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The Mastermind
By: Evan Ratliff
Narrated by: Evan Ratliff
Length: 11 hours 16 minutes
Abridged: No
The incredible true story of the decade-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux—the creator of a frighteningly powerful Internet-enabled cartel who merged the ruthlessness of a drug lord with the technological savvy of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
“A tour de force of shoe-leather reporting—undertaken, amid threats and menacing, at considerable... Read more
The Furies
By: Elizabeth Flock
Narrated by: Mia Hutchinson Shaw
Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
“Arresting, deeply reported. . . . a patient reporter who embeds with her subjects long enough to write about their inner worlds with authority and nuance. . . . The Furies is deeply respectful of its subjects’ autonomy, including their self-justifications and mistakes. Flock largely withholds judgment, and her work is richer and more troubling... Read more
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Lying For Money
By: Dan Davies
Narrated by: Tim Paige
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London) by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.
The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a... Read more
Hell's Princess
By: Harold Schechter
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
“A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America’s most notorious female killers.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAn Amazon Charts bestseller.In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly... Read more
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Zenith Man
By: McCracken Poston Jr.
Narrated by: Lee Goettl
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
In October 1997, the town of Ringgold, Georgia, was shaken by reports of a murder in its midst. A dead woman was found in Alvin Ridley's house—and even more shockingly, she was the wife no one knew he had.
McCracken Poston had been a state representative before he lost his bid for US Congress and returned to his law career. Alvin Ridley was a... Read more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Will Damron & John Berendt
Length: 15 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city: “Elegant and wicked.... [This] might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime." —The New York Times Book Review
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the... Read more
We Keep the Dead Close
By: Becky Cooper
Narrated by: Becky Cooper
Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
A Recommended Book from: New York Times * Publisher's Weekly * Kirkus * BookRiot * Booklist * Boston Globe * Goodreads * Town & Country * Refinery29 * CrimeReads * Glamour
Dive into a "tour de force of investigative reporting" (Ron Chernow): a "searching, atmospheric and ultimately entrancing" (Patrick Radden Keefe) true crime narrative of an... Read more
In Cold Blood
By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The most famous true crime novel of all time "chills the blood and exercises the intelligence" (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writing it.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a... Read more
The Princess Spy
By: Larry Loftis
Narrated by: Kate Reading
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and... Read more
The Feather Thief
By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
As heard on NPR's This American Life
“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air
“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read more
Furious Hours
By: Casey Cep
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook
New York Times Best Seller
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was... Read more
Chaos
By: Tom O'Neill
Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No
A journalist's twenty-year fascination with the Manson murders leads to shocking new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this riveting reassessment of an infamous case in American history.
Over two grim nights in Los Angeles, the young followers of Charles Manson murdered seven people, including the actress Sharon Tate, then eight months... Read more
Selling the Dream
By: Jane Marie
Narrated by: Jane Marie
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read for March 2024 * A Bustle Best New Book of Spring 2024
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class.
We’ve all heard of Amway, Mary... Read more
Blood on Their Hands
By: Mandy Matney
Narrated by: Mandy Matney
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney.Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that... Read more
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Lady Killers
By: Tori Telfer
Narrated by: Jaime Lamchick
Length: 8 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspired by author Tori Telfer's Jezebel column “Lady Killers,” this thrilling and entertaining compendium investigates female serial killers and their crimes through the ages.When you think of serial killers throughout history, the names that come to mind are ones like Jack the Ripper, John Wayne Gacy, and Ted Bundy. But what about Tillie... Read more
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Nowhere Girl
By: Cheryl Diamond
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
By the age of nine, I will have lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. I’ll know how a document is forged, how to withstand an interrogation, and most important, how to disappear . . .
To the young Cheryl Diamond, life felt like one big adventure, whether she was hurtling down the Himalayas in a... Read more
Unmask Alice
By: Rick Emerson
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation, fueling support for the War on... Read more
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Unmasked
By: Paul Holes
Narrated by: Paul Holes
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
This program is read by the author.
From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime.
I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is... Read more
The Falcon Thief
By: Joshua Hammer
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Length: 8 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A rollicking true-crime adventure about a rogue who trades in rare birds and their eggs—and the wildlife detective determined to stop him.
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national named Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain’s Birmingham International Airport with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine... Read more
The Great Pretender
By: Susannah Cahalan
Narrated by: Christie Moreau & Susannah Cahalan
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR).
Doctors have struggled for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you... Read more
Hell Put to Shame
By: Earl Swift
Narrated by: Mark Deakins
Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
""Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20th century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory."" —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by... Read more
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Cults
By: Max Cutler
Narrated by: Pete Simonelli, Raquel Beattie, Erin Ruth Walke...
Length: 15 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan.
Cults prey on the very attributes that make us human: our... Read more
Tell Me Everything
By: Erika Krouse
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
"Highly recommended on audio for listeners seeking true-crime with a focus on structural inequities, survivors, and artfully crafted narratives." -- Booklist
“The best story I’ve read in a long, long time." —Lacy Crawford, author of Notes on a Silencing
“Krouse’s vivid and original memoir is state of the art. Tell Me Everything is our new... Read more
Savage Appetites
By: Rachel Monroe
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession.
In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a... Read more