True Crime audiobooks

The Cryotron Files

By: Iain Dey & Douglas Buck

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting true story of Dudley Buck―American scientist, government agent, and Cold War hero―whose pioneering work with computer chips placed him firmly in the sights of the KGB.Dr. Dudley Allen Buck was a brilliant young scientist on the cusp of fame and fortune when he died suddenly on May 21, 1959, at the age of thirty-two. He was the star... Read more

Invisible

By: Stephen L. Carter

Narrated by: Karen Chilton

Length: 12 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.

She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s—and without the strategy... Read more

In My Father's House

By: Fox Butterfield

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist: a pathbreaking examination of our huge crime and incarceration problem that looks at the influence of the family--specifically one Oregon family with a generations-long legacy of lawlessness.

The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's... Read more

A Family Cursed

By: Kevin F. McMurray

Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan

Length: 9 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

As boys, Robert and Andrew Kissel competed and excelled. As men, they made millions—Robert in the Asian markets and Andrew in real estate. But a darkness was chasing the brothers down. In November 2003, Robert was murdered in his posh Hong Kong apartment. Two-and-a-half years later, Andrew was found stabbed to death in his Greenwich, Connecticut... Read more

The Skripal Files

By: Mark Urban

Narrated by: Mark Urban

Length: 9 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

The explosive story of the poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and what it reveals about the growing clandestine conflict between the West and Russia.

Salisbury, England: March 4, 2018.

Slumped on a bench, paralyzed and barely able to breathe, were a former Russian intelligence officer named Sergei... Read more

Made Men

By: Greg B. Smith

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

For years, the DeCavalcantes, the most powerful Mob family in Jersey, labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York—the likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos. Dismissed by the big-city capos, the DeCavalcantes finally came into their own when they found their lives mirrored in the television hit, The Sopranos. Overnight it... Read more

Burned Alive

By: Kieran Crowley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 11 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Ash Wednesday
Beautiful, bubbly, 20-year-old Kim Antonakos was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. A business major with wild black hair, long polished fingernails, and a new Honda her loving father had bought her, Kim took good care of herself and looked forward to a bright future. But on her way... Read more

Best of Enemies

By: Gus Russo & Eric Dezenhall

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 11 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of two Cold War spies, CIA case officer Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko -- improbable friends at a time when they should have been anything but.

In 1978, CIA maverick Jack Platt and KGB agent Gennady Vasilenko were new arrivals on the Washington, DC intelligence scene, with Jack working out of the CIA's... Read more

Lie After Lie

By: Lara Bricker

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A seemingly perfect world held an even more unlikely killer...Julie Keown had a great job, financial security, and a perfect husband who was attending Harvard Business School. But after Julie suddenly died, and doctors discovered she’d been poisoned with the main ingredient in antifreeze, her parents began to suspect that her husband, James, was... Read more

Woman at the Devil’s Door

By: Sarah Beth Hopton

Narrated by: Kate Mulligan

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the haunting untold true story of the woman whose crimes inspired speculation that Jack the Ripper was a woman.On October 24, 1890, the body of a woman was discovered on a pile of rubbish in Hampstead, North London. Her arms were lacerated and her face bloodied; her head was severed from her body except for a few sinews. Later that day,... Read more

Las celdas rosas

By: Sylvia Arvizu

Narrated by: Sylvia Arvizu

Length: 2 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Hay dos formas fáciles de afrontar la vida de las mujeres en prisión en nuestro país y los motivos que las llevaron allí: una es pasarla por alto y la otra es convertirla en un valle de lágrimas. El mérito de Sylvia Arvizu ha sido encontrar una tercera opción. La más ética y estética posible. La de reintegrarle su carácter humano. Reseña en... Read more

Under the Wig

By: William Clegg QC

Narrated by: William Clegg QC

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

'GRIPPING' – The Times 'FASCINATING, NO-HOLDS-BARRED' – The Secret Barrister How can you speak up for someone accused of a savage murder? Or get a judge to drop a case? In this vivid memoir, William Clegg KC – one of the leading criminal lawyers of his generation – revisits his most notorious and intriguing trials, from the acquittal of... Read more

