True Crime

American Desperado: My Life as a Cocaine Cowboy

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 45 mins)
• By Jon Roberts, Evan Wright
• Narrated By Christina Rooney, Erik Davies, Johnathan McClain, and others

American Desperado is possibly the most jaw-dropping, event-filled, adrenaline-soaked criminal autobiography ever written. Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man juvenile crime wave before joining an assassination squad in Vietnam.

Murder in Mississippi

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Safran
• Narrated By John Safran

The internationally acclaimed true-crime story you have to hear to believe. Taking us places only John Safran can, Murder in Mississippi paints an engrossing, revealing portrait of a dead man, his murderer, the place they lived and the process of trying to find out the truth about anything.

Green River, Running Red

• UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 22 mins)
• By Ann Rule
• Narrated By Barbara Caruso
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In the most extraordinary journey Ann Rule has ever undertaken, America's master of true crime has spent more than two decades researching the story of the Green River Killer, who murdered more than 49 young women. Green River, Running Red is a harrowing account of a modern monster, a killer who walked among us undetected. It is also the story of his quarry -- of who these young women were and who they might have become.

Inside the Mind of BTK: The True Story Behind the Thirty-Year Hunt for the Notorious Wichita Serial Killer

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 40 mins)
• By John Douglas, Johnny Dodd
• Narrated By Jason Klav
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This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorized the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police with frequent communications, and bragging about his crimes to local newspapers and TV stations.

Dead Man Running: An Insider's Story on One of the World's Most Feared Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs ... The Bandidos

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Ross Coulthart, Duncan McNab
• Narrated By Michael Carman

"We are the people our parents warned us about" is the motto of the Bandidos, one of the world's most feared outlaw motorcycle gangs. For ten years, Steve Utah was a Bandidos insider. He arranged the security of their clubhouses. He 'cooked' ecstasy and ice for them. He was at meetings where interstate and overseas drug and weapons smuggling was planned. He saw stolen military weapons being sold. He witnessed vicious beatings, helped dump corpses.It all became too much and, in an attempt to regain control of his life, Utah resorted to the unthinkable....

Hotel K (Kerobokan)

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 56 mins)
• By Kathryn Bonella
• Narrated By Nicholas Bell
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Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, the tongue-in-cheek nickname for Kerobokan Jail, Bali's most notorious prison. It is a dark, bizarre and truly frightening underworld of sex, drugs, violence and squalor.

Fred and Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 28 mins)
• By Howard Sounes
• Narrated By Jonathan Oliver
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The true crime bestseller about Fred and Rose West a couple virtually unique in British criminal history - who loved and killed together as husband and wife. During their long relationship the Wests murdered a series of young women, burying the remains of nine victims under their home at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, including those of their teenage daughter, Heather.

This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Helen Garner
• Narrated By Kate Hood
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This House of Grief is a heartbreaking audiobook by one of Australia's most admired authors. Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain.

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 43 mins)
• By Paul Collins
• Narrated By William Dufris
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In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police were baffled: There were no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most perplexing murder.

Dead by Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Ann Rule
• Narrated By Richard Ferrone

Loni Ann, Cynthia, Lauren, Cheryl, and Sara seemed to have it all - beauty, wealth, children, and a husband who they believed to be this perfect man - Brad Cunningham. He was handsome, charismatic, and mysterious. They adored him and tried to give him all he wanted. But he wanted everything: sex, money, and it seemed, their very lives. How long would it take before he finally got what he deserved?

I Heard You Paint Houses

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 12 mins)
• By Charles Brandt
• Narrated By Scott Brick
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Soon to be a major film directed by Martin Scorsese. "I heard you paint houses" are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors.

In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews, Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that he handled more than 25 hits for the Mob and for his friend Hoffa.

A Checklist for Murder: The True Story of Robert John Peernock

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Anthony Flacco
• Narrated By Anthony Flacco
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Robert Peernock appeared to have the ideal life; working as a pyrotechnics engineer and computer expert and coming home to his wife and daughter, he projected the American dream. Even when he and his wife separated, it seemed amicable, just a small bump for the well-to-do family. But there was madness in his house: in private, Peernock was violent, subtly manipulative, and bordering on psychotic.

