True Crime audiobooks

Dead Body Calls

By: Loren W. Christensen

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Loren W. Christensen served as a Military Policeman in Saigon, Vietnam, "the most dangerous city in the world," as it was called at the time. Shortly after returning home, he joined the Portland Police Bureau in Oregon, serving for twenty-five years. As a street cop, there were times he was dispatched to dead body calls so... Read more

Anansi's Gold

By: Yepoka Yeebo

Narrated by: Jude Owusu

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Anansi's Gold by Yepoka Yeebo, read by Jude Owusu.

New Yorker Best Book of the Year

"A fascinating story brilliantly told.”—The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece."—Philadelphia Inquirer

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of the 20th century’s longest-running and... Read more

Austria True Crime

By: Adrian Langenscheid, Yvonne Widler, Silvana Gua...

Narrated by: Tom Chandler

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Germany's award-winning true crime author Adrian Langenscheid kindles heart-pounding reading pleasure with his shocking short stories about true Austrian crimes. It is a breath-taking and deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses tremendous emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depictions. Ice-cold serial... Read more

The Edge of Innocence

By: David Miraldi

Narrated by: Steve Wannall

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Named 2018 Book of the Year by International Rubery Book Award The Edge of Innocence is a work of narrative nonfiction based on the 1964 murder trial of Casper Bennett, a man accused of drowning his wife in a bathtub of scalding water in Lorain, Ohio. Bennett's sensational trial pitted an aggressive, mercurial county prosecutor against the... Read more

True Crime Best of 2

By: Adrian Langenscheid, Fabian Maysenhölder, Benja...

Narrated by: Julia Kahle

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Deutschlands erfolgsgekrönter True Crime-Bestsellerautor Adrian Langenscheid entfacht mit seinen schockierenden Kurzgeschichten über wahre Verbrechen herzklopfendes Lesevergnügen. Es ist ein atemberaubendes und zutiefst erschütterndes Porträt menschlicher Abgründe, das gerade wegen seiner kühlen, sachlich-neutralen Schilderung gewaltige... Read more

An Unfinished Canvas

By: Michael Glasgow & Phyllis Gobbell

Narrated by: Chris Abernathy

Length: 12 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rare cold case murder conviction.



Janet March had it all: a corporate lawyer husband, two beautiful children, a promising career as an artist, and a dream house she designed herself. But behind closed doors, her husband led a destructive double life.... Read more

The Vatican Connection

By: Richard Hammer

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

With a round, open face and a penchant for tall tales, Matteo de Lorenzo resembled everyone's kindly uncle. But Uncle Marty, as he was known throughout the Genovese crime family, was one of the New York mob's top earners throughout the 1960s and '70s, the mastermind of a billion-dollar trade in stolen and counterfeit securities.

In the spring... Read more

Give Us More Guns

By: Mark Shaw

Narrated by: Adrian Galley

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

‘With remarkable courage, insight and access, Mark Shaw takes the reader into the darkest corners of South Africa’s ganglands.’ – Mandy Wiener
The assassination of police investigator Charl Kinnear in Cape Town in 2020 was yet one more in a spate of murders related to the so-called ‘guns to gangs’ saga, in which state weapons are sold to South... Read more

Blessed by Bosasa

By: Adriaan Basson

Narrated by: Nick Boraine

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

‘You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.’It’s easy to imagine that state capture began with Jacob Zuma and the Guptas. But you’d be wrong.Born out of the ANC Women’s League 20 years ago, Bosasa has come to be described as the ANC’s ‘Heart of Darkness’. At its helm today is Gavin Watson, a... Read more

Outlaws

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In this audiobook, biographies of these two criminals are being explored:Charles Manson - Charles Milles Manson was an American crook who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California, in the late 1960s. He got involved in the Church of Scientology and had a difficult childhood. Going to jail twice didn’t teach him the lesson he was supposed... Read more

Psychopath Killers

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This combo consists of two true crime books, which are:
Pablo Escobar - One of the big lords of the drug cartels in Colombia is Pablo Escobar, a criminal who became a leader and expanded his influence on organized crime throughout the North and South American continents. With billions in his bank account, in cash, and in other assents, it’s not... Read more

Serial Killers

By: Kelly Mass

Narrated by: Chris Newman

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, you will be introduced to three sick serial killers. Their biographies will be summarized and explained. The said individuals are as follows:
Ted Bundy - Ted Bundy was one of the most infamous rapists and sexual predators, necrophiles, and murderers in the western part of the United States. Having been abused in his childhood and fed... Read more

Stealing Rembrandts

By: Anthony M. Amore & Tom Mashberg

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, art theft is one of the most profitable criminal enterprises in the world, exceeding $6 billion in losses to galleries and art collectors annually. And the masterpieces of Rembrandt van Rijn are some of the most frequently targeted.



