Rule

The Rule of One

By: Ashley Saunders & Leslie Saunders
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

In their world, telling the truth has become the most dangerous crime of all.

In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret—one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her... Read more »

A Rose for Her Grave - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

A Rose for Her Grave vividly recreates the cautionary tale of Randy Roth, a misogynistic sociopath from the Pacific Northwest whose rage was directed primarily at women and children. Addicted to his own greed, Roth exercised a powerful aura of control over his victims, using his ability to charm and boyish good looks to lower their defences. By... Read more »

A Rose for Her Grave

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 16 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No

A Rose for Her Grave - the principal story of this collection - vividly recreates the cautionary tale of Randy Roth, a misogynistic sociopath from the Pacific Northwest whose rage was directed primarily at women and children. Addicted to his own greed, Roth exercised a powerful aura of control over his victims, using his ability to charm and... Read more »

Rule

By: Ellen Goodlett
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

Three Dark Crowns meets Pretty Little Liars in this sensational and striking new fantasy from debut author Ellen Goodlett.

Three girls. Three deadly secrets. Only one can wear the crown.

The king is dying, his heir has just been murdered, and rebellion brews in the east. But the kingdom of Kolonya and the outer Reaches has one last option... Read more »

You Belong to Me

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

A former Seattle policewoman, Ann Rule has extensive experience of violent crime and brings this knowledge to bear in this collection of fascinating case studies. You Belong to Me focuses on one of Florida's most shocking criminals - Tim Harris, the poster-perfect 'All-American' State Trooper who hid bizarre and fatal fantasies behind his badge... Read more »

Rise

By: Ellen Goodlett
Length: 10 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

Dark pasts and forbidden romances haunt three ambitious sisters as they fight to inherit the throne in this sequel to Rule, which New York Times bestselling author Elly Blake called "dazzling" and "pulse-pounding."

Sisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, a step closer to the crown that will allow one... Read more »

The Rule of Many

By: Ashley Saunders & Leslie Saunders
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No

Born to a death sentence in a near-future America, rebellious sisters herald a revolution—if they can survive.

Twins Ava and Mira Goodwin defy the Rule of One simply by existing. The single-child law, ruthlessly enforced by Texas’s Governor Roth, has made the sisters famous fugitives and inspirations for the resurgent rebellion known as the... Read more »

You Belong to Me - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A former Seattle policewoman, Ann Rule has extensive experience of violent crime and brings this knowledge to bear in this collection of fascinating case studies. You Belong to Me focuses on one of Florida's most shocking criminals—Tim Harris, the poster-perfect "All-American" State Trooper who hid bizarre and fatal fantasies behind his badge of... Read more »

The Rule Maker

By: Jennifer Blackwood
Narrated by: Kendall Harper & Ray Irwin
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No

Ten Steps to Surviving a New Job:
1.  Don’t sleep with the client. It’ll get you fired. (Sounds easy enough.)
2.  Don’t blink when new client turns out to be former one-night stand.
3. Don’t call same client a jerk for never texting you back.
4. Don’t believe client when he says he really, really wanted to call.
5. Remember, the client is always... Read more »

A Fever in the Heart

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 15 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

A Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twist that no one could have suspected. In this and several other riveting true-crime cases from... Read more »

A Fever in the Heart - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: Yes

A Fever in the Heart dissects an explosive triangle that led to obsession and murder in a small town in the northwest of America. Ann Rule reveals the story of an alluring wife and the two men desperate for her love; a story with a bizarre and deadly twist that no one could have suspected. In this tale and “Mirror Image,” a true-crime story... Read more »

In the Name of Love - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a... Read more »

In the Name of Love

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

Inside a circle of trusted friends...one was a killer. Jerry Harris was a self-made California millionaire who, at age forty-four, had it all: booming businesses, yachts, a mansion, a beautiful wife, and a voice to rival Elvis. No one who knew this well-liked, generous man could make sense of his sudden disappearance one autumn night. On a... Read more »

The End of the Dream - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: Yes

An explosive account of lethal greed and twisted desire from the files of America's #1 true crime writer, Ann Rule.

They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist; Steve, the sculptor; Scott, the nature lover and unabashed ladies' man; and Mark,... Read more »

The End of the Dream

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No

An explosive account of lethal greed and twisted desire from the files of America's #1 true crime writer, Ann Rule.

They were best friends, four talented and charismatic young men who lived charmed lives among the evergreens of Washington state: Kevin, the artist; Steve, the sculptor; Scott, the nature lover and unabashed ladies' man; and Mark,... Read more »

A Rage to Kill

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No

Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases—riveting accounts of... Read more »

A Rage to Kill - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

Acclaimed for her "devastatingly accurate insight" (The New York Times Book Review) into the criminal mind, Ann Rule has chronicled the most fascinating cases of our time in her bestselling Crime Files series. For this sixth stunning collection, Rule has culled from her private files the most-asked-about homicide cases – riveting accounts of... Read more »

Empty Promises

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 16 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence.

Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful... Read more »

Empty Promises - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: Yes

In this unnerving collection drawn from her personal crime files, "America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews) Ann Rule brilliantly dissects the convoluted love affairs that all too often end in violence. Expertly analyzing a shocking, headline-making case, Rule unmasks the deadly motives inside a seemingly idyllic marriage: a beautiful... Read more »

Last Dance, Last Chance - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

"America's best true-crime writer" (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents her 8th collection of crime stories drawn from her private files—and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.

Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini... Read more »

Last Dance, Last Chance

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 14 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

“America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule presents her 8th collection of crime stories drawn from her private files—and featuring the riveting case of a fraudulent doctor whose lifelong deceptions had deadly consequences.

Dr. Anthony Pignataro was a cosmetic surgeon and a famed medical researcher whose flashy red Lamborghini... Read more »

Kiss Me, Kill Me - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

The dark side of love is no fairy tale.... And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this shocking collection of real-life accounts will convince you otherwise. America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to... Read more »

Kiss Me, Kill Me

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No

The dark side of love is no fairy tale….

And while we may like to believe that crimes of the heart only victimize those who aren't careful, this shocking collection of real-life accounts will convince you otherwise.

America's #1 true-crime writer, Ann Rule reveals how lovers become predators, how sex and lust can push ordinary people to desperate... Read more »

Worth More Dead

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?

Because they were…Worth More Dead

A cold case reopened—and solved—with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes... Read more »

Worth More Dead - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 5 hours 42 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?

Because they were…Worth More Dead

A cold case reopened—and solved—with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes... Read more »

No Regrets

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed... Read more »

No Regrets - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

A ship's pilot legendary for guiding mammoth freighters through the narrows of Puget Sound, Rolf Neslund was a proud Norwegian, a ladies' man, and a beloved resident of Washington State's idyllic Lopez Island. Virtually indestructible even into his golden years, he made electrifying headlines more than once: after a ship he was helming crashed... Read more »

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Real-life murder. Real-life mystery.

In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America's #1 bestselling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are... Read more »

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 12 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No

Real-life murder. Real-life mystery.

In some murder cases, the truth behind the most tragic of crimes crystallizes with relative ease. Not so with these fascinating accounts drawn from the personal files of Ann Rule, America’s #1 bestselling true-crime writer. What happens when the case itself becomes an intractable puzzle, when clues are... Read more »

Mortal Danger - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

From trust to terror... from security to survival... The author of The Stranger Beside Me brings her brilliantly informed understanding of the sociopath to this riveting true crime collection. Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy - America's most notorious serial killer - could lend her razor-sharp... Read more »

Mortal Danger

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 12 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

From trust to terror…from security to survival….

Only Ann Rule, who unknowingly worked alongside the smart and charming Ted Bundy—America's most notorious serial killer—could lend her razor-sharp insight into these cases of the spouse, lover, family member, or helpful stranger who is totally trusted but whose lethally violent nature, though... Read more »

But I Trusted You

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

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 »

But I Trusted You - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length:
Abridged: Yes

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 »

Don't Look Behind You

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 11 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

I'll be watching you.

Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you…run.

Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling... Read more »

Don't Look Behind You - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: Yes

I'll be watching you.

Walking home on a dark night, you hear footsteps coming up behind you. As they get closer, your heart pounds harder. Who is closing in with dangerous intent—a total stranger? Or someone you know and trust? The answer is as simple as turning around, but don’t look behind you…run. Ann Rule, who shared her own nerve-jangling... Read more »

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 13 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No

It’s a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. Whether only an acquaintance or a trusted intimate, such killers share a common trait that triggers the downward spiral toward death for someone close to them: they are masters at hiding... Read more »

Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: Yes

It’s a chilling reality that homicide investigators know all too well: the last face most murder victims see is not that of a stranger, but of someone familiar. Whether only an acquaintance or a trusted intimate, such killers share a common trait that triggers the downward spiral toward death for someone close to them: they are masters at hiding... Read more »

Lying in Wait - Abridged

By: Ann Rule
Length: 5 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: Yes

Ann Rule presents another collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories—drawn from her real-life personal files—in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.

Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific “baby sellers” in the country. She traveled all over the US,... Read more »

Lying in Wait

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Laural Merlington
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific “baby sellers” in the country. She traveled all over the US, murdered women who had just borne babies, and then stole their infants. She is still imprisoned in the South.

A lovely, vibrant woman in San Antonio was found dead in a vacant lot. Her mother, a popular local... Read more »