True Crime audiobooks

Truth and Consequences

By: Laurie Sandell

Narrated by: Maggie Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In December 2008, the world watched as master financier Bernard L. Madoff was taken away from his posh Manhattan apartment in handcuffs, accused of swindling thousands of innocent victims-including friends and family-out of billions of dollars in the world's largest Ponzi scheme. Madoff went to jail; he will spend the rest of his life there. But... Read more

Dallas 1963

By: Bill Minutaglio & Steven L. Davis

Narrated by: Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis & Tony Messano

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest... Read more

Blood Royal

By: Eric Jager

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.

On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As... Read more

Shadows in the Vineyard

By: Maximillian Potter

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.

In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more

The Outlaw Sea

By: William Langewiesche

Narrated by: William Langewiesche

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Riveting stories of our last frontier and the acts of God and man upon it

Even if we live within sight of the sea, it is easy to forget that our world is an ocean world. The open ocean spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by... Read more

Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony

By: Keith Russell Ablow, MD

Narrated by: Henry Leyva

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The trial of twenty-five year old Casey Anthony for the death of her daughter Caylee was the most sensational case in America since O.J. Simpson's—with a verdict every bit as stunning. After being acquitted in July 2011, Ms. Anthony instantly became one of the most infamous women in the world.

Dr. Keith Ablow distills tens of thousands of pages... Read more

Mob Daughter

By: Karen Gravano & Lisa Pulitzer

Narrated by: Karen Gravano

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From Karen Gravano, a star of the hit VH1 reality show Mob Wives, comes a revealing memoir of a mafia childhood, where love and family come hand-in-hand with murder and betrayal.

Karen Gravano is the daughter of Sammy "the Bull" Gravano, once one of the mafia's most feared hit men. With nineteen confessed murders, the former Gambino Crime Family... Read more

Gangster Squad

By: Paul Lieberman

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"Read this man's book." --James Ellroy

Gangster Squad presents a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat narrative of murder and secrets, revenge and heroism in the City of Angels—the real events behind the blockbuster Warner Brothers film starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

GANGSTER SQUAD chronicles the true story of the... Read more

The Hour of Peril

By: Daniel Stashower

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." —Harlan Coben

Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War.

In February of 1861, just days before he... Read more

My Story

By: Elizabeth Smart & Chris Stewart

Narrated by: Elizabeth Smart

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing true story of abduction and survival from the courageous young woman who lived it—now the subject of a Lifetime original movie, I Am Elizabeth Smart.

In this memoir, Elizabeth Smart reveals how she survived and the secret to forging a new life in the wake of a brutal crime. On June 5, 2002, fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Smart, the... Read more

Whitey on Trial

By: Margaret McLean & Jon Leiberman

Narrated by: Aaron Lyons

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns and gangland-style extortions gripped the city of Boston for... Read more

Deliver Us from Evil: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural

By: Ralph Sarchie & Lisa Collier Cool

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Demonic possession. Exorcism. Haunted Houses. Satanic Rituals.

For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real—and dangerous—as midnight patrol . . .

A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South... Read more

A Death in Belmont

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.” —New York Times Book ReviewIn the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger examines the fatal collision of three lives during the infamous Boston Strangler serial murder caseIn the spring of... Read more

Bringing Adam Home

By: Les Standiford & Joe Matthews

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River“The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh’s….A taut, compelling and often... Read more

Restless Souls

By: Alisa Statman & Brie Tate

Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Gabra Zackman, Therese Plummer & Ro...

Length: 14 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murders of the beautiful and talented actress Sharon Tate, her unborn child and four others that same night at the hands of the notorious “Manson family” rocked the nation. As one of the most horrific crimes in modern history, these atrocities, the trial and the subsequent conviction of Charles Manson and his followers caused a... Read more

Imperfect Justice

By: Jeff Ashton

Narrated by: Jeff Ashton

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeff Ashton was part of the prosecution team in the Florida homicide trial of Casey Anthony, the single mother accused of murdering her little girl, Caylee. The most sensational courtroom drama since the infamous O.J. Simpson affair, the Casey Anthony trial had people coast-to-coast riveted. In his stunning true crime masterwork, Imperfect... Read more

Game Over

By: Bill Moushey & Robert Dvorchak

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking details chronicling how a beloved coach and esteemed university became enmeshed in one of the worst scandals in U.S. sports historyIt's a scandal that began in a place called Happy Valley. But it's not as happy as it once was, as the child-sex-abuse charges against a longtime coach and the conspiracy of silence surrounding the... Read more

Papillon

By: Henri Charriere

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 18 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Henri Charrière, called ""Papillon,"" for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was... Read more

The Bling Ring

By: Nancy Jo Sales

Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story that inspired the Sofia Coppola filmParis Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson: robbed. More than $3 million in stolen clothing, jewelry, shoes, and handbags reported missing. Who is behind one of the most brazen string of crimes in recent Hollywood history? Meet the Bling Ring: a band of club-hopping teenagers from... Read more

Deal with the Devil

By: Peter Lance

Narrated by: Peter Lance

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning investigative reporter: the shocking story of the mob killer who terrorized the streets of New York City for decades . . . while working for the FBIIn Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files and exclusive new interviews to disclose... Read more

Lost Girls

By: Robert Kolker

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Now a Netflix FilmThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.“Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.”—Washington Post
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert—after running through the oceanfront... Read more

Exposed

By: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander’s ex-girlfriend, the attractive and soft-spoken Jodi... Read more

The Most Dangerous Animal of All

By: Gary L. Stewart & Susan Mustafa

Narrated by: Gary L. Stewart

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be prepared to read non-stop; this really is a book you won’t be able to put down.” —Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles MansonAn... Read more

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

By: Karen Abbott

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four... Read more