Shelf Interested: October 2023

The Brothers

The Road to an American Tragedy

By: Masha Gessen
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 9 hours 42 minutes

National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: How the American Dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted.

On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan... Read more

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

By: Michelle McNamara
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn & Patton Oswalt
Length: 10 hours 7 minutes

“It’s not just the horrifying story of the Golden State Killer, but also the story of victims and survivors. It’s a timeline of DNA technology and the investigation techniques that influenced the trajectory of this case and others like it. It’s also the story of Michelle and the impact this case will continue to have on anyone with an interest in... Read more

Serial Killers Encyclopedia: The Book Of The World's Worst Murderers In History

By: Martin G. Welsh
Narrated by: John Hays
Length: 33 minutes

"When I killed people I had a desire. This inspired me to kill more. I don't care whether they deserve to live or not. It is none of my concern...I have no desire to be part of society. Society is not my concern." (Yang Xinghai, The Monster Killer of China)

Get inside the minds of the the world's most notorious serial killers!
Today only,... Read more

Furious Hours

Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

By: Casey Cep
Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Length: 11 hours 15 minutes

“In Cold Blood and To Kill a Mockingbird kept me up reading all night as a teen, and I can now add Furious Hours to the list of couldn’t-put-it-down tomes. I was enthralled, educated, and awestruck by Casey Cep’s well-researched and masterfully written true-crime account of a rural minister, his lawyer, and his killer. Thankfully, Cep discovered... Read more

Yellow Bird

Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country

By: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Narrated by: Sierra Crane Murdoch
Length: 14 hours 56 minutes

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The gripping true story of a murder on an Indian reservation, and the unforgettable Arikara woman who becomes obsessed with solving it—an urgent work of literary journalism.

“I don’t know a more complicated, original protagonist in literature than Lissa Yellow Bird, or a more dogged reporter in American journalism than... Read more

The Sting Man

Inside Abscam

By: Robert W. Greene
Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Length: 11 hours 37 minutes

The true story behind the film AMERICAN HUSTLE
 
The Sting Man is the amazing inside story of Mel Weinberg, one of the most fascinating fast-buck operators to ever live, and the incredible scandals he masterminded. Hustling his way from the streets of the Bronx to hawking bogus businesses around the world, Weinberg netted millions and famously... Read more

Hell's Angel

The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club

By: Sonny Barger
Narrated by: John Pruden
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Narrated by the visionary founding member, Hell's Angel provides a fascinating all-access pass to the secret world of the notorious Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club. Sonny Barger recounts the birth of the original Oakland Hell's Angels and the four turbulent decades that followed. Hell's Angel also chronicles the way the HAMC revolutionized the... Read more

Crooked Brooklyn

Taking Down Corrupt Judges, Dirty Politicians, Killers, and Body Snatchers

By: Jerry Schmetterer & Michael Vecchione
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 6 hours 40 minutes

From 2001 to 2013, Michael Vecchione was chief of the Rackets Division in the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, which was the largest urban prosecution agency in the country. Vecchione grappled with organized crime and dirty politicians, during which he supervised, investigated, and prosecuted major felony cases.


Crooked Brooklyn is a gritty... Read more

Strange Piece of Paradise - Abridged

A Return to the American West To Investigate My Attempted Murder - and Solve the Riddle of Myself

By: Terri Jentz
Narrated by: Margaret Colin
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate, Shayna Weiss, make a cross-country bike trip. They pitch a tent in the desert of central Oregon. As they are sleeping, a man in a pickup truck deliberately runs over the tent. He then attacks them with an ax. The horrific crime is reported in newspapers across the country. No one is ever... Read more

The Beautiful Cigar Girl

Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

By: Daniel Stashower
Narrated by: Matt Weisgerber
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson—and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case—and sent his fictional detective, C. Auguste Dupin, to solve the baffling... Read more

Havana Nocturne

How the Mob Owned Cuba...and Then Lost It to the Revolution

By: T. J. English
Narrated by: Mel Foster
Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

In Havana Nocturne, T. J. English offers a riveting, multifaceted true tale of organized crime, political corruption, roaring nightlife, revolution, and international conflict that interweaves the dual stories of the mob in Havana and the event that would overshadow it: the Cuban Revolution.



