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
Gomorrah
By: Roberto Saviano
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra... Read more
View audiobookSouth of Forgiveness
By: Thordis Elva & Tom Stranger
Narrated by: Tom Bromhead & Tavia Gilbert
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing... Read more
View audiobookThe Lady Vanishes
By: Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles & Marc...
Narrated by: Sarah Sutherland
Length: 14 hours 52 minutes
Abridged: No
A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again.
When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding... Read more
Queen of Cuba
By: Peter J. Lapp & Kelly Kennedy
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
As a spy prepared to give away America’s biggest secrets after the 9/11 attacks, an FBI agent raced to catch her.US government officials knew they had a spy. But it never occurred to them it was a woman—and certainly not a superstar Defense Intelligence Agency employee known as “the Queen of Cuba.”Ana Montes had spent seventeen years spying for... Read more
View audiobookThe Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks
By: John Railey
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 6 hours 57 minutes
Abridged: No
In the summer of 1967, nineteen-year-old Brenda Joyce Holland disappeared. She was a mountain girl who had come to Manteo to work in the outdoor drama The Lost Colony. Her body was found five days later, floating in the sound. This riveting narrative, built on unique access to the state investigative file and multiple interviews with insiders,... Read more
View audiobookAl Capone's Beer Wars
By: John J. Binder
Narrated by: David Colacci
Length: 11 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
Although much has been written about Al Capone, there has not been—until now—a complete history of organized crime in Chicago during Prohibition. This exhaustively researched book covers the entire period from 1920 to 1933. Author John J. Binder, a recognized authority on the history of organized crime in Chicago, discusses all the important... Read more
View audiobookBlood on Their Hands
By: Mandy Matney
Narrated by: Mandy Matney
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that... Read more
View audiobookFurious 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
Unmask Alice
By: Rick Emerson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on... Read more
View audiobookWe Keep the Dead Close
By: Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour
Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more
Great and Horrible News
By: Blessin Adams
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION. In early modern England, murder truly was most foul. Trials were gossipy events packed to the rafters with noisome spectators. Executions were public proceedings which promised not only gore, but... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookIn 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
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
The Third Rainbow Girl
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Narrated by: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together.
In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an... 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
Nowhere Girl
By: Cheryl Diamond
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a... Read more
The Falcon Thief
By: Joshua Hammer
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more
The Great Pretender
By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Christie Moreau & Susannah Cahalan
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR).
Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you... Read more
Hell Put to Shame
By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by... Read more
View audiobookCults
By: Max Cutler
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walke...
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan.
Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our... Read more
Savage Appetites
By: Rachel Monroe
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession.
In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a... Read more
What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape
By: Sohaila Abdulali
Narrated by: Sohaila Abdulali
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
After surviving gang-rape at seventeen in Mumbai, Sohaila Abdulali was indignant about the deafening silence that followed and wrote a fiery piece about the perception of rape—and rape victims—for a women's magazine. Thirty years later, with no notice, her article reappeared and went viral in the wake of the 2012 fatal gang-rape in New Delhi,... Read more
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