True Crime bestsellers

The Wager

A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Dion Graham & David Grann
Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

“Few authors are able to write nonfiction history that reads like a page turning adventure novel, but David Grann is one of them. The gripping story of The Wager’s shipwreck and the survivors’ divergent tales of the events that followed kept me on the edge of my seat as I devoured this book. Martin Scorsese has already acquired the film rights. Read more

Lucky Loser

How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 17 hours 46 minutes

“A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” –Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald... Read more

The Art Thief

A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini & Michael Finkel
Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

“This true crime story seemed so much like a thrilling novel, it was difficult to believe that it is actually all true! If you appreciate bizarre, fast-paced nonfiction, this is a great one to pick up! Read more

Killers of the Flower Moon

The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

“The three sections of the book each cover a different part of this bizarre and unbelievable but true murder mystery: the investigation, the trial, and the aftermath. Each time I finished a section, I kind of assumed the interesting part was over. And each time I was WRONG. This book kept me guessing all the way to the end, and then some. Read more

Say Nothing

A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

“Say Nothing is a chilling chronicle of The Troubles of Northern Ireland and its aftermath, with special focus on the orchestrated disappearance of civilian mother of ten Jean McConville. Per the author, Patrick Radden Keefe, the book is not a comprehensive history, but as someone who knew virtually nothing about The Troubles going in, I found... Read more

Scam Goddess

Lessons from a Life of Cons, Grifts, and Schemes

By: Laci Mosley
Narrated by: Laci Mosley
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

A delightfully subversive essay collection from Laci Mosley, host of the award-winning “Scam Goddess” podcast, about the frauds, cons, and schemes that make up our world—and how the scammer mindset has affected her own upbringing, career, friendships, love life, and more. ​

From an early age, comedian and actress Laci Mosley knew her path would... Read more

The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

“The Devil in the White City is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Set amidst the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Erik Larson's historical narrative interweaves the stories of two men who would come to define it, for better and for worse. One is Daniel Burnham, chief architect of the Fair, who threw his entire being into creating a... Read more

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINEE • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

A Story of Violent Faith

By: Jon Krakauer
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

“So often it seems that people approach events like these wondering how someone could possibly do something so terrible. Jon Krakauer bypasses the 'how' and goes immediately for the 'why.' With a keen eye for discrepancies and Scott Brick's intense narration for the audiobook, Krakauer leaves no stone unturned when it comes to detailing what led... Read more

All That Glitters

A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

By: Orlando Whitfield
Narrated by: Orlando Whitfield
Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

“More than a high-art true crime tale—an honest and insightful memoir of friendship (that’s still binge-worthy as a tell-all). Read more

The Best Minds

A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen
Narrated by: Jonathan Rosen
Length: 16 hours 43 minutes

“Rosen deftly explores how language, the law, politics and the media impact our perceptions of 'madness', while also telling us the moving life story of his genius childhood friend Michael who is battling schizophrenia. Well-researched. Moving. Thought-provoking. Unforgettable. Read more

By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

By: Rebecca Nagle
Narrated by: Rebecca Nagle
Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

""Impeccably researched. . . . A fascinating book and an important one.” — Washington Post“[A] brilliant, kaleidoscopic debut. . . . Nagle’s narrative is lucid and moving. . . . A showstopper.” — Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMost Anticipated Book of the Fall: Washington Post, People, Los Angeles Times, Parade, Bustle, Book RiotA powerful... Read more

The Sing Sing Files

One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian
Narrated by: Dan Slepian
Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

The author's podcast, Letters from Sing Sing, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

This program is read by the author and features sound design and original archival sound recordings from Sing Sing maximum-security prison, including letters written to the author. It also includes commentary from formerly incarcerated men.

An NBC Dateline producer's... Read more

The Stranger Beside Me

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend—Ted Bundy—was not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Meeting... Read more

The Devil at His Elbow

Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein
Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed & Valerie Bauerlein
Length: 14 hours 51 minutes

“Valerie Bauerlein’s blistering, unforgettable account of the Murdaugh saga leaves no stone unturned, helping us finally truly understand the man at the center of one of the century’s wildest crime stories.”—Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road and Lost Girls

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of... Read more

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron & John Berendt
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review

Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the... Read more

The Great Pretender

The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness

By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Christie Moreau & Susannah Cahalan
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

“After sharing her traumatic experience with the medical world in Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan has found that there are a lot of troubling controversies and misconceptions in the field of psychology, many of which stem from a study published by David Rosenhan in 1973. Rosenhan's study "On Being Sane in Insane Places," rocked the world of... Read more

