True Crime audiobooks
Alligator Candy: A Memoir
By: David Kushner
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.
David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding... Read more
American Heiress
By: Jeffrey Toobin
Narrated by: Paul Michael
Length: 15 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag... Read more
If You Only Knew
By: M. William Phelps
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 13 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor of the Rogers' mansion. Just another of his alcoholic benders, they assumed. But this time, Donald Rogers didn't wake up.
The investigation would reveal... 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
View audiobookDeath Comes Knocking
By: Graham Bartlett & Peter James
Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
Dive into Brighton’s darkest corners in Death Comes Knocking – uncovering the true crimes that inspire the bestselling Roy Grace series, by Peter James and long-serving detective Graham Barlett.
Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and... Read more
Bad Blood
By: Julie Shaw
Narrated by: Nigel Peever
Length: 9 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, rife with crime, alcohol and drugs, a place where family is everything and nothing. It's Friday... Read more
View audiobookThe Wicked Boy
By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Corrie James
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in... Read more
View audiobookFramed
By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
Length: 13 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael's criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookSexy Beasts
By: Wensley Clarkson
Narrated by: Wensley Clarkson
Length: 9 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
In what has been described as a true-life blend of "Grumpy Old Men" and "Ocean's Eleven, SEXY BEASTS is an insider account of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist, in which a group of retirement-age career criminals -- the so-called "Diamond Geezers" -- robbed a London jewelry vault, in what would be the biggest burglary in UK history.
The Hatton Garden... Read more
Undercover
By: Joe Carter
Narrated by: Simon Paisley Day
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty years undercover - one man's true story of life as an undercover cop. A must-read for fans of Donnie Brasco.
For over 20 years Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. He travelled the globe on different passports. He fraternised with thieves, international drugs and arms dealers. He worked alongside the most dangerous... Read more
The Spy Who Loved
By: Clare Mulley
Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre
Length: 16 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II
In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.
The daughter of a... 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
View audiobookThe Black Museum, Vol. 1 - Abridged
By: Hollywood 360
Narrated by: a full cast
Length: 5 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: Yes
Here are twelve episodes of the classic mystery radio show, The Black Museum.The Black Museum was a weekly radio crime drama produced for the BBC in 1951 and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard. Orson Welles, who was living in London at the time, was both host and narrator for these dramatized stories based on Scotland... Read more
View audiobookA 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
Lolita in the Lion's Den
By: Justin Forest
Narrated by: Steve Carlson
Length: 6 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
A young man must overcome a horrific past in order to release his inner demons in Justin Forest’s shocking new cross-genre novel, Lolita in the Lion’s Den. Glen has fought for years to escape a brutal home life, one in which he acts as his mother’s only friend and to accept that his father has been molesting his sister for over a decade. But... Read more
View audiobookTrue Crime Addict
By: James Renner
Narrated by: James Renner
Length: 6 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange... Read more
View audiobookGitchie Girl
By: Phil Hamman & Sandy Hamman
Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu
Length: 4 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
A terrified voice cried out in the night. "Who are you? What do you want?"
The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park. The night of music and laughter had taken a dark turn. Evil loomed just beyond the tree line, and before the night was over, one of the... Read more
The Serial Killer Files
By: Harold Schechter
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 18 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and... Read more
Deviant
By: Harold Schechter
Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation—and redefined the meaning of the word psycho.The year was 1957. The place was an ordinary farmhouse in America’s heartland, filled with... Read more
View audiobookSnatched
By: Bruce Porter
Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
Length: 13 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
Snatched is the electric tale by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance.Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous... Read more
View audiobookPretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane
By: Paul Thomas Murphy
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
A vivid and violent investigation into a shocking and unsolved 1871 murder in London, by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Shooting VictoriaOn April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy road—gashes were cloven into her skull, her left cheek... Read more
View audiobookBecky
By: Darren Galsworthy
Narrated by: Ben Fox
Length: 8 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
This is the heartbreaking story of the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a personal and heartfelt account of a crime that shocked the nation in a unique way and tore a family in two. A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own step-brother on 19 February 2015.... Read more
View audiobookThe Long Shadow of Small Ghosts
By: Laura Tillman
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one... Read more