True Crime audiobooks

The Good Rat

By: Jimmy Breslin

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson, Kaipo Schwab & Richard Mover

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Breslin can sniff out a story like he can sniff out a rat. Here, he tells a lifetime of anecdotes in his inimitable New York voice, giving us a view through the keyhole of the people and places that define the Mafia—characters like Sammy the Bull, the original snitch, and Gaspipe Casso, named for his weapon of choice; and hangouts like Pep... Read more

Perfect Poison

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Serial Killer on Ward C In Northampton, Massachusetts, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kristen Gilbert was known as a hardworking, dedicated nurse—so why were her patients dying? So many emergencies and sudden deaths occurred while Kristen made her rounds on Ward C that her colleagues jokingly called her the “Angel of Death.” Yet most... Read more

Never Enough

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Michael McConnohie

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: the royal lifestyle of the expatriate wife, three young children, and what a friend described as "the best marriage in the universe." That marriage—to investment banker Robert Kissel—ended one November night in 2003 in their luxury apartment high above Hong Kong's glittering Victoria Harbour when Robert... Read more

Because You Loved Me

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: J. Charles

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

A LIFE TAKEN
Jeanne Dominico’s fiancé found her body on her kitchen floor. More than forty stab wounds and blows to her head with a blunt instrument had cut her life short. What monster had struck in the heart of a peaceful New England town?A TRUST BETRAYED
Jeanne was a hard-working single mother. Nicole, her fourteen-year-old daughter was on the... Read more

The Nuclear Jihadist

By: Douglas Frantz & Catherine Collins

Narrated by: Bob Craig

Length: 15 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of... Read more

If I Did It

By: the Goldman Family

Narrated by: Pablo Fenjves, Kim Goldman, G. Valmont Thomas, ...

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1994, Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson were brutally murdered at her home in Brentwood, California. O. J. Simpson was tried for the crime in a case that captured the attention of the American people, but he was ultimately found not guilty of criminal charges.The victims' families brought civil cases against Simpson, in which he was found... Read more

Beyond the Body Farm - Abridged

By: Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson

Narrated by: Tom McKeon

Length: 6 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The Dead Do Tell Tales...A pioneer in forensic anthropology, Dr. Bill Bass created the world's first laboratory dedicated to the study of human decomposition. Bill Bass's research at ""the Body Farm"" has revolutionized forensic science, helping police crack cold cases and pinpoint time since death. In this riveting book, the bone sleuth... Read more

My Brother's Keeper

By: Angela Kamper & Charles Miranda

Narrated by: Humphrey Bower

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A blood smear trailing along a footpath of a suburban Sydney street went largely ignored by local residents accustomed to hoaxes and bloody turf brawls in their beachside suburb. Initially police suspected it was nothing more than animal blood. But at the end of the trail, at the base of a Maroubra cliff, lay the naked body of notorious... Read more

Shot

By: Gail Bell

Narrated by: Louise Crawford

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

When Gail Bell was seventeen, she was shot in the back. Coming home from evening class later than usual one night, she took a short cut through the dark streets of a new estate, unaware she was being watched. When a car began following her, she felt a jolt of fear. Then the car stopped and out of the eerie silence came a cracking sound as a... Read more

Written on the Skin

By: Liz Porter

Narrated by: Elizabeth Kaye

Length: 14 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In a close examination of an assault victim's body, a forensic physician can 'read' the terrible alphabet that fists and weapons have written across it. A crime scene investigator notes the tiny indentations on the fragments of a tin can identified at a bomb site, enabling him to find the can opener that made them - and the bomb-maker who used... Read more

Armed and Dangerous

By: William Queen & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Charles Kahlenberg

Length: 5 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Under and Alone comes an intimate and riveting account of federal law-enforcement agent William Queen’s relentless hunt for one of America’s most cold-blooded criminals.

