True Crime audiobooks

Between Good and Evil

By: Roger L. Depue & Susan Schindehette

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good.
 
No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society’s most vicious psychopaths. And no one is... Read more

Ponzi's Scheme

By: Mitchell Zuckoff

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

You’ve heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's exhilarating book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.

It was a time when anything seemed possible–instant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous... Read more

For Laci

By: Sharon Rocha

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.

A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son... Read more

American Gunfight

By: Stephen Hunter & John Bainbridge

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

AMERICAN GUNFIGHT is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event–the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November of 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life.

Written by Pulitzer... Read more

Under and Alone

By: William Queen

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern... Read more

Conspiracy of Fools

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 30 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.

It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron... Read more

The Informant

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America.

It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior executive at Archer Daniels Midland--America's most politically powerful corporation--became a... Read more

McMafia

By: Misha Glenny

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 15 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Misha Glenny's groundbreaking study of global organized crime is now the inspiration for an 8-part AMC crime drama starring James Norton (War and Peace), Juliet Rylance, and David Strathairn. 

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the deregulation of international financial markets in 1989, governments and... Read more

The Terminal Spy

By: Alan S. Cowell

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

In a page-turning narrative that reads like a thriller, an award-winning journalist exposes the troubling truth behind the world’s first act of nuclear terrorism.

On November 1, 2006, Alexander Litvinenko sipped tea in London’s Millennium Hotel. Hours later the Russian émigré and former intelligence officer, who was sharply critical of Russian... Read more

The Snakehead

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 12 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people.

“Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown,... Read more

Prophet's Prey

By: Sam Brower

Narrated by: Jonah Cummings

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Despite considerable press coverage and a lengthy trial, the full story of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints has remained largely untold. Only one man can reveal the whole, astounding truth: Sam Brower, the private investigator who devoted years of his life to breaking open the secret practices of the FLDS and bringing Warren Jeffs... Read more

Innocent Victims

By: Minette Walters

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 4 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In December, 1924, a murder took place on a chicken farm in East Sussex, England. Although Norman Thorne never confessed to killing his girlfriend, Elsie, he was tried and hanged for the crime. In Chickenfeed, Walters burrows deep into an English legend, creating a suspenseful tale of fiction based in fact. Was Thorne guilty? If so, what was his... Read more

The Mad Ones

By: Tom Folsom

Narrated by: Josh Clark

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In the 1960s, a trio of rebellious young gangsters, the Gallo boys, sought to overthrow the reigning New York Mafia Dons and create a dynasty for themselves—an underworld revolution that was fueled by their leader’s immersion into the era’s countercultural revolution. The Gallo boys are steeped in legend, from being the subject of a Bob Dylan... Read more

Empire of Deception

By: Dean Jobb

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A rollicking story of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man who kept a Ponzi scheme alive perhaps for longer than anyone else in history.
 
It was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the... Read more

Whitey Bulger

By: Kevin Cullen & Shelley Murphy

Narrated by: James Colby

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times Bestseller
A #1 Boston Globe Bestseller

An instant classic, this unforgettable narrative, rich with family ties and intrigue, follows the astonishing career of a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction. Cullen and Murphy have broken more Bulger stories than anyone, and
Whitey Bulger became front-page news, revealing... Read more

The Year of Fear

By: Joe Urschel

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers... Read more

CRACK99

By: David Locke Hall

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the US Department of JusticeA former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish:... Read more

Heist

By: Jeff Diamant

Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The bizarre true story of the criminals behind the second-largest bank heist in American historyOne night in a small North Carolina town, a down-on-his-luck guard at Loomis Fargo manages to steal $17 million—literally more than one ton of cash. Despite being caught on camera wheeling the money from the vault to the getaway van, David Ghantt... Read more

Conviction

By: Juan Martinez

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.Through two trials, America watched with baited breath as Juan Martinez fought relentlessly to convict Jodi... Read more

Strangers on a Bridge

By: James Donovan

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan.

Originally published in 1964, this is the “enthralling…truly remarkable” (The New York Times Book Review) insider account of the Cold War spy exchange—with a new foreword by... Read more

A Mother's Reckoning

By: Sue Klebold

Narrated by: Sue Klebold

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four... Read more

Filthy Rich

By: James Patterson & John Connolly

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a #1 Netflix documentary series. Get the full shocking story about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in this #1 New York Times bestselling and definitive book.
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers -- and for people -- Epstein amassed his... Read more

He Killed Them All

By: Jeanine Pirro

Narrated by: Jeanine Pirro

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro—the “true hero” (New York Post) of the hit HBO documentary series The Jinx—offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst.

Former district attorney Jeanine Pirro was cast as the bad guy fifteen years... Read more

American Heiress

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history
 
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag... Read more