True Crime audiobooks

Murdered Midas

By: Charlotte Gray

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A gold mine. A millionaire. An island paradise. An unsolved murder. A missing fortune. The story of the infamous Sir Harry Oakes as only Charlotte Gray can tell it 

On an island paradise in 1943, Sir Harry Oakes, gold mining tycoon, philanthropist and ""richest man in the Empire,"" was murdered. The news of his death surged across the... Read more

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more

Three Sisters in Black

By: Norman Zierold

Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in the bathtub—dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There... Read more

Defy All the Devils

By: Norman Zierold

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

The “fascinating, hair-raising, suspenseful” account of a little boy abducted in broad daylight and the desperate manhunt to find him (New York Times Book Review)On July 1, 1874, four-year-old Charley Ross and his older brother, Walter, were playing in front of their stately Philadelphia home when a horse-drawn carriage pulled up with two men... Read more

RatSnakes

By: Vincent A. Cefalu

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Get ready to infiltrate the dangerous, secret world of criminals and cover identities by way of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), where the world’s greatest undercover agents are known as RatSnakes.RatSnakes are rarely, if ever, visible to the public that they move among and risk their lives to protect. In fact,... Read more

Scan Artist

By: Marcia Biederman

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-known educator of the twentieth century was a scammer in cashmere. “The most famous reading teacher in the world,” as television hosts introduced her, Evelyn Wood had little classroom experience, no degrees in reading instruction, and a background that included a collaboration with the Third Reich. Nevertheless, a nation spooked by... Read more

The Bourbon King

By: Bob Batchelor

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

October 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Volstead Act, which put the enforcement teeth into Prohibition. But the law didn't stop George Remus from cornering the boozy, illegal liquor marketplace and amassing a fortune that eclipsed $200 million (the equivalent of $4.75 billion today). As eminent documentarian Ken Burns proclaimed, "Remus... Read more

In Hoffa's Shadow

By: Jack Goldsmith

Narrated by: Stephen Graybill

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith... Read more

Indecent Advances

By: James Polchin

Narrated by: Michael Crouch

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A skillful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the relationship between the media and popular culture in the portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. Stories of murder have never been just about killers and victims. Instead, crime stories take the shape of their times and reflect cultural notions and... Read more

Desert Magnolia

By: Dedra L. Stevenson

Narrated by: Nicole Blessing

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In Dedra L. Stevenson’s first work of crime and courtroom drama, Desert Magnolia takes the reader along a turbulent journey with Daniella Pierce, a small town Southern gal who ended up living as a Muslim in Dubai, happy and fulfilled, or at least she thought. Daniella, upon hearing that her father has been murdered as a result of a hate crime,... Read more

Albert Jack's Ten Minute Mysteries

By: Albert Jack

Narrated by: Albert Jack

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Albert Jack now turns his attention to the mysteries that have haunted us throughout history. "Albert Jack's Ten Minute Mysteries" cleverly combines his research with riveting stories and hilarious observations. All life's most perplexing questions answered: UFOs, Crop Circles and Alien invasions Where is the Mona Lisa? (clue: it's not in the... Read more

Unsolved Mysteries

By: Albert Jack

Narrated by: Albert Jack

Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the internationally bestselling Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, They Laughed at Galileo & Mysterious World.IntroductionWe all love a good mystery don’t we? And by all, I mean each and every one of us are, or will be, captivated at one time or another by a... Read more

Tourist Trap

By: Fred Shrum

Narrated by: Chris Fisher

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Joan, Michelle and Christe Rogers were found floating in the serene waters of Tampa Bay. They were stripped below the waist, bound, and tied to concrete blocks. How could such a tragedy strike in paradise? Read more

Highway of Tears

By: Jessica McDiarmid

Narrated by: Emily Nixon

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of the bestsellers I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and The Line Becomes a River, a penetrating, deeply moving account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and a searing indictment of the society that failed them.

For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an... Read more

Anonymize Yourself

By: Instafo & Derek Drake

Narrated by: Instafo

Length: 1 hour 23 minutes

Abridged: No

ALERT: Shhh! Don’t move right now! You don’t know me, but I know you. I am watching you at this moment. I know all your dirty secrets and offensive behaviors. I am copying your data without you knowing so I can steal your identity, invade your privacy, and commit fraud framing you.
Who am I?
I am the result of your carelessness and your... Read more

Love Lies

By: Amanda Lamb

Narrated by: Chloe Cannon

Length: 11 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A suburban housewife's picture-perfect life is shattered in this riveting true crime book from the author of Evil Next Door.



When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina, with her new husband Brad, their future was bright. Living in one of the most picturesque towns in the United States, the couple mingled with neighbors, attended... Read more

The Prince of Paradise

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 14 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

A millionaire playboy



Ben Novack, Jr., was born into a hotel empire, Miami's lavish Fontainbleau. But his luxurious, celebrity-studded lifestyle would ironically end in another hotel room—where the police found him bound up in duct tape, beaten to death.



A history of violence



Seven years earlier, police found Novack in an eerily similar... Read more

Shot in the Heart

By: Mikal Gilmore

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.

Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer... Read more

Ali Pasha

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the thirteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, finds ample scope for his favorite approach. His subject... Read more

Antonin Derues

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the eighth of the series, Dumas explores the depths of a soul, that of Antonin Derues, a man capable of the most... Read more

The Borgias

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of the three... Read more

The Cenci

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 15 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times. In particular, the torture of Beatrice Cenci at the hands of the authorities of Rome is given in brutal and clinical detail,... Read more

The Countess of Saint-Geran

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 50 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the fourteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his story-telling skills to a famous subject: the... Read more

Joan of Naples

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the tenth of the series, Dumas places us at the court of Joan of Naples, a beautiful, emotional, highly capable woman... Read more