True Crime audiobooks

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

One Thing Led to Another

By: Mark "Chopper" Read

Narrated by: Dan Wyllie

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Meet Mark 'Chopper' Read. You think you know him. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies in Australia. He's been the subject of an internationally successful film. His one-man shows have toured Australia to sell-out crowds. He's the most recognisable criminal brand name in Australia. But the truth is, you don't know him at all. ... 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

Marching Powder

By: Rusty Young

Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney & Rusty Young

Length: 14 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the twenty-something Australian law graduate travelled to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. What followed took both men by surprise: they formed... 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

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 was... 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

The Rose Man of Sing Sing

By: James McGrath Morris

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 16 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Today, seventy-three years after his death, journalists still tell tales of Charles E. Chapin. As city editor of Pulitzeras New York Evening World, Chapin was the model of the take-no-prisoners newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlesslyaand kept his paper in the center ring of the circus of big-city journalism. From the Harry K. Thaw trial... Read more

The Zebra Murders

By: Prentice Earl Sanders & Bennett Cohen

Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This true-crime police procedural is the riveting story of the racially-motivated serial killings that terrorized San Francisco from 1973 to 1974 and how they were solved. Code named the Zebra Murders, the case involved a series of random violent attacks by African-American men against whites, resulting in fifteen deaths. Author Prentice Earl... Read more

The Birthday Party

By: Stanley N. Alpert

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

On January 21, 1998, the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car full of gun-toting thugs. Hoping to make a large withdrawal with his ATM card, they took him, blindfolded, to a Brooklyn apartment, and improvised. All night, his captors alternately held guns to his head, threatened his... Read more

Frozen

By: Scott Baldyga & Larry Johnson

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, the job as clinical director at Alcor Life Extension Foundation was an exciting change for veteran paramedic Larry Johnson: a well-funded research facility pushing the limits of modern biotech. But as he gained the trust of his eccentric coworkers and was promoted to acting COO, Larry was thrust into a nightmare world of scandalous... Read more

Blind Justice

By: Robin Bowles

Narrated by: Victoria Howell

Length: 16 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

On 10 November 1984 Laurie Tanner comes home to his farmhouse in country Victoria and finds Jenny, his wife, dead, her hand wrapped around the barrel of a bolt-action rifle. Her death was viewed as suicide. Deeply puzzled by the mass of anomalies in the case, Robin Bowles, a Melbourne company director, goes looking for answers. How, for... Read more

Bluegrass

By: William Van Meter

Narrated by: Ed Sala

Length: 7 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Widely published journalist William Van Meter returned to his hometown of Bowling Green, Kentucky, to research this harrowing account of a horrifying crime that occurred at Western Kentucky University. In 2003, attractive college student Katie Autry was found dead in her dorm room after being raped, stabbed, and set on fire. As Van Meter delves... Read more

Breaking the Ring

By: John Barron

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

For 17 years, the Soviets knew every military move we made! That is how damaging the Walker family spy ring was to our national security. For the better part of two decades, John Walker, his son Michael, brother Arthur, and friend Jerry Whitworth comprised the KGB's greatest asset. Meticulously detailing the FBI investigation which finally broke... Read more

Tokyo Vice

By: Jake Adelstein

Narrated by: Jake Adelstein

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.

At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the... Read more

Terror by Night

By: Terry Caffey & James Pence

Narrated by: Maurice England

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In one evening, Terry Caffey lost everything.  His wife, Penny, and his sons, Matthew and Tyler, were brutally murdered; his home was burned to the ground, and his sixteen-year-old daughter, Erin, was in jail, charged with thiree counts of capital murder.  In one year's time, God would restore it all. At 3:00 a.m. on March 1, 2008, Terry Caffey... Read more