True Crime audiobooks

Pond Scum

By: Michael Lilly

Narrated by: Dominic Carlos

Length: 9 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Jeremy ‘Remy’ Thorn is a detective from a small town in Oregon. He does his job well and keeps to himself. A past of trauma and abuse, and a compulsive need for balance have shaped him into the person he is today: a decisive, effective killer.

His routine is simple but trustworthy.

Step one: Find two targets. The first, an abomination of... Read more

Beneath a Ruthless Sun

By: Gilbert King

Narrated by: Kimberly Farr

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST

"Compelling, insightful and important, Beneath a Ruthless Sun exposes the corruption of racial bigotry and animus that shadows a community, a state and a nation. A fascinating examination of an injustice story all too familiar and still largely ignored, an engaging and essential read."... Read more

The Battered Body Beneath the Flagstones, and Other Victorian Scandals

By: Michelle Morgan

Narrated by: Anne Dover

Length: 10 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement

'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.'
Kim Fleet, Crime Review

A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile... Read more

The Trauma Cleaner

By: Sarah Krasnostein

Narrated by: Rachael Tidd

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife. But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less.A woman who sleeps among... Read more

My Mother, a Serial Killer

By: Hazel Baron

Narrated by: Kate Hosking

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice.
Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kindand caring. The officers at the local police station... Read more

Die Hinrichtung - Authentische Kriminalfälle (ungekürzt)

By: Bernd Hesse

Narrated by: Bernd Hesse

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Die Ermittlungsbehörden haben ihre Arbeit getan, aus Beschuldigten sind Angeklagte geworden: In den zehn Fällen dieses Buches sind sie des Mordes oder des versuchten Mordes angeklagt, des Totschlags, der Brandstiftung, des Menschenhandels, des Betruges, der Cyberkriminalität ... Sie haben das Recht auf ein faires Verfahren und einen... Read more

My Mother, a Serial Killer

By: Hazel Baron

Narrated by: Kate Hosking

Length: 6 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice.
Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. She was loved everywhere she went, and the townsfolk of Wilcannia, which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kindand caring. The officers at the local police station... Read more

Chappaquiddick

By: Leo Damore

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 16 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A young woman leaves a party with a wealthy US senator. The next morning her body is discovered in his car at the bottom of a pond.This is the damning true story of the death of campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne at Chappaquiddick and of the senator—a thirty-seven-year-old Senator Ted Kennedy—who left her trapped underwater while he returned... Read more

Hunting El Chapo

By: Andrew Hogan & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Andrew Hogan & Robert Fass

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century’s sensational investigative high-tech thriller—soon to be a major motion picture from Sony—chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El... Read more

No Way Home

By: Tyler Wetherall

Narrated by: Marisa Calin

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

No Way Home is an audiobook memoir of growing up on the run—and what happens when it comes to a stop.

Tyler had lived in thirteen houses and five countries by the time she was nine. A willful and curious child, she never questioned her strange upbringing, that is, until Scotland Yard showed up outside her ramshackle English home, and she... Read more

Hell's Princess

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

“A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America’s most notorious female killers.” —The New York Times Book ReviewAn Amazon Charts bestseller.In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged in wholesale slaughter, partly out of greed but mostly... Read more

With One Shot

By: Dorothy Marcic

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

Length: 12 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The brutal murder of LaVerne Stordock, a respected family man and former police detective, shocked the residents of his rural Wisconsin community. On the surface, the case seemed closed with the confession of Stordock’s second wife, Suzanne. But the trail of secrets and lies that began with his death did not end with his widow’s conviction.Ever... Read more

Shallow Graves

By: Maureen Boyle

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 11 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community's diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells... Read more

The Manson Women and Me

By: Nikki Meredith

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 13 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1969, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel carried out horrific acts of butchery on the orders of the charismatic cult leader Charles Manson. At their murder trial the following year, lead prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi described the two so-called Manson Women as "human monsters." But to anyone who knew them growing up, they... Read more

Mordängel i Prästkappa

By: Jan-Öjvind Swahn

Narrated by: Håkan Julander

Length: 5 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Mordet på Gustav III. En arsenikförgiftande kyrkoherde. Mysteriet bakom Bockstensmannen. Änglamakerskan som dödade åtta fosterbarn. Historien bakom dessa och många andra historiska mord ges i denna spännande exposé av klassiska kriminalfall och tragiska öden i Sveriges historia från medeltid till 1900-tal."Mycket läsvärd för breda grupper...... Read more

The Secret Barrister

By: The Secret Barrister

Narrated by: Jack Hawkins

Length: 11 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

An anonymous barrister's darkly comic and moving first-hand account of life in the legal system, and how it's failing us all.

The Sunday Times number one bestseller.
Winner of the Books are My Bag Non-Fiction Award.
Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year.
Shortlisted for Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year.

‘Eye-opening, funny and... Read more

Dying for Love

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Dr. John Yelenic was a successful dentist in a small Pennsylvania town. When he met Michele Kamler, he thought he'd finally found the woman of his dreams. She was beautiful, intelligent, and seemed to want all the same things out of life as he did.Michele married Yelenic in 1997. But by 2002, the relationship fell apart…and what followed was a... Read more

Fatal Vision

By: Joe McGinniss

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

Length: 27 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Fatal Vision is the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children, murders he vehemently denies committing. Read more

I'll Be Gone in the Dark Episode 3

By: HarperAudio

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt, Nancy Miller, Daniel Greenberg, ...

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018.Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt“A brilliant genre-buster....... Read more

The Corporation

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 19 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A fascinating, cinematic, multigenerational history of the Cuban mob in the US from ""America’s top chronicler of organized crime""* and New York Times bestselling author of Havana Nocturne.By the mid 1980s, the criminal underworld in the United States had become an ethnic polyglot; one of the most powerful illicit organizations was none other... Read more

The Innocent Man, Part One

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 1 hour 21 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part One" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

In 1986, in northwest Austin, Texas, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally... Read more

The Innocent Man, Part Two

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 1 hour 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "The Innocent Man, Part Two" is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.

Picking up where Part One of "The Innocent Man" left off, Pamela Colloff dives into what Michael Morton went through... Read more

I'll Be Gone in the Dark Episode 2

By: HarperAudio

Narrated by: Patton Oswalt, Nancy Miller, Daniel Greenberg, ...

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California during the 70s and 80s, and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case—which was solved in April 2018.Introduction by Gillian Flynn • Afterword by Patton Oswalt“A brilliant genre-buster....... Read more

Fatal Beauty

By: Burl Barer

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Jimmy Joste was a powerhouse in the oil and gas industry, but he was a weakling when it came to his gorgeous, athletic, longtime lover, Rhonda Glover. Addicted to her sexual prowess and madly in love, Joste gave her homes, cars, cash, and a $350,000 engagement ring. Their fifteen years of passion and excess ended the day Rhonda drove directly... Read more