True Crime

Killers of the Flower Moon

By: David Grann
Narrated by: Will Patton, Ann Marie Lee & Danny Campbell
Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   -  NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST 

"Disturbing and riveting...It will sear your soul." —Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review

SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017

Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's... Read More »

The Feather Thief

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No

As heard on NPR's This American Life

“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air

“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an... Read More »

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

By: Michelle McNamara
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn & Patton Oswalt
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No

Soon to be an HBO® Documentary Series

An Audiofile Best Audio Book of 2018

An Audible Best Audio Book of 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The haunting true story of the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade—and of the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.

Introduction by... Read More »

The Third Rainbow Girl

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Narrated by: Emma Copley Eisenberg
Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No

A stunningly written investigation of the murder of two young women--showing how a violent crime casts a shadow over an entire community.

In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian, 26, and Nancy Santomero, 19, were murdered in an isolated clearing. They were... Read More »

The Devil in the White City

By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No

In The Devil in the White City, the smoke, romance, and mystery of the Gilded Age come alive as never before.

Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant... Read More »

Furious Hours

By: Casey Cep
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes
Abridged: No

ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2019

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 BY Time, LitHub, Vulture, Glamour, O Magazine, Town and Country, Suspense Magazine, Inside Hook

New York Times Best Seller
 
“Compelling . . . at once a true-crime thriller, courtroom drama, and miniature biography of Harper Lee. If To Kill a Mockingbird was... Read More »

The Fact of a Body

By: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Narrated by: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Length: 10 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No

"This book is a marvel. The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth." -- Celeste Ng, author of the New York Times bestselling Everything I Never Told You

Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help... Read More »

Catch and Kill

By: Ronan Farrow
Narrated by: Ronan Farrow
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No

In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost.

In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about:... Read More »

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

By: Radley Balko, Tucker Carrington & John Grisham
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 14 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No

A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and... Read More »

The Real Lolita

By: Sarah Weinman
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No

“The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” —David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of... Read More »

Savage Appetites

By: Rachel Monroe
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes—Detective, Victim, Defender, Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession.

In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe interrogates the appeal of true crime through four narratives of... Read More »

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No

In Cara Robertson’s “enthralling new book,” The Trial of Lizzie Borden, “the reader is to serve as judge and jury” (The New York Times). Based on twenty years of research and recently unearthed evidence, this true crime and legal history is the “definitive account to date of one of America’s most notorious and enduring murder mysteries”... Read More »

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 9 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. At the time, the detective was a relatively new invention;... Read More »

Ghettoside

By: Jill Leovy
Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE • A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE... Read More »

The House of Kennedy

By: James Patterson
Narrated by: David Pittu
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No

The Kennedys have always been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel, living by the dual family mottos: "To whom much is given, much is expected" and "Win at all costs." And they do--but at a price.

Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have occupied a unique place in the American imagination: charmed, cursed,... Read More »

Mrs. Sherlock Holmes

By: Brad Ricca
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 12 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No

Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the... Read More »

Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In)

By: T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Narrated by: Hillary Huber, T. Christian Miller & Ken Armstrong
Length: 10 hours 5 minutes
Abridged: No

Now the Netflix Limited Series Unbelievable, starring Toni Collette, Merritt Wever, and Kaitlyn Dever • Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true crime story of a teenager charged with lying about having been raped—and the detectives who followed a winding path to arrive at the truth.
 
“Gripping . . . [with a] John... Read More »

Member of the Family

By: Dianne Lake & Deborah Herman
Narrated by: Dianne Lake
Length: 12 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No

In this poignant and disturbing memoir of lost innocence, coercion, survival, and healing, Dianne Lake chronicles her years with Charles Manson, revealing for the first time how she became the youngest member of his Family and offering new insights into one of the twentieth century’s most notorious criminals and life as one of his "girls."

At age... Read More »

Ranger Games

By: Ben Blum
Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No

"A gloriously good writer...Ranger Games is both surprising and moving...A memorable, novelistic account."—Jennifer Senior, New York Times 

Intricate, heartrending, and morally urgent, Ranger Games is a crime story like no other
 
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in... Read More »

Writing to Save a Life

By: John Edgar Wideman
Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No

A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and deja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family—civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis—shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Emmett Till took a train from... Read More »

Say Nothing

By: Patrick Radden Keefe
Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
Abridged: No

One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year

BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE

ONE OF THE BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR - WASHINGTON POST

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 

"Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old... Read More »

My Friend Anna

By: Rachel DeLoache Williams
Narrated by: Rachel DeLoache Williams
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
Abridged: No

ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

Sex and the City meets Catch Me if You Can in the astonishing true story of Anna Delvey, a young con artist posing as a German heiress in New York City—as told by the former Vanity Fair photo editor who got seduced by her friendship and then scammed out of more than $62,000.

Vanity Fair photo editor... Read More »

Lost Girls

By: Robert Kolker
Narrated by: Sean Pratt
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No

New York Times Bestseller

Soon to be a Netflix film.

The bestselling account of the lives of five young women whose fates converged in the perplexing case of the Long Island Serial Killer.

 “Rich, tragic...monumental...true-crime reporting at its best.”—Washington Post

One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert—after running through the... Read More »

The Stranger Beside Me

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Lorelei King
Length: 18 hours 29 minutes
Abridged: No

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule, “America’s best true-crime writer” (Kirkus Reviews), her unforgettable classic account of the horrifying murders in the Pacific Northwest and her shock when she discovered her friend—Ted Bundy—was not only a suspect but also one of the most prolific serial killers in American history.

Meeting... Read More »