True Crime audiobooks

The Fact of a Body

By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Narrated by: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You


Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men... Read more

Writing to Save a Life

By: John Edgar Wideman

Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emmett Till took a train from... Read more

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

By: Kate Summerscale

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land.

At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention;... Read more

Mord Down Under – Den ensamma änklingen del 2

By: Janne Aagaard

Narrated by: Anna Kristoferson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Det här är andra delen av den sanna historien om änkemannen Bruce Saunders, vars jakt på kärlek ledde till en makaber död. Bruce Saunders död anses till en början vara en fruktansvärd olycka med en flismaskin. Men med tiden dyker det upp fler och fler bevis som pekar på ett helt annat scenario – ett brutalt mord planerat av hans kära Sharon... Read more

Why They Kill

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age-old problem of why people kill.

Lonnie Athens was raised by a brutally domineering father. Defying all odds,... Read more

The Incorruptibles

By: Dan Slater

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Trinity

By: Tom DeLonge & A.J. Hartley

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

It's 1962, in Trinity, Nevada, a small town on the edge of the desert, home to a military base serving the nuclear testing grounds.

Van Lopez and his brother Andy have enough to do keeping their truck running and the local criminal gang happy to be concerned about nuclear tests. Van has dreams, or—he's not sure what to call them—that he cannot... Read more

Mord Down Under – Den ensamma änklingen del 1

By: Janne Aagaard

Narrated by: Anna Kristoferson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Det här är första delen av den sanna historien om änkemannen Bruce Saunders, vars jakt på kärlek ledde till en makaber död. Bruce Saunders, den 53-åriga slaktaren och änklingen, hittar sin nya kärlek på internet. Hon heter Sharon Graham och är en attraktiv kvinna i 55-årsåldern. Deras relation blir en känslomässig berg-och-dalbana för den... Read more

Venona

By: John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies.... Read more

Rapport sur Nordahl L.

By: Michel Moatti

Narrated by: Stéphanie Cassignard

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Le livre que Nordahl Lelandais a voulu faire interdire. Le Rapport sur Nordahl L., qui n'avait pas pu être publié en 2018, à la demande de Nordahl Lelandais lui-même et de son avocat, est désormais disponible. À mi-chemin entre l'enquête et le roman, cet ouvrage explore les zones d'ombre, les secrets et les mensonges du meurtrier de Maëlys... Read more

Carrie Carolyn Coco

By: Sarah Gerard

Narrated by: Sarah Gerard

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death?personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable?as “nuanced and subtly intimate” (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, Sunshine State.   On the night of September... Read more

Wonderland

By: Nicole Treska

Narrated by: Nicole Treska

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

A necessary narrative that extends compassion and dignity to those our society often withholds it from.

After the death of her paternal aunt, Nicole returns to the town that gave her family its street cred but has taken away everything else. She was born to a family of gangsters in the Boston area whose affiliation with the Winter Hill Gang... Read more

A Thousand Miles From Care

By: Steve Johnson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Soon to be a MAJOR MOVIE. A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles from Care tells the 30-year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother’s death. At the entrance of Sydney Harbor, the cliffs rise fourteen stories above the Pacific, like a gigantic skirt made of sandstone.... Read more

The Survivors

By: Steve Braunias

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

True stories of death and desperation
One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion.Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of... Read more

Mord Down Under – Dödskyssen

By: Janne Aagaard

Narrated by: Anna Kristoferson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Det här är den sanna historien om de unga kvinnorna som mördade sin rumskamrat Stacey Mitchell. Sextonåriga Stacey Mitchell lämnar sitt hem i Perth i december 2006 efter ett högljutt gräl med sin mamma. Hon hyr ett rum hos en ung kille och ett lesbiskt par för att komma bort från familjen ett tag. Stacey njuter av att umgås med jämnåriga, långt... Read more

The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum

By: Margalit Fox

Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

“A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.”—Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood

In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New... Read more

Parole

By: Rob McKeon

Narrated by: Rob McKeon

Length: 6 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Deciding if a prisoner should stay in prison or be released is no mean feat. Enter the fascinating world of the parole board with Rob McKeon of BBC’s Parole.

…You don’t know what you don’t know.
How can you predict the future when you don’t know what you don’t know?

Rob McKeon is a member of Britain’s parole board, making tough, life-changing... Read more

Broadway Butterfly

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Indiana-born Vivian Gordon fluttered to New York in 1920 looking for fame and fortune. Before long, the flame-haired chorus girl parlayed her youth, beauty, and ambition into more profitable means as a tough and glamorous symbol of Prohibition-era excess. She was a speakeasy owner, blackmailer, high-end escort, extortionist, racketeer, and con... Read more

A Gentleman and a Thief

By: Dean Jobb

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

in this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), Arthur Barry, who charmed celebrities and millionaires while simultaneously planning and executing the most audacious and lucrative heists of the 1920s. 
 
A skilled con artist and one of the most successful burglars in history, Arthur... Read more

Above the Ground

By: Dan Lawton

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1978, the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland, known as The Troubles, had reached a boiling point. Hundreds of members of the Irish Republican Army, determined to drive the hated British out of the province—killing soldiers and police, detonating bombs, while arming themselves with firearms and explosives—had been arrested and incarcerated in... Read more

When the Night Comes Falling

By: Howard Blum

Narrated by: Zac Aleman

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose groundbreaking coverage of the story was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.Timed for a trial that will capture national attention, When the Night Comes Falling examines the mysterious murders of the four University of Idaho students. Having covered this... Read more

Mord under solen - Kaliforniens värsta seriemördare

By: Allt om Historia

Narrated by: Thomas Engelbrektson

Length: 1 hour 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Seriemord, skräck och en stat i gungning. Det här är berättelsen om 1970- och 1980-talets seriemördare i Kalifornien. Livet i Kalifornien är lite lättare – vädret är varmare, klädseln är ledigare och tillgången till droger relativt stor. Men under 1970- och 1980-talet skuggades "The Golden State" av obehag och fruktan. Invånarna upplevde rena... Read more

Murhat auringossa

By: Maailman historia

Narrated by: Jussi Puhakka

Length: 1 hour 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Kauhua auringon alla. Kalifornia 1970-1980-luvuilla. Aurinkoa, lämpöä, komeita miehiä, kauniita naisia ja halpoja huumeita. Elämä on unelmaa ja ihmiset onnellisia. Taustalla häilyy kuitenkin pimeitä varjoja. Kuuden murhaajan tarinat näyttävät Kultaisen osavaltion pimeän puolen. Ihmisten pahuus ja julmuus pääsee valloilleen kapeilla kujilla ja... Read more

It Happened Like This

By: Vicky Foster

Narrated by: Laura Brydon

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women’s power in an often-unsafe world through the lens of Vicky’s Foster’s own traumatic background.

How do you get close to people when the people close to you keep shattering your world?

Vicky Foster thought she’d finally escaped violence when her abusive ex-partner was... Read more