Discover the Libray of Best Audiobooks in Nonfiction, True Crime

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Title: The Surgeon of Crowthorne

Subtitle: The Murder, Mystery and Madness of the Oxford English Dictionary

Author: Simon Winchester

Narrator: Simon Winchester

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-17

Publisher: Whole Story Audiobooks

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

The compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental task. It took 50 years, even with the help of numerous contributors. Among the most prolific was William Chester Minor, who sent editor James Murray thousands of extracts.

On many occasions, Murray invited this mysterious correspondent to Oxford, but the invitation was always declined. Finally stirred by curiosity, Murray himself went to visit Minor. What he found was shocking: Minor lived in Broadmoor asylum. He was a millionaire, an expert on the English language, and a qualified surgeon, but he was imprisoned as a lunatic for murder.

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Title: True Crime Stories: Murderers Who Killed Freely for Years

Subtitle: True Crime Stories of Maniac Serial Killers

Author: Joseph A. Mudder

Narrator: John Fiore

Format: Unabridged

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-14-17

Publisher: Joseph A. Mudder

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

The world in which we now live in is a product of years of war and brutality. It has created many macabre stories of men and women, while undergoing the change from a bloody war to a cold war.

I'm sure you have heard this before but let me remind you, monsters don't hide under the bed or inside a wardrobe; they hide under the same skin as you have. Yes, you heard me right, men are the real monsters we should be afraid of.

I will tell you the stories of men who hid as sheep, who were completely vindicated by their life. But the wolf shows its true nature eventually. Sometimes they are never caught and can hide among their peers and blend into their surroundings. Alluding the authorities by the skin of their teeth, almost as if taunting them and giving them a little hope then slipping away right before their eyes.

This book will tell you about the gore and blood spread by such beings, on how they instilled fear in the heart of others by hiding and silently killing.

The stories include the misplaced justice of madam Popova, who killed men common to infidelity to Lewis Hutchinson, who killed for the sake of killing. Stories of killers like Moses Sithole who raped and killed their victims for self-preservation to Saeed Hanae, who killed prostitutes. Then there are the tales of the most sickening killers like Thomas Quick and Gregory Davis, who enjoyed the pleasure of the kill, before and after they died.

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Title: Black Dahlia, Red Rose

Subtitle: America's Most Notorious Crime Solved for the First Time

Author: Piu Eatwell

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-12-17

Publisher: Coronet

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

On January 15, 1947, the naked, dismembered body of a black-haired beauty, Elizabeth Short, was discovered lying next to a pavement in a Hollywood suburb. She was quickly nicknamed The Black Dahlia. The homicide enquiry that followed consumed Los Angeles for years, and the authorities blew millions of dollars of resources on an investigation that threw up dozens of suspects. But it never was solved - until now.

Piu Eatwell for the first time reveals compelling evidence, both forensic and eyewitness, which finally points to the identity of the murderer. This is a dark tale of sex, manipulation, orgies, obsession, psychopathy and one of the biggest police cover-ups in history. The case was immortalised in James Ellroy's famous novel based on the case, in Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon and in Brian de Palma's movie.

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Title: Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton's American Kingpin

Subtitle: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road

Author: Start Publishing Notes

Narrator: Michael Gilboe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-17

Publisher: Start Publishing Notes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

Please note: This is an analysis and key takeaways of the book and not the original book.

Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review of Nick Bilton's American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road includes a summary of the book, review, analysis and key takeaways, and detailed "about the author" section.

Preview: American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Bilton tells the story of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of an illegal website that helped people buy and sell illicit goods anonymously. The author traces how Ross transformed his nascent idea for an "eBay for drugs" on the dark web into a multimillion dollar business, as well as the team of crafty feds who brought him down - and ultimately put him behind bars for life.

Ross was a 24-year-old graduate student at Penn State when he met his girlfriend, Julia. He was politically active on campus to the point where his libertarianism distracted him from his studies, which led to a dismissal from his PhD program in 2010. Julia quit school and followed him to Austin, Texas, where his family lived. After a handful of failed business ventures, Ross began working long hours to develop an idea he'd been toying with for some time: an online marketplace where people could buy and sell anything from drugs to guns without fearing for their safety or privacy. The recent invention of bitcoin had made his pipe dream realistic, and he was so excited that he worked long hours teaching himself the code he needed to build the site. By 2011, it was ready. Using an alias, Ross left a few messages advertising its existence on drug-related forums. That's all it took to launch his website, the Silk Road.

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Title: The Serial Killers

Subtitle: The Sadistic Seven, Book 1

Author: Rodney Cannon

Narrator: Dean Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-17

Publisher: cannonbooks

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

These seven murderers are perhaps the most sadistic serial killers to ever live.

Albert Fish was a rapist, a child killer, and a cannibal who, not satisfied with the torture and murders of his young victims, would write to the parents to detail all of the vile things he did to the children. One such letter in this book. Albert Fish may have been the sickest serial killer to ever live. He would keep his young victims alive for days and beat them constantly to tenderize their flesh for cooking.

John Wayne Gacy, the Killer Clown, who raped and murdered young men then buried their bodies beneath his home.

The Hillside Stranglers were a pair of cousins who for months terrorized the state of California. These two sadistic creatures would kidnap women, rape them, and then strangle them to death before dumping their bodies along hillsides. No one would be safe from them, prostitutes, students, and children would be targeted by them. Rarely in the history of the world have two men worked so effectively together as killers.

