True Crime audiobooks

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union that went beyond the... Read more

Blow

By: Bruce Porter

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung’s roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel—the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung’s early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when... Read more

Chasing Phil

By: David Howard

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting
 
1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their... Read more

Destination Casablanca

By: Meredith Hindley

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.

In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across... Read more

Black Dahlia, Red Rose

By: Piu Eatwell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell—relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist—cracks the case after seventy years. With recently unredacted FBI files, newly released... Read more

Vulgar Favors

By: Maureen Orth

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Maureen Orth

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
 
“The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
 
“Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot... Read more

Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits

By: John Merriman

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle Ã?oque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I.

For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A... Read more

Freeing David McCallum

By: Ken Klonsky

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright & Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison.This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum, along with a group of... Read more

Mad City

By: Michael Arntfield

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Charts most-read book.Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks—until now.In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the... Read more

The Dominici Affair

By: Martin Kitchen

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old... Read more

Sorgfågel

By: Lena Katarina Swanberg & Annika Östberg

Narrated by: Kerstin Weman Thornell

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Svenska Annika Östberg fängslades i Kalifornien 1981, dömd för inblandning i mord på en restaurangägare och en polis. 1999 fick Lena Katarina Swanberg, under många besök på det amerikanska fängelset, höra hennes historia. Från barndomen i Stockholm till flytten till USA och rymningen till San Fransisco under flower power-perioden när hon var 13... Read more

The Man from the Train

By: Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial... Read more

Bloodlines

By: Melissa del Bosque

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is... Read more

Run, Hide, Repeat

By: Pauline Dakin

Narrated by: Pauline Dakin

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018

Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging... Read more

Marita

By: Marita Lorenz

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the dramatic, glamorous story of lover-turned-spy Marita Lorenz and her affair with Fidel Castro, the basis for a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence.Few people can say they have seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the... Read more

We Are All Shipwrecks

By: Kelly Grey Carlisle

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir of one woman's extraordinary upbringing and her search for redemption in the face of staggering tragedy Kelly Carlisle was three weeks old when her mother was strangled in downtown Los Angeles, leaving Kelly in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric Englishman who owned a porn store and lived on a boat in the harbor. It... Read more

Murder on Sunset Strip

By: Kim Cresswell

Narrated by: Jason Fella

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder on Sunset Strip is the second book in a compelling series of true crime short stories for readers who don't have time to read a full-length novel.

"The Story of Carol Bundy and Doug Clark" examines the chilling account of the serial killing duo whose deadly rampage began in 1980 on LA’s sunset strip. Read more

Confidential Source Ninety-Six

By: C.S. 96 & Rob Cea

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A HARROWING JOURNEY INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DRUG CARTELS BY ONE OF THE TOP CRIMINAL INFORMANTS IN U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named... Read more

Ghost of the Innocent Man

By: Benjamin Rachlin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.

During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of... Read more

Bones

By: Joe Tone

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy

José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroads—with considerable help... Read more

My Sister Milly

By: Gemma Dowler

Narrated by: Ruby Thomas

Length: 22 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, read by Ruby Thomas.

This is Gemma Dowler's powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning . . .

'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to Hell . . .'

Everyone thinks they know the story of... Read more

The Hot One

By: Carolyn Murnick

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist—two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who... Read more

Green is the New Black

By: James Phelps

Narrated by: Stan Pretty

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

James Phelps explores all the questions that we can only barely imagine the answers to about Australia's toughest jails. This is a brutal and honest account of life inside Australia's toughest jails, and all is not as you would expect. Do women rape each other? Do guards really trade 40-cent phone cards for sex? And do you think the most... Read more

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island

By: Claire Prentice

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post “must read”!Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation.For the first time, The Lost Tribe of Coney Island... Read more