Thoughtful True Crime

Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition

By: Dave Cullen
Narrated by: Don Leslie & Dave Cullen
Length: 16 hours 9 minutes

In remembrance of the 25th anniversary, this definitive account of Columbine examines the aftermath and significance of the massacre: "a staggering work of journalism" (Washington Post).

So begins a new preface, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a... Read more

Savage Appetites

Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

For True Crime Fans

By: Rachel Monroe
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 8 hours 27 minutes

“Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime and Obsession explores obsession, crime and violence and why we as a culture, specifically women, are fascinated by it. Monroe goes beyond the gruesome details of violent crime using not only her experience as a reporter, but also personal narrative and social examination. She shines a light on... Read more

The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hours 58 minutes

“The Devil in the White City is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Set amidst the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Erik Larson's historical narrative interweaves the stories of two men who would come to define it, for better and for worse. One is Daniel Burnham, chief architect of the Fair, who threw his entire being into creating a... 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

“An overwhelmingly obsessed Michelle McNamara dissects the decades old trail of tragedy, trauma and ongoing taunts by the elusive East Area Rapist in her investigative crime thriller “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark” published posthumously after her unexpected demise. Dubbed the “Golden State Killer” by McNamara herself, his crime spree started with 50... Read more

The Forever Witness

How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes
Narrated by: Edward Humes
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

“Thought-provoking true-crime thriller…the book raises urgent questions of balancing public and private good that we’ll likely be dealing with as long as the title implies.”—Wall Street Journal

A relentless detective and a civilian genealogist solve a haunting cold case—and launch a crime-fighting revolution that tests the fragile line between... Read more

Conan Doyle for the Defense

The True Story of a Sensational British Murder, a Quest for Justice, and the World's Most Famous Detective Writer

By: Margalit Fox
Narrated by: Peter Forbes
Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

“A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods
 
A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story.    

After a wealthy woman was brutally... Read more

American Predator

The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan
Narrated by: Amy Landon
Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

An Amazon “Best Book of 2019”
A Washington Post “10 Books To Read in July”
A Los Angeles Times “Seven Highly Anticipated Books for Summer Reading”
A USA Today “20 of the Season’s Hottest New Books”
A New York Post “25 Best Beach Reads of 2019 You Need to Pre-Order Now”
A Bustle “The Best New True Crime Books You... Read more

Just Mercy

A Story of Justice and Redemption

By: Bryan Stevenson
Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
Length: 11 hours 10 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.

“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice... Read more

We Carry Their Bones

The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle
Narrated by: Janina Edwards
Length: 8 hours 1 minute

""With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice."" –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground RailroadForensic... Read more

Unmasked

My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes
Narrated by: Paul Holes
Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

This program is read by the author.

From the detective who found the Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest cold cases and the rewards–and toll–of a life solving crime.

I order another bourbon, neat. This is the drink that will flip the switch. I don’t even know how I got here, to this place, to this point. Something is... Read more

The Blood of Emmett Till

By: Timothy B. Tyson
Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of... Read more

American Sherlock

Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Death in the Air ("Not since Devil in the White City has a book told such a harrowing tale"--Douglas Preston) comes the riveting story of the birth of criminal investigation in the twentieth century.

Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with curiosities--beakers, microscopes, Bunsen burners, and hundreds upon... Read more

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

“Cara Robertson's first book details the events surrounding the infamous murders of Andrew and Abby Borden in Fall River, Massachusetts in 1892. Based entirely on primary sources: trial transcripts, contemporary accounts, and even recently discovered letters from Lizzie herself, The Trial of Lizzie Borden is an in-depth discussion of the... Read more

Tell Me Everything

The Story of a Private Investigation

By: Erika Krouse
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

“Erika has a face that makes strangers tell her their deepest secrets. After a chance encounter with a lawyer in a bookstore, she finds herself starting a job as a private investigator, despite her lack of formal experience. The case that dominates the book concerns the pervasive rape culture and constant coverups of the University of Colorado... Read more

The Wicked Boy

The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer

By: Kate Summerscale
Narrated by: Corrie James
Length: 9 hours 22 minutes

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

All That Is Wicked

A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson
Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
Length: 9 hours

Acclaimed crime historian, podcaster, and author of American Sherlock Kate Winkler Dawson tells the thrilling story of Edward Rulloff—a serial murderer who was called “too intelligent to be killed”—and the array of 19th century investigators who were convinced his brain held the key to finally understanding the criminal mind.

Edward Rulloff was a... Read more

Parkland

Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen
Narrated by: Dave Cullen & Robert Fass
Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

A New York Times Bestseller""A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. It succeeds as an in-depth report about the “generational campaign” in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy, a bi-partisan movement advocating serious gun reform.” — Atlanta... Read more

The Monster of Florence

By: Douglas Preston
Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Length: 9 hours 46 minutes

In the nonfiction tradition of John Berendt and Erik Larson, the author of the #1 NYT bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God presents a gripping account of crime and punishment in the lush hills surrounding Florence as he seeks to uncover one of the most infamous figures in Italian history.
In 2000, Douglas Preston fulfilled a dream to move... Read more

A Mother's Reckoning

Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

By: Sue Klebold
Narrated by: Sue Klebold
Length: 11 hours 24 minutes

The acclaimed New York Times bestseller by Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine shooters, about living in the aftermath of Columbine.On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Over the course of minutes, they would kill twelve students and a teacher and wound twenty-four... Read more

The Indifferent Stars Above

The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party

By: Daniel James Brown
Narrated by: Michael Prichard
Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves,... Read more