True Crime Writing

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    • The Inside Story of Hollywood's Notorious Scandal Magazine
    • By: Samantha Barbas
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America's first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars' secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a vast network of tipsters to root out stars' sexual affairs, drug use, and sexuality....

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    • Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
    • By: Michael Finkel
    • Narrated by: Rich Orlow
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 457 ratings
    • True Story weaves a spellbinding tale of murder, love, deceit, and redemption, following Finkel's relentless pursuit of the shocking truth....

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    • The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History
    • By: Blake Ellis, Melanie Hicken
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • While investigating financial crimes for CNN Money, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken were intrigued by reports that elderly Americans were giving away thousands of dollars to mail-in schemes. With a little digging, they soon discovered a shocking true story....

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    • Murder of a Soldier
    • By: Terri Schlack
    • Narrated by: Tiffany Vanlandingham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-24
    • Language: English
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    • 1SGT (Ret) Rich and Terri Schlack are proud and supportive parents when their first born son, Ryan, decides to go into the army. After all, they are very familiar with military life and what safer place to be than on a military base.

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    • Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades
    • By: Rebecca Renner
    • Narrated by: John Pirhalla
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this compelling true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters....

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    • By: Ioan Grillo
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 358 ratings
    • In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps 500 body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down 41 police officers....

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    • The Story of a Massacre in Norway - and Its Aftermath
    • By: Åsne Seierstad, Sarah Death - translator
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 322 ratings
    • A harrowing and thorough account of the massacre that upended Norway, and the trial that helped put the country back together....

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    • The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
    • By: Lisa Pease, James DiEugenio - introduction
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 25 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 173 ratings
    • In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed....

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    • The Story of a Murder Trial
    • By: Helen Garner
    • Narrated by: Kate Hood
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Janet Malcolm
    • Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 ratings
    • Janet Malcolm delves into the psychopathology of journalism using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit as her larger-than-life example: the lawsuit of Jeffrey MacDonald....

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    • A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
    • By: Alfredo Corchado
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andres Pabon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life....

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    • Every Body Leaves a Trace
    • By: Patricia Wiltshire
    • Narrated by: Patricia Wiltshire
    • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative, The Nature of Life and Death details Wiltshire's unique journey from college professor to crime fighter: solving murders, locating corpses, and exonerating the falsely accused....

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    • A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall
    • By: James Polchin
    • Narrated by: Michael Crouch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In Indecent Advances, James Polchin recovers and recounts queer stories from the crime pages - often lurid and euphemistic - that reveal the hidden history of violence against gay men....

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    • Diez casos reales [Ten True Cases]
    • By: Carles Porta, Ana Ciurans Ferrandiz - translator
    • Narrated by: Aleix Peña Miralles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-22
    • Language: Spanish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • En este volumen, que recoge diez de los casos más impactantes de la crónica negra reciente, descubriremos su especialidad literaria: contarnos extraordinarias historias de crimen y trabajo policial mientras nos mantiene en vilo hasta la última línea....

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    • The Inside Story of How the Truth Caught Up with Rupert Murdoch
    • By: Nick Davies
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Hack Attack is the mesmerizing story of how Davies and a small group of lawyers and politicians took on one of the most powerful men in the world and emerged victorious....

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    • A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
    • By: Katherine Corcoran
    • Narrated by: Gigi Saul Guerrero
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Former AP Mexico bureau chief Katherine Corcoran’s pulsating investigation into the murder of a legendary woman journalist on the verge of exposing government corruption in Mexico....

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    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection....

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