True Crime audiobooks

Murder on Sunset Strip

By: Kim Cresswell

Narrated by: Jason Fella

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder on Sunset Strip is the second book in a compelling series of true crime short stories for readers who don't have time to read a full-length novel.

"The Story of Carol Bundy and Doug Clark" examines the chilling account of the serial killing duo whose deadly rampage began in 1980 on LA’s sunset strip. Read more

Confidential Source Ninety-Six

By: C.S. 96 & Rob Cea

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A HARROWING JOURNEY INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DRUG CARTELS BY ONE OF THE TOP CRIMINAL INFORMANTS IN U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named... Read more

Pablo Escobar, mi padre

By: Juan Pablo Escobar

Narrated by: Sebastian Marroquin

Length: 12 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Hasta ahora creíamos que se había contado todo sobre el narcotraficante Pablo Escobar, el peor criminal en la historia de América Latina. Sobre él han escrito las mejores plumas, los más reputados periodistas y hasta sus hermanos. El celuloide también ha recreado la vida del delincuente. No obstante, su historia siempre fue contada desde afuera,... Read more

Ghost of the Innocent Man

By: Benjamin Rachlin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.

During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of... Read more

Bones

By: Joe Tone

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy

José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroads—with considerable help... Read more

My Sister Milly

By: Gemma Dowler

Narrated by: Ruby Thomas

Length: 22 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, read by Ruby Thomas.

This is Gemma Dowler's powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning . . .

'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to Hell . . .'

Everyone thinks they know the story of... Read more

Lust Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little evidence available, and the public screaming for answers, he must find a remorseless, brutal killer whose identity will shock them all . . . Read more

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island

By: Claire Prentice

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post “must read”!Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation.For the first time, The Lost Tribe of Coney Island... Read more

Green is the New Black

By: James Phelps

Narrated by: Stan Pretty

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

James Phelps explores all the questions that we can only barely imagine the answers to about Australia's toughest jails. This is a brutal and honest account of life inside Australia's toughest jails, and all is not as you would expect. Do women rape each other? Do guards really trade 40-cent phone cards for sex? And do you think the most... Read more

The Hot One

By: Carolyn Murnick

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist—two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who... Read more

Dangerous Ground

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television—and his own life. He asked a convicted serial killer to act as a consultant for his TV series. Under the code name "Raven," the murderer shared his insights into the minds of other killers and helped analyze their crimes. As the... Read more

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

By: Martin Corona & Tony Rafael

Narrated by: Jacob Vargas

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life.
 
Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life at... Read more

The Suspect

By: Jenny Friel

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On a clear autumn morning in 2004 Rachel O'Reilly, a thirty-year-old mother of two, was brutally battered to death in her home. It was a merciless killing that stunned the small, trusting community where she lived, and devastated her close-knit family.



In the days that followed the discovery of her body, it was thought that Rachel was the victim... Read more

The Chickenshit Club

By: Jesse Eisinger

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).

Why were no bankers put in... Read more

American Fire

By: Monica Hesse

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the... Read more

The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all; he was a star athlete with good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington,... Read more

The Big Heist

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn’t be told—until now.One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend—and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this... Read more

Cartel Wives

By: Mia Flores

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.

Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked... Read more

The Westies

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer.... Read more

Thirty-Eight Witnesses

By: A.M. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors—and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses , the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York,... Read more

Overkill

By: Lyn Riddle

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hardworking. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor friends struggling in school. And she befriended a dejected classmate after his traumatic breakup with his pregnant long-time girlfriend Michelle... Read more

The Silent Witness

By: Casey Watson

Narrated by: Kate Lock

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I’m so sorry, Casey,’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. ‘I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.’ It’s the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on... Read more

Killing for You

By: Keith Elliot Greenberg

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan: He asked his neighbor Sam Herr, a young war veteran, to help him move some things into the attic of an empty theater. There, Wozniak shot Herr twice in the head before taking his ATM card and cell... Read more

The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

By: Christine Pelisek

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles' history, told by the fearless reporter who broke the story.
In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. In her... Read more