True Crime audiobooks

Incendiary

By: Michael Cannell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters... Read more

Three Minutes to Doomsday

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider’s story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.

In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT... Read more

The Road to Jonestown

By: Jeff Guinn

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 17 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

2018 Edgar Award Finalist—Best Fact Crime

“A thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey” (The Boston Globe)—the definitive story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, the largest murder-suicide in American history, by the New York Times bestselling... Read more

Darker than Night

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1985, two twenty-seven-year-old friends left their suburban Detroit homes for a hunting trip in rural Michigan. When they did not return, their families and police suspected foul play. For eighteen years, no one could prove a thing. Then, a relentless investigator got a witness to talk, and a horrifying story emerged.



In 2003, this bizarre... Read more

Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism

“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be... Read more

H.H. Holmes

By: Adam Selzer

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and... Read more

The Foundling

By: Paul Joseph Fronczak

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring and “page-turning” (Booklist) true story of a man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby—and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family, and set in motion the second longest cold case in US history.

In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy... Read more

Svenska svindlare och fuskare

By: Fredrik Kullberg

Narrated by: Christoffer Rigeblad

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ta del av historierna och personerna bakom några av de största rubrikerna i media och skandalerna som orsakat dem. Här presenteras 87 fallstudier av svenska svindlare från 1600-talet och fram till idag, som till exempel den charmiga stjärnkirurgen på Karolinska Institutet, blodgruppsdieten eller myten om seriemördaren Thomas Quick."Otroligt... Read more

The Trials of Walter Ogrod

By: Thomas Lowenstein

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The horrific 1988 murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn shocked the citizens of Philadelphia. Plucked from her own front yard, Barbara Jean was found dead less than two and a half hours later in a cardboard TV box dragged to a nearby street curb. After months of investigation with no strong leads, the case went cold. Four years later it was... Read more

The Crime of the Century

By: Dennis L. Breo & William J. Martin

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 18 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through a quiet Chicago townhouse like a summer tornado and stabbed, strangled, and killed eight young nurses in a violent sexual rampage. By morning, only one nurse, Corazon Amurao, had miraculously survived, and her scream of terror was heard around the world. As the eight bodies were carried... Read more

City of Light, City of Poison

By: Holly Tucker

Narrated by: Kate Reading

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Appointed to conquer the “crime capital of the world,” the first police chief of Paris faces an epidemic of murder in the late 1600s. Assigned by Louis XIV, Nicolas de La Reynie begins by clearing the streets of filth and installing lanterns throughout Paris, turning it into the City of Light.The fearless La Reynie pursues criminals through the... Read more

The Michigan Murders

By: Edward Keyes

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1967, during the time of peace, free love, and hitchhiking, nineteen-year-old Mary Terese Fleszar was last seen walking home to her apartment in Ypsilanti, Michigan. One month later, her naked body stabbed over thirty times and missing both feet and a forearm was discovered on an abandoned farm. A year later, the body of twenty-year-old Joan... Read more

The Green Bicycle Mystery

By: Edgar Jepson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Alfred Jepson (1863-1938) was an English author best known for his adventure and detective fiction. He also wrote supernatural and fantasy stories.

"The Green Bicycle Mystery" is Jepson's account of a true unsolved murder case. Bella Wright was found lying dead beside her bicycle on a lonely country lane in Leicestershire. She had been shot... Read more

Dr. Crippen, Lover and Poisoner

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

The Secret of the Moat Farm

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 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 Secret of the Moat Farm" is Wallace's account of a real life murder mystery which he had covered as a young journalist. Camille Holland, a spinster of 56, became... Read more

Landru, the Bluebeard of France

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

Don't Tell a Soul

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't lie if her life depended on it—and it did. Cherry's body was found on the side of a Texas road, after being doused... Read more

Ripper

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as... Read more

The Devil's Gentleman

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune—hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life... Read more

I Know What You Are

By: Taylor Edison & Jane Smith

Narrated by: Jessica Ball

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared most of... Read more

The Blood of Emmett Till

By: Timothy B. Tyson

Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of... Read more

Jimmy Hoffa

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: David Zarbock

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A century ago, if one were to come across a manual laborer from the early 20th century or the Roaring Twenties and relayed to them the possibility of one day sticking it to The Man, one would probably be laughed out of the century. However, this was exactly what one man with solid-gold aspirations and audacity set out to achieve. Jimmy Hoffa,... Read more

Blue on Blue

By: Charles Campisi

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work—or both”... Read more

Breaking Blue

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony... Read more