered on one side by the glistening blue of the Pacific, hemmed by pristine sandy coves, and on the other by the rugged bushland of Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, it was the kind of place where everyone knew everyone. No wonder the area was known as ‘the Insular Peninsula’. So, when popular local 18-year-old Trudie Adams disappeared one... Read more

Evil Life

By: Clive Small & Tom Gilling

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This is the first time its real story in this country has ever been told. The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing... Read more

Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags

By: Jim Haynes

Narrated by: Jim Haynes

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

The bold, the bad and the slightly mad … Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles 15 larger-than-life Aussie rogues. These stories uncover the truth and expose the myths about characters ranging from the most despicable examples of humanity, to... Read more

Justice Denied

By: Bill Hosking QC & John Suter Linton

Narrated by: Robert Meldrum

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Hosking looks back at his career as a criminal barrister in a candid account of his time at the bar. He tells the true story behind some of his most famous cases, including the Hilton bombings, ‘Toecutter’ Jimmy Driscoll’s attempt to avoid prison time and the Anita Cobby trial. At Bill’s side we also meet some larger-than-life characters,... Read more

Denny Day

By: Terry Smyth

Narrated by: Robert Meldrum

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Once there was a wilderness: Australia's frontier, a dangerous and unforgiving place where outlaws ruled the roads and killers were hailed as heroes. It was here, in 1838, that one man's uncompromising sense of justice changed history and shocked the world. Denny Day was a vicar's son from Ireland. A member of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, as a... Read more

This Mortal Boy

By: Fiona Kidman

Narrated by: Simon London

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Black, known as the 'jukebox killer', was only 20 when he was convicted of murdering another young man in a fight at a milk bar in Auckland on 26 July 1955. His crime fuelled growing moral panic about teenagers, and he was to hang less than five months later, the second-to-last person to be executed in New Zealand. But what really... Read more

Written on the Skin

By: Liz Porter

Narrated by: Elizabeth Kaye

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In a close examination of an assault victim's body, a forensic physician can 'read' the terrible alphabet that fists and weapons have written across it. A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site, enabling him to find the can opener that made them - and the bomb-maker who used... Read more

The Lost Girls

By: Ava Benny-Morrison

Narrated by: Fiona Macleod

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

How did two girls go missing for seven years and nobody noticed? In August 2010, the bones of a young woman were found in the Belanglo State Forest, where, years earlier, Ivan Milat had tortured and slain seven young backpackers. Dubbed Angel, her remains lay unidentified for years. Who was she, how did she die, and at whose hand? Then, in... Read more

Death Row: The Final Minutes

By: Michelle Lyons

Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow, John Moraitis & Michelle Lyons

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In 12 years, Michelle Lyons witnessed nearly 300 executions. First as a reporter and then as a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Michelle was a frequent visitor to Huntsville’s Walls Unit, where she recorded and relayed the final moments of death row inmates’ lives before they were put to death by the state. Michelle... Read more

True Crime Canada

By: Adrian Langenscheid

Narrated by: Anne Davaud

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Dans le neuvième volume de sa série True Crime (et le cinquième traduit en français) Adrian Langenscheid auteur allemand de best-sellers sur le « vrai crime » nous propose une fois de plus une lecture palpitante et addictive. Il nous offre un portrait hallucinant et profondément déchirant des abîmes de l'âme humaine, qui suscite des émotions... Read more

The Border Bandits (Unabridged)

By: J. W. Buel

Narrated by: Nelda Partridge, Shawn Honeycutt, William Ray &...

Length: 4 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

'An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters.'' (from the author's sub-title) The James brothers emerged from the Confederate guerrillas to become notorious outlaws of the... Read more

Borgata

By: Louis Ferrante

Narrated by: Louis Ferrante

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The first serious external threat to the mafia's existence in America comes from U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who repeatedly expresses his desire to eradicate organized crime in America. Kennedy unleashes the full force of the U.S. Justice Department to the apparent dismay of long-time FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The mafia's... Read more

Foul Play (Unabridged)

By: Charles READE

Narrated by: Brandon Hodge, Ricky Richard, Robert Vidot & Bi...

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Wrongly convicted of a crime, Robert Penfold is condemned to 5 years penal servitude. After a year he is transported on the hulk VENGEANCE destined for Australia. Once again karma is against him, and he is shipwrecked on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Helen Rolleston (the woman he loves and who does not even recognize him) happens to... Read more

Cato (Unabridged)

By: Joseph ADDISON

Narrated by: Whitney Eason, John Sanders, Mark Medina & Myrt...

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Immerse yourself in the epic tragedy of Cato, a pillar of Roman virtue. As the Republic crumbles, Caesar's ambition threatens to engulf all. Will Cato, a man of unwavering principles, bend to tyranny? Witness a clash of ideals in this powerful drama. Experience the weight of duty, the fight for liberty, and the ultimate price of unwavering... Read more

True Crime Case Histories - (Books 13, 14, & 15)

By: Jason Neal

Narrated by: Simon de Deney

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and DeceptionThree Book Collection: Volumes 13, 14, and 15 of the True Crime Case Histories Series***This series can be listened to in any order ***This compilation of 36 stories across three True Crime books contains deeply disturbing content. Unlike typical news reports or TV shows that often sanitize... Read more

Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3 (Unabridged)

By: Arthur L. Hayward

Narrated by: Antonio Rodriguez, Cesar Howell, Sophia Milla &...

Length: 10 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published in 1735. Please note that some listeners may find the language and terminology in some chapters offensive. It is policy to... Read more

Fifty Years a Detective (Unabridged)

By: Thomas Furlong

Narrated by: Roger Stevenson, Debra Cox, Beverly Anderson & ...

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his company, (Co. G., 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, better known as the Pennsylvania Bucktails) for special service. Read more

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (UNABRIDGED)

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Magdalena Williams, Wesley Atwater, Ethel Lilli...

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations from nuns of a nearby convent, who claimed that Grandier has sent several demons upon them. The case is very well documented, and the... Read more

The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2 (UNABRIDGED)

By: ARTHUR GRIFFITHS

Narrated by: Jimmy Blight, Julia Stapp, Henry Mcintire & Dul...

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing wrong-doers, but additionally subjecting them to "starvation or the withholding of fluid, by... Read more

American State Trials (Unabridged)

By: John D. Lawson

Narrated by: Carol Meadows, Sherri Sullivan, Michael Meador ...

Length: 41 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of the important and interesting criminal trials which have taken place in the United States from the beginning of our government to the present day". To the general public this series will certainly appeal as the most interesting and instructive work which has been published in this country for many years. The trial of judicial... Read more