True Crime audiobooks

Mickey Cohen

By: Tere Tereba

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Mickey Cohen: The Life and Times of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster is a seductive, premium-octane blend of true crime and Hollywood lore that spins around a wildly eccentric mob boss. When Bugsy Siegel was executed, ruthless Mickey Cohen, a former pro boxer and cunning provocateur, took over criminal activity in L.A., a move sanctioned by Meyer Lansky... Read more

Frozen

By: Scott Baldyga & Larry Johnson

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous... Read more

How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder

By: Mike Gilbert

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking tale told in How I Helped O. J. Get Away With Murder is unlike anything you've read before; it isn't Mike Gilbert's "version" of what happened—it's the unvarnished truth: the truth about O. J., the murders, and the infamous trial. Not as Gilbert imagined or would like it to be, but how it actually was. Gilbert doesn't spare anyone,... Read more

Bluegrass

By: William Van Meter

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely published journalist William Van Meter returned to his hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, to research this harrowing account of a horrifying crime that occurred at Western Kentucky University. In 2003, attractive college student Katie Autry was found dead in her dorm room after being raped, stabbed, and set on fire. As Van Meter delves... Read more

Bitter Blood

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 20 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller about the unbreakable ties of blood The first bodies found were those of a feisty millionaire widow and her daughter in their posh Louisville, Kentucky, home. Months later, another wealthy widow and her prominent son and daughter-in-law were found savagely slain in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.... Read more

Blood Games

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Blood, comes the story of a greed so powerful it led to an unspeakable crime. Wealthy Lieth von Stein lay dead and his wife Bonnie near death in their North Carolina home after a vicious assault with knife and baseball bat as they slept. The crime seemed totally baffling until police followed... Read more

Death Sentence

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A shocking true story of a double life undone by murder. --When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her—until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her... Read more

Before He Wakes

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Recounts the case of Barbara Stager, a seemingly devoted wife and community member whose murder of her husband was nearly ruled an accident until chilling evidence, including the death of her first husband, revealed Stager's secret double life. Read more

Body Count

By: Burl Barer

Narrated by: Paul McClain

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

He seemed so normal. Robert Lee Yates, Jr. was a respected father of five who piloted helicopters and served in Desert Storm and the National Guard. No one suspected him of having a deadly hidden life. By night, he prowled streets in search of prostitutes. He gained their trust then shot them in the head. The bodies of two young women were... Read more

A Good Month for Murder

By: Del Quentin Wilber

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives—does its almost impossible job

Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good month for murder in suburban Washington, D.C.

After gaining... Read more

Adnan's Story

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig’s Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial.

In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and... Read more

The Spider and the Fly

By: Claudia Rowe

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us.""Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have to give it to you, when confronted at least... Read more

Above Suspicion

By: Joe Sharkey

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal look at a crime of passion describes an FBI agent's successful career, family life, and extramarital affair that ended in murder, and of the guilt that drove him to confess in spite of his impenetrable government shield.

In a true story of crime, guilt, and conscience, a model agent's illicit involvement with an informant leads him to... Read more

Cyberspies

By: Gordon Corera

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The previously untold—and previously highly classified—story of the conflux of espionage and technology, a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the Internet ageAs the digital era becomes increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world;... Read more

The Jolly Roger Social Club

By: Nick Foster

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American expat community in Panama—a tale of greed, political history, and murder In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, a.k.a. “Wild Bill,” is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American expatriots. Holbert’s first victims were the Brown... Read more

Undisclosed Files of the Police

By: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing & Robert Mladinich

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through startling, rarely seen images and insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter.
From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the... Read more

Too Pretty to Live

By: Dennis Brooks

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning true-crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double murder begins with the click of a button.When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant.Chris... Read more

We Are Not Such Things

By: Justine van der Leun

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 19 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class.The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa. The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August... Read more

Playing Dead

By: Elizabeth Greenwood

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life.

“A delightful read for anyone tantalized by the prospect of disappearing without a trace.” —Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

How America Lost Its Secrets

By: Edward Jay Epstein

Narrated by: Michael Bybee

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important.

After details of American government surveillance were published in 2013, Edward Snowden,... Read more

Cartel Wives

By: Mia Flores

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.

Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked... Read more

Death Trap

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A loving father and his new wife set out to pick up his kids for a scheduled weekend visit—but never suspected they were walking into a death trap.



A handwritten note instructed Alan and Terra Bates to enter the back door of his ex-wife's Alabama home. A day later their charred bodies were found hundreds of miles away, wrapped in blankets, in a... Read more

Buried Memories

By: Irene Pence

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before... Read more

Fatal Jealousy

By: Colin McEvoy & Lynn Olanoff

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania state trooper witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers, "I just killed everybody."




Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery. In the home of Michael's... Read more