True Crime audiobooks

The Bling Ring

By: Nancy Jo Sales

Narrated by: Kathleen Mary Carthy

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story that inspired the Sofia Coppola filmParis Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Orlando Bloom, Rachel Bilson: robbed. More than $3 million in stolen clothing, jewelry, shoes, and handbags reported missing. Who is behind one of the most brazen string of crimes in recent Hollywood history? Meet the Bling Ring: a band of club-hopping teenagers from... Read more

She Left Me the Gun

By: Emma Brockes

Narrated by: Emma Brockes

Length: 8 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A journalist struggles to unearth the story of her mother’s resilience and secrecy following an unbelievable childhood trauma in South Africa

“One day I will tell you the story of my life,” promises Emma Brockes’s mother, “and you will be amazed.” Despite her mother’s tales of a rustic childhood in South Africa and bohemian years in London,... 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 final... Read more

In the Name of Love - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 40 minutes

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 final... 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

The Good Nurse

By: Charles Graeber

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The mesmerizing basis of the movie starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessica Chastain⁠—a “stunning book...that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood”—takes you inside the mind of America's most prolific serial killer, whose 16-year long "nursing" career left as many as 400 dead. (New York Times)    
 
Edgar Award Nomination, Mystery Writers of... Read more

Dead Run

By: Dan Schultz

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him twenty times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws... 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 of... 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

A Rose for Her Grave

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A Rose for Her Grave tells the story of Randy Roth from the razor-sharp perspective of Ann Rule. Rule attended the Roth trial and includes gripping accounts and details from her personal files on the case. A Rose for Her Grave delves into the heinous crimes of the monster Randy Roth; a man who seduced and manipulated vulnerable women into... Read more

A Rose for Her Grave - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 16 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A Rose for Her Grave tells the story of Randy Roth from the razor-sharp perspective of Ann Rule. Rule attended the Roth trial and includes gripping accounts and details from her personal files on the case. A Rose for Her Grave delves into the heinous crimes of the monster Randy Roth; a man who seduced and manipulated vulnerable women into... Read more

Whitey

By: Dick Lehr & Gerard O'Neill

Narrated by: John Rubinstein

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone.
 
Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. “Whitey” Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is... Read more

Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

By: Stephen Grady & Michael Wright

Narrated by: Gordon Griffin & Luke Thompson

Length: 12 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.

September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece.
A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write...

September 1939, Nieppe,... Read more

The Hour of Peril

By: Daniel Stashower

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

"It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller." —Harlan Coben

Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War.

In February of 1861, just days before he... 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

The Inventor and the Tycoon

By: Edward Ball

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.
 
One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible... Read more

Unsolved Murder Mysteries

By: Charles E. Pearce

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

First published in 1924, Charles E. Pearce’s account of some of the most gruesome and intriguing unsolved murders of the nineteenth century continues to captivate amateur sleuths to this day. Pearce guides us through a fascinating world of wicked assassinations, missed clues, ingenious stratagems and cunning deceits in one last attempt to track... Read more

Farewell

By: Sergei Kostin & Eric Raynaud

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 15 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

1981. Ronald Reagan and François Mitterrand are sworn in as presidents of the Unites States and France, respectively. The tension due to Mitterrand’s French Communist support, however, is immediately defused when he gives Reagan the Farewell Dossier, a file he would later call “one of the greatest spy cases of the twentieth century.”Vladimir... Read more

Depravity

By: Harvey Rosenfeld

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

Their crimes span the globe, but one thing unites them: they are sixteen of the twentieth century's most notorious serial killers.In this well-researched volume, discover their motives and what made them tick. Walk the path of the investigators who broke their cases and listen to the killers' own words.All of them made their communities tremble... Read more

A Wilderness of Error

By: Errol Morris

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Early on the morning of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a Green Beret doctor named Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered bodies of MacDonald's pregnant wife and two young daughters. The word "pig" was written in blood on the headboard in the master... Read more

Honor Bound

By: Raffaele Sollecito & Andrew Gumbel

Narrated by: Seth Numrich

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Accused . . . Targeted . . . Sentenced . . .Wrongfully Imprisoned.

Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a world-famous trial so bizarre that it defied all reason. Charged with a crime neither could fathom, let alone perpetrate, they spent four excruciating years in prison before their final acquittal. Now, for the first time... Read more

This Machine Kills Secrets

By: Andy Greenberg

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

The machine that kills secrets is a powerful cryptographic code that hides the identities of leakers and hacktivists as they spill the private files of government agencies and corporations bringing us into a new age of whistle blowing. With unrivaled access to figures like Julian Assange, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and Jacob Applebaum, investigative... Read more