True Crime audiobooks

Tangled Webs

By: James B. Stewart

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author James B. Stewart's newsbreaking investigation of our era's most high-profile perjurers, revealing the alarming extent of this national epidemic.

Our system of justice rests on a simple proposition: that witnesses will raise their hands and tell the truth. In Tangled Webs, James B. Stewart reveals in vivid detail the... Read more

Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs

By: Patrick K. O’Donnell

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

"Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs is a superbly told story of the men and women of the OSS. They helped write the book on special operations. I was struck by the similarity of the context of their stories to ones I've experienced in different combat situations. This book is a must-read for those in the special operations business today and... Read more

The Savage City - Abridged

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris

Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“T.J. English has the mastered the hybrid narrative art form of social history and underworld thriller. The Savage City is a truly gripping read filled with unexpected twists and turns.”
—Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great DelugeIn The Savage City, T.J. English, author of the New York Times bestselling blockbuster Havana Nocturne, takes... Read more

Dead by Sunset

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Richard Ferrone

Length: 20 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the true story of Bradly Morris Cunningham, the handsome and successful entrereneur who married five different women and destroyed each of them.

The author of eight New York Times bestsellers, Ann Rule first won nationwide acclaim with The Stranger Beside Me, about serial killer Ted Bundy. Her Crime Files... Read more

Green River, Running Red

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 19 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), Ann Rule, explores the nearly twenty-year long search for America’s most prolific and horrifying serial killer.

In 1982, the body of Wendy Coffield is discovered floating near... Read more

In the Still of the Night

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.

It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and... Read more

Bringing Adam Home

By: Les Standiford & Joe Matthews

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

“Les Standiford’s account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything I’ve ever read. A triumph in every way.”
—Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River“The most significant missing child case since the Lindbergh’s….A taut, compelling and often... Read more

The Prosecutors - Abridged

By: Gary Delsohn

Narrated by: Gary Delsohn

Length: 5 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Depicting American justice at its best and worst, The Prosecutors lifts the lid off today’s legal system with details that are more shocking and graphic than any television show or bestselling novel.

Allowed unprecedented access inside an urban prosecutors’ office, Gary Delsohn provides a riveting, behind-the-scenes look at how America’s... Read more

Too Late to Say Goodbye

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Barbara Caruso

Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their life—handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success—but one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the provocation.

Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to... Read more

In the Still of the Night - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Blair Brown

Length: 5 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From true crime legend Ann Rule comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soon—and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.

It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and... Read more

The Killer of Little Shepherds

By: Douglas Starr

Narrated by: Erik Davies

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true crime story that vividly recounts the birth of modern forensics.

At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, known and feared as “The Killer of Little Shepherds,” terrorized the French countryside. He eluded authorities for years—until he ran up against prosecutor Emile Fourquet and Dr. Alexandre... Read more

Black Bird

By: James Keene

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Keene grew up outside of Chicago and was destined for greatness on the football field. By the time he reached his twenties, he was rubbing shoulders with famous actors, porn stars, and the children of powerful politicians. He had it all: cars, girls, and houses up and down the Gold Coast. But behind his well-connected star athlete façade... Read more

The Hilliker Curse

By: James Ellroy

Narrated by: James Ellroy

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir—as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels—about his obsessive search for “atonement in women.”

The year was 1958. Jean Hilliker had divorced her fast-buck hustler husband and resurrected her maiden name. Her son, James, was ten years old. He hated and lusted after his... Read more

The Murder Room

By: Michael Capuzzo

Narrated by: Adam Grupper

Length: 15 hours

Abridged: No

Michael Capuzzo, the author of the New York Times bestseller Close to Shore , brings listeners into the Vidocq Society, a team of the world’s foremost forensic investigators, who meet each month to solve cold cases and bring murderers to justice.

Three of the greatest detectives in the world—a renowned FBI agent turned private eye, a sculptor... Read more

Alone

By: Tere Duperrault Fassbender & Richard Logan

Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin

Length: 5 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

A tanker steaming through the deep Northwest Providence Channel of the Bahamas comes across a shocking sight: a lone dinghy carrying Captain Julian Harvey and the body of a young girl. They are all that remain of the ketch Bluebelle, a handsome sixty-foot sailing yacht chartered by the Duperrault family of Green Bay, Wisconsin. But their happy... Read more

Original Gangster

By: Frank Lucas

Narrated by: Cary Hite

Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

In his own words, real-life American gangster Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Determined to break the Italian Mafia's monopoly over drug smuggling in New York, Frank cut out middlemen and began smuggling heroin into the United States directly... Read more

Priceless

By: Robert K. Wittman & John Shiffman

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Wall Street Journal called him “a living legend.” The London Times dubbed him “the most famous art detective in the world.”
 
In Priceless, Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI’s Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career for the first time, offering a real-life international thriller to rival The Thomas Crown Affair.... Read more

Hitler's Holy Relics

By: Sidney Kirkpatrick

Narrated by: Charles Stransky

Length: 10 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Had Hitler succeeded in conquering Europe, he would have crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor. The Nazis had in their possession priceless artifacts that would give Hitler legitimacy in his subjects’ eyes: the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire including the Spear of Destiny, alleged to have pierced Christ’s side at the Crucifixion. Looted from... Read more

Get Capone

By: Jonathan Eig

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 17 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed journalist and bestselling author Jonathan Eig blows the lid off the Al Capone story. Based on never-before-seen government documents and newly discovered letters written by Al Capone himself, Get Capone presents America's greatest gangster as you've never seen him before. In addition to IRS files, Eig got hold of the personal papers... Read more

A Captain's Duty

By: Richard Phillips & Stephan Talty

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 8 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." —President Barack Obama

It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a United States–flagged cargo ship that was carrying, among... Read more

Murder City

By: Charles Bowden

Narrated by: Charles Bowden

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Caught in the crosshairs of Mexico's warring cartels, Juárez is the border city that most brutally exposes the lies that we tell ourselves about globalization, NAFTA, immigration, corruption, and the war on drugs. Once known only as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad and Mogadishu. In this... Read more

Flawless

By: Greg Campbell & Scott Andrew Selby

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Length: 10 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

On February 15, 2003, a group of thieves broke into an allegedly airtight vault in the international diamond capital of Antwerp, Belgium and made off with over $108 million dollars worth of diamonds and other valuables. They did so without tripping an alarm or injuring a single guard in the process. Although the crime was perfect, the getaway... Read more

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

By: David Grann

Narrated by: Mark Deakins

Length: 13 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Acclaimed New Yorker writer and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Grann offers a collection of spellbinding narrative journalism.

Whether he’s reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood into the U.S. prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone- tossed... Read more

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much

By: Allison Hoover Bartlett

Narrated by: Judith Brackley

Length: 6 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

John Charles Gilkey is an obsessed, unrepentant book thief who has stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of rare books from book fairs, stores, and libraries around the country. Ken Sanders is the self-appointed "bibliodick" (book dealer with a penchant for detective work) driven to catch him. Journalist Allison Hoover Bartlett... Read more