True Crime audiobooks

Karl-Ludwig Sand

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 20 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 fourth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Karl-Ludwig Sand, a man little known to the English-speaking world,... Read more

La Constantin

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 38 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 ninth of the series, Dumas uses the lives of two women, Angelique-Louise de Guerchi and Josephine-Charlotte... Read more

The Man in the Iron Mask

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 54 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 eleventh of the series, Dumas switches away from his usual narrative style and gives us, instead, a detailed... Read more

Marquise de Brinvilliers

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 51 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 sixteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his story-telling skills to a subject no less than... Read more

The Marquise de Ganges

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 12 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 eighteenth of the series, Dumas explores the history of a famous French aristocratic family: that of Marie de... Read more

Martin Guerre

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 49 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 twelfth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, is back in full force. His subject is a well-documented... Read more

Mary Stuart

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 7 hours 21 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 fourth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Mary Stuary, Queen of Scots--a story both strikingly touching and... Read more

The Massacres of the South

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 9 hours 3 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 third of the series, Dumas tells the story of three centuries of sectarian violence and civil war between the... Read more

Murat

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 35 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 fifteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his story-telling skills to a subject famous at the... Read more

Nisida

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 41 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.

However, in this, the seventh of the series, Dumas turns away from the bitter hatreds and bloody cruelty of the preceding... Read more

Urbain Grandier

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 49 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 sixth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Urbain Grandier, a Catholic priest, little known to the... Read more

Vaninka

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 16 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 seventeenth of the series, Dumas, in this case more a novelist rather than a historian, turns his attention to a... Read more

Betrayal in Blood

By: Michael Benson

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

"Mommy . . . won't be with us anymore."



That's what attorney Kevin C. Bryant, forty-five, told his two young sons in the spring of 2003. At the time, blond, pretty, twenty-six-year-old Tabatha Bryant was alive and well in an upscale suburb of Rochester, New York. But that was about to change—because Bryant knew his wife was cheating, and he... Read more

Manson

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling, authoritative account of the life of Charles Manson, filled with surprising new information and previously unpublished photographs: “A riveting, almost Dickensian narrative…four stars” (People).

More than forty years ago Charles Manson and his mostly female commune killed nine people, among them the pregnant... Read more

The Scientist and the Spy

By: Mara Hvistendahl

Narrated by: James Lurie & Mara Hvistendahl

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true story of industrial espionage in which a Chinese-born scientist is pursued by the U.S. government for trying to steal trade secrets, by a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
 
In September 2011, sheriff’s deputies in Iowa encountered three ethnic Chinese men near a field where a farmer was growing corn seed under... Read more

American Sherlock

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon... Read more

My War Criminal

By: Jessica Stern

Narrated by: Suzie Althens

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal and hero to white nationalists.
Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a prison cell in The Hague with Radovan Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb former politician who... Read more

Written in Blood

By: Diane Fanning

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.



An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University's... Read more

The Parable of the Knocker

By: Bryan Porter

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandria Assassin: The Parable of the Knocker is a nonfiction book about the investigation, prosecution, and trial of a notorious serial killer, Charles Severance. Severance committed his crimes in the City of Alexandria, Virginia, an affluent, historic community just miles south of Washington, D.C.



Over the course of a decade, Severance... Read more

El Chapo

By: Noah Hurowitz

Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A stunning investigation of the life and legend of Mexican kingpin Joaquín Archivaldo “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, building on Noah Hurowitz’s revelatory coverage for Rolling Stone of El Chapo’s federal drug-trafficking trial.

This is the true story of how El Chapo built the world’s wealthiest and most powerful drug-trafficking operation, based on... Read more

Black Friday

By: Hussain Zaidi

Narrated by: Tavish Bhattacharyya

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

"Black Friday by S Hussain Zaidi is a ghastly account of the one of the biggest terrorist attack on Bombay in 1993. The book chronicles the devastation caused to life and property due to the attacks and the trauma, both physical and mental, underwent by the people at large post the terrorist attacks and the consequent rift between the... Read more

Aarushi

By: Avirook Sen

Narrated by: Anuj Sen

Length: 10 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

The murder that gripped the nation A fourteen-year-old girl is killed in her home along with the family servant. Within weeks, her dentist parents, the Talwars, are the prime suspects; four years later, they are on trial and then convicted. But did they do it? Now comes the ultimate retelling of the story. Avirook Sen has followed the court... Read more

Cobalt Cover-Up

By: Lance Cooper

Narrated by: Van Tracy

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman. A fast-paced, journalistic account of tragedy turned to triumph, despair to hope, Cobalt Cover-Up is an inspirational, thoroughly compelling, and victorious... Read more

Grace from the Rubble

By: Jeanne Bishop

Narrated by: Dr. Simona Chitescu-Weik

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

How do you find the strength to forgive in the midst of unthinkable grief? With compassion for all who have been touched by tragedy, Grace from the Rubble tells the heart-stirring true story of found forgiveness, lasting hope, and the unlikely friendship of two fathers on opposite sides of tragedy.In what was to become the deadliest attack on... Read more