True Crime audiobooks
Shadows in the Vineyard
By: Maximillian Potter
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.
In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more
Disposable Income
By: Tammy Mal
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 5 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1948, when elderly Anna Homeyer and her much younger husband, Charles, decided to sell their home in the Bronx and move to Pennsylvania, residents of the small town of Factoryville couldn't understand why. With no family or friends in the area, the isolated little village seemed an odd choice for strangers to relocate to. But Factoryville... Read more
View audiobookLost and Found
By: John Glatt
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
Length: 10 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her morning walk to the school bus. The search for Jaycee made national headlines, and the case was repeatedly featured on America's Most Wanted. But despite her family's tireless efforts, Jaycee's disappearance remained a mystery.
Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named... Read more
Buried Memories
By: Irene Pence
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 8 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before... Read more
View audiobookFatal Jealousy
By: Colin McEvoy & Lynn Olanoff
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 7 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania state trooper witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers, "I just killed everybody."
Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery. In the home of Michael's... Read more
Schwarzkonto
By: Erich Schütz & Dirk Platt
Narrated by: Mike Maas
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No
UNVERHÜLLT In Kressbronn am Bodensee wird eine nackte Leiche angeschwemmt. Von Nacktwanderern hat der Fernsehjournalist Lebrecht Fritz schon gehört. Aber Nacktsurfer? Dabei war der Mann ein solider Banker in Liechtenstein. Fast zeitgleich findet die Polizei eine Leiche im Kleinen Wannsee in Berlin - ebenfalls nackt. Der Tote hätte nach der... Read more
View audiobookMary Stuart
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.
In this, the fourth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Mary Stuary, Queen of Scots--a story both strikingly touching and... Read more
Framed!
By: Marc J. Seifer & Stephen Rosati
Narrated by: Roger Wayne
Length: 14 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
In this real-life courtroom drama, handwriting analysis expert Dr. Marc Seifer shares the true account of a man falsely accused, the coercion and police corruption that threatened to send him to the electric chair, and the series of events that would eventually exonerate him.
Stephen Rosati had it all. An accomplished bodybuilder, former Mr.... Read more
The Killing Kind
By: M. William Phelps
Length: 12 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer’s first victim. Nor would she be the last.The lush, green hills that mark the border of North and South... Read more
View audiobookDeliver Us from Evil: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural
By: Ralph Sarchie & Lisa Collier Cool
Narrated by: William Dufris
Length: 11 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Demonic possession. Exorcism. Haunted Houses. Satanic Rituals.
For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real—and dangerous—as midnight patrol . . .
A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South... Read more
The Massacres of the South
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language - has minced no words - to describe violent scenes of violent times.
In this, the third of the series, Dumas tells the story of three centuries of sectarian violence and civil war between the... Read more
The Fixer
By: Ira Judelson
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
From New York’s foremost bail bondsman with “over $30 million on the street” comes the story of a modern-day “fixer” who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York.
With from-the-gut prose, Ira Judelson sheds light on the highs and lows of the bondsman life.... Read more
The Map Thief
By: Michael Blanding
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.
Once considered a... Read more
The Good Spy
By: Kai Bird
Narrated by: René Ruiz
Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63... Read more
The Most Dangerous Animal of All
By: Gary L. Stewart & Susan Mustafa
Narrated by: Gary L. Stewart
Length: 10 hours 48 minutes
Abridged: No
“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be prepared to read non-stop; this really is a book you won’t be able to put down.” —Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles MansonAn... Read more
View audiobookThe Cenci
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 1 hour 15 minutes
Abridged: No
To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times. In particular, the torture of Beatrice Cenci at the hands of the authorities of Rome is given in brutal and clinical detail,... Read more
View audiobookThe Borgias
By: Alexandre Dumas
Narrated by: Robert Bethune
Length: 8 hours 17 minutes
Abridged: No
To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.
In this, the first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of the three... Read more
Whitey on Trial
By: Margaret McLean & Jon Leiberman
Narrated by: Aaron Lyons
Length: 10 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns and gangland-style extortions gripped the city of Boston for... Read more
View audiobookLady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn
By: Nigel Pickford
Narrated by: Katie Scarfe
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in... Read more
View audiobookBombenbrut
By: Erich Schütz
Narrated by: Mike Maas
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
TÖDLICHE ERFINDUNG Es ist ein heißer Sommer. Das Ferienparadies Bodensee ist Ziel von Millionen Touristen, aber auch von skrupellosen Waffenschiebern und internationalen Geheimdiensten. Der Erfinder Herbert Stengele hat eine sensationelle Strahlenwaffe entwickelt, sie könnte den Krieg der Sterne entscheiden. Journalist Leon Dold hat den... Read more
View audiobookObsessed
By: M. William Phelps
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
“Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience.” —Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently Sheila would react when he began seeing a co-worker, Anna... Read more
View audiobookFrom the Inside
By: Mark "Chopper" Read
Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
'Apart from Irish whiskey, good cigars, Pontiac motor cars, and a pistol grip baby .410 shotgun with solid load shells, what I love the most is kidnapping smartarse gangsters and taking their money.' Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is the son of a strict Seventh Day Adventist mother and a shell-shocked former soldier who slept with a loaded gun at... Read more
View audiobookHits and Memories
By: Mark "Chopper" Read
Narrated by: Dave Ferguson
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
'It was just after dawn on Thursday, November 14, 1991. The hatch on the cell door slid back. I could see the screw's face through the slit. I've seen better heads on a pig dog, but this time I could have kissed him.' Underworld standover man and executioner Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read was released from Pentridge Prison in November, 1991,... Read more
View audiobookLittle Demon in the City of Light
By: Steven Levingston
Narrated by: John Lee
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
A delicious account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.
Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling—and so wonderfully French—story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of... Read more