True Crime audiobooks

Before He Wakes

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 13 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Recounts the case of Barbara Stager, a seemingly devoted wife and community member whose murder of her husband was nearly ruled an accident until chilling evidence, including the death of her first husband, revealed Stager's secret double life. Read more

The Great War of Our Time

By: Michael Morell

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Like See No Evil and At the Center of the Storm, this is a vivid and gripping account of the Central Intelligence Agency, a life of secrets, and a war in the shadows.

Called the "Bob Gates of his generation" by Politico, Michael Morell was a top CIA officer who played a critical role in the most important counterterrorism events of the past two... Read more

The Lost Girls

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Shaun Grindell

Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In The Lost Girls, John Glatt tells the truly amazing story of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight—who were kidnapped, imprisoned, and repeatedly raped and beaten in a Cleveland house for over a decade by Ariel Castro—and their amazing escape in May 2013, which made headlines all over the world.



This book has an exclusive interview... Read more

The Countess of Saint-Geran

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 50 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 fourteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, brings his story-telling skills to a famous subject: the... Read more

Hope

By: Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Mary Jordan & Kevin...

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie, Marisol Ramirez & Arthur Morey

Length: 12 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Two victims of the infamous Cleveland kidnapper share the story of their abductions, their decade in captivity, and their final, dramatic rescue

On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland area home and called 911, saying: “Help me, I’m Amanda Berry. . . . I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for... Read more

Operation Gladio

By: Paul L. Williams

Narrated by: Michael Prichard

Length: 11 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and U.S. mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence, in many European countries, of "stay-behind" units... Read more

A Deadly Secret

By: Matt Birkbeck

Narrated by: David H. Lawrence XVII

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The recent arrest in New Orleans and the HBO documentary The Jinx have put Robert Durst back in the headlines. Here, from the first reporter to access Durst’s NYPD files, is the authoritative account of a decades-long criminal odyssey—the very book found in Durst’s own apartment when it was searched by police.
 
When medical student Kathie Durst... Read more

Blood Games

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Blood, comes the story of a greed so powerful it led to an unspeakable crime. Wealthy Lieth von Stein lay dead and his wife Bonnie near death in their North Carolina home after a vicious assault with knife and baseball bat as they slept. The crime seemed totally baffling until police followed... Read more

A-Z of Hell: Ross Kemp’s How Not to Travel the World

By: Ross Kemp

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

Length: 5 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Ross Kemp's fascinating guide of the worst places in the world.

Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps?

Well this is NOT the book for you.

But if you want to know about meeting transvestite prostitutes in a South African... Read more

Bitter Blood

By: Jerry Bledsoe

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 20 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The terrifying #1 New York Times bestseller about the unbreakable ties of blood The first bodies found were those of a feisty millionaire widow and her daughter in their posh Louisville, Kentucky, home. Months later, another wealthy widow and her prominent son and daughter-in-law were found savagely slain in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.... Read more

Smoke

By: Meili Cady

Narrated by: Romy Nordlinger

Length: 10 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Combining the excess of The Bling Ring with the intimacy of Blow and the charm of Catch Me If You Can, an outrageous, entertaining and true story of an aspiring young actress’ ill-fated friendship and unwitting alliance with a drug smuggling “heiress.”Aspiring actress Meili Cady left small-town Washington State for the glamorous lure of Los... Read more

Ali Pasha

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 40 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 thirteenth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, finds ample scope for his favorite approach. His subject... Read more

Deliver Us

By: Kathryn Casey

Narrated by: Tanya Eby

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenagers—died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten.




The day she vanished, Colette Wilson waited for her mother after band practice. Best friends Debbie... Read more

Citizen Keane

By: Adam Parfrey & Cletus Nelson

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Length: 3 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Teary, big-eyed orphans and a multitude of trashy knockoffs epitomized American kitsch art as they clogged thrift stores for decades.When Adam Parfrey tracked down Walter Keane—the credited artist of the weepy waifs—for a San Diego Reader cover story in 1992, he discovered some shocking facts. Decades of lawsuits and countersuits revealed the... Read more

Dragnet, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Webb & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Set in Los Angeles, and starring Jack Webb as the stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama of all time, having made extensive runs on both radio and television. Webb, also the producer of the show, took the series to new highs, insisting on realism in every facet of the program. The... Read more

The Phantom Killer

By: James Presley

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The salacious and scandalous murders of a series of couples on Texarkana's "lovers' lanes" created a media maelstrom and cast a pall of fear over an entire region. What is even more surprising is that the case has remained cold for decades. Combining archival research and investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize–nominated historian James Presley... Read more

The Journalist and the Murderer

By: Janet Malcolm

Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin

Length: 4 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, against Joe McGinniss, the author of Fatal Vision. Examining the always uneasy, sometimes tragic relationship that exists between journalist and subject,... Read more

Martin Guerre

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 49 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 twelfth of the series, Dumas, the novelist-historian, is back in full force. His subject is a well-documented... Read more

Boston Strong

By: Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Veteran journalists Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge have written the definitive inside look at the Boston Marathon bombing with a unique, Boston-based account of the events that riveted the world. From the Tsarnaev brothers' years leading up to the act of terror to the bomb scene itself (which both authors witnessed firsthand within minutes of the... Read more

Hack Attack

By: Nick Davies

Narrated by: Steven Crossley

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

At first, it seemed like a small story. The royal editor of the News of the World was caught listening to the voice mail messages of staff at Buckingham Palace. He and a private investigator were jailed, and the case was closed. But Nick Davies, special correspondent for the Guardian, knew it didn't add up. He began to investigate and ended up... Read more

A Kim Jong-Il Production

By: Paul Fischer

Narrated by: Stephen Park

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Before becoming the world’s most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea’s Ministry for Propaganda and its film studios. Conceiving every movie made, he acted as producer and screenwriter. Despite this control, he was underwhelmed by the available talent and took drastic steps, ordering the kidnapping of Choi Eun-Hee (Madam Choi)—South... Read more

The Man in the Iron Mask

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 54 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 eleventh of the series, Dumas switches away from his usual narrative style and gives us, instead, a detailed... Read more

Gotti's Rules

By: George Anastasia

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Honor and The Last Gangster—“one of the most respected crime reporters in the country” (60 Minutes)—comes the sure to be headline-making inside story of the Gotti and Gambino families, told from the unique viewpoint of notorious mob hit-man John Alite, a close associate of Junior Gotti who... Read more

Joan of Naples

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 11 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 tenth of the series, Dumas places us at the court of Joan of Naples, a beautiful, emotional, highly capable woman... Read more