True Crime audiobooks

When Corruption Was King

By: Robert Cooley

Narrated by: Johnny Heller

Length: 11 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Bob Cooley was the Chicago Mafia’s “mechanic”—a fixer of court cases. During the 1970s and ’80s, Cooley bribed judges, court clerks, and cops to keep his Mob clients—hit men, bookies, racketeers, and crooked pols—out of jail. Paid handsomely for his services, he lived fast and enjoyed the protection of the men he served.He had enough money to... Read more

Orders to Kill

By: William F. Pepper

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 16 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Here is the myth-shattering expos├® that reveals the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—shocking and controversial revelations from James Earl Ray's attorney.On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped out onto the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and into his killer's line of fire. One shot... Read more

Chase Your Shadow

By: John Carlin

Narrated by: Gideon Emery

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Oscar Pistorius was eleven months old when he had both legs amputated below the knee, due to congenital fibular disease. Despite this severe disability, Pistorious grew up to be an extraordinary athlete, inspirational role model, and global symbol of resilience. In 2012 he became the first amputee runner in history to compete in the Olympics and... Read more

My Mam Shirley

By: Julie Shaw

Narrated by: Jim Millea

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or determined to escape from it, the third instalment of this gritty series recounts the incredible stories of the unflinching women behind the legendary Hudson family. The... Read more

One Deadly Night

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 10 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

On September 28, 2000, former Indiana state trooper David Camm made a frantic call to his former colleagues in the state troopers office: He had just walked into his garage and found lying on the floor the bodies of his thirty-five-year-old wife, Kim, and their two children, Brad and Jill, ages seven and five.



Three days later, things got worse... Read more

God’ll Cut You Down

By: John Safran

Narrated by: Tom Bromhead

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

God'll Cut You Down combines an unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson.A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South... Read more

Lying in Wait

By: Ann Rule

Narrated by: Laural Merlington

Length: 9 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific “baby sellers” in the country. She traveled all over the US, murdered women who had just borne babies, and then stole their infants. She is still imprisoned in the South.A lovely, vibrant woman in San Antonio was found dead in a vacant lot. Her mother, a popular local... Read more

Lying in Wait - Abridged

By: Ann Rule

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Ann Rule presents another collection of fascinating and disturbing true-crime stories—drawn from her real-life personal files—in this seventeenth volume in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crime Files series.Three decades ago, Jackie Schut was considered one of the most prolific “baby sellers” in the country. She traveled all over the US,... Read more

La Constantin

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 38 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 ninth of the series, Dumas uses the lives of two women, Angelique-Louise de Guerchi and Josephine-Charlotte... Read more

My Uncle Charlie

By: Julie Shaw

Narrated by: Jim Millea

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the ‘40s and ‘50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson. A solitary man, feared and respected by the gangsters of the time, Charlie was a boxer who never lost a fight, in or out of the ring – the most infamous of The Canterbury Warriors. ... Read more

Ave Vinum

By: Casten Sebastian Henn

Narrated by: Jürgen von der Lippe

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Nach einem schweren Unwetter steht das idyllische Ahrtal unter Wasser, doch für Sternekoch und Hobbydetektiv Julius Eichendorff kommt es noch schlimmer: Ihm wird eine Leiche buchstäblich vor die Füße geschwemmt. Der Mann ist ertrunken. Aber nicht im Wasser. Sondern in Sangri-Ahr, der neuen Spezialität des Tals. Schnell wird klar: Julius'... Read more

Busted

By: Wendy Ruderman & Barbara Laker

Narrated by: Rachel Fulginiti

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI... Read more

Foxcatcher

By: Mark Schultz & David Thomas

Narrated by: Stephen Mendel

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting true story—soon to be the subject of a high-profile film—of Olympic wrestling gold medal-winning brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and their fatal relationship with the eccentric John du Pont, heir to the du Pont dynasty

On January 26, 1996, Dave Schultz, Olympic gold medal winner and wrestling golden boy, was shot three times... Read more

Mata Hari and some other Women Spies

By: Sir Basil Thomson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 20 minutes

Abridged: No

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876 – 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of being a spy and executed by firing squad in France during the first World War.

Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (1861 – 1939) was a British intelligence officer, police officer, prison governor, colonial administrator,... Read more

The Mystery of the "Mary Celeste"

By: J. G. Lockhart

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

The "Mary Celeste" (or Marie Celeste as it is wrongly referred to several writers) was a British merchant brigantine. The ship is best known for having been discovered on 5 December 1872 in the Atlantic Ocean, unmanned and apparently abandoned, although the weather was fine, the ship intact and her crew experienced and capable seamen.

The "Mary... Read more

The Flying Dutchman

By: J. G. Lockhart

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

J. G. Lockhart (1794-1854) was a Scottish writer and editor, with a particular passion for investigating famous mysteries. In this analysis, he investigates the legend of the Flying Dutchman, the ghostly mariner, cursed by God, who is condemned to roam the high seas causing disaster to ships and sailors until the day of judgement, when his soul... Read more

Tough Crimes

By: C.D. Evans & Lorene Shyba

Narrated by: Bonnie Horton

Length: 9 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Tough Crimes is a collection of thoughtful and insightful stories by twenty prominent criminal lawyers. In the book, they write about cases that had surprising turns, or that presented personal or ethical challenges. We’ve all heard the media’s take on notorious criminals, but when have we had a chance to hear directly from the lawyers who... Read more

Doktormacher Mafia

By: Erich Schütz

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 11 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"HERR DR." GEGEN CASH Leon, Journalist aus Stuttgart, träumt nicht von einem akademischen Grad, sondern von der ganz großen Story. Bei Recherchen über falsche Doktoren und Professoren gerät er in das Netz einer international operierenden Titelhändler-Organisation. Leon dringt tief in die mafiösen Strukturen ein, bekommt ein nicht ganz seriöses... Read more

Our Vinnie

By: Julie Shaw

Narrated by: Jim Millea

Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

The infamous Canterbury Estate in Bradford, a hotbed of crime, drink and drugs, was a law unto itself in the ’70s. So when one of their own was wronged in any way, the community always had its own way of dealing with it. The first title in a series of gritty family sagas, Our Vinnie accounts the dramatic true story of a... Read more

Pretty Little Killers

By: Daleen Berry & Geoffrey C. Fuller

Narrated by: Pam Ward

Length: 9 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

After killer Shelia Eddy pled guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison and Rachel Shoaf was sentenced to thirty years for second-degree murder, family, friends, investigators, and other key sources reveal the facts you would have learned if the case had gone to trial. Including specific details drawn from Rachel's... Read more

The Nazis Next Door

By: Eric Lichtblau

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

The shocking story of how America became one of the world’s safest postwar havens for NazisUntil recently, historians believed America gave asylum only to key Nazi scientists after World War II, along with some less famous perpetrators who managed to sneak in and who eventually were exposed by Nazi hunters. But the truth is much worse, and has... Read more

Death Trap

By: M. William Phelps

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A loving father and his new wife set out to pick up his kids for a scheduled weekend visit—but never suspected they were walking into a death trap.



A handwritten note instructed Alan and Terra Bates to enter the back door of his ex-wife's Alabama home. A day later their charred bodies were found hundreds of miles away, wrapped in blankets, in a... Read more

The Perfect Kill

By: Robert B. Baer

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer’s boss at the CIA once told him, “It’s a bullet with a man’s name on it.” Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict—one bullet, one death, case... Read more

Antonin Derues

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 4 hours 37 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 eighth of the series, Dumas explores the depths of a soul, that of Antonin Derues, a man capable of the most... Read more