Catch and Kill

Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators

By: Ronan Farrow
Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

“A timely, incredibly important account of the difficulties Farrow faced at NBC while working on the Weinstein expose, which he took to the New Yorker and subsequently won a Pulitzer for. The audiobook is grippingly read by Farrow (though the accents he attempts are... let's go with 'confusing'). It's upsetting, sure, but heartening to see the... Read more

Guilty Creatures

Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman
Narrated by: Leon Nixon
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

“A thoughtful and well-researched dive into a crime that took almost 18 years to solve. It was very interesting to hear from one of the perpetrators throughout the book, knowing he had finally confessed but still seeing it play out in almost real-time. The details finally explained in court will remind you that humans are the deadliest creatures.... Read more

Chaos

Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more

Manhattan Cult Story

My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Spencer Schneider
Narrated by: Austin Rising
Length: 8 hours

Right under the noses of neighbors, clients, spouses, children, and friends, a secret society, simply called School—a cult of snared Manhattan professionals—has been led by the charismatic, sociopathic, and dangerous leader Sharon Gans for decades. Spencer Schneider was recruited in the eighties, and he stayed for more than twenty-three years as... Read more

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn & Patton Oswalt
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

“An overwhelmingly obsessed Michelle McNamara dissects the decades old trail of tragedy, trauma and ongoing taunts by the elusive East Area Rapist in her investigative crime thriller “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” published posthumously after her unexpected demise. Dubbed the “Golden State Killer” by McNamara herself, his crime spree started with 50... Read more

Hell Put to Shame

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes

“The chilling mass murder of eleven black farmhands in rural Georgia in 1921 (“The Murder Farm Massacre”) made major national news, exposing the South’s widespread use of the peonage system, or legal debt slavery, and its accompanying cruelties. Mostly forgotten today, the story of the crime and its media and legal aftermath is nothing short of... Read more

A Hunger to Kill

A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager & Lisa Pulitzer
Narrated by: Jennifer Blom
Length: 10 hours

“A small town in Ohio is left reeling after a 911 call turns into an investigation into a serial killer. True Crime fans will love the narrating of this incredible story. Read more

MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious

The Graphic Stories

By: MrBallen
Narrated by: MrBallen
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“My family loves Mr Ballen and this graphic novel is amazing! The art is incredible and it reads just like your listening to Mr Ballen tell his stories. Read more

If You Tell

A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

By: Gregg Olsen
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.#1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like... Read more

Eden Undone

A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II

By: Abbott Kahler
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 9 hours 53 minutes

“One of those fascinating stories that you almost can't believe it's true - so strange and novelistic, this book is a fast-paced and unexpected thrill ride for fans of Erik Larsen, or The Art Thief Read more

Rogues

True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Length: 15 hours 28 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning author of Empire of Pain and Say Nothing—and one of the most decorated journalists of our time—twelve enthralling true stories of skulduggery and intrigue

"An excellent collection of Keefe's detective work, and a fine introduction to his illuminating writing." —NPR

“Fast-paced...Keefe is a... Read more

Memorial Drive

A Daughter's Memoir

By: Natasha Trethewey
Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

“When poets write memoirs, I read them. And this shocking coming-of-age reflection on violence, race and motherless daughters evoked a subtle rage that later boiled and then recoiled in me by the end of the book. I am so grateful to witness Threthewey's survival on the page and in her own voice, as read in the audiobook. Unforgettable. Read more

The Barn

The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

By: Wright Thompson
Narrated by: Wright Thompson
Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

“The Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best and worst parts of Mississippi, I will ever read…Reporting and reckoning can get no better, or more important, than this.”
 —Kiese Laymon, author of Long Division and Heavy: An American Memoir

“An incredible... Read more

Rinsed

From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks

By: Geoff White
Narrated by: Geoff White
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

There's an old saying: 'a rising tide lifts all boats'.

It's normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of hi-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types... Read more

A Gentleman and a Thief

The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb
Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

A captivating Jazz Age true-crime caper about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed everyone from Rockefellers to members of the royal family while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. 

“A master of narrative nonfiction. In this mesmerizing tale... Read more

A Stolen Life

A Memoir

By: Jaycee Dugard
Narrated by: Jaycee Dugard
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller—Jaycee Dugard’s raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years.

In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother that loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.

