True Crime audiobooks

Unholy Messenger

By: Stephen Singular

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

To all appearances, Dennis Rader was a model citizen in the small town of Park City, Kansas, where he had lived with his family almost his entire life. He was a town compliance officer, a former Boy Scout leader, the president of his church congregation, and a seemingly ordinary father and husband. But Rader's average life belied the existence... Read more

A Death in Belmont

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

“Riveting. . . reads like a novel. . . . A worthy sequel to The Perfect Storm.” —New York Times Book ReviewIn the most intriguing and original crime story since In Cold Blood, New York Times bestselling author Sebastian Junger examines the fatal collision of three lives during the infamous Boston Strangler serial murder caseIn the spring of... Read more

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber

By: Julian Rubinstein

Narrated by: Hachette Assorted Authors

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took... Read more

A Death in Belmont - Abridged

By: Sebastian Junger

Narrated by: Kevin Conway

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

In 1963, with the city of Boston already terrified by a series of savage crimes known as the Boston Stranglings, a murder occurred in the quiet suburb of Belmont, just a few blocks from the house of Sebastian Junger's family -- a murder that seemed to fit exactly the pattern of the Strangler. Roy Smith, a black man who had cleaned the victim's... Read more

Crime Beat - Abridged

By: Michael Connelly

Narrated by: Len Cariou, Nancy McKeon & Carl Franklyn

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Before Michael Connelly became a novelist, he was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat. In these vivid, hard-hitting pieces, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends--and of, course, the killers--to tell the real stories of... Read more

Strange Piece of Paradise - Abridged

By: Terri Jentz

Narrated by: Margaret Colin

Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: Yes

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

Till Death Do Us Part

By: Matt Birkbeck & Robi Ludwig

Narrated by: Ellen Archer

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Every day six people are murdered in the United States by a spouse or intimate partner. The stories of killer spouses capture the public's attention—we wonder how such normal and seemingly happy people can go over the edge. In every relationship there are "extreme moments" where scary feelings surface. But what happens when those feelings turn... Read more

Murder in Greenwich - Abridged

By: Mark Fuhrman

Narrated by: Len Cariou

Length: 2 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Newsflash: Grand Jury just empaneled to investigate the unsolved murder of Martha Moxley!The night of October 30, 1975, fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley was bludgeoned and stabbed with a golf club on the grounds of her family1s Greenwich home.The golf club that killed Martha came from the house of Thomas and Michael Skakel, two boys who had been... Read more

Girls of Tender Age - Abridged

By: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Narrated by: Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Length: 6 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In Girls of Tender Age, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith fully articulates with great humor and tenderness the wild jubilance of an extended French-Italian family struggling to survive in a post-World War II housing project in Hartford, Connecticut. Smith seamlessly combines a memoir whose intimacy matches that of Angela's Ashes with the tale of a... Read more

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town - Abridged

By: Lawrence Schiller

Narrated by: Ron McLarty

Length: 6 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: Yes

From the author of #1 New York Times bestseller American Tragedy.Nothing written about the death of JonBenet Ramsey can possibly prepare the listener for the revelations in this audiobook. Here, acclaimed writer Lawrence Schiller reveals for the first time the uncensored true story of the events that unfolded on Christmas night of 1996 and the... Read more

For Laci

By: Sharon Rocha

Narrated by: Staci Snell

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.

A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son... Read more

For Laci - Abridged

By: Sharon Rocha

Narrated by: Sharon Rocha

Length: 4 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of December 23, 2002. She spoke to her mother, Sharon Rocha, at 8:30 p.m. that night. This would be the last time anyone from her immediate family ever spoke to her.

