True Crime audiobooks

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles

By: Scott M. Burnstein

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The Detroit True Crime Chronicles sets forth the rich history of criminal activity in the Motor City. Using information from declassified federal documents and many firsthand accounts, the book focuses on the city's local Mafia, key mobsters, drug kingpins, serial killers, and unsolved crimes.



Included in this comprehensive account of criminal... Read more

Maniac

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Braden Wright

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first—and worst—mass murders in American history.In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school—one of the most modern in the Midwest—Andrew P.... Read more

The Doctor, the Hitman, and the Motorcycle Gang

By: Annie McCormick

Narrated by: Kate Zane

Length: 8 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

He had a license to prescribe and a motive to kill.

A prominent New Jersey doctor and members of a notorious outlaw motorcycle gang transform the doctor’s office into a drug ring pumping thousands of highly addictive opioid pain pills onto the streets in exchange for cash. Everything was going smoothly until one person discovered their plan:... Read more

Last Call

By: Elon Green

Narrated by: David Pittu

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"This true-crime gem—Green's first full-length work, sensitively and incisively narrated by Pittu—is an illuminating and deeply humanizing testament to victims overlooked by the media and forgotten in cultural memory...An insightful and essential conversation among author, narrator, and producer concludes this highly recommended recording." --... Read more

Flight of the Diamond Smugglers

By: Matthew Gavin Frank

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

For nearly eighty years, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed "overmined" and abandoned, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately, he became intrigued by the... Read more

Operation Odessa

By: David Serero

Narrated by: Akash Asghar

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of a Russian Mobster (Ludwig Fainberg a.k.a "Tarzan"), Cuban Spy, Miami Playboy, who hustled the Russian Mafia, the Cali Cartel, Pablo Escobar, the D.E.A., by selling a Soviet Submarine to the Columbian Drug Cartel for $35 million in the 1990s. It was the crazy life of a Jewish man from Odessa (Ukraine) who became a Russian... Read more

Built on a Lie

By: Owen Walker

Narrated by: Thom Petty

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

The proud owner of a sprawling £14m estate in the Cotswolds, boasting a stable of eventing horses, a fleet of supercars and neighbouring the royal family, Neil Woodford was the most celebrated and successful British investor of his generation.

He spent years beating the market; betting against the dot com bubble in the... Read more

The Babysitter

By: Liza Rodman & Jennifer Jordan

Narrated by: Andi Arndt & Aida Reluzco

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

This chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)—reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me—follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic babysitter, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer.

Growing... Read more

AMORALMAN

By: Derek DelGaudio

Narrated by: Derek DelGaudio

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Truth and lies are two sides of the same coin. But who's flipping it? A thought-provoking and brilliantly entertaining work of nonfiction from one of the world's leading deceivers, the creator and star of the astonishing theater show and forthcoming film In & Of Itself.

Derek DelGaudio believed he was a decent, honest man. But when... Read more

Dirty Gold

By: Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas, Jim Wyss & Kyra G...

Narrated by: Gustavo Rex

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it
In March of 2017, a team of FBI agents arrested Juan Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato Rodriguez, or as they called themselves, "the three amigos." The trio--first identified publicly by the authors of this book-- had built a $3.6... Read more

On the Trail of the Serpent

By: Richard Neville & Julie Clarke

Narrated by: Homer Todiwala

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The complete story of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer who inspired the hit Netflix series The Serpent.

Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great conmen, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up deprived of a sense of identity,... Read more

The Hillside Stranglers

By: Darcy O'Brien

Narrated by: Perry Daniels

Length: 15 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. But not until January 1979, more than a year later, would the mysterious disappearance of two... Read more

The Psychopath

By: Mary Turner Thomson

Narrated by: Mary Turner Thomson, Andi Arndt & Leon Nixon

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Now airing as the three-part documentary series The Other Mrs Jordan on ITVX.In 2006, Mary Turner Thomson’s world shattered when she discovered her husband Will was a bigamist, con man and convicted sex offender. Unbeknownst to her, this would be the start of a bold new chapter in her life, fighting to protect other women from his heartless... Read more

One Chance

By: Terroll Lewis

Narrated by: Terroll Lewis

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

"Terroll's story and most importantly his transformation and growth are inspiring to read." - Akala

"It’d be easy for me to go back to my old life, but I know where that old life leads you. You’re either behind prison bars or six feet underground."

Terroll Lewis has lived a crazy life. Growing up on Brixton's Myatt's Field estate, he was... Read more

We Own This City

By: Justin Fenton

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • The astonishing true story of “one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation” (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize–nominated reporter who exposed a gang of criminal cops and their yearslong plunder of an American city

NOW AN HBO SERIES FROM THE WIRE CREATOR DAVID SIMON AND GEORGE... Read more

Confident Women

By: Tori Telfer

Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history’s notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams—by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers.
From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scammers continue to intrigue us as a culture. As... Read more

Blood Gun Money

By: Ioan Grillo

Narrated by: Shawn Compton

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Bloomsbury presents Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo, read by Shawn Compton.

“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands of criminals and drug lords.” –Adam Winkler

From the author of El Narco and winner of the Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for... Read more

Assume Nothing

By: Tanya Selvaratnam

Narrated by: Tanya Selvaratnam

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Award-winning filmmaker Tanya Selvaratnam bravely recounts the intimate abuse she suffered from former New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, using her story as a prism to examine the domestic violence crisis plaguing America.

When Tanya Selvaratnam met then New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman at the Democratic National... Read more

Guilty Admissions

By: Nicole LaPorte

Narrated by: Betsy Foldes Meiman

Length: 10 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

This entertaining exposé on how the other half gets in tells the shockingly true story of the Varsity Blues scandal, and all of the crazy parents, privilege, and con men involved.

Guilty Admissions weaves together the story of an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer, and how he preyed on the desperation of some of the country's... Read more

The Officer's Daughter

By: Elle Johnson

Narrated by: Janina Edwards

Length: 6 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

""The Officer’s Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant understanding of forgiveness and justice I have ever read.""—Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Half a LifeThe author reflects on a terrible tragedy that forever altered the fabric... Read more

John Wayne Gacy

By: Gisela K.

Narrated by: Gisela K.

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

John Wayne Gacy, The Killer Clown, was a prolific American serial killer who murdered 33 boys between 1972 and 1976, burying most of them in the crawlspace under his house in Norridge, Cook County, Illinois.He was a businessman, politician, and registered clown who used his charm and trickery to lure his victims to his house, where he unleashed... Read more

Fall

By: John Preston

Narrated by: Simon Bubb

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the UK’s 2022 Costa Prize for Biography“A portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures in the annals of white-collar crime. . . . A well-researched, compelling book that uncovers many mysteries about a media tycoon.”—Kirkus ReviewsFrom the acclaimed author of A Very English Scandal, a thrilling and dramatic true-life account of the... Read more

The Good Girls

By: Sonia Faleiro

Narrated by: Sonia Faleiro

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation.

The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned.... Read more

American Serial Killers

By: Peter Vronsky

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 16 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers from the American "Golden Age" (1950-2000).
 
With books like Serial Killers, Female Serial Killers and Sons of Cain, Peter Vronsky has established himself as the foremost expert on the history of serial killers.  In this first definitive history of... Read more