True Crime audiobooks

Undisclosed Files of the Police

By: Bernard Whalen, Philip Messing & Robert Mladinich

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

More than 175 years of true crimes culled from the city's police blotter, told through startling, rarely seen images and insightful text by two NYPD officers and a NYC crime reporter.
From atrocities that occurred before the establishment of New York's police force in 1845 through the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 to the... Read more

Body Count

By: Burl Barer

Narrated by: Paul McClain

Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

He seemed so normal. Robert Lee Yates, Jr. was a respected father of five who piloted helicopters and served in Desert Storm and the National Guard. No one suspected him of having a deadly hidden life. By night, he prowled streets in search of prostitutes. He gained their trust then shot them in the head. The bodies of two young women were... Read more

The World’s Most Dangerous Geek: And More True Hacking Stories

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 13 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day, it seems, we hear stories about hackers. Hackers breaking into the computers of banks, governments, and corporations. Some are criminals, coding to exploit and destroy. Others are activists, using their tools to challenge institutions and fight for freedom. But often these characters linger in the shadows. Who are they? What makes... Read more

Dance with the Devil

By: David Bagby

Narrated by: Allan Edwards

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds... Read more

Murder in the Family

By: Burl Barer

Narrated by: James Edward Thomas

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 15th, 1987 police in Anchorage, Alaska arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. After an... Read more

American Murder Houses

By: Steve Lehto

Narrated by: Barry Press

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

There are places in the United States of America where violent acts of bloodshed have occurred. Years may pass—even centuries—but the mark of death remains. They are known as Murder Houses.



From a colonial manse in New England to a small-town home in Iowa to a Beverly Hills mansion, these residences have taken on a life of their own, gaining... Read more

Wolf Boys

By: Dan Slater

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The tale of two American teenagers recruited as killers for a Mexican cartel, and the Mexican American detective who realizes the War on Drugs is unstoppable. “A hell of a story…undeniably gripping.” (The New York Times)

In this astonishing story, journalist Dan Slater recounts the unforgettable odyssey of Gabriel Cardona. At first glance,... Read more

Murder in the Bayou

By: Ethan Brown

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 6 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight women were discovered around the murky canals and crawfish ponds of Jennings, Louisiana, a bayou town of 10,000... Read more

Indefensible

By: Michael Griesbach

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An insider exposes the shocking facts deliberately left out of the hit Netflix series Making a Murderer—and argues persuasively that Steven Avery was rightfully convicted in the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach.After serving eighteen years for a crime he didn’t commit, Steven Avery was freed—and filed a thirty-six-million-dollar lawsuit against... Read more

Goldsteins Geständnis

By: Friedrich Strassegger

Narrated by: Kai Schulz

Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Die zweite Haut - oder das Leben eines anderen leben. Der ehemalige SS-Sturmscharführer Hermann Westermayer lebt ein gestohlenes Leben. Als Jude Daniel Goldstein sucht er sein Glück, doch holt ihn seine wahre Identität immer wieder ein. Eigentlich wollte sich der erfolgreiche Geschäftsmann in Eilat entspannen und erholen. Doch dann erreicht ihn... Read more

Adnan's Story

By: Rabia Chaudry

Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry

Length: 14 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

After more than twenty years in prison, Adnan Syed’s murder conviction was overturned, and he was finally set free. Rabia Chaudry’s New York Times bestseller and award-winner Adnan’s Story reveals how the case was mishandled and became the subject of Sarah Koenig’s Peabody Award-winning podcast Serial.

In early 2000, Adnan Syed was convicted and... Read more

We Are Not Such Things

By: Justine van der Leun

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 19 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class.The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa. The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August... Read more

Playing Dead

By: Elizabeth Greenwood

Narrated by: Arden Hammersmith

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A darkly comic foray into the world of men and women who fake their own deaths, the consultants who help them disappear, and the private investigators who’ll stop at nothing to bring them back to life.

“A delightful read for anyone tantalized by the prospect of disappearing without a trace.” —Erik Larson, New York Times bestselling author of... Read more

The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death—using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of... Read more

Alligator Candy: A Memoir

By: David Kushner

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 6 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

From award-winning journalist David Kushner, a regular contributor to Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and other premier magazines, Alligator Candy is a reported memoir about family, survival, and the unwavering power of love.

David Kushner grew up in the early 1970s in the Florida suburbs. It was when kids still ran free, riding... Read more

American Heiress

By: Jeffrey Toobin

Narrated by: Paul Michael

Length: 15 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Nine and The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history
 
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag... Read more

If You Only Knew

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

When Vonlee "Nicole" Titlow and her aunt, Billie Jean Rogers, came home from a night of gambling in a casino near Detroit, they told police they found Billie's husband unconscious on the floor of the Rogers' mansion. Just another of his alcoholic benders, they assumed. But this time, Donald Rogers didn't wake up.



The investigation would reveal... Read more

Too Pretty to Live

By: Dennis Brooks

Narrated by: John Pruden

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

In this stunning true-crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double murder begins with the click of a button.When Bill Payne and Billie Jean Hayworth began their romance, they unknowingly set in motion a diabolical plot that would end with them murdered in their own home, Hayworth holding their mercifully unharmed infant.Chris... Read more

Bad Blood

By: Julie Shaw

Narrated by: Nigel Peever

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son. When her family throw her out, Christine has the biggest fight of her life to bring up her son safe on the infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, rife with crime, alcohol and drugs, a place where family is everything and nothing. It's Friday... Read more

Death Comes Knocking

By: Graham Bartlett & Peter James

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Dive into Brighton’s darkest corners in Death Comes Knocking – uncovering the true crimes that inspire the bestselling Roy Grace series, by Peter James and long-serving detective Graham Barlett.

Fans of Peter James and his bestselling Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and... Read more

The Jolly Roger Social Club

By: Nick Foster

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American expat community in Panama—a tale of greed, political history, and murder In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, a.k.a. “Wild Bill,” is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American expatriots. Holbert’s first victims were the Brown... Read more

Sexy Beasts

By: Wensley Clarkson

Narrated by: Wensley Clarkson

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In what has been described as a true-life blend of "Grumpy Old Men" and "Ocean's Eleven, SEXY BEASTS is an insider account of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist, in which a group of retirement-age career criminals -- the so-called "Diamond Geezers" -- robbed a London jewelry vault, in what would be the biggest burglary in UK history.

The Hatton Garden... Read more

The Wicked Boy

By: Kate Summerscale

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in... Read more

Framed

By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael's criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no... Read more