True Crime Profiles
Crime Solvers
Biographies About
Crime Solvers
Walk through the halls of justice with true crime biographies from criminalists,
investigators, armchair sleuths, the wrongfully accused, and other crime fighters.
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The Sun Does Shine
- By: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,897
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Performance7,160
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Story7,133
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”...
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- By MUDDBONE on 04-29-18
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The Sun Does Shine
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-27-18
- Language: English
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Chase Darkness with Me
- How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
- By: Billy Jensen, Karen Kilgariff - foreword
- Narrated by: Karen Kilgariff, Billy Jensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall10,830
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Performance9,632
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Story9,579
Journalist Billy Jensen spent 15 years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims. Every story he wrote had one thing in common - it didn’t have an ending. The killer was still out there....
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COULD NOT STOP
- By KK on 04-14-19
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Chase Darkness with Me
- How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
- Narrated by: Karen Kilgariff, Billy Jensen
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 04-11-19
- Language: English
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In the Name of the Children
- An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
- By: Jeffrey L. Rinek, Marilee Strong
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,722
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Performance1,544
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Story1,538
In the Name of the Children takes listeners into the trenches of real-time investigations where every second counts and any wrong decision or overlooked fact can have tragic repercussions. Jeff Rinek offers an insider's perspective of the actual case agents and street detectives....
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Tedious listening...
- By Jeny Kennedy on 09-26-18
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In the Name of the Children
- An FBI Agent's Relentless Pursuit of the Nation's Worst Predators
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 07-10-18
- Language: English
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- By: Bryan Stevenson
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18,521
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Performance16,412
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Story16,362
#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...
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Made me question justice, peers and myself.
- By Kristy VL on 04-17-15
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Just Mercy
- A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 10-21-14
- Language: English
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I Will Find You
- Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
- By: Joe Kenda
- Narrated by: Joe Kenda
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,888
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Performance6,261
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Story6,235
Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before revealed case files from his 19 years as a homicide detective. Are you horrified yet fascinated by abhorrent murders? Do you crave to know the gory details of these crimes, and do you seek comfort in...
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LT KENDA IS FANTASTIC
- By Kindle Customer on 10-04-17
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I Will Find You
- Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime
- Narrated by: Joe Kenda
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 09-26-17
- Language: English
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No Stone Unturned
- The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
- By: Steve Jackson
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3,322
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Performance2,999
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Story2,979
No Stone Unturned recreates the genesis of NecroSearch International: a small ,eclectic group of scientists and law enforcement personal....
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Forensic Superheroes
- By Mark on 09-14-16
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No Stone Unturned
- The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators
- Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 05-04-15
- Language: English
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Evil Has a Name
- The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
- By: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente, Peter McDonnell
- Narrated by: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall21,704
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Performance19,516
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Story19,419
For his victims, for their families and for the investigators tasked with finding him, the senselessness and brutality of the Golden State Killer's acts were matched only by the powerlessness they felt at failing to uncover his identity....
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Audible Raises The Bar On True Crime Genre
- By R. Squyres on 11-16-18
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Evil Has a Name
- The Untold Story of the Golden State Killer Investigation
- Narrated by: Paul Holes, Jim Clemente
- Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 11-15-18
- Language: English
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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 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32,766
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Performance29,182
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Story29,070
THE BASIS FOR THE MAJOR 6-PART HBO DOCUMENTARY SERIES #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post | Maureen Corrigan, NPR | Paste | Seattle Times | Entertainment Weekly | Esquire | Slate | Buzzfeed | Jezebel | Philadelphia Inquirer | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus Reviews...
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A haunting masterpiece
- By Kat - Audible on 03-02-18
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn, Patton Oswalt
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 02-27-18
- Language: English
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Whoever Fights Monsters
- My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
- By: Robert K. Ressler, Tom Shachtman
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,047
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Performance3,640
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Story3,627
Face-to-face with some of America's most terrifying killers, FBI veteran and ex-Army CID colonel Robert Ressler learned from them how to identify unknown monsters who walk among us....
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Murderino checking in
- By Sarah R Bongiovanni on 06-16-17
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Whoever Fights Monsters
- My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 07-14-16
- Language: English
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True Crime Addict
- How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
- By: James Renner
- Narrated by: James Renner
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,332
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Performance2,104
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Story2,105
When an eleven year old James Renner fell in love with Amy Mihaljevic, the missing girl seen on posters all over his neighborhood, it was the beginning of a lifelong obsession with true crime. That obsession leads James to a successful career as an investigative journalist. It also gave him PTSD...
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Honest. Surprising. Fascinating.
- By River Holmes-miller on 05-27-16
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True Crime Addict
- How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
- Narrated by: James Renner
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-24-16
- Language: English
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Life After Death
- By: Damien Echols
- Narrated by: Damien Echols
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,521
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Performance1,393
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Story1,389
In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr.—who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three—were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria...
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A Living Poem
- By Kelli Perkins on 05-22-13
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Life After Death
- Narrated by: Damien Echols
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 09-18-12
- Language: English
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Invisible
- The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
- By: Stephen L. Carter
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall289
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Performance260
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Story260
Best-selling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life. She was Black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could...
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A Moving Biography
- By Jean on 10-31-18
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Invisible
- The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 10-09-18
- Language: English
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HOMICIDE
- By: David Simon
- Narrated by: Reed Diamond
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Overall1,557
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Performance1,270
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Story1,268
Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of fifteen detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape...
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It's abridged!
- By Chris on 09-09-08
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HOMICIDE
- Narrated by: Reed Diamond
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-15-99
- Language: English
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Ghettoside
- A True Story of Murder in America
- By: Jill Leovy
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,897
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Performance1,682
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Story1,682
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND CHICAGO TRIBUNE A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective, and the great plague of homicide in America NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS...
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Wish I liked it more
- By Deborah on 03-05-15
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Ghettoside
- A True Story of Murder in America
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-27-15
- Language: English
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,062
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Performance945
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Story946
When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison....
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- By Joschka Philipps on 02-22-18
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 07-05-16
- Language: English
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The Anatomy of Motive
- The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals
- By: John Douglas, Mark Olshaker
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,200
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Performance1,062
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Story1,053
The Anatomy of Motive offers a dramatic, insightful look at the development and evolution of the criminal mind....
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Smuckers jelly narration. Still good.
- By Thad Ames on 11-07-17
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The Anatomy of Motive
- The FBI's Legendary Mindhunter Explores the Key to Understanding and Catching Violent Criminals
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 01-25-17
- Language: English
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The Red Parts
- Autobiography of a Trial
- By: Maggie Nelson
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall273
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Performance246
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Story243
The Red Parts is a memoir, an account of a trial, and a provocative essay that interrogates the American obsession with violence and missing white women....
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Compelling, but missing something deeper
- By S. Yates on 03-17-17
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The Red Parts
- Autobiography of a Trial
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 03-24-16
- Language: English
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Amy
- Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
- By: James Renner
- Narrated by: James Renner
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall507
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Performance446
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Story445
Ten-year-old Amy Mihaljevic disappeared from the comfortable Cleveland suburb of Bay Village in the fall of 1989. Tragically, Amy was found dead a few months later. Her killer was never found. Now, 15 years later, journalist James Renner picks up the leads....
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Read every Renner
- By Amber Williams on 12-05-18
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Amy
- Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
- Narrated by: James Renner
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-20-18
- Language: English
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