True Crime audiobooks

Lust Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little evidence available, and the public screaming for answers, he must find a remorseless, brutal killer whose identity will shock them all . . . Read more

Dangerous Ground

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television—and his own life. He asked a convicted serial killer to act as a consultant for his TV series. Under the code name "Raven," the murderer shared his insights into the minds of other killers and helped analyze their crimes. As the... Read more

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

By: Martin Corona & Tony Rafael

Narrated by: Jacob Vargas

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life.
 
Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life... Read more

The Suspect

By: Jenny Friel

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On a clear autumn morning in 2004 Rachel O'Reilly, a thirty-year-old mother of two, was brutally battered to death in her home. It was a merciless killing that stunned the small, trusting community where she lived, and devastated her close-knit family.



In the days that followed the discovery of her body, it was thought that Rachel was the victim... Read more

The Chickenshit Club

By: Jesse Eisinger

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).

Why were no bankers put in... Read more

American Fire

By: Monica Hesse

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the... Read more

The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all; he was a star athlete with good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington,... Read more

The Big Heist

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn’t be told—until now.One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend—and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this... 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

The Westies

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer.... Read more

Thirty-Eight Witnesses

By: A.M. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors—and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses , the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York,... Read more

Overkill

By: Lyn Riddle

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hardworking. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor friends struggling in school. And she befriended a dejected classmate after his traumatic breakup with his pregnant long-time girlfriend Michelle... Read more

The Silent Witness

By: Casey Watson

Narrated by: Kate Lock

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I’m so sorry, Casey,’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. ‘I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.’ It’s the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on... Read more

Killing for You

By: Keith Elliot Greenberg

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan: He asked his neighbor Sam Herr, a young war veteran, to help him move some things into the attic of an empty theater. There, Wozniak shot Herr twice in the head before taking his ATM card and cell... Read more

Murdered Innocents

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On a December night in Austin, Texas, teenagers Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas closed up the yogurt store where they worked. The girls were joined by Jennifer's younger sister, Sarah, and her friend Amy Ayers.



Less than an hour later, all four girls were dead—tragic victims of an apparent fire. Until it was discovered that the girls had been... Read more

The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

By: Christine Pelisek

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles' history, told by the fearless reporter who broke the story.
In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. In her... Read more

The Murder on Yarmouth Sands

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age.

'The Murder on Yarmouth Sands' is a true crime story. Towards the end of the Boer War, the body of a woman was discovered on Yarmouth Sands. She had been strangled by a... Read more

Letting Go

By: Alex Hanscombe

Narrated by: Alex Hanscombe

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Hanscombe’s powerful, inspirational account as seen on This Morning, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight and in The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Sun. ‘I was the most famous child in the British Isles…’ The stunning and heartbreaking story of the young son of Rachel... Read more

Facing the Wind

By: Julie Salamon

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Rowe and his wife Mary worked hard to build their American dream. A suburban home, barbecues in the summer, and a fast track corporate job made their life look ideal to outsiders. Yet they faced one of the most difficult challenges for a couple: their son Christopher was born severely handicapped and disabled. As a family, they managed to... Read more

The Court of Last Resort

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of Perry Mason’s Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals.In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent.... Read more

Spies in the Family

By: Eva Dillon

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed... Read more

Agent M

By: Henry Hemming

Narrated by: Henry Hemming

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M.

Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this... Read more

American Kingpin

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it
 
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone... Read more

Pure Murder

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"We gotta kill 'em. They know what we look like."



On a hot summer night in Houston, two teenage girls—bright, beautiful, success-bound friends—took a shortcut home from a friend's apartment to make their curfew. They never reached their homes. The next morning, the families of the two girls began a frantic search, organizing friends and... Read more