True Crime AudioBooks

Set to be a major motion picture, this intriguing book tells the true story of a convicted drug dealer who must go undercover in the nations toughest maximum security prison for the criminally insane to obtain the confession of a notorious serial rapist and murderer.

An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a confirmed bachelor-turned-devoted family man; and Liysa, a loving mother and aspiring Hollywood screenwriter. But few, including Chris, had seen Liysa's other side and no one anticipated the fatal outcome of a family camping trip in an Oregon forest. Liysa soon revealed herself as a victim of ...

You don't know the full truth about O. J. Simpson and the murders that gripped a nation. But Mike Gilbert does, and after nearly two decades of being O. J. Simpson's sports agent, business adviser, and trusted confidant, Gilbert is breaking his silence and telling the full story of the man he once idolized but now despises.

On the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a carful of gun-toting thugs. This is the thrilling story of how Alpert handled his ordeal and lived to bring the kidnappers to justice. Publisher:

When Aldrich Ames was arrested in 1994, he had been feeding the KGB information for nine years. Pete Earley is the only writer to conduct fifty hours of one-on-one interviews with Ames, without a government censor present. Publisher:

In 2004, journalist Michael Kodas joined mountain climbers from New England on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and arduous adventure among a group of like-minded idealists that he could report to his readers back in Connecticut. But on the Himalayan mountain, he discovered thieves, prostitutes, con men, and blackmailers. There were people who would do "anything" for ...

Larsons gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of a master builder, a killer, and the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair that obsessed them both. Unabridged. 12 CDs.

No ordinary Washington memoir, Facing Down Evil is an unprecedented look behind the scenes of our nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. As the FBI's premier hostage negotiator, Clint Van Zandt worked or consulted on some of recent U.S. history's most unsettling and high-profile conflicts, including the Waco, Oklahoma City, and Unabomber cases.

The chilling story of the BTK killer, Dennis Rader, a man considered a "spiritual leader" by his pastor and congregation, who turned out to be the devil next door. More than just true crime, Unholy Messenger is a powerful, thoroughly engrossing examination of the intersection between good and evil, and of the psychology and spirituality of a killer in whom faith and bloodshed converged.

This powerful memoir reveals what really happened to the man whose career was dramatized in the 2007 feature film American Gangster, exposing a startling look at the world of organized crime. Publisher:

Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn?t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath. "A ...

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer offers an unprecedented look at the culture of excess in the elite community of Palm Beach.

In 2000, Douglas Preston and his family moved to Florence, Italy, fulfilling a long-held dream. They put their children in Italian schools and settled into a 14th century farmhouse in the green hills of Florence, where they devoted themselves to living "la dolce vita" while Preston wrote his best-selling suspense novels. All that changes when he discovers that the lovely olive grove in front of th...

A groundbreaking major bestseller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal.

An award-winning journalist, screenwriter, and historian offers the complete story of how the mob infiltrated Havana in the 1950s, made a fortune, and then lost it all to Fidel Castro.

The stories are as infamous as the artists who tell them. With their boasts of drugs, extortion and even murder, in today's world rappers need rap sheets before they can even hope to have a platinum record. So with all this grandstanding about their criminal nature, why haven't more hip-hop artists been busted for the crimes that they brag of, and why haven't high profile crimes replete with witne

""I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me."" That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper's ...

Based on a wealth of groundbreaking research, a leading psychologist's fascinating investigation of why we are all "wired to kill."Reporting on findings that are often startling and counterintuitive-the younger woman involved in a love triangle is at a high risk of being killed-he puts forth a bold new general theory of homicide, arguing that the human psyche has evolved specialized adaptations wh

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer offers an unprecedented look at the culture of excess in the elite community of Palm Beach.

In "Thunderstruck," Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men--Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication--whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time. Set in Edwardian London and on the stormy coasts of Cornwall, Cape Cod, and Nova Scotia, "Thunderstruck" evoke...

A tale of terrorism, espionage, and an epic struggle for justice in an America on the verge-sparked by a massive and mysterious explosion in New York Harbor in 1916.

A journalist investigates a cold-blooded murder at a Mt. Everest base camp in Chinese-occupied Tibet, a probe during which he learns about the lawless world in the shadows of the world's tallest peaks.

Hiking the Appalachian Trial for "A Walk in The Woods" was a picnic compared to Bryson's Australian excursions. Listeners accompany Bryson as he dodges jellyfish at Bondi Beach, discovers a fish that can climb trees, weathers 140-degree heat in the desert, and more. Unabridged. 9 CDs.

Witness the rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time in this enormously entertaining story of how a fraudulent surgeon made a fortune by inserting goats' testes into impotent American men.

The first complete narrative thriller about Margo Bennett, a married FBI agent, who had a love affair with bestselling author Patricia Cornwell and whose jealous husband, Gene Bennett, a superstar FBI undercover agent, kidnapped and attempted to murder her. Unabridged. 8 CDs.

From its inception, Atlantic City has always been a town dedicated to the fast buck, and this history offers a riveting account of its past 100 years--from the city's heyday as a Prohibition-era mecca of lawlessness to its rebirth as a legitimate casino resort in the modern era.

Based on a wealth of groundbreaking research, a leading psychologist's fascinating investigation of why we are all "wired to kill."Reporting on findings that are often startling and counterintuitive-the younger woman involved in a love triangle is at a high risk of being killed-he puts forth a bold new general theory of homicide, arguing that the human psyche has evolved specialized adaptations wh

A tale of terrorism, espionage, and an epic struggle for justice in an America on the verge-sparked by a massive and mysterious explosion in New York Harbor in 1916.

Making Jack Falcone is the untold true story of the highly decorated FBI agent who went deep undercover to bring down one of La Cosa Nostra's most notorious crime families.

The true story of the murderesses who became media sensations and inspired the musical "Chicago."

The bestselling author of "Family of Spies" and "The Hot House" delivers the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russias post-Cold War spy program in America: Comrade J. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.