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Title: Ranger Games

Subtitle: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime

Author: Ben Blum

Narrator: Johnathan McClain

Format: Unabridged

Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-12-17

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

A tense and layered true-crime story about an all-American soldier boy turned bank robber.

Alex Blum was a clean-cut all-American kid with one unshakeable goal in life: to serve his country in the military. He was accepted into the elite Rangers regiment, but on the first day of his leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma and committed armed robbery.

The Blum family was devastated and mystified. How could he have done such a thing?

Alex's attorney presented a defence based on the theory that trainee Rangers are indoctrinated on a level akin to the brainwashing in an extreme religious cult, and Alex insisted that he had believed the robbery was just another exercise in the famously daunting Ranger program. But Luke Elliot Sommer, the charismatic soldier behind the robbery, maintained that Alex knew exactly what he was doing, and had, in fact, planned it all with him.

Who was lying? What had happened to Alex during those gruelling months of training? How accountable was he?

Critic Reviews:

"Ben Blum's achievement in this relentlessly gripping book is to make an incredible story entirely credible. If many of the serial revelations and twists are subtle and nuanced rather than spectacular that only adds to the sense of his narrative command and assurance." (Geoff Dyer)

"Ranger Games is a rare and totally original work of nonfiction. The odd characters and dangerous situations live vibrantly in these pages and the stakes are always high. Ben Blum's search for truth leads him down many paths into an inner turmoil and boil about family, fidelity, identity, good and evil, and military service. Once you start reading you won't put it down." (Anthony Swofford)

"Ranger Games is one of those rare books that illuminates its subject beyond what you thought possible - and then transcends its subject to become something more. In this case, the subject is engaging and disturbing all on its own; the 'inexplicable crime' of the title is fascinating, the fall-out from it is heart-breaking and suspenseful. But the book is not only about the crime or the family it tears apart, it is about the strange pathologies of North American culture, a particularly masculine form of madness, and the mysterious, timeless relationship of charm and evil." (Mary Gaitskill)

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Title: Voices Behind the Wall

Subtitle: Ninety Prison Stories

Author: John P. Farrell

Narrator: David MacDonald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-17

Publisher: Spoken Word Inc

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

These reflections by male inmates, recorded by a prison psychologist, are brief, sometimes only a few lines, but they offer profound insights into the realities of prison life. Some of the inmates are still bewildered that they gave up good opportunities and turned to crime; some fear that they may really like being in prison; others hope they will never return after being released, although they have not kept that vow in the past. Some come from families that abused or neglected them, and others had their every whim indulged. The vast majority are terrified at being thought homosexual, and even some who practice homosexuality, have developed rationalizations that permit them to consider themselves "straight." In his introduction, Farrell, who works at an unidentified maximum-security prison on the East Coast, discusses the inmates' insecurities about masculinity, and considers the roots and punishment of crime with compassion, but without sentimentality. The verse arrangement of the anecdotes is effective, making this a sort of prison Spoon River Anthology.

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Title: The Last Gang in Town

Subtitle: The Epic Story of the Vancouver Police vs. the Clark Park Gang

Author: Aaron Chapman

Narrator: JP Linton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city's east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals or the police themselves.

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Title: Southside Strangler

Subtitle: The True Story of Timothy Spencer Wilson

Author: Natalie Marshall

Narrator: Jason Fella

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-24-17

Publisher: Natalie Marshall

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

Timothy Wilson Spencer has the distinction of being the first American serial killer to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence - evidence that also exonerated a man who had been in prison after being wrongly convicted of committing one of Spencer's murders. A troubled adolescent from Arlington, Virginia, with a deep hatred of women, Spencer utilized his cat-burglar skills, strength, and agility to gain entry into his victims' homes, lay wait, and then bind, rape, torture, and murder them. In total, Spencer had been linked to five murders and at least nine rapes in both Richmond and Arlington, Virginia. He was convicted of the murders of four of his victims and sentenced to death. Spencer was ultimately executed in the electric chair on April 27, 1994.

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Title: Girl Killer

Subtitle: True Stories of Teen Girls Who Kill

Author: Heidi Poole

Narrator: Adrienne M Roberson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-18-17

Publisher: Heidi Poole

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

Three harrowing tales of three teenage girls who left behind a trail of murder and mayhem.

On the surface Alyssa Bustamante was a pretty 15-year-old girl who excelled in school. Behind closed doors, however, Alyssa was teenager with a dangerous psychosis...she fantasized about killing someone. Her social media pages and diaries all painted the portrait of someone with an irresistible compulsion to inflict pain onto the world. Her thoughts growing darker by the day, Alyssa dug two graves in the woods outside her home and waited...waited for the perfect victim. On October 21, 2009, she found one.

Tylar Witt lived in an affluent neighborhood in El Dorado Hills, California, with her 47-year-old single mother, Joanne Witt. Everyone who knew her described her as sweet, but fights were increasing between her and her mother. Tylar was turning into a different person; she was becoming a killer.

In 1992 Melinda Loveless would lead a gang of teen girls in the torture murder of Shanda Sharer. Caught in a lesbian love triangle, the four girls would torture the young Shanda and burn her alive. The case would shock the picturesque town in Southern Indiana and make national headlines, making an entire nation ask "why?"

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