True Crime audiobooks

Shadows in the Vineyard

By: Maximillian Potter

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy the vines of La Romance-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive wine.

In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed proprietor of the Domaine de la Romance-Conti, the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world, received an... Read more

Disposable Income

By: Tammy Mal

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1948, when elderly Anna Homeyer and her much younger husband, Charles, decided to sell their home in the Bronx and move to Pennsylvania, residents of the small town of Factoryville couldn't understand why. With no family or friends in the area, the isolated little village seemed an odd choice for strangers to relocate to. But Factoryville... Read more

Lost and Found

By: John Glatt

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

Length: 10 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her morning walk to the school bus. The search for Jaycee made national headlines, and the case was repeatedly featured on America's Most Wanted. But despite her family's tireless efforts, Jaycee's disappearance remained a mystery.



Then, in August 2009, a registered sex offender named... Read more

Buried Memories

By: Irene Pence

Narrated by: George Newbern

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

1985. Gun Barrel City, Texas. Police searching for missing Fire Department captain Jimmy Don Beets dug inside a wishing well in the neatly tended garden of Beets's wife, forty-eight-year-old Betty Lou Beets. Not only did they find his body, but they also found the body of Betty Lou's fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. It wasn't long before... Read more

Fatal Jealousy

By: Colin McEvoy & Lynn Olanoff

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania state trooper witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers, "I just killed everybody."




Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery. In the home of Michael's... Read more

Schwarzkonto

By: Erich Schütz & Dirk Platt

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

UNVERHÜLLT In Kressbronn am Bodensee wird eine nackte Leiche angeschwemmt. Von Nacktwanderern hat der Fernsehjournalist Lebrecht Fritz schon gehört. Aber Nacktsurfer? Dabei war der Mann ein solider Banker in Liechtenstein. Fast zeitgleich findet die Polizei eine Leiche im Kleinen Wannsee in Berlin - ebenfalls nackt. Der Tote hätte nach der... Read more

Mary Stuart

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 7 hours 21 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 Mary Stuary, Queen of Scots--a story both strikingly touching and... Read more

The Killing Kind

By: M. William Phelps

Length: 12 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

She was seventeen years old, a beautiful girl with a Hollywood smile and luminous brown eyes. Sprawled in a culvert just off the gravel road like an abandoned doll, she wore only toe socks, a sweatshirt, and a necklace. She was not the killer’s first victim. Nor would she be the last.The lush, green hills that mark the border of North and South... Read more

Framed!

By: Marc J. Seifer & Stephen Rosati

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 14 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

In this real-life courtroom drama, handwriting analysis expert Dr. Marc Seifer shares the true account of a man falsely accused, the coercion and police corruption that threatened to send him to the electric chair, and the series of events that would eventually exonerate him.

Stephen Rosati had it all. An accomplished bodybuilder, former Mr.... Read more

Deliver Us from Evil: A New York City Cop Investigates the Supernatural

By: Ralph Sarchie & Lisa Collier Cool

Narrated by: William Dufris

Length: 11 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Demonic possession. Exorcism. Haunted Houses. Satanic Rituals.

For most people this is the stuff of nightmares, horror movies, folklore, and superstition. For New York City police Sergeant Ralph Sarchie, it's as real—and dangerous—as midnight patrol . . .

A sixteen-year NYPD veteran, Ralph Sarchie works out of the 46th Precinct in New York's South... Read more

The Fixer

By: Ira Judelson

Narrated by: Pete Simonelli

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York’s foremost bail bondsman with “over $30 million on the street” comes the story of a modern-day “fixer” who walks a fine line between hustler and humanitarian with clients ranging from the rich and famous to the mafia and gangs of New York.