The Infiltrator

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 17 mins)
• By Robert Mazur
• Narrated By Robert Mazur
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Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob Musella, a wealthy, mob-connected big shot living the good life. Together they partied in expensive hotels, drank the world's finest champagnes, drove Rolls-Royce convertibles and flew in private jets. But under Mazur's designer suits and hidden away in his quality briefcase, recorders whirred quietly.

The Wolf of Wall Street

• UNABRIDGED (20 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Jordan Belfort
• Narrated By Eric Meyers

Stock market multimillionaire at 26, federal convict at 36, he partied like a rock star, lived like a king, and barely survived his rise and fall as an American entrepreneurial icon. By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international globe-trotting.

And Then the Darkness

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 36 mins)
• By Sue Williams
• Narrated By Kate Hood
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And Then the Darkness is a gripping account of the disappearance in the Australian Outback of English tourist Peter Falconio. His girlfriend, Joanne Lees, was found cut, bleeding and wandering the highway, her hands bound. Joanne's account of her ordeal sparked a frenzy of media interest and the biggest manhunt ever mounted in Australia. Questions arose about the police operation and about Joanne herself.

Night Fall

• ABRIDGED (6 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Nelson DeMille
• Narrated By Scott Brick

Based on true events, but unlike anything you've ever read before, #1 New York Times best-selling author Nelson DeMille has created what may be his finest work to date.

People Who Eat Darkness

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Richard Lloyd Parry
• Narrated By Simon Vance

In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21 years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave. Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet?

Under the Banner of Heaven

• ABRIDGED (5 hrs and 23 mins)
• By Jon Krakauer
• Narrated By Jon Krakauer

At the core of this book is an appalling double murder committed by two Mormon Fundamentalist brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a revelation from God commanding them to kill their blameless victims. Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the most successful homegrown faith in the United States, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism.

Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)
• By Richard Stratton
• Narrated By Richard Stratton
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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut Wellesley boy who entered outlaw culture on a trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run smuggling two kilos across the border in his car door. He became a member of the Hippie Mafia, traveling the world to keep America high, living the underground life while embracing the hippie credo, rejecting hard drugs in favor of marijuana and hashish.

Serial Killers: Mysterious True Stories of Savage Serial Killers from the Past: Serial Killers and True Crime Box Set

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 16 mins)
• By Brody Clayton
• Narrated By John Fiore
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Every single person is unique, with different wants, needs, likes, and hates. Serial killers, however, have one thing in common. They kill - for different reasons and for various outcomes. But one thing's for sure, they enjoy it. From poisoners and virgin murderers, baby killers, mysterious point-blank gunmen, and every other kind of vicious serial killer of mankind, this box set offers a rich history of killers that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

People Who Eat Darkness

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Richard Lloyd Parry
• Narrated By Simon Vance

In the summer of 2000, Jane Steare received the phone call every mother dreads. Her daughter Lucie Blackman - tall, blonde and 21 years old - had stepped into the vastness of a Tokyo summer and disappeared forever. That winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a desolate seaside cave. Her disappearance was mystifying. Had Lucie been abducted by a religious cult? Who was the mysterious man she had gone to meet?

Empires and Kings: A Mafia Duet, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 36 mins)
• By A. C. Bextor
• Narrated By Lidia Dornet, Iggy Toma

I was known as the traitor's daughter. When I was five years old, my father was tortured, branded with the letter Z, then beaten and left for dead. The grueling punishment for his crime was a reminder to all others who dared threaten the Russian's reign. I was the young girl left behind. A living piece of the traitorous puzzle the Russian leader tried so diligently to ignore - until I grew up. No longer could he deny how much my existence had always been intertwined with his. And in order to survive the life I was thrown into, I was forced to learn my place inside of it.

The Cortés Treasure

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 9 mins)
• By William H Blair
• Narrated By Lou Lambert
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The long-held mystery of Cortés's stashed bounty is at the center of this latest adventure of retired Special Forces Colonel Ryan Gavin, world-renowned investigator, and his girlfriend Alexis, a trained CIA field agent. When Col. Gavin receives a call from his friend Capt. Bartlett, one of the Texas Rangers' crack men in crime detection, he agrees to go to Texas and help figure out what is behind a string of unsolved murders and whether the latest victim, Cactus Digger Pete, had stumbled on the secret cache of gold.

