True Crime audiobooks

The Man from the Train

By: Bill James & Rachel McCarthy James

Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd

Length: 17 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial... Read more

Bloodlines

By: Melissa del Bosque

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting and suspenseful account of two young FBI agents in a pursuit of a drug cartel's most fearsome leader, Miguel Treviño.Drugs, money, cartels: this is what FBI rookie Scott Lawson expected when he was sent to the border town of Laredo, but instead he’s deskbound writing intelligence reports about the drug war. Then, one day, Lawson is... Read more

Marita

By: Marita Lorenz

Narrated by: Carol Monda

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the dramatic, glamorous story of lover-turned-spy Marita Lorenz and her affair with Fidel Castro, the basis for a major motion picture starring Jennifer Lawrence.Few people can say they have seen some of the most significant moments of the twentieth century unravel before their eyes. Marita Lorenz is one of them.Born in Germany at the... Read more

Run, Hide, Repeat

By: Pauline Dakin

Narrated by: Pauline Dakin

Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

Longlisted for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction 2018

Shortlisted for the 2018 Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Atlantic Book Awards - Margaret and John Savage First Book Award

Shortlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging... Read more

We Are All Shipwrecks

By: Kelly Grey Carlisle

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

A captivating memoir of one woman's extraordinary upbringing and her search for redemption in the face of staggering tragedy Kelly Carlisle was three weeks old when her mother was strangled in downtown Los Angeles, leaving Kelly in the care of her grandfather, an eccentric Englishman who owned a porn store and lived on a boat in the harbor. It... Read more

Murder on Sunset Strip

By: Kim Cresswell

Narrated by: Jason Fella

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder on Sunset Strip is the second book in a compelling series of true crime short stories for readers who don't have time to read a full-length novel.

"The Story of Carol Bundy and Doug Clark" examines the chilling account of the serial killing duo whose deadly rampage began in 1980 on LA’s sunset strip. Read more

Three Crooked Kings

By: Matthew Condon

Narrated by: David Tredinnick

Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

'It was the genius of the system ... From day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know who you could trust.' Three Crooked Kings is the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terence Murray Lewis, deposed and jailed former police... Read more

Confidential Source Ninety-Six

By: C.S. 96 & Rob Cea

Narrated by: Rick Zieff

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A HARROWING JOURNEY INSIDE THE HIDDEN WORLD OF DRUG CARTELS BY ONE OF THE TOP CRIMINAL INFORMANTS IN U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT HISTORY.

The men he put behind bars know him as Roman Caribe or one of the dozens of other aliases he has used undercover. His handlers in the DEA, ICE, and FBI know him as Confidential Source Ninety-Six, or C.S. 96, named... Read more

Ghost of the Innocent Man

By: Benjamin Rachlin

Narrated by: Ron Butler

Length: 12 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping account of one man's long road to freedom that will forever change how we understand our criminal justice system.

During the last three decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the Innocent Man brings us one of the most dramatic of those cases and provides the clearest picture yet of... Read more

Bones

By: Joe Tone

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 11 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border—and how their lives converged in a major criminal conspiracy

José and Miguel Treviño were bonded by blood and a shared vision of a better life. But they chose different paths that would end at the same violent crossroads—with considerable help... Read more

My Sister Milly

By: Gemma Dowler

Narrated by: Ruby Thomas

Length: 22 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Penguin presents the audiobook of My Sister Milly by Gemma Dowler, read by Ruby Thomas.

This is Gemma Dowler's powerful account, as seen on The One Show and This Morning . . .

'My name is Gemma Dowler. On 21 March 2002, a serial killer named Levi Bellfield stole my sister and sent our family to Hell . . .'