With from-the-gut prose, Ira Judelson sheds light on the highs and lows of the bondsman life.... Read more

The Massacres of the South

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 9 hours 3 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 third of the series, Dumas tells the story of three centuries of sectarian violence and civil war between the... Read more

The Map Thief

By: Michael Blanding

Narrated by: Sean Runnette

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Maps have long exerted a special fascination on viewers—both as beautiful works of art and as practical tools to navigate the world. But to those who collect them, the map trade can be a cutthroat business, inhabited by quirky and sometimes disreputable characters in search of a finite number of extremely rare objects.



Once considered a... Read more

The Good Spy

By: Kai Bird

Narrated by: René Ruiz

Length: 14 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The Good Spy is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird’s compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of one of the most important operatives in CIA history – a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.
 
On April 18, 1983, a bomb exploded outside the American Embassy in Beirut, killing 63... Read more

The Most Dangerous Animal of All

By: Gary L. Stewart & Susan Mustafa

Narrated by: Gary L. Stewart

Length: 10 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

“I promise that you’ve never read anything like The Most Dangerous Animal of All. Mesmerizing from the first page, the story includes a shattering surprise that will sear itself in your memory. Be prepared to read non-stop; this really is a book you won’t be able to put down.” —Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles MansonAn... Read more

The Cenci

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 1 hour 15 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 particular, the torture of Beatrice Cenci at the hands of the authorities of Rome is given in brutal and clinical detail,... Read more

The Borgias

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Robert Bethune

Length: 8 hours 17 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 first of the series, Dumas tells the luridly sexy, amazingly violent, and strikingly amoral story of the three... Read more

Whitey on Trial

By: Margaret McLean & Jon Leiberman

Narrated by: Aaron Lyons

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

After sixteen years on the lam, infamous Boston gangster Whitey Bulger was finally captured and brought to trial-and what a trial it was: evidence of nineteen gruesome murders, government secrets, FBI corruption, a dead witness, and an unbelievable tale of love. Whitey's machine guns and gangland-style extortions gripped the city of Boston for... Read more

Bombenbrut

By: Erich Schütz

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

TÖDLICHE ERFINDUNG Es ist ein heißer Sommer. Das Ferienparadies Bodensee ist Ziel von Millionen Touristen, aber auch von skrupellosen Waffenschiebern und internationalen Geheimdiensten. Der Erfinder Herbert Stengele hat eine sensationelle Strahlenwaffe entwickelt, sie könnte den Krieg der Sterne entscheiden. Journalist Leon Dold hat den... Read more

Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn

By: Nigel Pickford

Narrated by: Katie Scarfe

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess Howard, to marry her to the dissident fortune-hunter Thomas Thynn, a man three times her age with an evil reputation. Revolted by her new husband, Lady Bette flees to Holland. Within weeks, Thynn is gunned down in... Read more

Obsessed

By: M. William Phelps

Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“Anything by Phelps is always an eye-opening experience.” —Suspense MagazineSheila Davalloo was young, attractive, and successful. When she started a new job at a cutting-edge research lab in Stamford, Connecticut, she met the man of her dreams. Nelson Sessler had no idea how violently Sheila would react when he began seeing a co-worker, Anna... Read more

Blood Royal

By: Eric Jager

Narrated by: Rene Auberjonois

Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Abridged: No

A riveting true story of murder and detection in 15th-century Paris, by one of the most brilliant medievalists of his generation.

On a chilly November night in 1407, Louis of Orleans was murdered by a band of masked men. The crime stunned and paralyzed France since Louis had often ruled in place of his brother King Charles, who had gone mad. As... Read more

Little Demon in the City of Light

By: Steven Levingston

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A delicious account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges Simenon—whose lurid combination of sex, brutality, forensics, and hypnotism riveted first a nation and then the world.

Little Demon in the City of Light is the thrilling—and so wonderfully French—story of a gruesome 1889 murder of a lascivious court official at the hands of... Read more

Eliot Ness

By: Douglas Perry

Narrated by: Pete Bradbury

Length: 12 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city’s soul

Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad’s daring raids were only the beginning. Ness’s true legacy reaches far... Read more