True Crime audiobooks

The Jodi Arias Murder Trial

By: J.D. Rockefeller

Narrated by: Richard L. Walton

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

When salesman Travis Victor Alexander hooked up with his girlfriend Jodi Ann Arias, little did he know that she was going to brutally murder him in his own apartment. Jodi killed Travis on the 4th of June, 2008 and she was sentenced to a natural life in state prison on the 13th of April, 2015. Jodi claimed in court that Travis would often beat... Read more

Sole Survivor

By: Holly K. Dunn

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

On August 28, 1997, just as she was starting her junior year of college at the University of Kentucky, Holly Dunn and her boyfriend, Chris Maier, were walking along railroad tracks on their way home from a party when they were attacked by notorious serial killer Angel Maturino Reséndiz, a.k.a. The Railroad Killer.



After her boyfriend is beaten to... Read more

Absolute Madness

By: Catherine Pelonero

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 17 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York City in the 1980s. Dubbed both the .22-Caliber Killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed eighteen victims during a savage four-month spree across the... Read more

Survivor

By: Roberta Kray

Narrated by: Annie Aldington

Length: 13 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Only the strongest will survive...
NO ONE KNOWS CRIME LIKE KRAY

'A cracking good read!' Jessie Keane
'Martina Cole territory' Independent
'A compelling mystery' Heather Burnside
'Gripping' Daily Express
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Lolly has always known her mum was different. Sometimes Angela Bruce was ill in a quiet sort of way, but other times she roamed the... Read more

Convenient Suspect

By: Tammy Mal

Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar

Length: 10 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On Thursday, December 15, 1994, Joann Katrinak and her three-month-old son, Alex, went missing from their Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, home. Four  months later, when their bodies were found in a lonely patch of woods, the police would launch a three-year investigation leading to the arrest of Patricia Lynne Rorrer—a young mother who had never met... Read more

All Fall Down

By: Matthew Condon

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 21 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from illegal gambling, prostitution and illicit drugs. As the tentacles of this fraudulent vice network spread, the fabric holding together the police, judiciary and political... Read more

Dark Heart

By: Kevin Flynn & Rebecca Lavoie

Narrated by: Paul Costanzo

Length: 9 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Was murder part of the game?



Seventeen-year-old Kat McDonough grew up with theater in her blood—and a penchant for make-believe. More than a decade older, Seth Mazzaglia was well known in the community theater circle of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He, too, had a rich inner life—and he soon had Kat convinced that they were soul mates.



To intensify... Read more

Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker

Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson

Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Now a Netflix original series

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.

In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind... Read more

Fisch-Mafia

By: Eskil Engdal & Kjetil Saeter

Narrated by: Armand Presser

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Die Paten der Fisch-Mafia Das Geschäft mit dem Antarktisdorsch ist illegal - und lukrativ. Genau wie Drogenhandel. Von Polizei und Behörden unbehelligt spült eine Flotte von Piraten-Trawlern ihren Eignern zweistellige Millionenbeträge in die Taschen. Jahr für Jahr - dem weißen Gold sei Dank. Der Umweltorganisation Sea Shepherd ist es gelungen,... Read more

Death in the Air

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm

Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A real-life thriller in the vein of The Devil in the White City, Kate Winkler Dawson's debut Death in the Air is a gripping, historical narrative of a serial killer, an environmental disaster, and an iconic city struggling to regain its footing.

London was still recovering from the devastation of World War II when another disaster hit: for five... Read more

The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal

By: Nick Bryant

Narrated by: Nick Bryant

Length: 20 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling exposé of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high places. The scandal originally surfaced during an investigation into Omaha, Nebraska's failed Franklin Federal Credit Union that went beyond the... Read more

Hotel Scarface

By: Roben Farzad

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

The wild, true story of the Mutiny, the hotel and club that embodied the decadence of Miami’s cocaine cowboys heyday—and an inspiration for the blockbuster film, Scarface...

In the seventies, coke hit Miami with the full force of a hurricane, and no place attracted dealers and dopers like Coconut Grove’s Mutiny at Sailboat Bay. Hollywood royalty,... Read more

Destination Casablanca

By: Meredith Hindley

Narrated by: Matthew Waterson

Length: 17 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

This rollicking and panoramic history of Casablanca during the Second World War sheds light on the city as a key hub for European and American powers, and a place where spies, soldiers, and political agents exchanged secrets and vied for control.