For... Read more

The King of Diamonds

The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief

By: Rena Pederson
Narrated by: Erin Dion
Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home, hiding in their closets and daring to smoke while they were sleeping. Rena... Read more

In True Face

A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

By: Jonna Mendez
Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold War

Jonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to... Read more

RedHanded

An Exploration of Criminals, Cannibals, Cults, and What Makes a Killer Tick

By: Suruthi Bala & Hannah Maguire
Narrated by: Suruthi Bala, Hannah Maguire & Denise Mina
Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Based off Hannah Maguire and Suruthi Bala's popular podcast of the same name, RedHanded explores real-life true crime cases to help answer once and for all if a killer is born or made.

Features an audiobook exclusive interview: Suruthi and Hannah interview award-winning author Denise Mina on the "the less dead", equality and bigotry in crime, the... Read more

College Girl, Missing

The True Story of How a Young Woman Disappeared in Plain Sight

By: Shawn Cohen
Narrated by: Kyle Snyder
Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**



"This book is the heartbreaking story that every parent dreads . . . Cohen sheds light on what really happened the night Lauren was never seen again." —David Crow, author of The Pale-Faced Lie



She visited friends. She walked to a bar. She was right there . . . until she was gone.



College student Lauren Spierer... Read more

Unnatural Causes

'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

By: Dr Richard Shepherd
Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd
Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin.

'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'

He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including investigating some of the most... Read more

Long Haul

Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi
Narrated by: Frank Figliuzzi
Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

""A true-crime masterpiece."" —Don WinslowFrom the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.In 2004, the FBI was tipped off to a gruesome pattern of unsolved... Read more

The Incorruptibles

A True Story of Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

By: Dan Slater
Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. 

In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews... Read more

Cryptomania

Hype, Hope, and the Fall of FTX's Billion-Dollar Fintech Empire

By: Andrew R Chow
Narrated by: Eric Yang
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

For fans of Bad Blood and Too Big to Fail, an explosive, page-turning account of one of the largest financial frauds in US history, chronicling the utopian promises, human collateral, and incineration of billions of dollars in the 2022 crypto crash, by Time magazine’s technology correspondent.

As cryptocurrency rose in popularity during the... Read more

Opus

The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church

By: Gareth Gore
Narrated by: Gareth Gore
Length: TBA

A thrilling exposé recounting how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.

For over half a century, Banco Popular was one of the most profitable banks in the world—until one day, in... Read more

Borgata

Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

Borgata Trilogy: Book #1

By: Louis Ferrante
Narrated by: Louis Ferrante
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily... Read more

McMillions

The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food History

By: James Lee Hernandez & Brian Lazarte
Narrated by: Brian Lazarte & James Lee Hernandez
Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

In this stranger than fiction story of the massive crime network that rigged the McDonald’s monopoly game for decades, unlock new, exclusive interviews and stories that couldn't make it into the HBO docuseries, McMillion$. Perfect for readers of Argo, The Wizard of Lies, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

In March of 2001, Federal... Read more

Foreign Agents

How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World

By: Casey Michel
Narrated by: Joe Dwyer
Length: 10 hours

A stunning investigation and indictment of a segment of the United States' foreign lobbying industry, and the threat to end democracy.

For years, one group of Americans has worked as foot-soldiers for the most authoritarian regimes around the planet. In the process, they've not only entrenched dictatorships and spread kleptocratic networks, but... Read more

Hotel Scarface

Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami

By: Roben Farzad
Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday—and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface...

In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove’s Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty,... Read more

But I Trusted You

And Other True Cases

Ann Rule's Crime Files: Book #14

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

The most fatal mistake?Trust. It's the foundation of any enduring relationship between friends, lovers, spouses, and families. But when trust is placed in those who are not what they seem, the results can be deadly. Ann Rule, who famously chronicled her own shocking experience of unknowingly befriending a sociopath in "The Stranger Beside Me,"... Read more

Shallow Graves

The Hunt for the New Bedford Highway Serial Killer

By: Maureen Boyle
Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community's diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells... Read more

For Laci

A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice

By: Sharon Rocha
Narrated by: Staci Snell
Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.

A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son... Read more

How to Start a War

The Rise of Extremism, the Fall of Democracy, and the Lead Up to World War II

By: Michael Trapani
Narrated by: Michael Trapani
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

How To Start a War is unlike any audiobook you’ve ever listened to …This new and expanded edition includes the complete story arc of How To Start a War, unabridged and with significant new material, as the author originally intended.Adapted from the popular podcast miniseries of the same name, Michael Trapani immerses listeners in the dramatic... Read more