True Crime audiobooks

City of Devils

By: Paul French

Narrated by: Paul Chan

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

By Paul French, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking—winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction—comes a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands of Shanghai. City of Devils is a dynamic... Read more

To the Bridge

By: Nancy Rommelmann

Narrated by: Nancy Rommelmann

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children?On May 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the middle of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children into the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of... Read more

Absolute Madness

By: Catherine Pelonero

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the... Read more

The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

By: Christine Pelisek

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles' history, told by the fearless reporter who broke the story.
In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. In her... Read more

Among the Thugs

By: Bill Buford

Narrated by: Bill Buford

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire... Read more

Scarface and the Untouchable

By: Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Sc...

Length: 18 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A THRILLING MAGNUM OPUS ON AMERICA’S GREAT CRIME EPICA Mystery Writers of America “Grand Master”—author of the gangster classic Road to Perdition, long-time Dick Tracy writer, and multiple Shamus Award winner—teams with an acclaimed rising young historian, in this riveting, myth-shattering dual portrait of Al Capone, America’s most notorious... Read more

Freeing David McCallum

By: Ken Klonsky

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright & Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison.This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum, along with a group of... Read more

Run, Hide, Repeat

By: Pauline Dakin

Narrated by: Pauline Dakin

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018

Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging... Read more

The Pretender

By: Marc Ruskin

Narrated by: Francis J. Spieler

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Pretender, former FBI agent Marc Ruskin will pull listeners into the fascinating, elusive world of undercover operatives.

Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work... Read more

Unnecessary Roughness

By: Jose Baez

Narrated by: Ben Jeffrey & Shayna Small

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller: a revelatory inside story of the trial and final days of New England Patriots superstar Aaron Hernandez, by his attorney and New York Times bestselling author Jose Baez.
When renowned defense attorney Jose Baez received a request for representation from Aaron Hernandez, the disgraced Patriots tight-end was already... Read more

Blow

By: Bruce Porter

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung’s roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel—the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung’s early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when... Read more

When the Bullet Hits Bone

By: Lisa Pulitzer

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The last great mafia story: from the former New York Times correspondent and bestselling author Lisa Pulitzer, an enthralling full-access account of the life of a notorious mafioso intimately involved in the Lufthansa Heist, rampant government corruption, and the death of a pope.

Anthony Raimondi has been a gangster for much of his life,... Read more

The Hot One

By: Carolyn Murnick

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist—two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who... Read more

Stalling for Time

By: Gary Noesner

Narrated by: Gary Noesner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.

“Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco, Texas.”—The Washington Post

In Stalling for Time, the... Read more

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

The FBI

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 20 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

No institution in American society generates as much curiosity, fear, and intrigue as the FBI. No institution can obtain so much information and penetrate so deeply into our private lives. And no institution plays a greater role in safeguarding our freedom—or potentially threatening it.In this groundbreaking book, award-winning journalist Ronald... Read more

Afraid of the Dark

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark’s life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab.Forced to go back to work, Flo became bitter and resentful of Mark... Read more

The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only forty-one members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger’s daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at... Read more

Convenient Suspect

By: Tammy Mal

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four  months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met... Read more

The Man in the Monster

By: Martha Elliott

Narrated by: Kyra Miller

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing portrait of a murderer and his complex relationship with a crusading journalist Michael Ross was a serial killer who raped and murdered eight young women between 1981 and 1984, and several years ago the state of Connecticut put him to death. His crimes were horrific, and he paid the ultimate price for them. When journalist Martha... Read more

The Wicked Boy

By: Kate Summerscale

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in... Read more

We Are All Shipwrecks

By: Kelly Grey Carlisle

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir of one woman's extraordinary upbringing and her search for redemption in the face of staggering tragedy Kelly Carlisle was three weeks old when her mother was strangled in downtown Los Angeles, leaving Kelly in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric Englishman who owned a porn store and lived on a boat in the harbor. It... Read more

King Con

By: Paul Willetts

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The spellbinding tale of hustler Edgar Laplante—the king of Jazz Age con artists—who becomes the victim of his own dangerous game.
 
Edgar Laplante was a smalltime grifter, an erstwhile vaudeville performer, and an unabashed charmer. But after years of playing thankless gigs and traveling with medicine shows, he decided to undertake the most... Read more

Hunting Charles Manson

By: Lis Wiehl

Narrated by: Michelle Lasley

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

"Hunting Charles Manson the best true crime book you will ever read...Lock your doors, keep the night lights on, and read this book." - Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling crime novelistIn the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills of Los Angeles. Newspapers and television programs... Read more