In November 1942, as a part of Operation Torch, 33,000 American soldiers sailed undetected across... Read more

Black Dahlia, Red Rose

By: Piu Eatwell

Narrated by: Robertson Dean

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The gruesome murder of hopeful starlet Elizabeth Short, in the noir-tinged Los Angeles of 1947, has a permanent place in American lore as one of the most inscrutable of true-crime mysteries. Now, Piu Eatwell—relentless legal sleuth and atmospheric stylist—cracks the case after seventy years. With recently unredacted FBI files, newly released... Read more

Chasing Phil

By: David Howard

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamour, that spotlights the FBI's first white-collar undercover sting
 
1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan—two fresh-faced, maverick FBI agents—were about to embark on one of their agency's first wire-wearing undercover missions. Their... Read more

Blow

By: Bruce Porter

Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby

Length: 13 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Blow is the unlikely story of George Jung’s roller-coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pablo Escobar’s Medellín cartel—the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung’s early business of flying marijuana into the United States from the mountains of Mexico took a dramatic turn when... Read more

Ballad of the Anarchist Bandits

By: John Merriman

Narrated by: Peter Ganim

Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The thrilling story of the Bonnot Gang, a band of anarchist bank robbers whose crimes terrorized Belle Ã?oque Paris, and whose escapades reflected the fast-paced, dizzyingly modern, and increasingly violent period on the eve of World War I.

For six terrifying months in 1911-1912, the citizens of Paris were gripped by a violent crime streak. A... Read more

Vulgar Favors

By: Maureen Orth

Narrated by: Dan Woren & Maureen Orth

Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
 
“The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
 
“Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot... Read more

Mad City

By: Michael Arntfield

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 13 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

An Amazon Charts most-read book.Mad City: The True Story of the Campus Murders That America Forgot is a chilling, unflinching exploration of American crimes of the twentieth century and how one serial killer managed to slip through the cracks—until now.In fall 1967, friends Linda Tomaszewski and Christine Rothschild are freshmen at the... Read more

Freeing David McCallum

By: Ken Klonsky

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright & Prentice Onayemi

Length: 9 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

In April 2014, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter died after a long battle with cancer. David McCallum was exonerated and freed two months later, after serving twenty-nine years in prison.This is the story of how Carter and his friend and coauthor Ken Klonsky worked for ten years to help free the wrongfully convicted McCallum, along with a group of... Read more

The Dominici Affair

By: Martin Kitchen

Narrated by: Nigel Patterson

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Jack Drummond, with his wife, Lady Anne, and their ten-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were on holiday on the French Riviera when they stopped to make camp just off the road near a farm called La Grand' Terre in Provence. The family was found murdered the next morning. More than two years later, the barely literate, seventy-five-year-old... Read more

Jacks and Jokers

By: Matthew Condon

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 17 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

'The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke, you didn't last long.' 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversially appointed Police Commissioner. As for the other two original Crooked Kings, Tony Murphy is set to ruthlessly take control of the workings of 'The Joke', while Glen... Read more

Justice Denied

By: Bill Hosking QC & John Suter Linton

Narrated by: Robert Meldrum

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Bill Hosking looks back at his career as a criminal barrister in a candid account of his time at the bar. He tells the true story behind some of his most famous cases, including the Hilton bombings, ‘Toecutter’ Jimmy Driscoll’s attempt to avoid prison time and the Anita Cobby trial. At Bill’s side we also meet some larger-than-life characters,... Read more

Sorgfågel

By: Lena Katarina Swanberg & Annika Östberg

Narrated by: Kerstin Weman Thornell

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Svenska Annika Östberg fängslades i Kalifornien 1981, dömd för inblandning i mord på en restaurangägare och en polis. 1999 fick Lena Katarina Swanberg, under många besök på det amerikanska fängelset, höra hennes historia. Från barndomen i Stockholm till flytten till USA och rymningen till San Fransisco under flower power-perioden när hon var 13... Read more