True Crime audiobooks

I'll Be Gone in the Dark Episode 1

By: HarperAudio

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

Length: 36 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

I'll Be Gone in the Dark Preview

By: HarperAudio

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

Length: 4 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 Court Reporter

By: Jamelle Wells

Narrated by: Jamelle Wells

Length: 7 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From true crime to petty crime – this is the memoir of one of Australia’s most experienced court reporters. As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC’s Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers, sex offenders, thieves, bad drivers, family feuds and business deals gone wrong. In more than 10 years, Jamelle has witnessed many of... Read more

The Fatalist

By: Campbell McConachie

Narrated by: Neil Pigot

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

AS SEEN ON AUSTRALIAN STORY

Shortlisted for The Ned Kelly Awards Best True Crime 2018
Shortlisted for The Danger Prize (writing about Sydney and crime) 2018

'I first met Lindsey Rose playing pool at The Burwood Hotel in 1988. I was two years out of high school. He'd already committed three murders. None of us knew.

'We knew he was a brothel owner,... Read more

Blood Justice

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 14 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. The next morning she was found gagged, raped, and tortured—her throat slit with such rage that she was nearly decapitated. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case. But it was the past that held the... Read more

Murder Beyond the Grave

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A wealthy kidnapped man fights for his life and a real estate deal turns deadly in these two true crime thrillers that inspired Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series.

Murder Beyond the Grave(with Andrew Bourelle): Stephen Small has it all: a Ferrari, fancy house, loving wife, and three boys. But the only thing he needs right now is enough air... Read more

Enemies Within

By: Richard Davenport-Hines

Narrated by: Richard Trinder

Length: 24 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its allies. Enemies... Read more

I Let Him Go

By: Denise Fergus

Narrated by: Siân Polhill-Thomas

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

On 12th February 1993, Denise's life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son's hand to take out her purse. Denise never saw her son again. In this extraordinary and heart-wrenching book comes the unflinching account of that terrible day from James Bulger's mother, Denise.... Read more

All-American Murder

By: James Patterson & Alex Abramovich

Narrated by: Peter Coleman

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This New York Times bestselling memoir examines an NFL player's rise and fall from the Patriots to prison, recounting the first-degree murder conviction that led to his untimely death—and shocking posthumous CTE diagnosis.

Aaron Hernandez was a college All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. His... Read more

The Girl on the Velvet Swing

By: Simon Baatz

Narrated by: Christine Lakin

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Simon Baatz, the first comprehensive account of the murder that shocked the world.

In 1901 Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora, dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. White... Read more

Busting Out of Mexico

By: Jan Reid

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 1 hour 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Jan Reid's "Busting Out of Mexico" 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 Mexico, if violence and property damage are avoided, there is no law against breaking out of jail. When con artist Sterling... Read more

Just Desserts

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Just Desserts" 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.

Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins led a perfectly adequate middle class life in Corsicana, Texas. Mr. Jenkins, Sandy, worked as an accountant at... Read more

The Cheerleader Murder Plot

By: Mimi Swartz

Narrated by: Pam Dougherty

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Mimi Swartz's "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" 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 "The Cheerleader Murder Plot," Mimi Swartz paints a scene of a place that makes the unthinkable -- the plot to... Read more

The Talented Mr. Khater

By: Francesca Mari

Narrated by: Mallorie Rodak

Length: 1 hour 5 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Francesca Mari's "The Talented Mr. Khater" 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.

The layered story of "The Talented Mr. Khater" begins with Callie Quinn, who upon graduating college, fulfilled her... Read more

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Bruce DuBose

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Skip Hollandsworth's "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" 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.

Cowboy Bob was a master bank robber, robbing countless banks for thousands of dollars and confounding cops along... Read more

True Crime from Texas Monthly

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 4 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, the following articles spotlighting true crime are now available in a bundle as an audio download:

* "The Cheerleader Murder Plot" by Mimi Swartz, read by Pam Dougherty
* "The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob" by Skip Hollandsworth, read by Bruce DuBose
* "A Kiss Before Dying" by Pamela Colloff, read by Staci Snell and... Read more

A Kiss Before Dying

By: Pamela Colloff

Narrated by: Staci Snell & Karissa Vacker

Length: 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Pamela Colloff's "A Kiss Before Dying" 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.

Few stories feel as classic as a well-told ghost story, the kind that makes your hair stand on end or sends chills down your... Read more

Shell Shocked

By: Elliott Woods

Narrated by: Eric Vale

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Elliott Woods's "Shell Shocked" 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.

Who's to blame when the violence of war comes home? "Shell Shocked" is the story of a man from El Paso who returned from his... Read more

The Trouble with Innocence

By: Michael Hall

Narrated by: Christopher Ryan Grant

Length: 1 hour 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Michael Hall's "The Trouble with Innocence" 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 1978, a Texas jury found Kerry Max Cook guilty of the state's most brutal murder on record and sentenced him to... Read more

Cops and Robbers

By: Katy Vine

Narrated by: Lydia Mackay

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

In partnership with Texas Monthly, Katy Vine's "Cops and Robbers" 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.

Law enforcement in Hidalgo County would joke that without the drug trade, half the business in the county would fail. Others would... Read more

Kidnapped

By: Charles Fox

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Previously published as Uncommon Youth, Charles Fox's Kidnapped examines the glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973.

J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born.... Read more

Blood in the Snow

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In Washington Township, Michigan, on Valentine’s Day, 2007, Stephen Grant filed a missing persons report on his beloved wife, Tara. The stay-at-home father of two was beside himself with despair. Why would Tara abandon him and their family? Was she involved with another man?Stephen’s frantic, emotional search for Tara made national headlines,... Read more

Almost Paradise

By: Kieran Crowley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

For the audience that read Maria Flook’s New York Times bestseller, Invisible Eden, this is the extraordinary story of a high-stakes murder case set in the high society world of East Hampton—the playground of New York’s superrich.On October 22, 2001, handsome multimillionaire financier Ted Ammon was found bludgeoned to death in the magnificent... Read more

Murder, Interrupted

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Jay Snyder

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.
In Murder, Interrupted (with Alex Abramovich), rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay Billie Earl Johnson... Read more