True Crime audiobooks

Is Rape a Crime?

By: Michelle Bowdler

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction
TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020
Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2020
New York Times New & Noteworthy Audiobooks
Lit Hubs Most Anticipated Books of 2020
Starred Review Publishers Weekly
Starred Review Shelf Awareness

"Is Rape a Crime? is beautifully written and compellingly told. In... Read more

Unspeakable Acts

By: Sarah Weinman

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman & Graham Halstead

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita
The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark... Read more

Behind the Horror

By: Dr. Lee Mellor

Narrated by: Adam Sims

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams.

Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was inspired by an 18th-century Japanese folktale?

Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest... Read more

Forensics For Dummies

By: D.P. Lyle, MD

Narrated by: Chris Sorensen

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Understand the real-life science behind crime scene investigation



Forensics For Dummies takes you inside the world of crime scene investigation to give you the low down on this exciting field. Written by a doctor and former Law & Order consultant, this guide will have you solving crimes along with your favorite TV shows in no time. From... Read more

Epstein

By: Dylan Howard, Melissa Cronin & James Robertson

Narrated by: David Linski, Gabrielle de Cuir & Kate Orsini

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

This is—for the first time—the full and unedited story behind the sick life and mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein that is being called one of the most significant scandals in American historyHe was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars, and British royalty, the mysterious self-made man who... Read more

How to be Nowhere

By: Tim MacGabhann

Narrated by: Aidan Kelly

Length: 6 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is finally on the right track for reporter and recovering addict Andrew: he is slowly coming to terms with the murder of his photographer boyfriend Carlos, pursuing sobriety and building a new home with a new partner.

Andrew has almost forgotten about the story that ruined his life - but that story hasn't forgotten about him, and a series... Read more

I Got a Monster

By: Baynard Woods & Brandon Soderberg

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), which terrorized the city of Baltimore for half a decade.

When Baltimore police sergeant Wayne Jenkins said he had a monster, he meant he had found a big-time drug dealer—one that he wanted to rob. This is the story of Jenkins and the Gun Trace Task... Read more

Unacceptable

By: Melissa Korn & Jennifer Levitz

Narrated by: Brittany Pressley

Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

FORBES TOP 10 HIGHER EDUCATION BOOKS OF 2020 

The riveting true story behind the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, a cautionary tale of parenting gone wrong, the system that enabled families to veer so far off course, and the mastermind who made it all happen.

When federal prosecutors dropped the bombshell of Operation Varsity Blues, it... Read more

The Perfect Father

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was... Read more

Internal Combustion

By: Joyce Maynard

Narrated by: Janey Ivey

Length: 16 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

On Mothers Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet.  Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body... Read more

Kapalam

By: Dr. B . Umadathan

Narrated by: Pallippuram Jayakumar

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"അസാധാരണ മരണങ്ങളില്‍ ഒരു ഫോറന്‍സിക് വിദഗ്ധന്റെ വൈദഗ്ധ്യമാണ് കുറ്റാന്വേഷണത്തിന്റെ ദിശ നിര്‍ണ്ണയിക്കുന്നത്. ഫോറന്‍സിക് തെളിവുകളുടെ ചുവടുപിടിച്ച് ഡോ. ഉമാദത്തന്‍ തെളിയിച്ച പതിനഞ്ചു കേസ്സുകളാണ് കഥാരൂപത്തില്‍ ഇവിടെ അവതരിപ്പിക്കുന്നത്. കുറ്റാന്വേഷണത്തിലെ വൈദ്യശാസ്ത്രതത്ത്വങ്ങളും ഒപ്പം ആധുനിക സാങ്കേതികവിദ്യയും സമന്വയിപ്പിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് നടത്തിയ... Read more

Postmortem Table

By: Dr Sherly Vasu

Narrated by: Sashma

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

"പ്രാപഞ്ചിക പ്രതിഭാസമെന്ന നിലയില്‍ മാത്രമാണ് ഡോക്ടര്‍ മരണത്തെ കാണുന്നത്. ആ വിധത്തിലുള്ള ചില ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് ഉത്തരം തേടലാണ് പോസ്റ്റ്‌മോര്‍ട്ടം. പരിശോധനയും അനുബന്ധ പരിശോധനകളും. മരിച്ചതാരാണ്? എപ്പോഴാണയാള്‍ മരിച്ചത്? ഏതു കാരണത്താല്‍? ഇവയാണ് പ്രാഥമികമായ മൂന്നു ചോദ്യങ്ങള്‍. ഇവയ്‌ക്കെല്ലാമുള്ള ഉത്തരം തേടലാണ് ഒരു പോസ്റ്റ്‌മോര്‍ട്ടം ടേബിളില്‍... Read more

