True Crime audiobooks

The Snowden Files

By: Luke Harding

Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith

Length: 10 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

In a tour de force of investigative journalism that reads like a spy novel, award-winning Guardian reporter Luke Harding tells Edward Snowden’s astonishing story

Edward Snowden was a 29-year-old computer genius working for the National Security Agency when he shocked the world by exposing the near-universal mass surveillance programs of the... Read more

Kidnapped by the Taliban

By: Dilip Joseph, M.D.

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 5 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Being abducted and held captive by the Taliban isn't a tale many survive to tell. An American doctor shares the harrowing story about the four days he spent with his captors after being abducted on a humanitarian mission and his incredible rescue by SEAL Team Six.On December 5, 2012, American medical doctor Dilip Joseph and two colleagues are... Read more

Bad Paper

By: Jake Halpern

Narrated by: Qarie Marshall

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Jake Halpern introduces us to a former banking executive and a former armed robber who become partners and go in quest of 'paper' - the uncollected debts that are sold off by banks for pennies on the dollar. As Halpern shows, the world of consumer debt collection is a wild and unregulated shadowland, where operators may misrepresent a debtor's... Read more

Tinseltown

By: William J. Mann

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true account of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime and one of the nation's... Read more

The Dark Art

By: Edward Follis & Douglas Century

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A highly decorated veteran agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism"It always ends with one phone call. Months—often years—of undercover work comes to fruition with an innocent-seeming conversation. The last call. One last... Read more

Under Cover of the Night

By: Diane Fanning

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 8 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it. A fingerprint apparently belonging to Jocelyn's estranged husband.




Wesley Earnest was a respected high school administrator, poised to restart his life in... Read more

Putin's Kleptocracy

By: Karen Dawisha

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha’s brilliant Putin’s Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater Russia.

Russian scholar Dawisha describes and... Read more

Nisida

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 41 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.

However, in this, the seventh of the series, Dumas turns away from the bitter hatreds and bloody cruelty of the preceding... Read more

Mossad

By: Michael Bar-Zohar & Nissim Mishal

Narrated by: Benjamin Isaac

Length: 14 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the most enigmatic, shrouded in secrecy. In Mossad, authors Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions in the agency's... Read more

Law of the Jungle

By: Paul M. Barrett

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest.

Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with... Read more

The Story of Kaspar Hauser

By: Andrew Lang

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 21 minutes

Abridged: No

On 28. May 1828 a boy of around 16 appeared in the Bavarian city of Nuremburg holding a letter in his hand. The lad was unable to speak, apart from three odd phrases which he repeated parrot-like, one of which was: "Want to be a soldier, as father was." The letter, addressed to the captain of the local infantry regiment, told a bizarre story. It... Read more

The Terrible Story of the "Mary Russell"

By: J. G. Lockhart

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The "Mary Russell" was a trading boat that set sail from the harbour of Cobh in County Cork on 8 February 1828, carrying a cargo of mules bound for Barbados. When it returned to Cobh on 25 June 1828, the horrified people of Cork found a cabin awash with blood and the bound and battered corpses of the ship's crew. Two mutilated survivors and a... Read more

Marooned

By: J. G. Lockhart

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The extraordinary story of Robert Jeffrey who was press-ganged into the Royal Navy in 1808 at the age of eighteen. On his first voyage on board the Recruit under the strict Captain Lake, Jeffrey gave in to temptation and stole a sip of rum. For this he was clapped in irons for two days and then given two dozen lashes. A few days later however,... Read more

Poisoned Dreams

By: A. W. Gray

Narrated by: Jim Manchester

Length: 12 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallas real estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. Nancy's brother became convinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. And so Richard was arrested, tried, and convicted—and sentenced to life in prison. But did the evidence support this conviction?Mystery novelist A.... Read more

Stranger than Fiction

By: Sabine Baring-Gould, Andrew Lang & J. G. Lockhart

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting collection of true stories which are so strange as to be almost unbelievable.The Terrible Story of the “Mary Russell”The Murder of the Countess GörlitzThe Great Bank ForgeryMoonlight SonataGretna Green MarriagesCount BorulawskiJen Grenier, the French WerewolfI will Pay you all TomorrowThe Telephone at the OratoryThe Ghostly... Read more

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy

By: Karen Abbott

Narrated by: Karen White

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and “pioneer of sizzle history” (USA Today), tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War.Karen Abbott illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four... Read more

The Great Bank Forgery

By: Sir Basil Thomson

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In March 1873 Great Britain was rocked by the forgery case of the century, perpetrated against no less than the Bank of England. Four criminal brains took on the entire financial system...and would have got away with it, too, had it not been for one tiny detail. Read more

The Murder of the Countess Görlitz

By: Sabine Baring-Gould

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

The bizarre death of the Countess Görlitz at Darmstadt in Germany, in 1847, was one of the greatest mysteries of the age. For several years it was widely believed that the Countess had spontaneously combusted at her writing desk. Another popular theory was that her husband, Count Görlitz, a Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to the Grand-Duke of... Read more

Sour

By: Tracey Miller & Lucy Bannerman

Narrated by: Jasmine Stewart

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

They call me Sour. The opposite of sweet. Shanking, stabbing, steaming, robbing, I did it all, rolling with the Man Dem. I did it because I was bad. I did it because I had heart. And the reason I reckon I got away with it for so long? Because I was a girl. SOUR is the true story of a former Brixton gang girl, drug dealer and... Read more

Urbain Grandier

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 3 hours 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 sixth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Urbain Grandier, a Catholic priest, little known to the... Read more

Blood Aces

By: Doug J. Swanson

Narrated by: John McLain

Length: 11 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The astonishing story of Benny Binion—a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las VegasBenny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker. Blood Aces tells the story of Binion's crucial role in shaping modern Las Vegas. From a Texas... Read more

Karl-Ludwig Sand

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 2 hours 20 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 fourth of the series, Dumas tells the story of Karl-Ludwig Sand, a man little known to the English-speaking world,... Read more

Shadows in the Vineyard

By: Maximillian Potter

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more

A Spy Among Friends

By: Ben Macintyre

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The epic true story of Kim Philby, the Cold War’s most infamous spy, from the “master storyteller” (San Francisco Chronicle) and author of Prisoners of the Castle.

Now an MGM+ series starring Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce, and Anna Maxwell Martin

“[A Spy Among Friends] reads like a story by Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, or... Read more