True Crime audiobooks

Porqué Los Romanos Crucificaban A Sus Condenados ?

By: Onofre Quezada

Narrated by: Anonimo & Onofre Quezada

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

"¿Por qué los romanos crucificaban a sus condenados?" es un profundo análisis histórico que arroja luz sobre una de las prácticas más infames de la antigüedad: la crucifixión en el Imperio Romano. Desde sus raíces en la antigua Roma hasta su significado social, político y religioso, este libro examina detalladamente las motivaciones detrás de... Read more

Cuchillo

By: Salman Rushdie

Narrated by: Juan Ricardo León

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

En estas desgarradoras nuevas memorias, Salman Rushdie -escritor internacionalmente admirado, defensor de la libertad de expresión y ganador del Premio Booker de los Bookers y del Premio de La Paz de los Libreros alemanes, entre otros muchos- narra cómo sobrevivió al atentado contra su vida treinta años después de la fatwa que ordenó el ayatolá... Read more

The Prisoner

By: Vladimir Pereverzin

Narrated by: Sean Barrett

Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

'A bleak and vivid account' BBC Radio 4‘I am haunted by the feeling that it is not me I’m writing about, but some other man who lived through it all. It is as though I was watching a film about him, reading a book on him. And here is that book’Shocking, but laced with wry humour, Vladimir Pereverzin’s extraordinary story is of an ordinary man... Read more

Bloodline Hustle

By: Xavier Tharpe

Narrated by: John Barner

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

We need to be careful before choosing our enemies and our friends. Everything can be over with the sound of a gunshot. The slightest mistake can cost a life, especially when running a drug business; everyone is waiting for an opportunity to sting you like a scorpion. A life like that comes with an expensive price tag.
From being raised on the... Read more

The Yuba County 5

By: Daniel Turmoil

Narrated by: Derik Hendrikson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Situated in Northern California, Yuba County boasts vast wilderness, rugged terrain, and close-knit communities. However, the families of five local individuals were left to grapple with the heart-wrenching mystery of their sudden disappearance on a cold winter night in 1978. Even now, the mystery remains unsolved. On the night they went... Read more

How to Start a War

By: Michael Trapani

Narrated by: Michael Trapani

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

How To Start a War is unlike any audiobook you’ve ever listened to …This new and expanded edition includes the complete story arc of How To Start a War, unabridged and with significant new material, as the author originally intended.Adapted from the popular podcast miniseries of the same name, Michael Trapani immerses listeners in the dramatic... Read more

The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland & Tracy Ullman

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr. was only fourteen when he first became entangled with serial rapist and murderer Dean Corll in 1971. Fellow Houston, Texas, teenager David Brooks had already been ensnared by the charming older man, bribed with cash to help lure boys to Corll's home. Corll baited Henley with the same deal he'd given Brooks: $200 for each... Read more

The Devil to Pay

By: Sean Scott Hicks

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Goodfellas meets the Irish mob in The Devil to Pay, the incredible true story of one man’s unconventional upbringing in the criminal gangs of Boston and his eventual road to redemption.Growing up in South Boston, Sean Scott Hicks was running jobs for the Irish mob before his voice changed. Mistreated by his drug-addled mother, Hicks found... Read more

Borgata

By: Louis Ferrante

Narrated by: Louis Ferrante

Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily... Read more

Loving Natalee

By: Beth Holloway

Narrated by: Beth Holloway & Suehyla El-Attar Young

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In May of 2005, Beth Holloway received the worst phone call a parent can imagine. Her beautiful daughter, Natalee, had vanished without a trace in Aruba during her high school senior class trip. Four years later, Beth Holloway steps forward to tell the story of her daughter's disappearance and her own harrowing ordeal—and her never-ending belief... Read more

True Crime Neuseeland

By: Adrian Langenscheid

Narrated by: Julia Kahle

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

True Crime-Erfolgsautor Adrian Langenscheid entfacht erneut mit seinen schockierenden Kurzgeschichten über wahre Verbrechen aus Neuseeland herzklopfendes Hörvergnügen. Es ist ein atemberaubendes, zutiefst erschütterndes Portrait menschlicher Abgründe, das gerade wegen seiner kühlen, sachlich-neutralen Schilderung gewaltige Emotionen weckt. ... Read more

