True Crime audiobooks

Waco

By: David Thibodeau & Leon Whiteson

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 13 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The basis of the celebrated Paramount Network miniseries starring Michael Shannon and Taylor Kitsch -- Waco is the critically-acclaimed, first person account of the siege by Branch Davidian survivor, David Thibodeau.

Twenty-five years ago, the FBI staged a deadly raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco. Texas. David Thibodeau survived to... Read more

Stalling for Time

By: Gary Noesner

Narrated by: Gary Noesner

Length: 8 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The FBI’s chief hostage negotiator recounts harrowing standoffs, including the Waco siege with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, in a memoir that inspired the miniseries Waco, now on Netflix.

“Riveting . . . the most in-depth and absorbing section is devoted to the 1993 siege near Waco, Texas.”—The Washington Post

In Stalling for Time, the... Read more

Home Sweet Murder

By: James Patterson

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 5 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Two true-crime thrillers as seen on Discovery ID's Murder is Forever TV series

HOME SWEET MURDER (with Andrew Bourelle): Lawyer Leo Fisher and his wife Sue are a sixty-one-year-old couple enjoying a quiet Sunday dinner at home. Until a man in a suit rings their front door claiming to be an SEC agent. By the end of the evening, two people will be... 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

Spymaster

By: Martin Pearce

Narrated by: Martin Pearce

Length: 12 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Maurice Oldfield was one of the most important British spies of the Cold War era. A farmer's son from a provincial grammar school, Sir Maurice was the first Chief of MI6 who didn't come to the role via the traditional route. Oldfield was the voice of British Intelligence in Washington at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and was largely... Read more

STARSTRUCK

By: Joey Alvarez

Narrated by: Michael Giorgio

Length: 3 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Hi there, my name is Joey. Today I’m just another thirty-something-year-old guy, living the suburban dream in southern California. But there’s something my neighbours don’t know about me. Something you’d never guess about me. Something, that up until these past couple of weeks, I’d never dream about telling you. Something you wouldn’t believe.I... Read more

White American Youth

By: Christian Picciolini

Narrated by: Christian Picciolini & Joan Jett

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

As featured on Fresh Air and the TED stage, a stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist.

Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose... Read more

Killer Clown

By: Terry Sullivan

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 15 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

He was a model citizen. A hospital volunteer. And one of the most sadistic serial killers of all time. But few people could see the cruel monster beneath the colorful clown makeup that John Gacy wore to entertain children in his Chicago suburb. Few could imagine what lay buried beneath his house of horrors—until a teenage boy disappeared before... Read more

Truth and Honour

By: Greg Marquis

Narrated by: Costas Halavrezos

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Truth and Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim's son, Dennis Oland, for second ­degree murder.Oland's trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history. What... Read more

Taken from Home

By: Eric Francis

Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg’s adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators found Jennifer’s remains in a Mesa... Read more

Blood Will Tell

By: Carlton Smith

Narrated by: Donna Postel

Length: 11 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

They Were The Perfect Family...For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident.... By the time the Palo Alto Police Department looked... Read more

The Surgeon's Wife

By: Kieran Crowley

Narrated by: Danny Campbell

Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

In the summer of 1985, in his exclusive Upper East Side Manhattan apartment, Robert Bierenbaum, a prominent surgeon and certified genius, strangled his wife Gail to death. He then drove her body to an airstrip in Caldwell, N.J., and dumped it into the Atlantic Ocean from a single-engine private plane. The next day he reported her missing.Gail’s... Read more

A Deadly Affair

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A promising young attorney and a dedicated family man, Michael Fletcher seemed to have it all. But in the summer of 2000, Michael found himself standing trial for the murder of his pregnant wife, Leann. The verdict—guilty of second-degree murder—would leave friends, family, and the public at large scrambling to make sense of a twisted and... Read more

Laci

By: Michael Fleeman

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Praying for a happy ending, friends and family stood by Laci’s grieving husband Scott. Four months later, Laci’s decomposed body was found in the murky waters of San Francisco Bay. The body of her child had washed ashore about a mile away, after a possible “coffin birth.” It was a sad closure to an exhaustive search, and a grim end to a marriage... Read more

In the Middle of the Night

By: Brian McDonald

Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor

Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The affluent suburb of Cheshire, Connecticut, seemed like the perfect place for Dr. William Petit and his wife, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, to raise their two lovely daughters... Until July 23, 2007, when, according to police, two ex-cons invaded the Petit home hoping to embark on a routine robbery—one that would ultimately prove deadly. Read more

On the Brinks

By: Sam Millar

Narrated by: John Keating

Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"Security guards told the police that they were surprised by assailants who had somehow evaded the sophisticated security system. They could not say how many robbers there were. It appears to be one of the biggest robberies in U.S. history."- The New York Times, front page

In 1993, $7.4 million was stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in... Read more

The Pretender

By: Marc Ruskin

Narrated by: Francis J. Spieler

Length: 15 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Pretender, former FBI agent Marc Ruskin will pull listeners into the fascinating, elusive world of undercover operatives.

Of all the tools available to law enforcement, the living, breathing undercover operative remains the gold standard. This is true in TV shows and in the real world. In the era of electronic surveillance, UC work... Read more

Unanswered Cries

By: Thomas French

Narrated by: Mikael Naramore

Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The fatal nightOn a warm Florida evening, Karen Gregory saw a familiar face at her door. What the beautiful young woman could not know was that she was staring into the eyes of her killer—a savage monster who would rape her, stab her to death, and leave her battered body on the floor outside the bedroom.The desperate searchDetectives frantically... Read more

Hatton Garden: The Inside Story

By: Jonathan Levi

Narrated by: Tim Bentinck

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

For this team of old-school career criminals, The Hatton Garden Heist was supposed to be one last job, the fortune that would sort their retirement for good. The plan was to smash in and grab tens of millions of pounds from beneath the world-famous gold-and-jewellery district, and get away to live in luxury. But somewhere it all went... Read more

The Bayou Strangler

By: Fred Rosen

Narrated by: Keith Foster

Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1997, the bodies of young African American men began turning up in the cane fields of New Orleans suburbs. The victims-many of them transient street hustlers-had been brutally raped and strangled, leaving Louisiana's gay community rattled. When no leads were found and the murders continued, detectives Dennis Thornton and Dawn Bergeron came... Read more

Secrecy World

By: Jake Bernstein

Narrated by: Jake Bernstein

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas

A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global... Read more

The Dillinger Days

By: John Toland

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

For thirteen violent months in the 1930s, John Dillinger and his gang swept through the Midwest. The criminals of the Depression robbed almost at will, as the Indiana State Police had only forty-one members, including clerks and typists. Dillinger’s daring escapes at Crown Point jail or through the withering machine gun fire of FBI agents at... Read more

Afraid of the Dark

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Richard Powers

Length: 11 hours 52 minutes

Abridged: No

Detroit mortgage broker Mark Unger adored his wife Florence and their two young sons. But after a decade of marriage and increasing financial trouble, Mark’s life began to slowly unravel. He became addicted to pain killers and gambling, and ended up spending five months in rehab.Forced to go back to work, Flo became bitter and resentful of Mark... Read more

Almost Gone

By: John Baldwin & Mackenzie Baldwin

Narrated by: Rebekkah Ross, Cassandra Campbell & Kirby Heyborne

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The harrowing true story of a high-school senior, her parents, her secret online relationship with a handsome, manipulative stranger, and her well-laid plan to leave home and country to marry a man in Kosovo she thought she loved.

The Baldwins were a strong, tight-knit family living in Texas. When their seventeen-year-old daughter, Mackenzie,... Read more