True Crime audiobooks

Puzzles and Conundrums

By: John Harpoon

Narrated by: Gregory Felter

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a bundle of several titles which are:
- Dawn's Dilemma: Waking up in the morning is supposed to be a fresh start—a chance to begin anew, to seize the day. But for many, it is instead a moment of resistance, a time when the comfort of the bed feels more appealing than the promise of a productive day ahead. This paradox, where the... Read more

The Human Condition

By: John Harpoon

Narrated by: Gregory Felter

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

This book contains the following four titles:
- The Cereal Killer: The invention of breakfast cereal marked a turning point in modern eating habits, blending health-conscious innovation with industrial progress. During the late 19th century, many Americans consumed heavy, meat-based breakfasts, which were criticized by health reformers for... Read more

Lying in Wait - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ann Rule presents another collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories—drawn from her real-life personal files—in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific “baby sellers” in the country. She traveled all over the US,... Read more

Stung - Abridged

By: Gary Stephen Ross

Narrated by: Stephen Barker Turner

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: Yes

He was one of the brightest stars at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a brilliant young banker on his way to the top. But Brian Molony had a secret obsession: he loved to gamble. The unsuspecting bank was soon fuelling that obsession, as Molony helped himself to hundreds of thousands, then millions, of dollars in fraudulent loans. Despite... Read more

The Snakehead - Abridged

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe

Length: 4 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.

“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown,... Read more

Over the Edge - Abridged

By: Greg Child

Narrated by: Aramand Schultz

Length: 4 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“The climbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the... Read more

Wiseguy - Abridged

By: Nicholas Pileggi

Narrated by: Nicholas Pileggi

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Nicholas Pileggi’s vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill—the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that “to be a wiseguy was to own the world,” who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster’s life—has been hailed as “the best book ever written on organized crime” (Cosmopolitan).

This is... Read more

The Astrology of Serial Killers - Volume 1 - Abridged

By: Rhys Navarro

Narrated by: Kevin Kollins

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What turns a person into a serial killer? Is it possible their dark destiny was foretold in the stars? This book provides the background stories and driving forces behind 24 of the most notorious true crime serial killers of the previous century, including Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, and Richard Ramirez. But that's not all!!... Read more

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Suspect No. 1 - Abridged

By: Lise Pearlman

Narrated by: Lise Pearlman

Length: 13 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: Yes

 In the depths of the Depression, millions worldwide followed every twist and turn of the Lindbergh baby kidnap/murder. Yet what was reported was largely fake news. Nearly a century after undocumented immigrant Bruno Richard Hauptmann was executed for the dastardly crime, questions still linger. If the wrong man was convicted, who did it? When?... Read more

Empty Promises - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence.Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful... Read more

Everything She Ever Wanted - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

WAS SHE A SWEET SOUTHERN CHARMER?
OR A COLD-BLOODED KILLER?
For their wedding portrait, petite Pat Taylor and handsome Tom Allanson posed as Rhett and Scarlett. Both came from fine Southern families, and dreamed of the Tara-like plantation where they would grow roses, raise horses, and move in the genteel circles of Atlanta society. Less than... Read more

Blind Faith - Abridged

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: James Naughton

Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Marshalls were the perfect family in the perfect town. They had new cars and a permanent place in the country club set. Then, on a chilly September night, Maria Marshall--the beautiful wife and mother--was murdered in cold blood. The tragedy had only just begun.

While sympathy poured in for Maria's husband Rob and their three sons, the... Read more

Crime Beat - Abridged

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Len Cariou, Nancy McKeon & Carl Franklyn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of, course, the killers--to tell the real stories of... Read more

But I Trusted You - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The most fatal mistake?Trust. It's the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. Ann Rule, who famously chronicled her own shocking experience of unknowingly befriending a sociopath in "The Stranger Beside Me,"... Read more

Rey del Cachopo, rey del engaño - Abridged

By: Recopilación.

Narrated by: Abril Baja.

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Este libro examinará las claves del caso: ¿cómo un empresario aparentemente exitoso se convirtió en un asesino frío y metódico? ¿Qué llevó a Román a escribir esa carta de confesión? Acompáñanos en un viaje a través de los titulares, las investigaciones y los testimonios para descubrir la verdad detrás del Rey del Cachopo. Read more

Cronache di Serial Killers: Tamara Samsonova - Abridged

By: Miriam Palombi

Narrated by: Librinpillole, William Angiuli & Elisa Giorgio

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Tamara Samsonova, la serial killer russa conosciuta come la "Baba Jaga". Attraverso testimonianze inquietanti e dettagli cruenti annotati su un diario, conosceremo la vita travagliata di una donna disturbata. "Cronache di Serial Killers" è una serie audio che racconta le menti più oscure degli assassini seriali, con una combinazione di musiche... Read more

Shot in the Heart - Abridged

By: Mikal Gilmore

Narrated by: Will Patton

Length: 3 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.

Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer... Read more

Don't Look Behind You - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

I'll be watching you.Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you…run. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling... Read more

A Pretext for War - Abridged

By: James Bamford

Narrated by: Ray Childs

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Puzzle Palace presents his most hard-hitting book to date—a sweeping, authoritative, and fearless account of the failures of America’s intelligence agencies and the Bush administration’s calculated efforts to sell a war to the American people.

In The Puzzle Palace, James Bamford revealed the... Read more

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Real-life murder. Real-life mystery.In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America's #1 bestselling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are... Read more

Reasonable Doubts - Abridged

By: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrated by: Alan M. Dershowitz

Length: 3 hours 1 minute

Abridged: Yes

One of America's leading appeal lawyers, Alan Dershowitz, examines the American criminal justice system, critically analyzing its strengths and weaknesses. Using the O.J. Simpson murder case as the backdrop, Reasonable Doubts explores the larger issues that shape our country's legal system.

Chosen to prepare the appeal should O.J. Simpson be... Read more

In the Name of Love - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a final... Read more

Parkland - Abridged

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture! The exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

In Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November), author Vincent Bugliosi “has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America” (Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Releasing... Read more

Morir en el Intento - Abridged

By: Jorge Ramos

Narrated by: Jorge Ramos

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

On May 14th, 2003, the familiar risk taken by hopeful immigrants illegally crossing the Mexican-American border into the United States took a tragic turn. At least 74 illegal immigrants bound for Houston were crammed inside a sweltering truck trailer, which was found abandoned near Victoria, Texas. In the end, nineteen individuals died. Bodies... Read more