Mordärzte

By: Ulrich W. Gaertner

Narrated by: Stefan Schael

Length: 15 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

An einem regnerischen Nachmittag im März 1993 wird Kriminalhauptkommissar Bernhard Kluge, Leiter des Fachkommissariats für Tötungsdelikte bei der Kripo Lüneburg, über einen grabähnlichen Erdhügel mit einem vertrockneten, roten Tulpenstrauß informiert. Fundort ist das Lüner Gehölz, ein kleines Waldstück der Stadt Lüneburg. Auch eine zweite... Read more

Erased

By: Mark Powelson & Marilee Strong

Narrated by: Deb Thomas

Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Presents brilliant new theory that explains today's many headline cases of women who are "erased", and disappear without a trace, with a husband who has no empathy or remorse and often gets away with murder. Includes over fifty prominent cases, including Scott Peterson, Hollywood villain E. Scott Ewing, the notorious Jeffrey MacDonald, ... Read more

Inside the Mind of BTK

By: Johnny Dodd & John E. Douglas

Narrated by: Jason Klav

Length: 12 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes narrative of one of the most bizarre and terrible serial killers stories in US history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, strangling and sexually assaulting a series of women... Read more

Signs of Murder

By: David Wilson

Narrated by: David Wilson

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

From the UK's leading criminologist comes the true story of Margaret McLaughlin, and the man he believes was fitted up for her murder

'Enthralling ... will leave true crime readers with more to ponder than they bargained for' - The Herald

Before David Wilson became the UK's pre-eminent criminologist, he was just a young boy growing up in the... Read more

El Patron

By: Raul Tacchuella

Narrated by: Giancarlo Herrera

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The History will always remember him as one of the most iconic characters in the field of organized crime.However, “The Boss” became more than a criminal. It influenced the culture of a whole country, marking a before and after.
HATED BY SOME AND LOVED BY OTHERS,“El Patron” Doesn't go unnoticed and in this story, I tell how his journey affected... Read more

When Truth Is All You Have

By: Jim McCloskey & Philip Lerman

Narrated by: Jim Frangione

Length: 10 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“A riveting and infuriating examination of criminal prosecutions, revealing how easy it is to convict the wrong person and how nearly impossible it is to undo the error.” —Washington Post
 
"No one has illuminated this problem more thoughtfully and persistently." —Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy

Jim McCloskey was at a midlife crossroads... Read more

The King of Confidence

By: Miles Harvey

Narrated by: Rengin Altay

Length: 9 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The "unputdownable" (Dave Eggers, National Book award finalist) story of the most infamous American con man you've never heard of: James Strang, self-proclaimed divine king of earth, heaven, and an island in Lake Michigan, "perfect for fans of The Devil in the White City" (Kirkus)

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Longlisted for the... Read more

The Bomb Heard Around the World

By: Gregory Marquette

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1951 American terrorism was homegrown. There were no battles fought on American soil, yet there were 12 bombings targeting black Americans, Catholics, and Jews in "Jim Crow" Florida. One of those bombs was, symbolically, heard around the world.
Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, were murdered on Christmas night 1951 by racist terrorists.... Read more

The Quick and the Dead

By: Cynric Temple-Camp

Narrated by: Mark Davis

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of life and death from a New Zealand pathologist
From the number-one bestselling author of The Cause of Death comes a book about the unlikely, extraordinary, obscure and often tragic ways humans meet their end.A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and bizarre eating disorders... Read more

The Vapors

By: David Hill

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One of "21 books we can't wait to read in 2020" —ThrillistA New York Times Book Review summer reading pick
A Kirkus Reviews hottest summer read | A Publishers Weekly summer reads staff pickThe incredible true story of America's original—and forgotten—capital of viceBack in the days before Vegas was big, when the Mob was at its peak and neon... Read more

Ripped from the Headlines!

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films.The necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Chicago’s Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school... Read more

A Silenced Voice

By: Ingrid Wall & Joachim Wall

Narrated by: Vivienne Leheny

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving memoir of an inexplicable crime, a family’s loss, and a legacy preserved.Kim Wall was a thirty-year-old Swedish freelance journalist with a rising career. Then, in the summer of 2017, she followed a story that led to an eccentric inventor in Copenhagen. Instead of writing the next day’s headline, she’d become one.As the bizarre events... Read more