Bringing together long-buried historical information... Read more

In Hoffa's Shadow

A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

By: Jack Goldsmith
Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

As a young man, Jack Goldsmith revered his stepfather, longtime Jimmy Hoffa associate Chuckie O’Brien. But as he grew older and pursued a career in law and government, he came to doubt and distance himself from the man long suspected by the FBI of perpetrating Hoffa’s disappearance on behalf of the mob. It was only years later, when Goldsmith... Read more

Policing the Black Man

Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment

By: Angela J. Davis
Narrated by: Robin Miles & Kevin Kenerly
Length: 10 hours 11 minutes

A comprehensive analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars.Contributing authors include Bryan Stevenson, director of the Equal Justice Initiative, NYU Law... Read more

The Other Wes Moore

One Name, Two Fates

By: Wes Moore
Narrated by: Wes Moore
Length: 6 hours 11 minutes

“The Other Wes Moore tells a story of two boys of the same name who grew up in the same city, one becoming a scholar and decorated war veteran and the other serving a life sentence in prison. Through the narrative of both his own and the other Wes Moore's stories, Moore explores how the outcomes of our lives are affected by both our choices and... Read more

Holy Blood, Holy Grail - Abridged

By: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh & Henry Lincoln
Narrated by: Simon Prebble
Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Is the traditional, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete?

• Is it possible Christ did not die on the cross?
• Is it possible Jesus was married, a father, and that his bloodline still exists?
• Is it possible that parchments found in the South of France a century ago reveal one of the best-kept secrets of Christendom?
• Is it... Read more

The Complete Jack the Ripper

By: Donald Rumbelow
Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
Length: 14 hours 25 minutes

Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions, and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history.



Laying out all the evidence in the most comprehensive summary ever written about the Ripper, this book, by a London police officer and crime authority, has subjected... Read more

Too Late to Say Goodbye

By: Ann Rule
Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
Length: 12 hours 7 minutes

From bestselling author Ann Rule comes the engrossing true story of two beautiful, loving women, and their murder by the man in their life—handsome, charming, rich, a man marked for unlimited success—but one who would never allow any woman to leave him, no matter what the provocation.

Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to... Read more

The Gangs of New York

An Informal History of the New York Underworld

By: Herbert Asbury
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
Length: 12 hours 24 minutes

This is the 1927 book that years later inspired the movie of the same name. It is a book about criminal violence, corrupt politics and police, and illicit sex. The City of New York, from the late colonial period up to the early twentieth century, was a bustling hub of commerce, industry, and immigration. For many the city was the gateway to a... Read more

Unanswered Cries

A True Story of Friends, Neighbors, and Murder in a Small Town

By: Thomas French
Narrated by: Mikael Naramore
Length: 13 hours 31 minutes

The fatal nightOn a warm Florida evening, Karen Gregory saw a familiar face at her door. What the beautiful young woman could not know was that she was staring into the eyes of her killer—a savage monster who would rape her, stab her to death, and leave her battered body on the floor outside the bedroom.The desperate searchDetectives frantically... Read more

Vulgar Favors

The Assassination of Gianni Versace

By: Maureen Orth
Narrated by: Dan Woren & Maureen Orth
Length: 18 hours 5 minutes

Read the true story of the manhunt that inspired The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, the acclaimed FX series.
 
“The breadth and thoroughness of [Maureen] Orth’s research are often staggering.”—The New York Times
 
“Fascinating . . . ripe with chilling detail.”—Entertainment Weekly

On July 15, 1997, Gianni Versace was shot... Read more