True Crime audiobooks

The Ghost

By: Jefferson Morley

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 9 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

From World War II to the Cold War, Angleton operated beyond the view of the public, Congress, and even the president. He unwittingly shared intelligence secrets with Soviet spy Kim Philby, a member of the notorious Cambridge spy ring. He launched mass surveillance by opening the mail of hundreds of thousands of Americans. He abetted a scheme to... Read more

Dark Heart

By: Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Was murder part of the game?



Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood—and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life—and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates.



To intensify... Read more

Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix original series

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.

In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind... Read more

Fisch-Mafia

By: Eskil Engdal & Kjetil Saeter

Narrated by: Armand Presser

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Paten der Fisch-Mafia Das Geschäft mit dem Antarktisdorsch ist illegal - und lukrativ. Genau wie Drogenhandel. Von Polizei und Behörden unbehelligt spült eine Flotte von Piraten-Trawlern ihren Eignern zweistellige Millionenbeträge in die Taschen. Jahr für Jahr - dem weißen Gold sei Dank. Der Umweltorganisation Sea Shepherd ist es gelungen,... Read more

Death in the Air

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.

London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five... Read more

Hotel Scarface

By: Roben Farzad

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday—and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface...

In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove’s Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty,... Read more

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union that went beyond the... Read more

Spy Schools

By: Daniel Golden

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Grounded in extensive research and reporting, Spy Schools reveals how academia has emerged as a frontline in the global spy game. In a knowledge-based economy, universities are repositories of valuable information and research, where brilliant minds of all nationalities mingle freely with few questions asked. Intelligence agencies have always... Read more

Blow

By: Bruce Porter

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung’s roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel—the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung’s early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when... Read more

Chasing Phil

By: David Howard

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting
 
1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their... Read more

Black Dahlia, Red Rose

By: Piu Eatwell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell—relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist—cracks the case after seventy years. With recently unredacted FBI files, newly released... Read more

Destination Casablanca

By: Meredith Hindley

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.

In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across... Read more

Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits

By: John Merriman

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle Ã?oque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I.

For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A... Read more

Vulgar Favors

By: Maureen Orth

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Maureen Orth

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
 
“The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
 
“Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot... Read more

Mad City

By: Michael Arntfield

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Charts most-read book.Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks—until now.In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the... Read more

Freeing David McCallum

By: Ken Klonsky

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright & Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison.This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum, along with a group of... Read more

The Dominici Affair

By: Martin Kitchen

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old... Read more

After the Eclipse

By: Sarah Perry

Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

When Sarah Perry was twelve, she saw a partial eclipse of the sun, an event she took as a sign of good fortune for her and her mother, Crystal. But that brief moment of darkness ultimately foreshadowed a much larger one: two days later, Crystal was murdered in their home in rural Maine, just a few feet from Sarah's bedroom.

The killer escaped... Read more

Sorgfågel

By: Lena Katarina Swanberg & Annika Östberg

Narrated by: Kerstin Weman Thornell

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Svenska Annika Östberg fängslades i Kalifornien 1981, dömd för inblandning i mord på en restaurangägare och en polis. 1999 fick Lena Katarina Swanberg, under många besök på det amerikanska fängelset, höra hennes historia. Från barndomen i Stockholm till flytten till USA och rymningen till San Fransisco under flower power-perioden när hon var 13... Read more

The Man from the Train

By: Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial... Read more

Bloodlines

By: Melissa del Bosque

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is... Read more

Run, Hide, Repeat

By: Pauline Dakin

Narrated by: Pauline Dakin

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018

Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging... Read more

Marita

By: Marita Lorenz

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the dramatic, glamorous story of lover-turned-spy Marita Lorenz and her affair with Fidel Castro, the basis for a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence.Few people can say they have seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the... Read more

We Are All Shipwrecks

By: Kelly Grey Carlisle

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir of one woman's extraordinary upbringing and her search for redemption in the face of staggering tragedy Kelly Carlisle was three weeks old when her mother was strangled in downtown Los Angeles, leaving Kelly in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric Englishman who owned a porn store and lived on a boat in the harbor. It... Read more