True Crime audiobooks
Life Undercover
By: Amaryllis Fox
Narrated by: Amaryllis Fox
Length: 7 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carré character landed in Eat Pray Love." —The New York Times
Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her ten years in the most elite clandestine ops unit of the CIA, hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries while... Read more
Diamond Doris
By: Doris Payne
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own path, stealing from elite jewelers to live her dreams.Growing up during the Depression in the segregated coal town of Slab... Read more
View audiobookThe Ghosts of Eden Park
By: Karen Abbott
Narrated by: Rob Shapiro & Cassandra Campbell
Length: 11 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true crime story of the most successful bootlegger in American history and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
“Gatsby-era noir at its best.”—Erik Larson
An ID Book Club Selection • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST... Read more
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD
In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most... Read more
The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist
By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives
After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and... Read more
Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In)
By: T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Narrated by: Hillary Huber, T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No
Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.
“Gripping . . . [with a] John... Read more
Ranger Games
By: Ben Blum
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times
Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in... Read more
The Fact of a Body
By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrated by: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You
Before Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men... Read more
Writing to Save a Life
By: John Edgar Wideman
Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Emmett Till took a train from... Read more
The Cold Case Foundation
By: Gregory M. Cooper & Thomas McHoes
Narrated by: Rick Adamson
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
When Gregory M. Cooper, former head of the FBI's Behavioral Sciences Unit, founded the Cold Case Foundation in 2013, he had high expectations, but couldn't anticipate the level of response. What started with just a half-dozen or so retired FBI agents and homicide detectives has ballooned to more than 150 women and men who volunteer their time to... Read more
View audiobookThe Last Kilo
By: T. J. English
Narrated by: Christian Barillas
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of “Los Muchachos,” one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history—a story of glitz, glamour, and organized crime set against 1980’s Miami.Despite what Scarface might lead one to believe, violence was not the dominant characteristic of the... Read more
View audiobookRaised by a Serial Killer
By: April Balascio
Narrated by: April Balascio
Length: 13 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter’s moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.
One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night,... Read more
Submerged
By: Hillel Levin
Narrated by: Brandon Pollock
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
For most families that have suffered the unsolved murder of a loved one, a successful cold case investigation can finally bring closure to their tragedy and, ideally, bring the perpetrator to justice. But in 2013, when LaPorte, Indiana, police detectives arrested Jason Tibbs for the murder of sixteen-year-old Rayna Rison twenty years before,... Read more
View audiobookLe llamaban padre
By: Carles Porta
Narrated by: Pau Ferrer, Luis Pinazo, Angi Sansón & Fede Pla...
Length: 5 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
La perturbadora crónica de uno de los sucesos más estremecedores de los últimos tiempos, plasmado por Carles Porta. Le llamaban padre porque creían que aquel era el precio a pagar por tener una familia. En un pequeño pueblo de Lleida, vivían David Donet y los adolescentes que tenía en acogida. Allí se descubrieron decenas de imágenes y vídeos... Read more
View audiobookDie andere Mutter
By: A.M. Arimont
Narrated by: Isabel Kluth
Length: 1 hour 52 minutes
Abridged: No
Die Tochter – grausam ermordet. Der Täter – wohnt nur ein paar Straßen weiter. Claudia – Ehefrau und Mutter. Ein Mann, zwei Töchter, ein Haus. Alles ist ein Traum – bis dieser eines Tages zerplatzt. Das eigene Kind – ermordet von einem Jungen, der im gleichen beschaulichen Ort wohnt. Wie lebt man mit diesem unfassbaren Schicksal? Wie kann... Read more
View audiobookGangster Hunters
By: John Oller
Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Length: 13 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
The enthralling, can't-put-down account of the birth of the modern FBI.
J. Edgar Hoover was the face of the FBI. But the federal agents in the field, relentlessly chasing the most notorious gangsters of the 1930s with their own lives on the line, truly transformed the Bureau.
In 1932, the FBI lacked jurisdiction over murder cases, bank robberies,... Read more
Talking with Psychopaths
By: Christopher Berry-Dee
Narrated by: Charles Constant
Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
What is it like to write letters to a serial killer? What tactics does an investigator use to get an interview with a monster? What do these killers, locked behind bars, have to say? See for yourself!
Talking with Psychopaths: Letters from Serial Killers is the unique study of criminals in their own words based on bestselling true crime author... Read more
Family, Friends and Neighbors
By: Richard Estep
Narrated by: Perry Daniels
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the dark secrets that lurk behind closed doors in Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal. You will be left questioning just how well you truly know those around you in this gripping true crime collection.
You'll investigate thirty-four tales of mind-boggling acts of violence, such as: the captivating downfall of... Read more
In the Dead of Night
By: Greg Haddrick
Narrated by: David Tredinnick
Length: 9 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
A mysterious disappearance, a brazen murderer and the police who hunted him down.In March 2020 secret lovers Russell Hill and Carol Clay disappeared in Victoria's remote Wonnangatta Valley. Greg Haddrick tells the gripping inside story of the twists and turns of the police investigation and the trial of pilot Greg Lynn.In March 2020 a couple... Read more
View audiobookDeath in Briar Bottom
By: Timothy Silver
Narrated by: Andre Bellido
Length: 6 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte. Early that evening, they drank beer, smoked marijuana,... Read more
View audiobookRed Hook
By: Michael Benson & Frank Dimatteo
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 10 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
For more than a hundred years, the Red Hook section of Brooklyn was Ground Zero for organized crime. Whoever controlled the piers controlled everything. From the infamous Irish gang known as The White Hand at the turn of the century, to the notorious Italian Gallo brothers who ran President Street—and everything else—generations later, the... Read more
View audiobookWhere the Evidence Takes Us
By: Kevin O’Leary
Narrated by: Julian Elfer
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
Told over a period of public service spanning thirty years, this compelling true story unravels the nuts and bolts of policing London, providing an insider's perspective on the challenges, triumphs, and transformations that shaped an era.
Immerse yourself in the heart-pounding narratives of high-profile cases, including the intensity of the... Read more
Sönn Sakamál frá Íslandi II
By: Ýmsir
Narrated by: Hjálmar Hjálmarsson & Kristján Franklín Magnús
Length: 2 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Hér fær lesandi innsýn í atburðarás fimm íslenskra sakamála af ólíkum toga. Greint er frá tveimur óhugnanlegum manndrápum, fíkniefnamáli á Hólmsheiði og sagt frá manninum sem dreymdi um að verða höfuðpaur. Loks er skyggnst inn í daglegt líf Lögreglunnar og skoðuð ýmis óvenjuleg mál sem drifið hafa á daga hennar. Read more
View audiobookSönn Sakamál frá Íslandi I
By: Ýmsir
Narrated by: Hjálmar Hjálmarsson & Kristján Franklín Magnús
Length: 3 hours 21 minutes
Abridged: No
Bók þessi hefur að geyma fimm frásagnir af sakamálum sem atvikuðust hér á landi. Rýnt er í mál á borð við skipulagða glæpastarfsemi, miskunnarlaus morð og dularfull ránsmál. Grípandi og fróðleg lesning sem kann að vekja óhug meðal lesenda. Read more
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