True Crime audiobooks

Landru, the Bluebeard of France

By: William le Queux

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 17 minutes

Abridged: No

William Le Queux (1864 - 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer, diplomat, traveller, flying buff and wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available.

He was phenomenally successful as a novelist and short story writer, and many of his tales are based on his own exploits, albeit vastly... Read more

The Secret of the Moat Farm

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age.

"The Secret of the Moat Farm" is Wallace's account of a real life murder mystery which he had covered as a young journalist. Camille Holland, a spinster of 56, became... Read more

Don't Tell a Soul

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 12 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly innocent young woman who loved caring for a neighbor's little boy. But when she was asked to testify in court against his abusive mother, Cherry never got the chance. She couldn't lie if her life depended on it—and it did. Cherry's body was found on the side of a Texas road, after being doused... Read more

Ripper

By: Patricia Cornwell

Narrated by: Mary Stuart Masterson

Length: 14 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.From New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell comes Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert, a comprehensive and intriguing exposé of one of the world’s most chilling cases of serial murder—and the police force that failed to solve it.Vain and charismatic Walter Sickert made a name for himself as... Read more

Illusion of Justice

By: Jerome F. Buting

Narrated by: Sean Pratt

Length: 10 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

Interweaving an insider’s account of the true crime saga driving Netflix sensation Making a Murderer with other controversial cases from his career, this powerful memoir from Steven Avery’s defense attorney reveals the flaws in America's criminal justice system and puts forth a provocative, persuasive call for reform.Not since The Thin Blue Line... Read more

The Devil's Gentleman

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune—hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux's subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials and a sex-infused scandal that shocked the nation. Bringing to life... Read more

I Know What You Are

By: Taylor Edison & Jane Smith

Narrated by: Jessica Ball

Length: 5 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared most of... Read more

Jimmy Hoffa

By: Charles River Editors

Narrated by: David Zarbock

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A century ago, if one were to come across a manual laborer from the early 20th century or the Roaring Twenties and relayed to them the possibility of one day sticking it to The Man, one would probably be laughed out of the century. However, this was exactly what one man with solid-gold aspirations and audacity set out to achieve. Jimmy Hoffa,... Read more

The Blood of Emmett Till

By: Timothy B. Tyson

Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of... Read more

Blue on Blue

By: Charles Campisi

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world’s largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars. “Compelling, educational, memorable…this superb memoir can be read for its sheer entertainment or as a primer on police work—or both”... Read more

Breaking Blue

By: Timothy Egan

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1935, the Spokane police regularly extorted sex, food, and money from the reluctant hobos (many of them displaced farmers who had fled the midwestern dust bowls), robbed dairies, and engaged in all manner of nefarious crimes, including murder. This history was suppressed until 1989, when former logger, Vietnam vet, and Spokane cop Tony... Read more

Pill City

By: Kevin Deutsch

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

April 27, 2015 Mosher and Gilmore Streets, Baltimore, Maryland: Ground Zero in America’s Pill Wars.Near this crime-plagued corner, the death of Freddie Gray has triggered the worst domestic rioting in years - and created a terrifying new breed of criminal entrepreneur. Here, as looters and arsonists lay waste to parts of Baltimore, two of the... Read more

By Their Father's Hand

By: Monte Francis

Narrated by: John Glouchevitch

Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren. But on March 12, 2004, gunshots were heard inside the Wesson home, and police officers responding to what they believed was a routine domestic... Read more

Wasted

By: Linda Wolfe

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

On an August night in 1986, Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. Linda Wolfe goes beyond the headlines and media hype to re-create a story of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug... Read more

A Very Expensive Poison

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A true story of murder and conspiracy that points directly to Vladimir Putin, by The Guardian’s former Moscow bureau chief and author of The Snowden Files and Collusion

On November 1, 2006, journalist and Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in London. He died twenty-two days later. The cause of death? Polonium—a rare, lethal, and... Read more

The Spider and the Fly

By: Claudia Rowe

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In this superb work of literary true crime—a spellbinding combination of memoir and psychological suspense—a female journalist chronicles her unusual connection with a convicted serial killer and her search to understand the darkness inside us.""Well, well, Claudia. Can I call you Claudia? I’ll have to give it to you, when confronted at least... Read more

How America Lost Its Secrets

By: Edward Jay Epstein

Narrated by: Michael Bybee

Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A groundbreaking exposé that convincingly challenges the popular image of Edward Snowden as hacker turned avenging angel, while revealing how vulnerable our national security systems have become--as exciting as any political thriller, and far more important.

After details of American government surveillance were published in 2013, Edward Snowden,... Read more

If You Love Me

By: Alice Keale

Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe... Read more

Above Suspicion

By: Joe Sharkey

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal look at a crime of passion describes an FBI agent's successful career, family life, and extramarital affair that ended in murder, and of the guilt that drove him to confess in spite of his impenetrable government shield.

In a true story of crime, guilt, and conscience, a model agent's illicit involvement with an informant leads him to... Read more

The Girl in the Leaves

By: Robert Scott, Sarah Maynard & Larry Maynard

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

In the fall of 2010, in the all-American town of Apple Valley, Ohio, four people disappeared without a trace: Stephanie Sprang; her friend, Tina Maynard; and Tina's two children, thirteen-year-old Sarah and eleven-year-old Kody. Investigators began scouring the area, yet despite an extensive search, no signs of the missing people were... Read more

JonBenet

By: Steve Thomas & Donald A. Davis

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Perhaps the most compelling murder case of our day, the death of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey galvanized the nation—and years after it occurred, the mystery still endures. Who killed the young beauty queen and why? Who is covering up for whom and who is simply lying? In JonBenet, the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the Ramsey... Read more

The Reporter Who Knew Too Much

By: Mark Shaw

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw’s twenty-fifth book,... Read more

The Boy They Tried to Hide

By: Shane Dunphy

Narrated by: Shane Dunphy

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The Boy They Tried to Hide is the startling, true account of how truth is sometimes stranger than fiction ...

Shane Dunphy was working as a resource teacher in a rural town when he was approached by the mother of one of his pupils, seeking help. She is worried for her troubled young son, who has been found leaving the house late at night to go... Read more

Serial Killers

By: Peter Vronsky

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 16 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In this unique book, Peter Vronsky documents the psychological, investigative, and cultural aspects of serial murder, beginning with its first recorded instance in ancient Rome, through fifteenth-century France, up to such notorious contemporary cases as cannibal/necrophile Ed Kemper, Henry Lee Lucas, Ted Bundy, and the emergence of what he... Read more