True Crime audiobooks

The Murder of a Beauty Queen

By: Alex Josey

Narrated by: Hamish Alastair Gerard Brown

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

A beautiful, sensuous and rich widow is brutally murdered in the most questionable of circumstances. The last person to see her alive is her brother-in-law and lover – a man later found guilty on circumstantial evidence. Not until the condemned man appealed did a witness come forward and admit that he had given false evidence. How did she die?... Read more

Death of a Pinehurst Princess

By: Steve Bouser

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"A socialite bride, a $1 million inheritance, an older husband of questionable social rank, Yankees misbehaving on Southern soil . . . [A] web of intrigue" (Our State).



A news media frenzy hurled the quiet resort community of Pinehurst, North Carolina, into the national spotlight in 1935 when hotel magnate Ellsworth Statler's adopted daughter... Read more

Walking the Bowl

By: Chris Lockhart & Daniel Mulilo Chama

Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Nothing to Envy, this is a breathtaking real-life story of four street children in contemporary Zambia whose lives are drawn together and forever altered by the mysterious murder of a fellow street child.

Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the... Read more

Just Checking Scores

By: Marisa Burke

Narrated by: Nikki Zakocs

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Marisa Burke is a top-rated, local anchorwoman at one of the most respected local ABC affiliates in the country. She enjoys celebrity status, six-figure salaries, a gorgeous home, and beautiful family.



But rather than reporting the news, Marisa suddenly becomes the subject of it when her husband, an admired educator, the father of her two young... Read more

Mobsters, Madams & Murder in Steubenville, Ohio

By: Susan M. Guy

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This true crime history chronicles more than a century in the life of a small Midwestern city with an outsized reputation for violence and vice.



Gambling, prostitution, and bootlegging have been going on in Steubenville for well over century. In its heyday, the city's Water Street red-light district drew men from hundreds of miles away, as well... Read more

Deadly American Beauty

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Greg DeVillers was a top biotech executive, and Kristen Rossum was embarking on a career in toxicology at the San Diego Medical Examiner's office. They seemed to be happily married, living the American dream. But only months shy of their second anniversary, Kristen found her handsome husband dead from a drug overdose—his corpse sprinkled with... Read more

True Crime Kanada

By: Adrian Langenscheid, Lisa Bielec, Marie van den...

Narrated by: Julia Kahle

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

» Morbide, skurril, traurig ... Gänsehaut! « – Leonie-Rachel Soyel (Podcast "Couchgeflüster") » Langenscheids Bücher sind spannend, von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite! « – True Crime Podcast "Darf's ein bisserl Mord sein?" Deutschlands erfolgsgekrönter True Crime-Bestsellerautor Adrian Langenscheid entfesselt, im neunten Band seiner True... Read more

Small Town Girl

By: Donna McLean

Narrated by: Donna McLean

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

"You live with someone for two years and then . . . they simply don't exist."

Over 40 years, two British police units acted undercover to infiltrate activist groups. At least 20 of those officers deliberately targeted women and entered relationships with them. One of those women was me. This is my story.

Men wrote the police files. They wrote the... Read more

When a Killer Calls

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter—comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him.
On May 31, 1985, two... Read more

Mordsgifte

By: Frank Mußhoff

Narrated by: Umut Dirik

Length: 6 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Eine kaltblütige Serienmörderin vergiftet ihre ganze Familie.

Ein Mann wird tot in seinem Wagen gefunden - weder ist er äußerlich verletzt noch sein Fahrzeug beschädigt.

Ein bulgarischer Journalist wird scheinbar zufällig angerempelt - 24 Stunden später ist er tot.

Arsen, Blausäure, Zyankali, Polonium - das Töten mit Gift ist ebenso still wie... Read more

A Taste for Poison

By: Neil Bradbury, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Derek Perkins

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

This program includes an epilogue and acknowledgements read by the author

“A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.” --Kathy Reichs

As any reader or listener of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring—and popular—weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into... Read more

In Cold Storage

By: James W. Hewett

Narrated by: Ann Richardson & Jim Seybert

Length: 4 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new details about what happened.After pieces of Edwin and Wilma Hoyt’s dismembered bodies were found floating on the surface of a nearby lake, authorities... Read more

Catch the Sparrow

By: Rachel Rear

Narrated by: Julia Locascio

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Catch the Sparrow by Rachel Rear, read by Julia Locascio.

