True Crime audiobooks

A Deadly Secret

By: Matt Birkbeck

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary The Jinx have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst’s NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey—the very book found in Durst’s own apartment when it was searched by police.
 
When medical student Kathie Durst... Read more

While the City Slept

By: Eli Sanders

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
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Eliot Ness

By: Douglas Perry

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul

Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad’s daring raids were only the beginning. Ness’s true legacy reaches far... Read more

ZeroZeroZero

By: Roberto Saviano

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy

In many countries, “000” flour is the finest on the market. It is hard to find, but it is soft, light, almost impalpable—like the purest,... Read more

The Perfect Kill

By: Robert B. Baer

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer’s boss at the CIA once told him, “It’s a bullet with a man’s name on it.” Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict—one bullet, one death, case... Read more

Foxcatcher

By: Mark Schultz & David Thomas

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting true story—soon to be the subject of a high-profile film—of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty

On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three times... Read more

Hope

By: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Mary Jordan & Kevin...

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Marisol Ramirez & Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Two victims of the infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity, and their final, dramatic rescue

On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland area home and called 911, saying: “Help me, I’m Amanda Berry. . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for... Read more

The Meaning of Matthew

By: Judy Shepard

Narrated by: Judy Shepard

Length: 5 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged CDs * 7 CDs, 9 hours

The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son’s death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist. Read more

Tangled Webs

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic.

Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the... Read more

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit

By: Mark Seal

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man.The story of Clark Rockefeller is a stranger-than-fiction twist on the classic American success story of the self-made man-because Clark Rockefeller was totally made up. The career con man who convincingly passed himself off as Rockefeller was born in a... Read more

Midnight in Peking

By: Paul French

Narrated by: Erik Singer

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In the last days of old Peking, where anything goes, can a murderer escape justice?Peking in 1937 is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, opulence and opium dens, rumors and superstition. The Japanese are encircling the city, and the discovery of Pamela Werner's body sends a shiver through already nervous Peking. Is it the work of a madman? One... Read more

She Left Me the Gun

By: Emma Brockes

Narrated by: Emma Brockes

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist struggles to unearth the story of her mother’s resilience and secrecy following an unbelievable childhood trauma in South Africa

“One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Despite her mother’s tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London,... Read more

The Rising

By: Ryan D'Agostino

Narrated by: Ryan D'Agostino

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of one man’s recovery in the face of traumatic loss—and a powerful meditation on the resilience of the soul
 
On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night, bludgeoned him nearly to death, tortured and killed his wife... Read more

The Infiltrator

By: Robert Mazur

Narrated by: Robert Mazur

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking empires, running... Read more

American Desperado

By: Jon Roberts & Evan Wright

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Erik Davies, Mark Deakins, Kimbe...

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. 
 
American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become--at age 22--one of the city’s leading nightclub... Read more

The Rose Man of Sing Sing

By: James McGrath Morris

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzeras New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlesslyaand kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial... Read more

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism.

Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed... Read more

Skyjack

By: Geoffrey Gray

Narrated by: Geoffrey Gray

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true, unsolved story of D. B. Cooper’s 1971 airplane hijacking, one of the greatest cold cases of the twentieth century, by an author featured in D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!, now streaming on Netflix

“Here is writing and storytelling that is vivid and fresh—a delectable adventure.”—Gay Talese

“I have a bomb here... Read more

Priceless

By: Robert K. Wittman & John Shiffman

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
 
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.... Read more

Sex on the Moon

By: Ben Mezrich

Narrated by: Casey Affleck

Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea—a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to give his girlfriend the moon. Literally.
 
Thad convinced his girlfriend and another female accomplice, both NASA interns, to break into an impregnable laboratory at NASA—past security checkpoints, an electronically locked door with... Read more

The Killer of Little Shepherds

By: Douglas Starr

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.

At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre... Read more

The Hilliker Curse

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: James Ellroy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.”

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his... Read more

The Inventor and the Tycoon

By: Edward Ball

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
 
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more

The Floor of Heaven

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting wanderers, trappers, prospectors, Indian... Read more