True Crime audiobooks

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

Cartel Wives

By: Mia Flores

Narrated by: Joy Nash

Length: 12 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.

Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become US informants. Their husbands worked... Read more

Thirty-Eight Witnesses

By: A.M. Rosenthal

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

On March 13, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally beaten and murdered in the street near her apartment, in full view of more than three dozen friends and neighbors—and no one did a thing to stop it. More than thirty-five years after its first publication, Thirty-Eight Witnesses , the true account of what transpired that night in Queens, New York,... Read more

Overkill

By: Lyn Riddle

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 8 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie Show was as compassionate as she was hardworking. The outgoing high-school junior worked part-time to pay for the home she and her divorced mother shared. Yet she always had time to tutor friends struggling in school. And she befriended a dejected classmate after his traumatic breakup with his pregnant long-time girlfriend Michelle... Read more

The Silent Witness

By: Casey Watson

Narrated by: Kate Lock

Length: 9 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

‘I’m so sorry, Casey,’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. ‘I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need someone to take a child tonight.’ It’s the night before Christmas when Casey and Mike get the call. A twelve year old girl, stuck between a rock and a hard place. Her father is on... Read more

Murdered Innocents

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

On a December night in Austin, Texas, teenagers Jennifer Harbison and Eliza Thomas closed up the yogurt store where they worked. The girls were joined by Jennifer's younger sister, Sarah, and her friend Amy Ayers.



Less than an hour later, all four girls were dead—tragic victims of an apparent fire. Until it was discovered that the girls had been... Read more

Killing for You

By: Keith Elliot Greenberg

Narrated by: Tom Perkins

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty-six-year-old actor Daniel Wozniak was unemployed, facing eviction, and deep in debt for his upcoming wedding. So he devised a diabolical plan: He asked his neighbor Sam Herr, a young war veteran, to help him move some things into the attic of an empty theater. There, Wozniak shot Herr twice in the head before taking his ATM card and cell... Read more

The Grim Sleeper: The Lost Women of South Central

By: Christine Pelisek

Narrated by: Inger Tudor

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The definitive book on the hunt to find the most ruthless serial killer in Los Angeles' history, told by the fearless reporter who broke the story.
In 2008, Christine Pelisek broke the story of a terrifying serial killer who went unchecked in Los Angeles for decades, killing the most vulnerable women in one South Central neighborhood. In her... Read more

The Murder on Yarmouth Sands

By: Edgar Wallace

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) was an English writer of 957 short stories and over 170 novels. He is widely recognized as one of the most prolific writers of his age.

'The Murder on Yarmouth Sands' is a true crime story. Towards the end of the Boer War, the body of a woman was discovered on Yarmouth Sands. She had been strangled by a... Read more

Letting Go

By: Alex Hanscombe

Narrated by: Alex Hanscombe

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Alex Hanscombe’s powerful, inspirational account as seen on This Morning, BBC Breakfast, Newsnight and in The Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday and The Sun. ‘I was the most famous child in the British Isles…’ The stunning and heartbreaking story of the young son of Rachel... Read more

Facing the Wind

By: Julie Salamon

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Rowe and his wife Mary worked hard to build their American dream. A suburban home, barbecues in the summer, and a fast track corporate job made their life look ideal to outsiders. Yet they faced one of the most difficult challenges for a couple: their son Christopher was born severely handicapped and disabled. As a family, they managed to... Read more

The Court of Last Resort

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrated by: Mel Foster

Length: 12 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The creator of Perry Mason’s Edgar Award–winning account of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions, legal battles, and landmark reversals.In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed his doomed client was innocent.... Read more

Agent M

By: Henry Hemming

Narrated by: Henry Hemming

Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating, improbable true story of Maxwell Knight -- the great MI5 spymaster and inspiration for the James Bond character M.

Maxwell Knight was perhaps the greatest spymaster in history. He did more than anyone in his era to combat the rising threat of fascism in Britain during World War II, in spite of his own history inside this... Read more

Spies in the Family

By: Eva Dillon

Narrated by: Gabra Zackman

Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true-life thriller and revealing memoir from the daughter of an American intelligence officer—the astonishing true story of two spies and their families on opposite sides of the Cold War.In the summer of 1975, seventeen-year-old Eva Dillon's family was living in New Delhi when her father was exposed as a CIA spy. Eva had long believed... Read more

American Kingpin

By: Nick Bilton

Narrated by: Will Damron

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom—and almost got away with it
 
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone... Read more

Pure Murder

By: Corey Mitchell

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

"We gotta kill 'em. They know what we look like."



On a hot summer night in Houston, two teenage girls—bright, beautiful, success-bound friends—took a shortcut home from a friend's apartment to make their curfew. They never reached their homes. The next morning, the families of the two girls began a frantic search, organizing friends and... Read more

Incendiary

By: Michael Cannell

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 9 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the streets of 1950s New York. The race to catch him would give birth to a new science called criminal profiling.

Grand Central, Penn Station, Radio City Music Hall—for almost two decades, no place was safe from the man who signed his anonymous letters... Read more

Three Minutes to Doomsday

By: Joe Navarro

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

An intense cat-and-mouse game played between two brilliant men in the last days of the Cold War, this shocking insider’s story shows how a massive giveaway of secret war plans and nuclear secrets threatened America with annihilation.

In 1988 Joe Navarro, one of the youngest agents ever hired by the FBI, was dividing his time between SWAT... Read more

Darker than Night

By: Tom Henderson

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1985, two twenty-seven-year-old friends left their suburban Detroit homes for a hunting trip in rural Michigan. When they did not return, their families and police suspected foul play. For eighteen years, no one could prove a thing. Then, a relentless investigator got a witness to talk, and a horrifying story emerged.



In 2003, this bizarre... Read more

Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

Narrated by: Robert Fass

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism

“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be... Read more

The Foundling

By: Paul Joseph Fronczak

Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne

Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the inspiring and “page-turning” (Booklist) true story of a man who discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby—and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family, and set in motion the second longest cold case in US history.

In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy... Read more

H.H. Holmes

By: Adam Selzer

Narrated by: David Bendena

Length: 17 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the first truly comprehensive book examining the life and career of the murderer who has become one of America's great supervillains. It reveals not only the true story but how the legend evolved, taking advantage of hundreds of primary sources that have never been examined before, including legal documents, letters, articles, and... Read more

Svenska svindlare och fuskare

By: Fredrik Kullberg

Narrated by: Christoffer Rigeblad

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ta del av historierna och personerna bakom några av de största rubrikerna i media och skandalerna som orsakat dem. Här presenteras 87 fallstudier av svenska svindlare från 1600-talet och fram till idag, som till exempel den charmiga stjärnkirurgen på Karolinska Institutet, blodgruppsdieten eller myten om seriemördaren Thomas Quick."Otroligt... Read more

The Trials of Walter Ogrod

By: Thomas Lowenstein

Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla

Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The horrific 1988 murder of four-year-old Barbara Jean Horn shocked the citizens of Philadelphia. Plucked from her own front yard, Barbara Jean was found dead less than two and a half hours later in a cardboard TV box dragged to a nearby street curb. After months of investigation with no strong leads, the case went cold. Four years later it was... Read more