As an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, William Queen must tackle a number of challenging cases, including... Read more

Too Late to Say Goodbye - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Karen Ziemba

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Reclaiming History - Abridged

By: Vincent Bugliosi

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

2008 Audie Award Finalist for Achievement in Abridgement

The nation's foremost prosecutor takes on the most important murder case in American history

For over forty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. Now Vincent Bugliosi, author of the biggest selling true-crime book of all time, finally... Read more

We, the Jury

By: Greg Beratlis, Mike Belmessieri, Tom Marino, Ju...

Narrated by: Shannon Engemann

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Nearly two years after the disappearance of 27-year-old Laci Peterson, her husband Scott was found guilty for the murder of his wife and their unborn son. According to the jurors, it wasn't one thing that condemned Scott Peterson—it was everything. Despite a series of internal battles that brought them to the brink of a mistrial, the jurors... Read more

Final Analysis - Abridged

By: Catherine Crier

Narrated by: Catherine Crier

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In October 2002, Susan Polk was arrested for the murder of her husband, Felix, kicking off what would become one of the most captivating murder trials in recent memory. Now, former judge and current Court TV host Catherine Crier turns an analytical eye to Susan's story, delving into her past and examining how over twenty years of marriage... Read more

Inside the CIA

By: Ronald Kessler

Narrated by: Edward Lewis

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Ronald Kessler’s explosive bestseller, The FBI, brought down FBI Director William S. Sessions. Now, in this unparalleled work of investigative journalism, Kessler reveals the inner world of the CIA. Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including two with active Directors of Central Intelligence William H. Webster and Robert M.... Read more

The Case of Abraham Lincoln

By: Julie M. Fenster

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a difficult point, personally. Depressed, edgy, and often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He saw himself as a former congressman with little future in politics. Then in May of 1856, he became drawn to the case of the gruesome murder of a blacksmith named George Anderson. Lincoln was asked... Read more

Murder in Brentwood

By: Mark Fuhrman

Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach

Length: 10 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

He was the first investigator on the bloody scene. He was the first guy to take the fall. Now, he is the first to tell the whole truth—and nothing but the truth.For O. J. Simpson to get away with murder, an innocent cop had to be destroyed—that was the strategy of the Simpson defense. But as certainty about Simpson's guilt grew, so did outrage... Read more

Zodiac

By: Robert Graysmith

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

A sexual sadist, his pleasure was torture and murder. His first victims were a teenage couple, stalked and shot dead on a lover’s lane. After another slaying, he sent his first mocking note to authorities, promising he would kill again. The official tally of his victims was six. He claimed thirty-seven. The real toll may have reached fifty. He... Read more

The Brotherhoods

By: Guy Lawson & William Oldham

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 24 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The Brotherhoods is the chilling chronicle of the shocking crimes of NYPD detectives Stephen Caracappa and Louis Eppolito, notorious rogue cops convicted in April 2006 of the ultimate form of police corruption-shielding their acts behind their badges while they worked for the mob. Their crimes included participation in the murders of at least... Read more

Under and Alone

By: William Queen

Narrated by: Don Leslie

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern... Read more

Notorious C.O.P.

By: Matt Diehl & Derrick Parker

Narrated by: Richard Allen

Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion and even murder, in today's world rappers need rap sheets before they can even hope to have a platinum record. So with all this grandstanding about their criminal nature, why haven't more hip-hop artists been busted for the crimes that they brag of,... Read more

The Innocent Man

By: John Grisham

Narrated by: Craig Wasson

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES • “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly

John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime masterpiece that tells the story of small town justice gone... Read more

And Then the Darkness

By: Sue Williams

Narrated by: Kate Hood

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Two young English tourists watch a glorious Australian outback sunset, and are waylaid in the middle of nowhere by a predatory stranger. There's a single gunshot, and then the darkness. Hours later, Joanne Lees is found wandering the highway, cut and bleeding, her hands bound together and tape matted in her hair. Her boyfriend Peter Falconio... Read more