True Crime audiobooks

Because of the Hate

By: Kirk McCracken

Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Because of the Hate is the true story about the murder of Jerry Bailey, a beloved high school football coach in Oklahoma.



In 1976, Jerry Bailey had resigned as the Sapulpa High School head football coach but was murdered by his assistant Paul Reagor Jr. The book goes into detail about the day the coaches went missing, the murder, the trial and... Read more

Deadly Force

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

Narrated by: Lawrence O'Donnell

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Featuring a new preface and afterword by the author.From the host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, the riveting story of a 1975 police shooting of an unarmed black man in Boston—one of the first to draw national headlines—and the dramatic investigation and court case that followed.On a rainy winter night, James Bowden, Jr. left... Read more

How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away with It

By: Jane Simon Ammeson

Narrated by: Kate Mulligan

Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

What’s a gal to do when her loaded lover is getting to be a nuisance? Why, just murder him and take all his money, of course. If you want to be fabulously single with tons of cash, just follow the lead of the beautiful and conniving Minnie Wallace Walkup Ketcham, who left a trail of broken hearts, empty wallets, and corpses.Minnie was just... Read more

Nine Lives

By: Aimen Dean

Narrated by: Assaf Cohen

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

As one of al-Qaeda’s most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden himself.As a double agent at the heart of al-Qaeda’s chemical weapons program, he foiled attacks on civilians and saved countless lives, brushing with death so often that his handlers began... Read more

Burned

By: Edward Humes

Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Was a monstrous killer brought to justice or an innocent mother condemned?

On an April night in 1989, Jo Ann Parks survived a house fire that claimed the lives of her three small children. Though the fire at first seemed a tragic accident, investigators soon reported finding evidence proving that Parks had sabotaged wiring, set several fires... Read more

From Russia with Blood

By: Heidi Blake

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story of how Russia refined the art and science of targeted assassination abroad: “A compelling rendering of Putin’s frightening extensions of power into Europe and the United States” (Associated Press). 

They thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs,... Read more

The New Rules of War

By: Sean McFate

Narrated by: Joe Knezevich

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

""Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu."" -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATOAn Economist Book of the Year 2019
An urgent, fascinating exploration of warfare—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and... Read more

Journey into Darkness

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author of Mindhunter John Douglas reveals more unique cases from his time as head of the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit.

In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of... Read more

The Spy in Moscow Station

By: Eric Haseltine

Narrated by: Eric Haseltine

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The thrilling, true story of the race to find a leak in the United States Embassy in Moscow—before more American assets are rounded up and killed.

Foreword by Gen. Michael V. Hayden (Retd.), Former Director of NSA & CIA.

In the late 1970s, the National Security Agency still did not officially exist—those in... Read more

Hollywood Godfather

By: Gianni Russo & Patrick Picciarelli

Narrated by: Gianni Russo

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Gianni Russo walks the walk and talks the talk. What a life. Fascinating. A worthy read." — Robert De Niro

This program is read by the author and includes a bonus conversation.

The over-the-top memoir of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality, and his story of life on the edge between danger and glamour.

Gianni... Read more

Secrets of a Marine's Wife

By: Shanna Hogan

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

*This program includes a bonus episode of Case Closed, a true crime podcast based on Secrets of a Marine's Wife, that brings Erin Corwin's story to life through firsthand interviews conducted by author Shanna Hogan. Available wherever you listen to podcasts.*

Now a TV Movie.

Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Shanna... Read more

The Gardner Heist

By: Ulrich Boser

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads—and a $5 million reward—none of the paintings have been recovered. Worth... Read more

The Main Enemy

By: Milton Bearden & James Risen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA... Read more

Pond Scum

By: Michael Lilly

Narrated by: Dominic Carlos

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeremy ‘Remy’ Thorn is a detective from a small town in Oregon. He does his job well and keeps to himself. A past of trauma and abuse, and a compulsive need for balance have shaped him into the person he is today: a decisive, effective killer.

His routine is simple but trustworthy.

Step one: Find two targets. The first, an abomination of... Read more

Blood and Money

By: Thomas Thompson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 21 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Joan Robinson Hill was a world-class equestrian, a glamorous member of Houston high society, and the wife of Dr. John Hill, a handsome and successful plastic surgeon. Her father, Ash Robinson, was a charismatic oil tycoon obsessed with making his daughter's every dream come true.



Rich, attractive, and reckless, Joan was one of the most... Read more

Serpentine

By: Thomas Thompson

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 24 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a dozen nations had no idea they were all looking for same man: Charles Sobhraj, a.k.a. "The Serpent."



A handsome Frenchman of... Read more

Top Hoodlum

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The press nicknamed him "The Prime Minister of the Underworld." The U.S. Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics described him as "one of the most powerful and influential Mafia leaders in the U.S." But to friends and associates, he was simply "Uncle Frank." Who was Frank Costello really? That's the question Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony M.... Read more

Lincoln's Last Trial: The Murder Case That Propelled Him to the Presidency

By: Dan Abrams & David Fisher

Narrated by: Dan Abrams & Adam Verner

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

“Makes you feel as if you are watching a live camera riveted on a courtroom more than 150 years ago.” —Diane Sawyer

The true story of Abraham Lincoln’s last murder trial, a case in which he had a deep personal involvement—and which played out in the nation’s newspapers as he began his presidential campaign

At the end of the summer of 1859,... Read more

And Then She Killed Him

By: Robert Scott

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

A Two-Time Widow Leading a Double Life



Miriam Giles ran away to Colorado to bury her violent past—but this seductive, charismatic widow had a dark side that could never stay buried. After finding the "sugar daddy" she was looking for in Alan Helmick, her new marriage seemed happy. Then, two years later, Alan met a gruesome fate. Returning home... Read more

Roadrunner

By: Michael Lilly

Narrated by: Dominic Carlos

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Remy and Todd are just getting comfortable when a series of death threats forces them to take refuge in a tiny town in New Mexico. Against his better judgment, an antsy Remy picks up detective work again and is thrust into a murder investigation. He quickly realizes these murders are no coincidence, and disturbing signs lead him to think they... Read more

Sons of Cain

By: Peter Vronsky

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood... Read more

In the Name of the Children

By: Jeffrey L. Rinek & Marilee Strong

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 13 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul . . .In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our... Read more

Daddy's Curse

By: Luke. G. Dahl

Narrated by: Nunt. R

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

- Reader's Favorite 5-Stars Award 

A Harrowing True Story of an Eight-Year-Old Girl Human Sex Trafficking and Organized Crime Survivor

Have you ever experienced total despair? Yuna was just an eight-year-old girl when she experienced total devastation. Growing up in the Mongolian countryside, she wasn't ready to face the darker side of the world.... Read more

The Black Widower

By: Michael Fleeman

Narrated by: Jamie Renell

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

She was his second wife - to die. Coming off a failed marriage, a beautiful woman named Toni joined an online dating site, hoping to find true and lasting love. Harold Henthorn seemed like her dream come true, a handsome man who said he had "a heart for others." Only weeks after meeting, they were wed. But Toni's family began noticing Harold's... Read more