The King of Con

By: Thomas Giacomaro & Natasha Stoynoff

Narrated by: Thomas Giacomaro

Length: 8 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

A Jersey boy with a knack for numbers, a gift for making people trust him, and an all-consuming hunger to be king of the business world, Tom Giacomaro could convince anyone of anything. As a teenager, Tom Giacomaro began working in the mob-laden New Jersey trucking industry. A charming, brash-talking salesman, he climbed the ranks, and let his... Read more

Seduced by Evil

By: Michael Fleeman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

As an exotic dancer at The Great Alaskan Bush Company in Anchorage, Mechele Hughes Linehan knew how to captivate men. Three of them were convinced she was engaged to them. Then one spring morning in 1996, one man, Kent Leppink, was found in the snow, shot in the head…Days before his death, Kent had removed Mechele's name from his million-dollar... Read more

Boston Mob

By: Marc Songini

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The New England Mafia was a hugely powerful organization that survived by using violence to ruthlessly crush anyone that threatened it, or its lucrative gambling, loansharking, bootlegging and other enterprises. Psychopathic strongman Joseph "The Animal" Barboza was one of the most feared mob enforcers of all time, killing as many as thirty... Read more

Unnatural Causes

By: Dr Richard Shepherd

Narrated by: Dr Richard Shepherd

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd, in the true crime book of the year - brought to you by Penguin.

'The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'

He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death.
He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including investigating some of the most... Read more

Bitter Medicine

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

Two Deaths



Port Angeles, Washington, is a small town of pretty houses and smiling people, surrounded by acres of pristine wilderness. Everyone thought it was the perfect place to live . . . until two local doctors made headlines.



Two Doctors



On a chilly January night, Dr. Eugene Turner hastened the death of a three-day-old baby boy who had been... Read more

Billion Dollar Whale

By: Bradley Hope & Tom Wright

Narrated by: Will Collyer

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios).

Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a... Read more

Redbone

By: Ron Stodghill

Narrated by: JD Jackson

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one... Read more

Vanished at Sea

By: Tina Dirmann

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas and Jackie Hawks had big plans. The couple wanted to sell their retirement home--a hard earned 55-foot yacht named Well Deserved--and move onto land to spend more time with family. So when a baby-faced buyer, Skylar Deleon, wanted to test drive the yacht, the Hawks were overjoyed. However, Skylar--with his troubled past as a flamed-out... Read more

In Plain Sight

By: Tom Smart & Lee Benson

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 14 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

This riveting inside story of the intense search for the Salt Lake City teenager who was kidnapped from her bed reveals never-before-told details of the largest investigation in Utah state history. Paced like a thriller, this true account moves between the parallel stories of the searchers and the abductor. The firsthand account of Tom Smart,... Read more

While Innocents Slept

By: Adrian Havill

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Death seemed to be part of Garrett Wilson's life. Both of his parents had died by the time he was in his early twenties. So friends shrugged when sadly, an infant daughter, and then a son, succumbed to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Six years later, after he divorced his wife, Missy, and married another woman, his former spouse became convinced... Read more

Death in Texas

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Was he his brother's keeper?



Robert and Doris Angleton seemed to have the perfect life. Until she was coldly murdered in her own home, shot thirteen times in the head, chest, and abdomen . . .



Suddenly the ideal husband seemed anything but perfect: he was jailed, accused of hiring his older brother, Roger, to kill his wife for money—possibly as... Read more

The Main Enemy

By: Milton Bearden & James Risen

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 19 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

A landmark collaboration between a thirty-year veteran of the CIA and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, The Main Enemy is the dramatic inside story of the CIA-KGB spy wars, told through the actions of the men who fought them.Based on hundreds of interviews with operatives from both sides, The Main Enemy puts us inside the heads of CIA... Read more