Murder in Mississippi

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 23 mins)
• By John Safran
• Narrated By John Safran

The internationally acclaimed true-crime story you have to hear to believe. Taking us places only John Safran can, Murder in Mississippi paints an engrossing, revealing portrait of a dead man, his murderer, the place they lived and the process of trying to find out the truth about anything.

Deception in Plain Sight

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 38 mins)
• By Vivienne Diane Neal
• Narrated By Arnetta Ellinwood
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Christine Bailey comes from a privileged background, always sees the good in people, and swiftly falls for the enigmatic and handsome Awesome Petté, who exemplifies charm, intellect, ambition, and the gift to incite her sexual inhibitions. She believes he is her soul mate but will soon discover she has been living in a fool's paradise because he will slowly draw her into a sinister plot that will leave her asking, "What type of monster did his parents create?"

The Baron of Wimbledon

• UNABRIDGED (41 mins)
• By Orlando Pearson
• Narrated By Steve White

Gottlieb von Cramm, a German tennis star of the 1930s, petitions Holmes for help. The sportsman is being blackmailed on a matter of the utmost delicacy, and when the blackmailer reveals all to the National Socialist authorities, it is Holmes who comes to the rescue by asking Reichsmarschall Herman Göring to intervene. But is the better than expected outcome to the case a result of Holmes's intervention, or is Cramm's glamourous mother keeping her own role to herself?

Just Things: Diary of a Serial Killer, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 57 mins)
• By Erin Lee
• Narrated By Michael Goldsmith
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Jimmie Putnam is an ordinary man by any measure. By day, he works as a law clerk. At night, when he can't fight the cravings, he becomes a collector. He takes great care of his human things, and when they've been on their best behavior, he even takes them out of his freezers. Florel Ross has been mostly invisible since the death of her twin, who died 20 years ago at the hands of a serial killer. Obsessed with justice, Florel is willing to risk anything for the answers she craves: What goes on in the mind of a serial killer?

The Troubleshooter: Hannibal Jones Mystery Series

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Austin S. Camacho
• Narrated By Justin Joseph

Dan Balor, a high powered Washington attorney, buys an apartment building in the heart of the city, hoping to create low income housing for good families. Instead, he finds the building occupied by squatters: drug dealers, winos, and hookers intent on staying in place. Police and private investigators are unable to empty the building for use by paying residents. No one seems willing or able to take on this challenge until Balor meets Hannibal Jones.

Scoop of Lies

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Perry Kincaid
• Narrated By Gregg Rizzo

David Clay is a recent college graduate struggling to cope with the disappointment of life after earning his journalism degree. He is quickly introduced to the mundane and often unrewarding existence at a community newspaper. And then the economy stalls, leaving the paper with no choice but to cut jobs to remain in business. When an employee approaches David with an unethical plan to boost circulation and save their jobs, he must make a choice that could lead him to fame and fortune - or the loud clank of a jail cell closing!

Pressure Point: The Randall Lee Mysteries, Book 2

• UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 5 mins)
• By Charles Colyott
• Narrated By Todd Curless
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Just back from a relaxing vacation, acupuncturist and Tai Chi master Randall Lee returns to find his friend, Detective John Knox, in critical condition following a bizarre attack by a seemingly unstoppable assailant. Against the wishes of the police and his own girlfriend, Randall begins to look into the case...but in vowing to help Knox, Lee must descend into a world of organized crime, mysterious assassins, and his own shadowy past to discover the truth.

The Shadows Behind Her Smile

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 58 mins)
• By Karen Millie-James
• Narrated By Edward Applewhite
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Sean O'Connell, Steve's former sergeant, had promised he would always protect Cydney and the children in the event of Steve's death. However, during Cydney's investigations into the scrupulous activities of two high-powered businessmen, and when George Edwards appears on the scene intent on pursuing her, Sean finds himself out of his depth. From the heart of Cydney's corporate world in London, to the ruins of war-torn Damascus, men will stop at nothing to achieve their goals.

The Silencer: The Silencer Series, Book 1

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 9 mins)
• By Mike Ryan
• Narrated By Brian Hutchison

CIA Black Ops agent John Smith is on his latest assignment in London. Little does he know, it'll also be his last. Barely surviving an attack on his life, Smith lays low for six months until he returns to the United States. His flight is strangely diverted to Philadelphia, where he meets a mysterious man who already knows about his past and recruits him for a job. Needing a new identity, Smith becomes Michael Recker. He tries to prevent bad things from happening to innocent people.