In Stealing Rembrandts, art security expert Anthony M. Amore and award-winning investigative reporter Tom... Read more

Cyber Encounters

By: Ashok Kumar & O.P. Manocha

Narrated by: Satyajit Mukherjee

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

As technology has evolved, so has crime. Digital technologies have brought with them a whole host of crimes committed online-unsuspecting people are cheated of crores of rupees, duped by false advertisements on fake websites, incited to click on suspicious links through payment gateways, and download apps that give remote access of their device... Read more

True Crime Case Histories - Volume 11

By: Jason Neal

Narrated by: Simon de Deney

Length: 4 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

12 True Crime Stories of Murder & MayhemBook 11 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesOver 8,000 Five-Star RatingsTrue crime is not for everyone. However, there is a small subset of us that, for some reason or another, finds themselves drawn to true crime stories. Perhaps it’s a desire for truth and justice, an obsession with understanding... Read more

Deadly Pretender

By: Karen Kingsbury

Narrated by: Kate Zane

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A New York Times bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter's account of a con artist and bigamist who resorts to murder to hide his double life.



David Miller had a dream job and a beautiful family. But one perfect life wasn't enough. So he pretended to be an attorney, then a CIA agent. And he secretly married another woman. He... Read more

The Snake and the Spider

By: Karen Kingsbury

Narrated by: Nikki Zakocs

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times–bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter chronicles the murder and abduction of two teens during a dream spring break vacation.

Best friends Daryl Barber and James Boucher were responsible, and their parents trusted them to spend Spring Break at Daytona Beach unchaperoned. When the boys missed their agreed-upon... Read more

Arrested Adolescence

By: Erik Rebain

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Nathan Leopold seemed to live a charmed life: a published, polyglot college graduate by the time he was nineteen and from a prominent, wealthy Chicago family. So, it was a shock to everyone when he and his lover, Richard Loeb, confessed to killing their fourteen-year-old neighbor Bobby Franks "for a thrill."

During the summer of 1924 the world... Read more

Devil's Coin

By: Jennifer McAdam

Narrated by: Toni Frutin

Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

*A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB MUST-READ BOOK FOR AUGUST 2023*""[An] exhilarating mix of memoir and true crime. . ."" — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The astonishing true story of the coal miner’s daughter who took on the creators of the world’s biggest financial fraud and helped the FBI to convict themThe OneCoin global cryptocurrency fraud stole... Read more

Tangled Vines

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity—but it was an unimaginable tragedy that would thrust them into the national spotlight. On June 7th, 2021, prominent attorney Alex... Read more

Allen Dulles: The Life of the CIA’s Most Powerful and Notorious Director

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: Ross Jenkins

Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The 28-year period from 1933-1961, bracketed on one end by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and on the other by the very height of the Cold War, was marked by a remarkably stable succession of American presidents. In fact, only three men held office in this period, and that predictability led to a general stability among government agencies.... Read more

Chasing Shadows

By: Miles Johnson

Narrated by: Ahmed Hamad & Miles Johnson

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

*** CONTAINS AN EXLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR ***

'As breathless, complex and on-the-edge suspenseful as the finest thriller fiction - but it's all real, which makes it truly extraordinary' Lee Child

'McMafia for the new age' Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then took on the West

'Compelling,... Read more

From The 911 Files

By: Jackson Anhalt

Narrated by: Michael Johnson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the 911 Files takes you behind the scenes of a 911 communications center, where real-life emergency calls come in from people in distress. You’ll learn about the actual calls, and experience the reactions of real first responders as they work to save lives and keep the community safe. You'll encounter everything from medical emergencies... Read more

Carnage

By: Mark Dapin

Narrated by: Henry Nixon

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when Mark Dapin investigated, it emerged that this man's story went to the heart of the Australian underworld. A true crime cult classic in the making. 

Whether you know it as the ‘succulent Chinese meal’ video, or ‘democracy... Read more