True Crime audiobooks

The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield

By: H. W. Brands

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

The two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York’s Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.

Even before he was shot dead on... Read more

DarkMarket

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: Jonathan Cowley

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah

The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s... Read more

Death in the City of Light

By: David King

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping, true story of a brutal serial killer who unleashed his own reign of terror in Nazi-Occupied Paris.

As decapitated heads and dismembered body parts surfaced in the Seine, Commissaire Georges-Victor Massu, head of the Brigade Criminelle, was tasked with tracking down the elusive murderer in a twilight world of Gestapo, gangsters,... Read more

The Mark Inside

By: Amy Reading

Narrated by: Richard McGonagle

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle. He did what many other marks did—he went home, borrowed more money from his family, and returned for another round of swindling.  
 
Only after he lost that second fortune did he reclaim control of his story. Instead of crawling back home in shame, he... Read more

Whitey

By: Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone.
 
Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is... Read more

Pilgrim's Wilderness

By: Tom Kizzia

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
 
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new... Read more

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

By: Kermit Alexander, Alex Gerould & Jeff Snipes

Narrated by: Kermit Alexander

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life.

On the morning of August 31, 1984, in the South Central section of Los... Read more

Little Demon in the City of Light

By: Steven Levingston

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A delicious account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.

Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling—and so wonderfully French—story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of... Read more

A Spy Among Friends

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.

Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin

“[A Spy Among Friends] reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or... Read more

Law of the Jungle

By: Paul M. Barrett

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.

Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with... Read more

Avenue of Spies

By: Alex Kershaw

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 7 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The best-selling author of The Liberator brings to life the incredible true story of an American doctor in Paris, and his heroic espionage efforts during World War II.

The leafy Avenue Foch, one of the most exclusive residential streets in Nazi-occupied France, was Paris's hotbed of daring spies, murderous secret police, amoral informers, and... Read more

The Innocent Man

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone... Read more

Armed and Dangerous

By: William Queen & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Under and Alone comes an intimate and riveting account of federal law-enforcement agent William Queen’s relentless hunt for one of America’s most cold-blooded criminals.

As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases, including... Read more

Vanished Smile

By: R.A. Scotti

Narrated by: Kathe Mazur

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 21, 1911, the unfathomable happened–Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa vanished from the Louvre. More than twenty-four hours passed before museum officials realized she was gone. The prime suspects were as shocking as the crime: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a new art. As French detectives using the latest... Read more

The Irishman (Movie Tie-In)

By: Charles Brandt

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AS I HEARD YOU PAINT HOUSES

New York Times Bestseller

Now a major motion picture directed by Academy Award® winner Martin Scorsese, starring Academy Award® winners Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Anna Paquin, and Academy Award® nominee Harvey Keitel, and written by Academy Award® winner Steven Zaillian.
 
The... Read more

Five Days at Memorial

By: Sheri Fink

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 17 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter

“An amazing tale, as... Read more

Son of a Gun

By: Justin St. Germain

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath

Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth... Read more

Trapped Under the Sea

By: Neil Swidey

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results
 
A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black... Read more

The Good Spy

By: Kai Bird

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
 
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63... Read more

The Snowden Files

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Edward Snowden’s astonishing story

Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the... Read more

A Kim Jong-Il Production

By: Paul Fischer

Narrated by: Stephen Park

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South... Read more

The Billion Dollar Spy

By: David E. Hoffman

Narrated by: Dan Woren

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of a spy who cracked open the Soviet military research establishment and a penetrating portrait of the CIA’s Moscow station, an outpost of daring espionage in the last years of the Cold War
 
   While driving out of the American embassy in Moscow on the... Read more

Bridge of Spies

By: Giles Whittell

Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie
 
“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and... Read more

A Pretext For War

By: James Bamford

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 11 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In A Pretext for War, acclaimed author James Bamford–whose classic book The Puzzle Palace first revealed the existence of the National Security Agency–draws on his unparalleled access to top intelligence sources to produce a devastating expos? of the intelligence community and the Bush administration. A Pretext for War reveals the systematic... Read more