A search began which lasted an agonizing four months. Sadly, Laci Peterson and her son... Read more

The Prince of the City

By: Fred Siegel

Narrated by: Brian Emerson

Length: 14 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In the dark days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Rudy Giuliani established himself as “America’s mayor.” This first post-9/11 account of his career shows how Giuliani’s successes in New York set a promising example for the rejuvenation of our major cities.As one who has worked with him as well as studied him, Fred Siegel regards Giuliani as a... Read more

Escape from Alcatraz

By: J. Campbell Bruce

Narrated by: John Lescault

Length: 8 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone; "Machine Gun" Kelly; Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as "The Rock." This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were an inmate's only hope.This gripping true-crime classic was originally... Read more

Striking Back

By: Aaron J. Klein

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

1972. The Munich Olympics. Palestinian members of the Black September group murder eleven Israeli athletes. Nine hundred million people watch the crisis unfold on television, witnessing a tragedy that inaugurates the modern age of terror.Back in Israel, Prime Minister Golda Meir vows to track down those responsible and, in Menachem Begin’s... Read more

Blood Diamonds

By: Greg Campbell

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 7 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

The true story of the events that inspired the feature film Blood DiamondFirst discovered in 1930, the diamonds of Sierra Leone have funded one of the most savage rebel campaigns in modern history. These "blood diamonds" are smuggled out of West Africa and sold to legitimate diamond merchants in London, Antwerp, and New York, often with the... Read more

Stealing Your Life

By: Frank W. Abagnale

Narrated by: Raymond Todd

Length: 7 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

When Frank Abagnale trains law enforcement officers for the FBI’s National Academy about identity theft, he asks agents for their addresses and nothing more. The next day, he returns with everything he would need to steal their lives: Social Security numbers, dates of birth, current salary, checking account numbers, the names of everyone in... Read more

The Hoax

By: Clifford Irving

Narrated by: Joe Barrett

Length: 14 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Novelist Clifford Irving’s “autobiography” of Howard Hughes was the literary hoax of our time. This no-holds-barred confession by the author was first published in Great Britain in 1977, where it became a bestseller. But no American hardcover house would touch it until now. Why? The answer is implicit in this ultimate caper story of daring,... Read more

The Informant

By: Kurt Eichenwald

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 24 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

From an award-winning New York Times investigative reporter comes a gripping account of one of the most captivating and bizarre tales in the history of the FBI and corporate America.

It was one of the FBI's biggest secrets: Mark Whitacre, a senior executive at Archer Daniels Midland--America's most politically powerful corporation--became a... Read more

American Gunfight

By: Stephen Hunter & John Bainbridge

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 15 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

AMERICAN GUNFIGHT is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event–the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November of 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life.

Written by Pulitzer... Read more

Under and Alone - Abridged

By: William Queen

Narrated by: William Queen

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In 1998, William Queen was a veteran law enforcement agent with a lifelong love of motorcycles and a lack of patience with paperwork. When a “confidential informant” made contact with his boss at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, offering to take an agent inside the San Fernando chapter of the Mongols (the scourge of Southern... Read more

Divorced from the Mob

By: Andrea Giovino

Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat

Length: 9 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Andrea Giovino breaks the Mafia's code of silence and describes the life of a woman born and bred into the Family—and her inspirational escape. Her defiant struggle to break free of her family's criminal legacy is by turns horrifying and heartbreaking. As a child in Brooklyn, Giovino watched her brother become a hit man and helped her mother... Read more

Rothstein

By: David Pietrusza

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 13 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The model for Meyer Wolfsheim from The Great Gatsby and Guys and Dolls' Nathan Detroit, Arnold Rothstein was an underworld genius, racketeer, rumrunner, political fixer, and criminal mastermind who, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, played "with the faith of fifteen million people with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe."David... Read more

Pointing from the Grave

By: Samantha Weinberg

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 12 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the remarkable and gripping true story of a murderer and his victim, and of the tiny molecule that linked their fates. It is both the history of a science overlaid with human drama and a human tragedy inextricably entwined with science. It is about two lives made and destroyed by DNA—and by each other.In 1984, Helena Greenwood, a young... Read more