Everyone thinks they know the story of... Read more

The Lost Tribe of Coney Island

By: Claire Prentice

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 11 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Shortlisted for the 2015 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is an Amazon Best Book of the Month
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island is a New York Post “must read”!Coney Island, summer 1905: a new attraction opened at Luna Park. Within weeks it would be the talk of the nation.For the first time, The Lost Tribe of Coney Island... Read more

Green is the New Black

By: James Phelps

Narrated by: Stan Pretty

Length: 7 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

James Phelps explores all the questions that we can only barely imagine the answers to about Australia's toughest jails. This is a brutal and honest account of life inside Australia's toughest jails, and all is not as you would expect. Do women rape each other? Do guards really trade 40-cent phone cards for sex? And do you think the most... Read more

Lust Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

When young women begin mysteriously disappearing in Oregon, Police Lieutenant James Stovall leads a relentless search for a killer. With little evidence available, and the public screaming for answers, he must find a remorseless, brutal killer whose identity will shock them all . . . Read more

The Hot One

By: Carolyn Murnick

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping memoir of friendship with a tragic twist—two childhood best friends diverge as young adults, one woman is brutally murdered and the other is determined to uncover the truth about her wild and seductive friend.

As girls growing up in rural New Jersey in the late 1980s, Ashley and Carolyn had everything in common: two outsiders who... Read more

Confessions of a Cartel Hit Man

By: Martin Corona & Tony Rafael

Narrated by: Jacob Vargas

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

The true confession of an assassin, a sicario, who rose through the ranks of the Southern California gang world to become a respected leader in an elite, cruelly efficient crew of hit men for Mexico's "most vicious drug cartel," and eventually found a way out and an (almost) normal life.
 
Martin Corona, a US citizen, fell into the outlaw life... Read more

Dangerous Ground

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 12 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In September 2011, M. William Phelps made a bold decision that would change the landscape of reality-based television—and his own life. He asked a convicted serial killer to act as a consultant for his TV series. Under the code name "Raven," the murderer shared his insights into the minds of other killers and helped analyze their crimes. As the... Read more

The Suspect

By: Jenny Friel

Narrated by: Christina Delaine

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On a clear autumn morning in 2004 Rachel O'Reilly, a thirty-year-old mother of two, was brutally battered to death in her home. It was a merciless killing that stunned the small, trusting community where she lived, and devastated her close-knit family.



In the days that followed the discovery of her body, it was thought that Rachel was the victim... Read more

The Chickenshit Club

By: Jesse Eisinger

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winner of the 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Jesse Eisinger, “a fast moving, fly-on-the-wall, disheartening look at the deterioration of the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission…It is a book of superheroes” (San Francisco Review of Books).

Why were no bankers put in... Read more

American Fire

By: Monica Hesse

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Shocked by a five-month arson spree that left rural Virginia reeling, Washington Post reporter Monica Hesse drove down to Accomack County to cover the trial of Charlie Smith, who pled guilty to sixty-seven counts of arson. But Charlie wasn't lighting fires alone: he had an accomplice, his girlfriend Tonya Bundick. Through her depiction of the... Read more

The I-5 Killer

By: Ann Rule & Andy Stack

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

As a young man, Randall Woodfield had it all; he was a star athlete with good looks, and an award-winning student. Working in the swinging West Coast bar scene, he had more than his share of women. But he wanted more than just sex. An appetite for unspeakable violent acts led him to cruise the I-5 highway through California to Washington,... Read more

The Dark Side

By: Clive Small & Tom Gilling

Narrated by: Peter Hosking

Length: 8 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

‘Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs.’ Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organised crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia’s national security. Clive Small and Tom Gilling show how Australian crime gangs, in... Read more

The Big Heist

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright

Length: 8 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

The crime that inspired the movie Goodfellas. The story that couldn’t be told—until now.One of the biggest scores in Mafia history, the Lufthansa Airlines heist of 1978 has become the stuff of Mafia legend—and a decades-long investigation that continues to this day. Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Anthony DeStefano sheds new light on this... Read more

The Westies

By: T. J. English

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 13 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power. Jimmy, a charismatic sociopath, is the leader. Mickey, whose memories of Vietnam torture him daily, is his enforcer.... Read more