True Crime audiobooks

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

God’ll Cut You Down

By: John Safran

Narrated by: Tom Bromhead

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

God'll Cut You Down combines an unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson.A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South... Read more

They All Love Jack

By: Bruce Robinson

Narrated by: Bruce Robinson & Phil Fox

Length: 30 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I—"The funniest British film of all time" (Esquire)—returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known as "Jack the Ripper."In a literary high-wire act... Read more

Smoke

By: Meili Cady

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the excess of The Bling Ring with the intimacy of Blow and the charm of Catch Me If You Can, an outrageous, entertaining and true story of an aspiring young actress’ ill-fated friendship and unwitting alliance with a drug smuggling “heiress.”Aspiring actress Meili Cady left small-town Washington State for the glamorous lure of Los... Read more

Where the Bodies Were Buried

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime—and law enforcement—that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most... Read more

Captive

By: Ashley Smith & Stacy Mattingly

Narrated by: Ashley Smith

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a stirring movie from Paramount Pictures—starring Kate Mara (House of Cards and Fantastic Four) and David Oyelowo (Selma)—this inspirational, news-making life story of the young female hostage who in 2005 single-handedly talked the infamous Atlanta courthouse killer, Brian Nichols, into surrendering peacefully by gaining his confidence... Read more

Citizen Keane

By: Adam Parfrey & Cletus Nelson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane—the credited artist of the weepy waifs—for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992, he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the... Read more

Pimp

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale—the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all... Read more

In the Still of the Night

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.

It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and... Read more

Green River, Running Red

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer.

In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near... Read more

Finders Keepers

By: Mark Bowden

Narrated by: Mark Bowden

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Who hasn't dreamed of finding a million dollars?
Joey Coyle was down and out -- the affable, boyish South Philadelphian hadn't found dock work in months, he was living with his ailing mother, and he was fighting a drug habit and what seemed like a lifetime of bouncing into and out of bad luck. One morning, while cruising the streets just blocks... Read more

How to Catch a Russian Spy

By: Naveed Jamali & Ellis Henican

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

With an epilogue on recent Russian spying, a “page-turner of a memoir” (Publishers Weekly) about an American civilian with a dream, who worked as a double agent with the FBI in the early 2000s to bring down a Russian intelligence agent in New York City.

For three nerve-wracking years, from 2005 to 2008, Naveed Jamali spied on America for the... Read more

The Fixer

By: Ira Judelson

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York’s foremost bail bondsman with “over $30 million on the street” comes the story of a modern-day “fixer” who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York.

With from-the-gut prose, Ira Judelson sheds light on the highs and lows of the bondsman life.... Read more

The Murder Room

By: Michael Capuzzo

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Michael Capuzzo, the author of the New York Times bestseller Close to Shore , brings listeners into the Vidocq Society, a team of the world’s foremost forensic investigators, who meet each month to solve cold cases and bring murderers to justice.

Three of the greatest detectives in the world—a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor... Read more

The Stranger Beside Me

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend—Ted Bundy—was not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Meeting... Read more