Oblations

By: Ayat Al-Sabban

Narrated by: Pandarosh

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Oblations is a mystery and suspense novel that tells the story of a young man who moves from his university in Alexandria to Cairo, where he encounters his twin brother after 20 years. They embark on an exciting research journey full of dangers and crimes to discover a strange secret. What are the offerings and to whom did they come? Read more

Traficante de Esperanza

By: Monty Esté

Narrated by: Monty Esté

Length: 6 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Esta es la historia de un joven que ha tenido que caminar identidad y encontrar el porqué de su vida en este plano
Una familia disfuncional trazó para él un camino distorsionado en el que experimentó una serie de acontecimientos que lo empujaron al consumo de alcohol, psicotrópicos y a vivir entre traficantes de drogas y prostitutas. Como... Read more

Watergate: The Scandal That Brought Down a President

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Mary Rossman

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Increasingly and mistakenly viewed as a single scandal within the United States government, what is commonly referred to as the Watergate scandal serves as an overarching term for a series of scandals beginning in 1971 and extending through 1974, although more than any other, it refers to the specific break-in at the Watergate Hotel and office... Read more

Voces desde el más allá de la historia

By: Nieves Michavila

Narrated by: Nieves Michavila

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

La autora saca a la luz una historia oculta que vincula a sus antepasados con la familia real española a lo largo de tres generaciones. Por tradición oral sabe que el coronel Federico Puig Romero fue asesinado en el cuartel de San Gil de Madrid en 1866 en presencia de su esposa y dos hijos, uno de ellos, bisabuelo de la autora. Partiendo de... Read more

Killing Time with John Wayne Gacy

By: Karen Conti

Narrated by: Karen Conti

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

John Wayne Gacy raped, tortured, and murdered 33 boys and young men, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his Chicago home. Karen Conti was in high school at the time watching the bodies being removed on the television news. Fourteen years pass. Through a twist of fate, Conti, now a young and inexperienced attorney, is called upon to... Read more

Prescription for Pain

By: Philip Eil

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Length: 16 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This haunting and propulsive debut follows a journalist's years-long investigation into his father's old classmate: former high school valedictorian Paul Volkman, who seemed destined for greatness after earning his MD and PhD from the prestigious University of Chicago, but is now serving four consecutive life sentences at a federal prison in... Read more

No Heroes, No Monsters

By: Anna Ardin

Narrated by: Anna Ardin

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

No Heroes, No Monsters focuses on the dramatic struggle of Anna Ardin, the WikiLeaks activist who, in 2010, came forward to report sexual abuse by Julian Assange. This is her testimony to a legal trial that was replaced by an Internet tribunal. A tribunal where women's rights are all too often both neglected and weaponized. A tribunal that every... Read more

Tor

By: Carles Porta

Narrated by: Aleix Peña Miralles

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Cien años de odio desembocan en tres asesinatos en una aldea de trece casas.
LA HISTORIA DE UNA OBSESIÓN: ¿QUIÉN MATÓ A SANSA? Por el creador de ¿Por qué matamos?, Crims/Crímenes y Luz en la oscuridad. Tor es el pueblo más alto del Pirineo, justo en la frontera con Andorra, un territorio extremo que muchos consideran el Far West catalán. Ha sido... Read more

The King of Diamonds

By: Rena Pederson

Narrated by: Erin Dion

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena... Read more

Run For Your Life

By: Sue Williams

Narrated by: Sue Williams

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets

What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world.
 
Nick moved to Russia in 1998 to help build the British... Read more

From the Moment They Met It Was Murder

By: Alain Silver & James Ursini

Narrated by: Richard Poe

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity—its true crime origins and crucial impact on film history—is told for the first time in this riveting narrative published for the film's 80th anniversary.
 
From real crime to serial to novel to movie, the history of Double Indemnity is... Read more

Swamp Kings

By: Jason Ryan

Narrated by: Joe Hempel

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious low country clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity—by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place.The most famous man in South Carolina lives jailed in the state capital. He stands accused of a staggering amount of wrongdoing—ninety-nine... Read more

Shattered Lives

By: Jason K. Foster & Peter Seymour

Narrated by: John Robertson

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Suicides, hangings, shootings, car accidents, drownings, cliff falls, electrocutions …
Detective Peter Seymour has seen every type of death imaginable in his time in the NSW Coroner's Court and, after many years in law enforcement, the tragedies are beginning to take their toll.
Dealing with death day in day out becomes too much for Seymour and... Read more