True Crime audiobooks

Sexy Beasts

By: Wensley Clarkson

Narrated by: Wensley Clarkson

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

In what has been described as a true-life blend of "Grumpy Old Men" and "Ocean's Eleven, SEXY BEASTS is an insider account of the 2015 Hatton Garden Heist, in which a group of retirement-age career criminals -- the so-called "Diamond Geezers" -- robbed a London jewelry vault, in what would be the biggest burglary in UK history.

The Hatton Garden... Read more

Framed

By: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Narrated by: Peter Berkrot

Length: 13 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

On Halloween 1975, Martha Moxley was found brutally murdered outside her home in swanky Greenwich, Connecticut. Twenty-seven years after her death, the State of Connecticut spent some $25 million to convict her friend and neighbor, Michael Skakel, of the murder. At Michael's criminal trial, the State offered no physical or forensic evidence, no... Read more

The Wicked Boy

By: Kate Summerscale

Narrated by: Corrie James

Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in... Read more

The Jolly Roger Social Club

By: Nick Foster

Narrated by: Donald Corren

Length: 11 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American expat community in Panama—a tale of greed, political history, and murder In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, a.k.a. “Wild Bill,” is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American expatriots. Holbert’s first victims were the Brown... Read more

Undercover

By: Joe Carter

Narrated by: Simon Paisley Day

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Twenty years undercover - one man's true story of life as an undercover cop. A must-read for fans of Donnie Brasco.

For over 20 years Joe Carter has worked for the police as an undercover cop. He travelled the globe on different passports. He fraternised with thieves, international drugs and arms dealers. He worked alongside the most dangerous... Read more

The Spy Who Loved

By: Clare Mulley

Narrated by: Elizabeth Sastre

Length: 16 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Special Agent of World War II

In June 1952, a woman was murdered by an obsessed colleague in a hotel in the South Kensington district of London. Her name was Christine Granville. That she died young was perhaps unsurprising; that she had survived the Second World War was remarkable.

The daughter of a... Read more

Cyberspies

By: Gordon Corera

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

The previously untold—and previously highly classified—story of the conflux of espionage and technology, a compelling narrative rich with astonishing revelations taking readers from World War II to the Internet ageAs the digital era becomes increasingly pervasive, the intertwining forces of computers and espionage are reshaping the entire world;... Read more

This House of Grief

By: Helen Garner

Narrated by: Kate Hood

Length: 8 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great... Read more

Evil Life

By: Clive Small & Tom Gilling

Narrated by: Dino Marnika

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The Calabrian Mafia in Australia is alive and well. This is the first time its real story in this country has ever been told. The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing... Read more

The Black Museum, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: a full cast

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Here are twelve episodes of the classic mystery radio show, The Black Museum.The Black Museum was a weekly radio crime drama produced for the BBC in 1951 and based on real-life cases from the files of Scotland Yard. Orson Welles, who was living in London at the time, was both host and narrator for these dramatized stories based on Scotland... Read more

A Good Month for Murder

By: Del Quentin Wilber

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 8 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Bestselling author Del Quentin Wilber tells the inside story of how a homicide squad---a dedicated, colorful team of detectives—does its almost impossible job

Twelve homicides, three police-involved shootings and the furious hunt for an especially brutal killer--February 2013 was a good month for murder in suburban Washington, D.C.

After gaining... Read more

Lolita in the Lion's Den

By: Justin Forest

Narrated by: Steve Carlson

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A young man must overcome a horrific past in order to release his inner demons in Justin Forest’s shocking new cross-genre novel, Lolita in the Lion’s Den. Glen has fought for years to escape a brutal home life, one in which he acts as his mother’s only friend and to accept that his father has been molesting his sister for over a decade. But... Read more

True Crime Addict

By: James Renner

Narrated by: James Renner

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD. In 2011, James began researching the strange... Read more

Gitchie Girl

By: Phil Hamman & Sandy Hamman

Narrated by: Callie Beaulieu

Length: 4 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

A terrified voice cried out in the night. "Who are you? What do you want?"

The sound of snapping twigs closed in on the five teenagers enjoying an evening around a glowing campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park. The night of music and laughter had taken a dark turn. Evil loomed just beyond the tree line, and before the night was over, one of the... Read more

The Serial Killer Files

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: 18 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and... Read more

Deviant

By: Harold Schechter

Narrated by: R. C. Bray

Length: 8 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation—and redefined the meaning of the word psycho.The year was 1957. The place was an ordinary farmhouse in America’s heartland, filled with... Read more

Snatched

By: Bruce Porter

Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez

Length: 13 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Snatched is the electric tale by the New York Times bestselling author of Blow, Bruce Porter, that tells the true story of a woman caught between two worlds, with her life dangling in the balance.Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous... Read more

Pretty Jane and the Viper of Kidbrooke Lane

By: Paul Thomas Murphy

Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds

Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

A vivid and violent investigation into a shocking and unsolved 1871 murder in London, by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Shooting VictoriaOn April 26th, 1871, a police constable walking one of London’s remotest beats stumbled upon a brutalized young woman kneeling on a muddy road—gashes were cloven into her skull, her left cheek... Read more

Becky

By: Darren Galsworthy

Narrated by: Ben Fox

Length: 8 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the heartbreaking story of the murder of 16-year-old Bristol schoolgirl Becky Watts, a personal and heartfelt account of a crime that shocked the nation in a unique way and tore a family in two. A vulnerable and shy girl, Becky Watts was brutally murdered and dismembered by her own step-brother on 19 February 2015.... Read more

A Burglar's Guide to the City

By: Geoff Manaugh

Narrated by: Scott Aiello

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Encompassing nearly 2,000 years of heists and tunnel jobs, break-ins and escapes, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers an unexpected blueprint to the criminal possibilities in the world all around us. You'll never see the city the same way again. 

At the core of A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: how any... Read more

The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts

By: Laura Tillman

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

Length: 6 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

“A haunted, haunting examination of mental illness and murder in a more or less ordinary American city…Mature and thoughtful…A Helter Skelter for our time, though without a hint of sensationalism—unsettling in the extreme but written with confidence and deep empathy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas—one... Read more

The Red Parts

By: Maggie Nelson

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A chilling genre-busting memoir by a major American essayist Late in 2004, Maggie Nelson was looking forward to the publication of her book Jane: A Murder, a narrative in verse about the life and death of her aunt, who had been murdered thirty-five years before. The case remained unsolved, but Jane was assumed to have been the victim of an... Read more

The Midnight Assassin

By: Skip Hollandsworth

Narrated by: Clint Jordan

Length: 9 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885

In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in... Read more

A Murder Over a Girl

By: Ken Corbett

Narrated by: Ken Corbett

Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate

On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed his classmate, Larry King, who had recently begun to call himself "Leticia" and... Read more