True Crime audiobooks

Black Bird

By: James Keene

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Keene grew up outside of Chicago and was destined for greatness on the football field. By the time he reached his twenties, he was rubbing shoulders with famous actors, porn stars, and the children of powerful politicians. He had it all: cars, girls, and houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade... Read more

Ghost in the Wires

By: Kevin Mitnick

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 13 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country’s most powerful—and seemingly impenetrable—agencies and companies. By conning employees into giving him private information and maneuvering through layers of security, he gained access to data that no one else could.The suspenseful heart of the book... Read more

The Interrogator

By: Glenn L. Carle

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are the confessions of a senior CIA operative who ran the interrogation of one of the highest profile al-Qaeda captures in the last decade. Carle’s journey is a tale of international intrigue, deceit, and betrayal—it is also an extraordinary and intimate portrait of our war on terror.To his friends and neighbors, Glenn L. Carle was a... Read more

A Safeway in Arizona

By: Tom Zoellner

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootingsOn January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet and greet held by US representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and thirteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head.Award-winning... Read more

Devil’s Knot

By: Mara Leveritt

Narrated by: Lorna Raver

Length: 15 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Free the West Memphis Three!”—maybe you’ve heard the phrase, but do you know why their story is so alarming? Do you know the facts?The guilty verdicts handed out to three Arkansas teens in a horrific capital murder case were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal. But after two HBO documentaries called attention to the witch-hunt... Read more

Anatomy of Injustice

By: Raymond Bonner

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From Pulitzer Prize winner Raymond Bonner comes the gripping story of a grievously mishandled murder case that put a twenty-three-year-old man on death row. In January 1982, an elderly white widow was found brutally murdered in the small town of Greenwood, South Carolina. Police immediately arrested Edward Lee Elmore, a semiliterate, mentally... Read more

The Iceman

By: Anthony Bruno

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over one hundred, but the police couldn’t touch him. Then undercover... Read more

Depravity

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Their crimes span the globe, but one thing unites them: they are sixteen of the twentieth century's most notorious serial killers.In this well-researched volume, discover their motives and what made them tick. Walk the path of the investigators who broke their cases and listen to the killers' own words.All of them made their communities tremble... Read more

Gotti's Rules

By: George Anastasia

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster—“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)—comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man John Alite, a close associate of Junior Gotti who... Read more

The Dark Art

By: Edward Follis & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly decorated veteran agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism"It always ends with one phone call. Months—often years—of undercover work comes to fruition with an innocent-seeming conversation. The last call. One last... Read more

The Murder of the Century

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police... Read more

Echoes of My Soul

By: Robert K. Tanenbaum

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author and renowned prosecuting attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum provides the first insider’s account of the historic Wylie-Hoffert case, from the shocking double-murder to the wrenching interrogation of an innocent young man and the heroic Assistant District Attorney who risked everything to unravel a disgraceful... Read more

Poisoned Dreams

By: A. W. Gray

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convicted—and sentenced to life in prison. But did the evidence support this conviction?Mystery novelist A.... Read more

When Corruption Was King

By: Robert Cooley

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Cooley was the Chicago Mafia’s “mechanic”—a fixer of court cases. During the 1970s and ’80s, Cooley bribed judges, court clerks, and cops to keep his Mob clients—hit men, bookies, racketeers, and crooked pols—out of jail. Paid handsomely for his services, he lived fast and enjoyed the protection of the men he served.He had enough money to... Read more

Orders to Kill

By: William F. Pepper

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the myth-shattering expos├® that reveals the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—shocking and controversial revelations from James Earl Ray's attorney.On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped out onto the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and into his killer's line of fire. One shot... Read more

Terror by Night

By: Terry Caffey & James Pence

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In one evening, Terry Caffey lost everything.  His wife, Penny, and his sons, Matthew and Tyler, were brutally murdered; his home was burned to the ground, and his sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was in jail, charged with thiree counts of capital murder.  In one year's time, God would restore it all. At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey... Read more

Think No Evil

By: Jonas Beiler & Shawn Smucker

Narrated by: Kelly Ryan Dolan

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The Amish will be the first to tell you they're not perfect.  But they do a lot of things right.  Forgiveness is one of them.  A one-room schoolhouse sat amid the gentle, quaint Amish community in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.  It made such a picturesque scene with its wide, welcoming front porch and white clapboard fence, set peacefully among... Read more

The Great War of Our Time

By: Michael Morell

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows.

Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two... Read more

Vendetta

By: James Neff

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.

From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public... Read more

The Spiral Notebook

By: Stephen Singular & Joyce Singular

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and seventy wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, twelve kids and one teacher at Columbine High School were murdered by two students. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed at Virginia Tech. Twelve killed at... Read more

Blood Aces

By: Doug J. Swanson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of Benny Binion—a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las VegasBenny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas... Read more

90 Church

By: Dean Unkefer

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Mad Men meets The Wire in this gripping true-crime memoir by a former agent at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1960s New York.Before Nixon famously declared a “war on drugs,” there was the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.New York City, mid-1960s. The war in Vietnam was on the nation’s tongue—but so was something else. Clandestine and chaotic, but... Read more

Boston Strong

By: Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombing with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers' years leading up to the act of terror to the bomb scene itself (which both authors witnessed firsthand within minutes of the... Read more

Mossad

By: Michael Bar-Zohar & Nissim Mishal

Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's... Read more