The gripping story of a young woman’s murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigated and reconstructed by her stepsister.

Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky’s disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an... Read more

Deliberate Evil

By: Edward J. Renehan, Jr.

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"This is true crime at its most enthralling—prepare to be transported."—Terri Cheney, New York Times bestselling author of Manic



The 1830 murder of wealthy slaver Joseph White shook all of Salem, Massachusetts. Soon the crime drew national attention when it was discovered that two of the conspirators came from Salem's influential Crowninshield... Read more

Eyes of a Monster

By: Ron Peterson, Jr.

Narrated by: Kyle Tait

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Schoolteacher Olivia Dare Christian was murdered in her Hampton, Virginia, apartment in 1981. Her killer left few clues and the murder went unsolved.

Three decades later, in 2011, next-generation detective Randy Mayer re-opened Olivia's dusty cold case file and began unraveling the mystery. Mayer located a reluctant witness who was a teenager... Read more

Brainstorm

By: Sam Perroni

Narrated by: Suzanne Toren & Richard Ferrone

Length: 16 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Brainstorm is an amazing five-year probe into the mysterious death of beloved movie star Natalie Wood by a real-life criminal law authority who determinedly pursued the truth in the face of Los Angeles County officials hell-bent on keeping it buried forever.Brainstorm: An Investigation of the Mysterious Death of Film Star Natalie Wood is the... Read more

United States of True Crime: Alaska

By: Ashley Hudson

Narrated by: Ashley Hudson

Length: 2 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on ten of the most chilling crimes in Alaska history.The cases in this book:Robert Hansen: Serial killer who flew his victims to the remote wilderness and hunted them. He confessed to murdering 17 women... Read more

The Tenth Man

By: Alex Josey

Narrated by: Hamish Alastair Gerard Brown

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Ten men were involved in the robbery and the gruesome murder of a gold merchant and his two employees. Stolen from them were 120 bars of pure gold. Nine of the men were subsequently found guilty. Seven were hung. Two narrowly escaped the gallows because of their youth. The tenth man, however, escaped death. A fast-paced account that captures the... Read more

The Family

By: Ed Sanders

Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price

Length: 24 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"The first complete, authoritative account of the career of Charles Manson. A terrifying book." -- New York Times Book Review

In August of 1969, during two bloody evenings of paranoid, psychedelic savagery, Charles Manson and his dystopic communal family helped to wreck the dreams of the Love Generation. At least nine people were murdered, among... Read more

Art & Crime

By: Tobias Timm & Stefan Koldehoff

Narrated by: Graham Winton

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling, eye-popping look at true crime in the billion-dollar art world.The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid of their assets,... Read more

She Kills Me

By: Jennifer Wright

Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky

Length: 3 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A powerful collection of stories about women who murdered—for revenge, for love, and even for pleasure—rife with historical details that will have any true-crime junkie on the edge of their seatIn every tragic story, men are expected to be the killers. There are countless studies and works of art made about male violence. However, when women are... Read more

A Life Stolen

By: Sarah Sak

Narrated by: Helen Duff

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Sarah Sak's son, Anthony Walgate, was murdered by gay serial killer Stephen Port after they met on dating app Grindr. Stephen Port was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey in November 2016. The case received extensive press coverage not only because of the horrific nature of the crimes but also because the police refused to... Read more

The Godfathers of Sex Abuse

By: Deana Pollard Sacks

Narrated by: Deana Pollard Sacks

Length: 5 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 6, 2019, Jeffrey Epstein became a household name as an international sex trafficker of underage girls, serial sex abuser, and confidant of the most famous, rich, and most powerful men in the world. Barely a month after his arrest, he was reportedly found dead in his prison cell, supposedly by suicide. Numerous investigations are ongoing,... Read more

Charles Manson

By: David J. Krajicek

Narrated by: Nick Landrum

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Charles Manson was an unlikely messiah. Freshly paroled, he stumbled into San Francisco in 1967 just as thousands of impressionable young people were streaming into town for the Summer of Love.
Posing as a musician-come-guru-come-Christ-figure, Manson built a commune cult of hippies, consisting mainly of troubled young women. But what made this... Read more