True Crime audiobooks

The Stranger Beside Me

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Lorelei King

Length: 18 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Tokyo Vice

By: Jake Adelstein

Narrated by: Jake Adelstein

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the... Read more

What the Dead Know

By: Barbara Butcher

Narrated by: Barbara Butcher

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

“Butcher chronicles her career path and her journey to sobriety in unflinching detail, while her voice remains deliberate and measured, occasionally slipping into what sounds like a half-smirk when cracking a joke….She has a way with words, telling stories that are at turns hilarious, thought-provoking and, as might be expected, disturbing….This... Read more

The Lazarus Heist

By: Geoff White

Narrated by: Geoff White

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.

Based on the No 1 hit podcast 'The Lazarus Heist'

'You'll never see North Korea the same way again' Oliver Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland

'One of the most incredible cyber-espionage stories I've ever heard, told by one of the UK's best tech journalists' Jamie Bartlett, author of The Missing Crypto... Read more

Sandworm

By: Andy Greenberg

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

"With the nuance of a reporter and the pace of a thriller writer, Andy Greenberg gives us a glimpse of the cyberwars of the future while at the same time placing his story in the long arc of Russian and Ukrainian history." —Anne Applebaum, bestselling author of Twilight of Democracy

The true story of the most devastating act of cyberwarfare in... Read more

When the Moon Turns to Blood

By: Leah Sottile

Narrated by: Leah Sottile

Length: 10 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspired by Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven and Jess Walter’s Every Knee Shall Bow, WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD explores modern-day survivalism and end-times extremism through the story of Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell.

When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check... Read more

Under the Banner of Heaven

By: Jon Krakauer

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU.

“Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San... Read more

They All Love Jack

By: Bruce Robinson

Narrated by: Bruce Robinson & Phil Fox

Length: 30 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I—"The funniest British film of all time" (Esquire)—returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known as "Jack the Ripper."In a literary high-wire act... Read more

Pimp

By: Iceberg Slim

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 11 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it. It is a trip through hell by the one man who lived to tell the tale—the dangers of jail, addiction, and death that are still all... Read more

The Bishop and the Butterfly

By: Michael Wolraich

Narrated by: Kirsten Potter

Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else—a letter from an... Read more

Tangled Vines

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Among the tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A century-old, multimillion-dollar law practice has catapulted the family into incredible wealth and local celebrity—but it was an unimaginable tragedy that would thrust them into the national spotlight. On June 7th, 2021, prominent attorney Alex... Read more

The Yoga Store Murder

By: Dan Morse

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a crime that shocked the country. On March 21, 2011, two young saleswomen were found inside a lululemon athletica store in Bethesda, Maryland, one of the nation's wealthiest suburbs. Jayna Murray, thirty, was dead—stabbed, slashed, and struck more than 300 times. Brittany Norwood, twenty-eight, was alive—tied up on a bathroom floor, her... Read more

Off the Deep End

By: Giancarlo Granda & Mark Ebner

Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Giancarlo Granda finally reveals the truth about his relationship with Becki Falwell and her husband Jerry Falwell Jr., and the hidden world of political influence, high finance, and criminal intrigue.Jerry Falwell Jr. is a prominent figure in the evangelical world whose support for presidential candidate Donald J. Trump helped secure Trump's... Read more

Run For Your Life

By: Sue Williams

Narrated by: Sue Williams

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets

What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world.
 
Nick moved to Russia in 1998 to help build the British... Read more

The Brotherhoods

By: Guy Lawson & William Oldham

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 24 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the shocking crimes of NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops convicted in April 2006 of the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their acts behind their badges while they worked for the mob. Their crimes included participation in the murders of at least... Read more

The Furies

By: Elizabeth Flock

Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw

Length: 12 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely withholds judgment, and her work is richer and more troubling... Read more

Chaos

By: Tom O'Neill

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

By: John Berendt

Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron & John Berendt

Length: 15 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Furious Hours

By: Casey Cep

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times Best Seller
 
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was... Read more

If You Tell

By: Gregg Olsen

Narrated by: Karen Peakes

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Tracers in the Dark

By: Andy Greenberg

Narrated by: Ari Fliakos

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael Lewis)

Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively... Read more

When a Killer Calls

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

From John Douglas—the legendary FBI criminal profiler, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration for the Netflix show Mindhunter—comes a chilling journey inside the mind and crimes of Larry Gene Bell, one of the most dangerous serial killers Douglas confronted, and the desperate effort to identify and catch him.
On May 31, 1985, two... Read more

Selling the Dream

By: Jane Marie

Narrated by: Jane Marie

Length: 6 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read for March 2024 * A Bustle Best New Book of Spring 2024

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.

We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary... Read more

In Cold Blood

By: Truman Capote

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more