True Crime audiobooks

Lucky Loser

By: Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive... Read more

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

By: Margalit Fox

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood

In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New... Read more

Tokyo Vice

By: Jake Adelstein

Narrated by: Jake Adelstein

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more

The Furies

By: Elizabeth Flock

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely withholds judgment, and her work is richer and more troubling... Read more

Lay Them to Rest

By: Laurah Norton

Narrated by: Laurah Norton

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Take a fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the identity of an unknown woman by exploring the rapidly evolving techniques being used to break the most notorious cold cases. Fans of true crime shows like CSI, NCIS, Criminal Minds, and Law and Order know that when it comes to “getting the bad... Read more

Moneyland

By: Oliver Bullough

Narrated by: Oliver Bullough

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

"If you want to know why international crooks and their eminently respectable financial advisors walk tall and only the little people pay taxes, this is the ideal book for you. Every politician and moneyman on the planet should read it, but they won't because it's actually about them." —John le Carré, author of A Legacy of Spies

This program is... Read more

Rogues

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue

"An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR

“Fast-paced...Keefe is a... Read more

Memorial Drive

By: Natasha Trethewey

Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2020Named One of the Best Books of the Year by: The Washington Post, NPR, Shelf Awareness, Esquire, Electric Literature, Slate, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and InStyleA chillingly personal and exquisitely wrought memoir of a daughter... Read more

Scotland Yard

By: Simon Read

Narrated by: Harry Myers

Length: 14 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases. The idea of Scotland Yard is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II,... Read more

Steel City Mafia

By: Paul N. Hodos

Narrated by: Justin Price

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Pittsburgh's small but lucrative Cosa Nostra mafia family was on the rise in 1985 with a newly crowned Don . . . The men who came to dominate the rackets in western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia opened the family to massive profits from drug trafficking and a street tax on other criminal activities. At the same time, the... Read more

The Bigamist

By: Mary Turner Thomson

Narrated by: Mary Turner Thomson

Length: 6 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX.From whirlwind romance to gaslighting campaign: this is truth far stranger than fiction.When Mary met Will Jordan online, she was a single mother who’d given up trying to find Mr Right. And yet here he suddenly was: articulate and attractive, with a fascinating... Read more

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron & John Berendt

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the... Read more

The Devil at His Elbow

By: Valerie Bauerlein

Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed & Valerie Bauerlein

Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Valerie Bauerlein’s blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century’s wildest crime stories.”—Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of... Read more

Selling the Dream

By: Jane Marie

Narrated by: Jane Marie

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they, and countless other... Read more

Furious Hours

By: Casey Cep

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times Best Seller
 
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was... Read more

The Feather Thief

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

As heard on NPR's This American Life

“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more

We Keep the Dead Close

By: Becky Cooper

Narrated by: Becky Cooper

Length: 15 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour

Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more

Hell Put to Shame

By: Earl Swift

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by... Read more

The Third Rainbow Girl

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

Narrated by: Emma Copley Eisenberg

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an... Read more

A Hunger to Kill

By: Kim Mager & Lisa Pulitzer

Narrated by: Jennifer Blom

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager, a real-life version of Clarice Starling, reveals how she closed in on—and broke—one of Ohio’s most infamous serial killers.

On September 13, 2016, in the small town of Ashland, Ohio, emergency dispatchers received a 911 call from a terrified woman who claimed to be... Read more

Nowhere Girl

By: Cheryl Diamond

Narrated by: Eileen Stevens

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .

To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a... Read more

The Falcon Thief

By: Joshua Hammer

Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.

On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more

The Great Pretender

By: Susannah Cahalan

Narrated by: Christie Moreau & Susannah Cahalan

Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR).

Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you... Read more