True Crime audiobooks

Home Sweet Murder

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery ID's Murder is Forever TV series

HOME SWEET MURDER (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be... Read more

All-American Murder

By: James Patterson & Alex Abramovich

Narrated by: Peter Coleman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestselling memoir examines an NFL player's rise and fall from the Patriots to prison, recounting the first-degree murder conviction that led to his untimely death—and shocking posthumous CTE diagnosis.

Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His... Read more

The Corporation

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from ""America’s top chronicler of organized crime""* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other... Read more

Thirty-Eight Witnesses

By: A.M. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors—and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses , the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York,... Read more

No Way Home

By: Tyler Wetherall

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

No Way Home is an audiobook memoir of growing up on the run—and what happens when it comes to a stop.

Tyler had lived in thirteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. A willful and curious child, she never questioned her strange upbringing, that is, until Scotland Yard showed up outside her ramshackle English home, and she... Read more

The Big Heist

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn’t be told—until now.One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend—and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this... Read more

Murder Beyond the Grave

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.

Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air... Read more

Vulgar Favors

By: Maureen Orth

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Maureen Orth

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
 
“The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
 
“Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot... Read more

Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits

By: John Merriman

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle Ã?oque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I.

For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A... Read more

Cops and Robbers

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Cops and Robbers" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Law enforcement in Hidalgo County would joke that without the drug trade, half the business in the county would fail. Others would... Read more

The Trouble with Innocence

By: Michael Hall

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Michael Hall's "The Trouble with Innocence" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

In 1978, a Texas jury found Kerry Max Cook guilty of the state's most brutal murder on record and sentenced him to... Read more

Busting Out of Mexico

By: Jan Reid

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Jan Reid's "Busting Out of Mexico" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

In Mexico, if violence and property damage are avoided, there is no law against breaking out of jail. When con artist Sterling... Read more

A Kiss Before Dying

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell & Karissa Vacker

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "A Kiss Before Dying" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Few stories feel as classic as a well-told ghost story, the kind that makes your hair stand on end or sends chills down your... Read more

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Cowboy Bob was a master bank robber, robbing countless banks for thousands of dollars and confounding cops along... Read more

Just Desserts

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Just Desserts" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins led a perfectly adequate middle class life in Corsicana, Texas. Mr. Jenkins, Sandy, worked as an accountant at... Read more

The Cheerleader Murder Plot

By: Mimi Swartz

Narrated by: Pam Dougherty

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Mimi Swartz's "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

In "The Cheerleader Murder Plot," Mimi Swartz paints a scene of a place that makes the unthinkable -- the plot to... Read more

The Talented Mr. Khater

By: Francesca Mari

Narrated by: Mallorie Rodak

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Francesca Mari's "The Talented Mr. Khater" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

The layered story of "The Talented Mr. Khater" begins with Callie Quinn, who upon graduating college, fulfilled her... Read more

The Innocent Man, Part One

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part One" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

In 1986, in northwest Austin, Texas, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally... Read more

The Innocent Man, Part Two

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part Two" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Picking up where Part One of "The Innocent Man" left off, Pamela Colloff dives into what Michael Morton went through... Read more

True Crime from Texas Monthly

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following articles spotlighting true crime are now available in a bundle as an audio download:

* "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" by Mimi Swartz, read by Pam Dougherty
* "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" by Skip Hollandsworth, read by Bruce DuBose
* "A Kiss Before Dying" by Pamela Colloff, read by Staci Snell and... Read more

Waco

By: David Thibodeau & Leon Whiteson

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch -- Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.

Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived to... Read more

Beneath a Ruthless Sun

By: Gilbert King

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST

"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read."... Read more

Marita

By: Marita Lorenz

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the dramatic, glamorous story of lover-turned-spy Marita Lorenz and her affair with Fidel Castro, the basis for a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence.Few people can say they have seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the... Read more

Almost Gone

By: John Baldwin & Mackenzie Baldwin

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross, Cassandra Campbell & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing true story of a high-school senior, her parents, her secret online relationship with a handsome, manipulative stranger, and her well-laid plan to leave home and country to marry a man in Kosovo she thought she loved.

The Baldwins were a strong, tight-knit family living in Texas. When their seventeen-year-old daughter, Mackenzie,... Read more