True Crime audiobooks

Diamond Doris

By: Doris Payne

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab... Read more

The Ghosts of Eden Park

By: Karen Abbott

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro & Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson

An ID Book Club Selection • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST... Read more

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD

In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most... Read more

Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In)

By: T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong

Narrated by: Hillary Huber, T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong

Length: 10 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.
 
“Gripping . . . [with a] John... Read more

Ranger Games

By: Ben Blum

Narrated by: Johnathan McClain

Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times 

Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other
 
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in... Read more

The Fact of a Body

By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Narrated by: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You


Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men... Read more

Writing to Save a Life

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emmett Till took a train from... Read more

The Cold Case Foundation

By: Thomas McHoes & Gregory M. Cooper

Narrated by: Rick Adamson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

When Gregory M. Cooper, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, founded the Cold Case Foundation in 2013, he had high expectations, but couldn't anticipate the level of response. What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI agents and homicide detectives has ballooned to more than 150 women and men who volunteer their time to... Read more

Submerged

By: Hillel Levin

Narrated by: Brandon Pollock

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

For most families that have suffered the unsolved murder of a loved one, a successful cold case investigation can finally bring closure to their tragedy and, ideally, bring the perpetrator to justice. But in 2013, when LaPorte, Indiana, police detectives arrested Jason Tibbs for the murder of sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison twenty years before,... Read more

The Last Kilo

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Christian Barillas

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the... Read more

Raised by a Serial Killer

By: April Balascio

Narrated by: April Balascio

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.

One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night,... Read more

Le llamaban padre

By: Carles Porta

Narrated by: Pau Ferrer, Luis Pinazo, Angi Sansón & Fede Pla...

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

La perturbadora crónica de uno de los sucesos más estremecedores de los últimos tiempos, plasmado por Carles Porta. Le llamaban padre porque creían que aquel era el precio a pagar por tener una familia. En un pequeño pueblo de Lleida, vivían David Donet y los adolescentes que tenía en acogida. Allí se descubrieron decenas de imágenes y vídeos... Read more

Die andere Mutter

By: A.M. Arimont

Narrated by: Isabel Kluth

Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Tochter – grausam ermordet. Der Täter – wohnt nur ein paar Straßen weiter. Claudia – Ehefrau und Mutter. Ein Mann, zwei Töchter, ein Haus. Alles ist ein Traum – bis dieser eines Tages zerplatzt. Das eigene Kind – ermordet von einem Jungen, der im gleichen beschaulichen Ort wohnt. Wie lebt man mit diesem unfassbaren Schicksal? Wie kann... Read more

Where the Evidence Takes Us

By: Kevin O’Leary

Narrated by: Julian Elfer

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Told over a period of public service spanning thirty years, this compelling true story unravels the nuts and bolts of policing London, providing an insider's perspective on the challenges, triumphs, and transformations that shaped an era.



Immerse yourself in the heart-pounding narratives of high-profile cases, including the intensity of the... Read more

Family, Friends and Neighbors

By: Richard Estep

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the dark secrets that lurk behind closed doors in Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal. You will be left questioning just how well you truly know those around you in this gripping true crime collection.



You'll investigate thirty-four tales of mind-boggling acts of violence, such as: the captivating downfall of... Read more

Gangster Hunters

By: John Oller

Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins

Length: 13 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The enthralling, can't-put-down account of the birth of the modern FBI.

J. Edgar Hoover was the face of the FBI. But the federal agents in the field, relentlessly chasing the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s with their own lives on the line, truly transformed the Bureau.

In 1932, the FBI lacked jurisdiction over murder cases, bank robberies,... Read more

Red Hook

By: Michael Benson & Frank Dimatteo

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was Ground Zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the piers controlled everything. From the infamous Irish gang known as The White Hand at the turn of the century, to the notorious Italian Gallo brothers who ran President Street—and everything else—generations later, the... Read more

Death in Briar Bottom

By: Timothy Silver

Narrated by: Andre Bellido

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte. Early that evening, they drank beer, smoked marijuana,... Read more

In the Dead of Night

By: Greg Haddrick

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 9 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

A mysterious disappearance, a brazen murderer and the police who hunted him down.In March 2020 secret lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared in Victoria's remote Wonnangatta Valley. Greg Haddrick tells the gripping inside story of the twists and turns of the police investigation and the trial of pilot Greg Lynn.In March 2020 a couple... Read more

Sönn Sakamál frá Íslandi II

By: Ýmsir

Narrated by: Hjálmar Hjálmarsson & Kristján Franklín Magnús

Length: 2 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hér fær lesandi innsýn í atburðarás fimm íslenskra sakamála af ólíkum toga. Greint er frá tveimur óhugnanlegum manndrápum, fíkniefnamáli á Hólmsheiði og sagt frá manninum sem dreymdi um að verða höfuðpaur. Loks er skyggnst inn í daglegt líf Lögreglunnar og skoðuð ýmis óvenjuleg mál sem drifið hafa á daga hennar. Read more

Talking with Psychopaths

By: Christopher Berry-Dee

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

What is it like to write letters to a serial killer? What tactics does an investigator use to get an interview with a monster? What do these killers, locked behind bars, have to say? See for yourself!



Talking with Psychopaths: Letters from Serial Killers is the unique study of criminals in their own words based on bestselling true crime author... Read more

FUGITIVE

By: Michael O'Farrell

Narrated by: James Killeen

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Facing accusations of massive fraud in 2007, Lynn boards a flight at Dublin Airport and vanishes. With him goes all trace of the millions he secured from Irish banks and clients. Millions more, entrusted to Lynn by everyday investors for dream holiday homes abroad, is also missing. A month later, dogged investigative journalist Michael O'Farrell... Read more

Sönn Sakamál frá Íslandi I

By: Ýmsir

Narrated by: Hjálmar Hjálmarsson & Kristján Franklín Magnús

Length: 3 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Bók þessi hefur að geyma fimm frásagnir af sakamálum sem atvikuðust hér á landi. Rýnt er í mál á borð við skipulagða glæpastarfsemi, miskunnarlaus morð og dularfull ránsmál. Grípandi og fróðleg lesning sem kann að vekja óhug meðal lesenda. Read more

The Velvet Hammer

By: Amy Mitchell & Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr.

Narrated by: Arnell Powell

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

After retiring from twenty-five years on the bench, former chief judge Belvin Perry Jr. reveals a rare and disturbingly vivid firsthand perspective of the most gruesome death penalty cases in which he played a key role, including the infamous Casey Marie Anthony, who was dubbed “America’s Most Hated Mom” after her shocking acquittal.

The Velvet... Read more