True Crime audiobooks

No Regrets - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

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

Parkland - Abridged

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now a major motion picture! The exciting and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.

In Parkland (originally titled Four Days in November), author Vincent Bugliosi “has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America” (Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Releasing... Read more

Picture Perfect

By: Shanna Hogan

Narrated by: Emily Durante

Length: 11 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Travis Alexander was a handsome, hard-working, practicing Mormon who lived in Mesa, Arizona. His good looks and easygoing manner made him popular with everyone, especially the ladies. So when he was found with a bullet wound in the face and his throat slashed, the brutal murder sent shock waves throughout his community. Who could have done... Read more

Bad Girls

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

“Phelps’s writing reads like a mystery novel.” —Suspense MagazineThe crime stunned quiet Mineral Wells, Texas: 49-year-old Bob Dow shot execution-style in his own bed, his invalid mother locked in the next room—and a cache of homemade porn starring the town’s underage girls. The two accused killers—teen lovers Bobbi Jo Smith and Jennifer... Read more

Silent Witnesses

By: Nigel McCrery

Narrated by: William Gaminara

Length: 7 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A crime scene. A murder. A mystery.

The most important person on the scene? The forensic scientist. And yet the intricate details of their work remains a mystery to most of us.

Silent Witnesses looks at the history of forensic science over the last two centuries, during which time a combination of remarkable intuition, painstaking observation and... 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 DeadA 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 DeadA cold case reopened—and solved—with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes... Read more

Exposed

By: Jane Velez-Mitchell

Narrated by: Elizabeth White

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander’s ex-girlfriend, the attractive and soft-spoken Jodi... Read more

Son of a Gun

By: Justin St. Germain

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 6 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a stunning memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also the searing, unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath

Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s death, apparently at the hands of her fifth... 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

Kiss Me, Kill Me - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 11 hours 56 minutes

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 desperate... 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

Last Dance, Last Chance - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 14 hours 7 minutes

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

Pilgrim's Wilderness

By: Tom Kizzia

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Into the Wild meets Helter Skelter in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness – and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
 
When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new... Read more

Lost Girls

By: Robert Kolker

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller • Now a Netflix FilmThe bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.“Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.”—Washington Post
One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert—after running through the oceanfront... Read more

Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life with his wife, Rosemarie, and their family—though one daughter, Elisabeth, had decades earlier been "lost" to a religious cult. Throughout the years, three of Elisabeth's children mysteriously appeared on the Fritzls' doorstep; Josef and Rosemarie... 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

Deal with the Devil

By: Peter Lance

Narrated by: Peter Lance

Length: 19 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning investigative reporter: the shocking story of the mob killer who terrorized the streets of New York City for decades . . . while working for the FBIIn Deal with the Devil, five-time Emmy Award–winning investigative reporter Peter Lance draws on three decades of once-secret FBI files and exclusive new interviews to disclose... 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: 11 hours 33 minutes

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

Duel with the Devil

By: Paul Collins

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 7 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out... Read more

Whitey Bulger

By: Kevin Cullen & Shelley Murphy

Narrated by: James Colby

Length: 15 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A New York Times BestsellerA #1 Boston Globe BestsellerAn instant classic, this unforgettable narrative, rich with family ties and intrigue, follows the astonishing career of a gangster whose life was more sensational than fiction. Cullen and Murphy have broken more Bulger stories than anyone, and Whitey Bulger became front-page news, revealing... 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