True Crime audiobooks

The Trial of Lizzie Borden

By: Cara Robertson

Narrated by: Amanda Carlin

Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY BOOK AWARD

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... Read more

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist

By: Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington

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

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... 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 life:... Read more

The Fact of a Body

By: Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

Narrated by: Alex 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 Alex Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working to help defend men... 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 déja 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

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

On Trial… For Murder

By: Emily G. Thompson

Narrated by: Avena Mansergh-Wallace

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The dramatic events of some of the world’s most controversial murder trials

The stakes are never higher when the charge is murder…

Explore the riveting twists and turns of some of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in history, such as the O. J. Simpson, Phil Spector, and Oscar Pistorius cases.

Each of the trials detailed in this... Read more

Nur der See war Zeuge

By: Walter Christian Kärger

Narrated by: Mike Maas

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Max Madleners achter Fall - Cold Case am Bodensee. Madlener und Harriet ermitteln in einem Fall, der 30 Jahre zurückliegt. Am Bodensee wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden, doch während ihre Kollegen nach dem Mörder fahnden, ermitteln Kommissar Madlener und seine Partnerin Harriet in einem Cold Case: Ein kürzlich verstorbener Mann hat... Read more

Guilty Creatures

By: Mikita Brottman

Narrated by: Leon Nixon

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times

“A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close

From the critically acclaimed author dubbed... Read more

In Search of the Romanovs

By: Peter Sarandinaki

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

In 1918 a famed general of the Russian White Army battled through the Red Army to save Emperor Nicholas II—but he arrived too late. The Romanovs had already been murdered.

In this thrilling true-life detective story, we follow Anna, the general's courageous young daughter, who fled across the continent and boarded a ship with her husband to... Read more

I Will Ruin You

By: Emilio Corsetti III

Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Did the State of Kentucky convict an innocent man?

Moments before boarding a passenger flight on 11 May 2019 as the first officer, pilot Christian "Kit" Martin, a former army ranger, was arrested by a swarm of heavily armed officers for the murders of three of his neighbors. The arrest captured global attention as Martin's mugshot, clad in a... Read more

Women Who Murder

By: Mitzi Szereto

Narrated by: Aven Shore

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Female Serial Killers Through Time

The fair sex. We've often heard this clichéd expression being used to refer to women. Although it has become increasingly outdated, the mindset still exists that women are the gentle and nurturing sex. When it comes to murder, that notion gets turned on its head. And this isn't a recent phenomenon; we can find... Read more

Takedown

By: Laila Mickelwait

Narrated by: Laila Mickelwait

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

The gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online porn empire.

Pornhub was the 10th most visited site on the Internet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been keeping from the world for over a decade: it was infested with child sexual... Read more

The Survivors

By: Steve Braunias

Narrated by: Steve Braunias

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

True stories of death and desperation
One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion.Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime writer Steve Braunias retells twelve mysteries of... Read more

Mord Down Under – Den ensamma änklingen del 2

By: Janne Aagaard

Narrated by: Anna Kristoferson

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Det här är andra delen av den sanna historien om änkemannen Bruce Saunders, vars jakt på kärlek ledde till en makaber död. Bruce Saunders död anses till en början vara en fruktansvärd olycka med en flismaskin. Men med tiden dyker det upp fler och fler bevis som pekar på ett helt annat scenario – ett brutalt mord planerat av hans kära Sharon... Read more

Trinity

By: Tom DeLonge & A.J. Hartley

Narrated by: Kyle Snyder

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

It's 1962, in Trinity, Nevada, a small town on the edge of the desert, home to a military base serving the nuclear testing grounds.

Van Lopez and his brother Andy have enough to do keeping their truck running and the local criminal gang happy to be concerned about nuclear tests. Van has dreams, or—he's not sure what to call them—that he cannot... Read more

The Incorruptibles

By: Dan Slater

Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross

Length: 11 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

This harrowing tale of early twentieth century New York reveals the true stories of an immigrant underworld, a secret vice squad, and the rise of organized crime. 

In the early 1900s, prior to World War I, New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, then the most crowded ghetto on earth, Eastern European Jews... Read more

Mord Down Under – Den ensamma änklingen del 1

By: Janne Aagaard

Narrated by: Anna Kristoferson

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Det här är första delen av den sanna historien om änkemannen Bruce Saunders, vars jakt på kärlek ledde till en makaber död. Bruce Saunders, den 53-åriga slaktaren och änklingen, hittar sin nya kärlek på internet. Hon heter Sharon Graham och är en attraktiv kvinna i 55-årsåldern. Deras relation blir en känslomässig berg-och-dalbana för den... Read more

Venona

By: John Earl Haynes & Harvey Klehr

Narrated by: Rich Miller

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Only in 1995 did the United States government officially reveal the existence of the super-secret Venona Project. For nearly fifty years American intelligence agents had been decoding thousands of Soviet messages, uncovering an enormous range of espionage activities carried out against the United States during World War II by its own allies.... Read more

Why They Kill

By: Richard Rhodes

Narrated by: Charles Constant

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, brings his inimitable vision, exhaustive research, and mesmerizing prose to this timely book that dissects violence and offers new solutions to the age-old problem of why people kill.

Lonnie Athens was raised by a brutally domineering father. Defying all odds,... Read more

Rapport sur Nordahl L.

By: Michel Moatti

Narrated by: Stéphanie Cassignard

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Le livre que Nordahl Lelandais a voulu faire interdire. Le Rapport sur Nordahl L., qui n'avait pas pu être publié en 2018, à la demande de Nordahl Lelandais lui-même et de son avocat, est désormais disponible. À mi-chemin entre l'enquête et le roman, cet ouvrage explore les zones d'ombre, les secrets et les mensonges du meurtrier de Maëlys... Read more

Carrie Carolyn Coco

By: Sarah Gerard

Narrated by: Sarah Gerard

Length: 10 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and penetrating prose to the 2016 murder of her friend Carolyn Bush, examining the multi-faceted reasons for her death?personal and societal, avoidable and inevitable?as “nuanced and subtly intimate” (NPR) as her lauded essay collection, Sunshine State.   On the night of September... Read more