True Crime audiobooks

No Regrets

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed... Read more

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Mortal Danger

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

From trust to terror…from security to survival….Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy—America's most notorious serial killer—could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted but whose lethally violent nature, though... Read more

But I Trusted You

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Bad Girls

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phelps’s writing reads like a mystery novel.” —Suspense MagazineThe crime stunned quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his own bed, his invalid mother locked in the next room—and a cache of homemade porn starring the town’s underage girls. The two accused killers—teen lovers Bobbi Jo Smith and Jennifer... Read more

Obsessed

By: M. William Phelps

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience.” —Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently Sheila would react when he began seeing a co-worker, Anna... Read more

The Killing Kind

By: M. William Phelps

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer’s first victim. Nor would she be the last.The lush, green hills that mark the border of North and South... Read more

The Mad Sculptor

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

2015 Edgar Award NomineeBeekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: SKYSCRAPER SLAYER, BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again—and... Read more

Lying in Wait

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific “baby sellers” in the country. She traveled all over the US, murdered women who had just borne babies, and then stole their infants. She is still imprisoned in the South.A lovely, vibrant woman in San Antonio was found dead in a vacant lot. Her mother, a popular local... Read more

Man-Eater

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.”After the butchered remains of... Read more

Ripper

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as... Read more

Breaking Blue

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony... Read more

The Court of Last Resort

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of Perry Mason’s Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals.In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent.... Read more

Indefensible

By: Michael Griesbach

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer—and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was freed—and filed a thirty-six-million-dollar lawsuit against... Read more

Chasing Phil

By: David Howard

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting
 
1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their... Read more

Pill City

By: Kevin Deutsch

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

April 27, 2015 Mosher and Gilmore Streets, Baltimore, Maryland: Ground Zero in America’s Pill Wars.Near this crime-plagued corner, the death of Freddie Gray has triggered the worst domestic rioting in years - and created a terrifying new breed of criminal entrepreneur. Here, as looters and arsonists lay waste to parts of Baltimore, two of the... Read more

Hunting El Chapo

By: Andrew Hogan & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Andrew Hogan & Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s sensational investigative high-tech thriller—soon to be a major motion picture from Sony—chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El... Read more

Blue on Blue

By: Charles Campisi

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work—or both”... Read more

Incendiary

By: Michael Cannell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters... Read more

Of Face Value

By: Carol Harper

Narrated by: Irena Sylya

Length: 4 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

This true story is about a beautiful young woman whose face and the future she was on path to achieve was suddenly dashed when a drunk driver nearly cost her everything smashing every bone in her pretty face. Lisa Caulder' s life journey as she reinvents herself has become an inspiration for many who are overcoming life's most challenging events. Read more

The Nuclear Jihadist

By: Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins

Narrated by: Bob Craig

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of... Read more

The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move... Read more

The Accountant's Story

By: Roberto Escobar

Narrated by: Ruben Diaz

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"I have many scars. Some of them are physical, but many more are scars on my soul. A bomb sent to kill me while I was in a maximum security prison has made me blind, yet now I see the world more clearly than I have ever seen it before. I have lived an incredible adventure. I watched as my brother, Pablo Escobar, became the most successful... Read more

The Good Nurse

By: Charles Graeber

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing basis of the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain⁠—a “stunning book...that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood”—takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left as many as 400 dead. (New York Times)    
 
Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of... Read more