True Crime audiobooks

A Very English Scandal

By: John Preston

Narrated by: Matthew Brenher

Length: 12 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis for a television mini-series starring Hugh Grant, now a nominee for an Emmy AwardA behind-the-scenes look at the desperate, scandalous private life of a British MP and champion manipulator, and the history-making trial that exposed his dirty secretsAs a member of Parliament and leader of the Liberal Party in the 1960s and ’70s, Jeremy... Read more

Who Killed These Girls?

By: Beverly Lowry

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 15 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts--for twenty-five years now--to find and punish those who committed it.

The facts are brutally straightforward. On December... Read more

Filthy Rich

By: James Patterson & John Connolly

Narrated by: Jason Culp

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a #1 Netflix documentary series. Get the full shocking story about billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein in this #1 New York Times bestselling and definitive book.
Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origins into the New York City and Palm Beach elite. A college dropout with an instinct for numbers -- and for people -- Epstein amassed his... Read more

Schwarzwald Hölle - Abridged

By: Bernd Leix

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Familiendrama am Rande des Nationalparks Schwarzwald: Auf ihrem Bauernhof machen sich Vater und Sohn das Leben zur Hölle. Die Heimat verkaufen? Niemals! Ein heftiger Streit entbrennt. Das Unheil scheint unvermeidbar, aber eine Verwandte will das Schlimmste verhindern. Verzweifelt bittet sie den Karlsruher Kommissar Oskar Lindt um Hilfe. Ist es... Read more

Poisoned Love

By: Caitlin Rother

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Accident, Suicide . . . or Murder?



On November 6, 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing, and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning that she was leaving him. But family and friends weren't buying Kristin's story—particularly the idea that Greg would take his... Read more

Lobster Boy

By: Fred Rosen

Narrated by: Neil Hellegers

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In his account of the sensational life and murder of Grady Stiles Jr., also known as the legendary carnival freak Lobster Boy, author Fred Rosen explains how Stiles's death was engineered by his wife, Mary Teresa, the carny known as the Electrified Girl. Rosen describes how Mary Teresa arranged for her husband's murder after years of physical... Read more

Rogue Heroes

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: Ben Macintyre

Length: 13 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now a limited series on Epix!

“Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

ONE... Read more

Such Good Boys

By: Tina Dirmann

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 6 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

An Abusive Mother



Raised in the suburb of Riverside, California, twenty-year-old college student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed mother's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the house, tied him up with electrical cord, and on one occasion, gave him a beating that sent him to the emergency room.



A... Read more

Dead Reckoning

By: Caitlin Rother

Narrated by: Julie McKay

Length: 13 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Happy and retired, Tom and Jackie Hawks lived a charmed life in sunny Southern California. They were delighted when former child star Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife, Jennifer, offered cash to purchase their fifty-five-foot yacht, the Well Deserved . . .



But a trial voyage turned into a nightmare. Out at sea, the Hawkses begged for their... 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

Possessed

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Heather Auden

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston's hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could've prepared him for what he found: a beautiful woman drenched in blood, an older man lying dead on the floor, and a cobalt blue suede stiletto with tufts of white hair... Read more

The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it seems, we hear stories about hackers. Hackers breaking into the computers of banks, governments, and corporations. Some are criminals, coding to exploit and destroy. Others are activists, using their tools to challenge institutions and fight for freedom. But often these characters linger in the shadows. Who are they? What makes... Read more

Murder in the Family

By: Burl Barer

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. After an... Read more

Dance with the Devil

By: David Bagby

Narrated by: Allan Edwards

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds... 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

American Murder Houses

By: Steve Lehto

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses.



From a colonial manse in New England to a small-town home in Iowa to a Beverly Hills mansion, these residences have taken on a life of their own, gaining... Read more

Wolf Boys

By: Dan Slater

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times)

In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. At first glance,... Read more

Murder in the Bayou

By: Ethan Brown

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000... Read more

Indefensible

By: Michael Griesbach

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer—and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was freed—and filed a thirty-six-million-dollar lawsuit against... Read more

Goldsteins Geständnis

By: Friedrich Strassegger

Narrated by: Kai Schulz

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Die zweite Haut - oder das Leben eines anderen leben. Der ehemalige SS-Sturmscharführer Hermann Westermayer lebt ein gestohlenes Leben. Als Jude Daniel Goldstein sucht er sein Glück, doch holt ihn seine wahre Identität immer wieder ein. Eigentlich wollte sich der erfolgreiche Geschäftsmann in Eilat entspannen und erholen. Doch dann erreicht ihn... 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

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

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

The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death—using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of... Read more