True Crime audiobooks

The Bourbon King

By: Bob Batchelor

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

October 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Volstead Act, which put the enforcement teeth into Prohibition. But the law didn't stop George Remus from cornering the boozy, illegal liquor marketplace and amassing a fortune that eclipsed $200 million (the equivalent of $4.75 billion today). As eminent documentarian Ken Burns proclaimed, "Remus... Read more

The Nature of Life and Death

By: Patricia Wiltshire

Narrated by: Patricia Wiltshire

Length: 10 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and the secrets each can reveal about the other--from a pioneer in forensic ecology and a trailblazing female scientist.

From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking... Read more

Island Indictments

By: Leigh Jones

Narrated by: Leigh Jones

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A runaway airman slaughters a family of three as they sleep in their beds.A single mother murders her two young sons and hides their dismembered bodies in her refrigerator.An elderly man beats his granddaughter to death with a hammer because her childish singing annoys him.Those are just three of the violent crimes that rocked Galveston in one... Read more

THROUGH A MOTHER'S EYES

By: Cary Allen Stone

Narrated by: Cary Allen Stone

Length: 1 hour 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling look at human nature in a context where the lines between right and wrong become sadly blurred. It’s a compelling account of one woman's life, and what drove her to take the life of her six-year-old son. How everyday choices shape our perceptions, justifications, and actions. One must consider how close to the edge we all are. It’s a... Read more

Killing Season

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times–bestselling journalist traces a string of unsolved murders—and the botched investigation that let the New Bedford Highway Killer walk away.Over the course of seven months in 1988, eleven women disappeared off the streets of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a gloomy, drug-addled coastal town that was once the whaling capital of the... Read more

Cold-Blooded

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Paul Heitsch

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

From a New York Times–bestselling journalist: The story of the murder of a California attorney at the hands of the lethally cunning wife he never doubted.A wealthy and well-connected legal ace and the proud owner of a champion show horse, Larry McNabney had every reason to love his life. But when he disappeared in September 2001, his wife,... Read more

Cold Case Investigations

By: Xanthé Mallett

Narrated by: Casey Withoos

Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

From the disappearance of the Beaumont children to the abduction of William Tyrrell to the double murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce, Xanthé is determined to expose the truth to maximise dignity for both deceased victims and those left behind.

Xanthé talks to experts to uncover the how's and why's of tragic murders... Read more

Maffia

By: Thomas Lappalainen

Narrated by: Magnus Roosmann

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Maffia är ett begrepp som kan skänka oss obehag och kanske rädsla. Här får vi följa maffians framväxt på Sicilien och hur dess organisation flyttat ut i Italien och sedan resten av världen. Vi får följa den amerikanska armens häpnadsväckande hjälp att återupprätta maffian under andra världskrigets slutskede. Brottsorganisationens roll i det... Read more

A Killer's Confession

By: Karen Edwards

Narrated by: Jane McDowell

Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A mother's story behind one of the most dramatic true crime cases in recent history.

'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. Found buried in a shallow grave in a remote field, Becky had... Read more

The Outlaw Ocean

By: Ian Urbina

Narrated by: Jason Culp & Ian Urbina

Length: 17 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense... Read more

The Poison Tree

By: Alan Prendergast

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 14 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years—until his children plotted a deadly solution.One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the... Read more

The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War

By: Marcia Mitchell & Thomas Mitchell

Narrated by: Harriet Dunlop

Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION In January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested... Read more

Shot in the Heart

By: Mikal Gilmore

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 19 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A murder tale "from inside the house where murder is born." Haunting, harrowing, and profoundly affecting, Shot in the Heart exposes and explores a dark vein of American life that most of us would rather ignore. It is a book that will leave no reader unchanged.

Gary Gilmore, the infamous murderer... Read more

Política y delito. Los testimonios que hundieron a Santofimo

By: Gonzalo Guillén

Narrated by: Juan Manuel Rodríguez

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"El libro de Gonzalo Guillén nos abre la oportunidad de contemplar el panorama nacional, en el cual descuellan por sus virtudes políticas, ilustres personajes de la historia nacional, como Luis Carlos Galán y Rodrigo Lara Bonilla. El primero, estuvo llamado a orientar, sobre la base de principios éticos y dentro del marco del Estado de Derecho,... Read more

The Parable of the Knocker

By: Bryan Porter

Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Alexandria Assassin: The Parable of the Knocker is a nonfiction book about the investigation, prosecution, and trial of a notorious serial killer, Charles Severance. Severance committed his crimes in the City of Alexandria, Virginia, an affluent, historic community just miles south of Washington, D.C.



Over the course of a decade, Severance... Read more

The Sadist, the Hitman, and the Murder of Jane Bashara

By: George Hunter & Lynn Rosenthal

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

“Big Bob” Bashara put on a respectable face. To his friends in Detroit’s affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe, he was a married father of two, Rotary Club President, church usher, and soccer dad who organized charity events with his wife, Jane.To his “slaves,” he was “Master Bob,” a cocaine-snorting slumlord who operated a sex dungeon and had a... Read more

Consent

By: Donna Freitas

Narrated by: Kathleen McInerney

Length: 10 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In this "compelling and disturbing" true story, a young woman's toxic mentor develops a dark, stalking obsession that disrupts her career -- and her peace of mind. (Rebecca Traister,New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad)

Donna Freitas has lived two lives. In one life, she is a well-published author and respected scholar who has... Read more

Chicago's Deadliest Side

By: ronald hoskin & Ron Hoskin

Narrated by: David A. Conatser with Storyline Voice-Over

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a description of events that have occurred at the ground truth of violence that happens on Chicago's west side mean streets. There are various reasons for these events be they economic, environmental, or personal.Like war stories the most accurate accounts are from the soldiers who were there. I was There. For many years before... Read more

The Girls

By: Abigail Pesta

Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar offer groundbreaking new insight, with the first known survivor and many others sharing their stories exclusively for the first time.

We think of Larry Nassar as the despicable sexual predator of Olympic gymnasts -- but there is an astonishing, untold... Read more

The Pretty Girl Killer

By: Andrew Byrne

Narrated by: Laurence Brewer

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the story of Christopher Wilder: the surf-loving son of a decorated naval war hero born in the suburbs of Sydney, who became the most wanted man in America - a psychopathic serial killer who slaughtered more than sixteen young women in the USA and is the prime suspect in the infamous Australian Wanda Beach murders.
Wilder was handsome... Read more

The Boston Strangler

By: Gerold Frank

Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen

Length: 17 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller and Winner of the Edgar Award: The definitive account of a serial killer's rampage—and the manhunt that stopped him.On June 14, 1962, twenty-five-year-old Juris Slesers arrived at his mother's apartment to drive her to church. But there was no answer at the door. When he pushed his way inside, Juris found Anna Slesers... Read more

When the Clouds Fell from the Sky

By: Robert Carmichael

Narrated by: Roger Davis

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'
Jon Swain, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time


'Like Auschwitz, like Stalin's purges, the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge are one of those extraordinary events that make us wonder about the human capacity for evil. Through a profoundly... Read more

Closing Time

By: Lacey Fosburgh

Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell

Length: 6 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: "A first-rate achievement" (Truman Capote).In 1973, Roseann Quinn, an Irish-Catholic teacher at a school for deaf children, was killed in New York City after bringing a man home to her apartment from an Upper West Side pub. The crime... Read more

Written in Blood

By: Diane Fanning

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Michael Peterson was driven to succeed.

An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University's... Read more