True Crime audiobooks

A Mother's Reckoning

By: Sue Klebold

Narrated by: Sue Klebold

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four... Read more

The Lost Relic

By: Scott Mariani

Narrated by: Colin Mace

Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

A SUPER-CHARGED THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott A WEB OF DECEIT.AND BEN HOPE IS CAUGHT UP IN THE MAYHEM… Whilst visiting a former SAS comrade in Italy, a... Read more

While the City Slept

By: Eli Sanders

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“Binged Making a Murderer? Try . . . [this] riveting portrait of a tragic, preventable crime.” —Entertainment Weekly

Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize

A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s gripping account of one young man’s path to murder—and a wake-up call for mental health care in America
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The Innocent Killer

By: Michael Griesbach

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Innocent Killer, Michael Griesbach tells the story of one of the nation's most notorious wrongful convictions, that of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who spent eighteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. But two years after he was exonerated of that crime and poised to reap millions in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, Steven... Read more

Bitter Remains

By: Diane Fanning

Narrated by: Karyn O'Bryant

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 13, 2011, Laura Jean Ackerson of Kinston, North Carolina, went to pick up her two toddler sons. It would be the last time she was seen alive.



Laura's ex, Grant Hayes—the father of her two sons—and his wife, Amanda, the mother of his newborn daughter, both pointed the finger at each other as the one guilty of murdering Laura, cutting up... Read more

The Mafia Hit Man's Daughter

By: Linda Scarpa & Linda Rosencrance

Narrated by: Elise Arsenault

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet her childhood was far from idyllic. Classmates avoided her; boys wouldn't date her. Eventually she learned why: they were afraid of her father.



A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr., was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the "Grim Reaper." Unlike... Read more

The Mystery of the Lone Wolf Killer

By: Unni Turrettini

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

July 22, 2011 was the darkest day in Norway’s history since Nazi Germany’s invasion. It was one hundred eighty-nine minutes of terror—from the moment the bomb exploded outside a government building until Anders Behring Breivik was apprehended by the police at Utoya Island. Breivik murdered seventy-seven people, most of them teenagers and young... Read more

Mordschwarzwald

By: Bernd Leix

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 6 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Aufruhr im nördlichen Schwarzwald: Die grün-rote Landesregierung plant einen Nationalpark! Die Bevölkerung zwischen Bad Wildbad und Freudenstadt ist gespalten: Tourismusmagnet oder Ökodiktatur? Befürworter und Gegner des Projekts stehen sich unversöhnlich gegenüber. Als die heftigen Unruhen sich immer weiter ausbreiten, schickt die... Read more

A Checklist for Murder

By: Anthony Flacco

Narrated by: Anthony Flacco

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was... Read more

The Stranger She Loved

By: Shanna Hogan

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

In 2007, Dr. Martin MacNeill—a doctor, lawyer, and Mormon bishop—discovered his wife of thirty years dead in the bathtub of their Pleasant Grove, Utah, home, her face bearing the scars of a facelift he had persuaded her to undergo just a week prior.


At first the death of fifty-year-old Michele MacNeill, a former beauty queen and mother of eight,... Read more

He Killed Them All

By: Jeanine Pirro

Narrated by: Jeanine Pirro

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro—the “true hero” (New York Post) of the hit HBO documentary series The Jinx—offers the transfixing true story of her tireless fifteen-year investigation into accused murderer Robert Durst for the disappearance of his wife Kathleen Durst.

Former district attorney Jeanine Pirro was cast as the bad guy fifteen years... Read more

Then No One Can Have Her

By: Caitlin Rother

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing and out-of-control spending, the artist, therapist and mother of two had to let him go. Just weeks after their divorce, Carol was found in her Arizona ranch home—bludgeoned to death with a golf club. Her ex, Steven... Read more

CRACK99

By: David Locke Hall

Narrated by: Mark Peckham

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the US Department of JusticeA former US Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish:... Read more

They All Love Jack

By: Bruce Robinson

Narrated by: Bruce Robinson & Phil Fox

Length: 30 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The iconoclastic writer and director of the revered classic Withnail & I—"The funniest British film of all time" (Esquire)—returns to London in a decade-long examination of the most provocative murder investigation in British history, and finally solves the identity of the killer known as "Jack the Ripper."In a literary high-wire act... Read more

Five Families

By: Selwyn Raab

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 33 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the American Mafia (or Cosa Nostra) into an underworld empire. Today, the Mafia is an endangered species, battered and beleaguered by aggressive investigators, incompetent leadership, betrayals, and generational changes that produced... Read more

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

By: Kermit Alexander, Alex Gerould & Jeff Snipes

Narrated by: Kermit Alexander

Length: 11 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

In this heart-wrenching memoir, former NFL star Kermit Alexander tells the devastating true story of the horrific massacre of his family and his subsequent years of despair, followed by a spiritual renewal that showed him a way to rebuild his family and reclaim his life.

On the morning of August 31, 1984, in the South Central section of Los... Read more

Where the Bodies Were Buried

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain

Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestselling author of The Westies and Paddy Whacked offers a front-row seat at the trial of Whitey Bulger, and an intimate view of the world of organized crime—and law enforcement—that made him the defining Irish American gangster.For sixteen years, Whitey Bulger eluded the long reach of the law. For decades one of the most... Read more

The Infiltrator

By: Robert Mazur

Narrated by: Robert Mazur

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Federal Agent Robert Mazur spent five years undercover as a money launderer to the international underworld, gaining access to the zenith of a criminal hierarchy safeguarded by a circle of dirty bankers and businessmen who quietly shape power across the globe. These men and women control multibillion-dollar drug-trafficking empires, running... Read more

The Rising

By: Ryan D'Agostino

Narrated by: Ryan D'Agostino

Length: 8 hours

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of one man’s recovery in the face of traumatic loss—and a powerful meditation on the resilience of the soul
 
On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror: Armed strangers broke into his suburban Connecticut home in the middle of the night, bludgeoned him nearly to death, tortured and killed his wife... Read more

The Year of Fear

By: Joe Urschel

Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

It's 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster--now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers... Read more

Captive

By: Ashley Smith & Stacy Mattingly

Narrated by: Ashley Smith

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a stirring movie from Paramount Pictures—starring Kate Mara (House of Cards and Fantastic Four) and David Oyelowo (Selma)—this inspirational, news-making life story of the young female hostage who in 2005 single-handedly talked the infamous Atlanta courthouse killer, Brian Nichols, into surrendering peacefully by gaining his confidence... Read more

Shots on the Bridge

By: Ronnie Greene

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Six days after Hurricane Katrina's landfall in New Orleans, New Orleans Police Department officers opened fire on residents crossing the Danziger Bridge. When the shooting stopped, a mentally challenged man and a seventeen-year-old boy were dead, riddled with gunshot wounds. A mother's arm was shot off, her daughter's stomach gouged with a... Read more

The Marquise de Ganges

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

To paraphrase the note from the translator, The Celebrated Crimes of Alexandre Dumas père was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language—has minced no words—to describe violent scenes of violent times.

In this, the eighteenth of the series, Dumas explores the history of a famous French aristocratic family: that of Marie de... Read more

Man-Eater

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.”After the butchered remains of... Read more