Shelf Interested: January 2025

Mindhunter

Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit

By: John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
Narrated by: Richard M. Davidson
Length: 15 hours 24 minutes

Now a Netflix original series

Discover the classic, behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas’ twenty-five-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country’s most notorious serial killers and criminals.

In chilling detail, the legendary Mindhunter takes us behind... Read more

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Blood Money

The Du Pont Heir and the Murder of an Olympic Athlete

By: Carlton Smith
Narrated by: David de Vries
Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

The story of an Olympic wrestler allegedly murdered by the wealthy heir to the Du Pont fortune, Blood Money takes readers inside the bizarre world of a multi-millionaire, and lays bare the brutal shooting and tense police siege that riveted the nation. Read more

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Blood and the Badge

The Mafia, Two Killer Cops, and a Scandal That Shocked the Nation

By: Michael Cannell
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes

For the first time in forty years, former New York Times editor Michael Cannell unearths the full story behind two ruthless New York cops who acted as double agents for the Mafia.



No episode in NYPD history surpasses the depravities of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, two decorated detectives who covertly acted as mafia informants and paid... Read more

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Drums & Demons

The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon

By: Joel Selvin
Narrated by: David Bendena
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Jim Gordon was the greatest rock drummer of all-time. Just ask the world-famous musicians who played with him—John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Steely Dan, Ringo Starr, Harry Nilsson, Joe Cocker, and many more. They knew him for his superior playing, extraordinary training and technique, preternatural intuition,... Read more

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The Killing Fields of East New York

The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood

By: Stacy Horn
Narrated by: EJ Lavery
Length: 9 hours 55 minutes

In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism and true crime, Stacy Horn sheds light on how the subprime mortgage scandal of the 1970s and a long history of white-collar crime slowly devastated East New York, a Brooklyn neighborhood that would come to be known as the Killing Fields. On a warm summer evening in 1991, seventeen-year-old... Read more

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Borgata

Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia

Borgata Trilogy

By: Louis Ferrante
Narrated by: Louis Ferrante
Length: 12 hours 43 minutes

The culmination of Louis Ferrante's exhaustive research delving deep into Sicily's socio-economic-political roots, Borgata: Rise of Empire will finally reveal exactly how and why this infamous secret society formed inside Sicilian culture. Ferrante then engages in the art of storytelling by carefully selecting stories about the mafia in Sicily... Read more

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When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey
Narrated by: Donovan X. Ramsey
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic
 
“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction... Read more

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Killings

By: Calvin Trillin
Narrated by: Robert Fass
Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism

“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be... Read more

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Bad Company

By: Steve Wick
Narrated by: Stephen Yankee
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

In 1983, Roy Radin, would-be impresario, joined forces with fading movie producer Robert Evans and Elaine "Laney" Jacobs, a woman with the burning ambition to use the millions she had made by drug dealing to buy her way into the movie industry. Together they planned to finance the movie Cotton Club. When Radin's body was found miles away from... Read more

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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

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