Discover the Libray of Best Audiobooks in Nonfiction, True Crime

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Title: Midnight Rider on a Graveyard Run

Author: Gary Mraz

Narrator: Gary Mraz

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-13

Publisher: Fire & a Prayer Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

I'm a moto-journalist writing a story about the eight million Americans who work the graveyard shift. I was intrigued by these night shifters and graveyard tanker yankers. Where do midnight riders eat and sleep while traversing the dark tarmac at witching hour. This story is about Truckers, men and women delivering precious cargo. And of course there are the outlaws, hijackers, thieves, prostitutes and last call for alcohol desperados drunk driving one eyed blind. Finally, the legions of highway patrol protecting innocent travelers. I was on a mission to write their story but the longer I rode the deeper and darker the story became and what I found horrified me. What is this bloody trail of buried bones of brutally murdered women called the Corridor of Death? Who is abducting 2000 people a day, half a million people in the U.S yearly and what are the motives? These questions, and many more, I never knew existed now haunt my dreams.

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Title: The Inheritor's Powder

Author: Sandra Hempel

Narrator: Patience Tomlinson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-13

Publisher: Orion Publishing Group

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

All was quiet in the Bodle home in Plumstead village on the morning of 2 November 1833. In the large ten bedroom farmhouse, the maid Sophia Taylor began preparing breakfast while, at the cottage down the track, Mary Higgins came down to set the fire. But all was not as it seemed that morning....

When the local doctor was summoned several hours later he found four women suffering from severe vomiting and stomach pains whilst the master of the house was delirious with pain. His suspicions raised, the doctor contacted Michael Faraday at his laboratory in Woolwich. So began a chain of events that would grip the entire nation.

For in the 19th century, criminal poisoning was terrifyingly easy, yet almost impossible to prove - a situation that resulted in no end of mischief. 'The fell spirit of the Borgias' was said to be sweeping across the land and as the panic reached fever pitch, so the race to find the definitive test began....

Read by Patience Tomlinson

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Title: Murder of a Star Quarterback

Subtitle: The Tragic Tale of Steve McNair & Sahel Kazemi (R. Barri Flowers Murder Chronicles)

Author: R. Barri Flowers

Narrator: Dave Wright

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-13

Publisher: R. Barri Flowers

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

From R. Barri Flowers, award winning criminologist and internationally bestselling author of The Sex Slave Murders 1 and 2, comes a compelling new true crime short, Murder of a Star Quarterback: The Tragic Tale of Steve McNair & Sahel Kazemi.

In this absorbing tale of a sports legend, infidelity, jealousy, money, and murder, former NFL and college star quarterback Steve McNair and his attractive young lover Sahel Kazemi embark on a dangerous affair in Nashville that leaves both dead.

Included is a complete bonus true crime short, Murder in Mission Hill: The Disturbing Tale of Carol Stuart & Charles Stuart. The Boston couple's once happy marriage ends up in murder and suicide, with the race card being played in a calculated attempt to get away with cold-blooded murder.

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Title: One of Your Own

Subtitle: The Life and Death of Myra Hindley

Author: Carol Ann Lee

Narrator: Maggie Mash

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

'Infamous, I have become disowned, but I am one of your own' - Myra Hindley, from her unpublished autobiography. On 15 November 2002, Myra Hindley, Britain's most notorious murderess, died in prison, one of the rare women whose crimes were deemed so indefensible that 'life' really did mean 'life'. But who was the woman behind the headlines? How could a seemingly normal girl grow up to commit such terrible acts? Her defenders claim she fell under Ian Brady's spell, but is this the truth? Was her insistence that she had changed, that she felt deep remorse and had reverted to the Catholicism of her childhood genuine or a calculating bid to win parole?

One of Your Own explores these questions and many others, drawing on a wide range of resources, including Hindley's own unseen writings, hundreds of recently released prison files, fresh interviews and extensive new research. Compellingly well written, this is the first in-depth study of Hindley and the challenging, definitive biography of Britain's 'most-hated woman'.

Critic Reviews:

"A compelling read a measured, humane effort to get beyond the hysteria and the horror" (The Independent)

"Scrupulously researched and clear-sighted probably the most accurate account we have so far of how a 'perfect storm' of circumstances - psychological, moral and cultural - turned a damaged but sane young woman into the most notorious female killer of the twentieth century" (Mail on Sunday)

"Scrupulously unsensational as good a biography of Hindley as we're likely to get" (Sunday Times)

"[A] fine book and may, indeed, be the definitive, straightforward take on a tragic, repugnant episode in the life of our post-war Britain" (The Herald)

"The most detailed, authoritative biography of Myra Hindley to date offering a wealth of new detail" (Manchester Evening News)

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Title: Like Mother, Like Son

Author: William G. Flanagan

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-01-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

William Flanagans Like Mother, Like Son recounts the sensational true case of handsome young playboy Jed Ardito, who strangled his beautiful Brooklyn girlfriend to death in an erotic frenzy. But this true crime story gets even stranger: Seventeen years earlier, Arditos mother Frances Victoria Ardito had her own illicit lover murdered.

Editorial Reviews:

Jonathan Yens crisp voice and careful pacing accentuate the sense of tragic foreboding in William G. Flanagans Like Mother, Like Son.

Flanagans true-crime story begins with the death of 24-year-old Marie Daniele at the hands of her controlling playboy boyfriend, Jed Perdito, in a midtown Manhattan hotel room in 1993. This brutal murder had an ironic twist: 17 years earlier, Perditos mother hired members of a motorcycle gang to kill a lover after he attempted to break off their romance.

Yen relates Flanagans deeply researched account with a quiet intensity and subtle characterizations in passages of dialogue.

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Title: Murder at the Castle on the Cumberland

Subtitle: A Story of a True and Faithful Wife

Author: Tom Grassham

Narrator: Eric Stuart

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-31-13

Publisher: Personal

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

Early on the morning of October 3, 1923, the inmates of Eddyville penitentiary in western Kentucky were preparing to leave their cells for breakfast. That was when Chester Walters, known as Monte Tex Walters, made a mad dash for freedom along with two other inmates, killing three guards in the attempt. A three-day siege that would later be called the Battle of Eddyville ensued, ending with the deaths of all three prisoners.

When it was over, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Walters, the gang leader's wife, was left to stand trial for conspiracy and murder, as an accessory before the fact in the death of Hodge Cunningham, one of the guards. Conviction carried the possibility of the death penalty. In Murder at the Castle on the Cumberland, author Tom Grassham recreates the case and trial in which his great-uncle, C. C. Grassham, served as Lillian's defense counsel.

Based on documented facts, Murder at the Castle on the Cumberland narrates the story of cold and cruel domination of a woman who loved her husband. Lillian maintained she had done exactly what any good wife would do. The authorities never could shake her loyalty to her husband.

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Title: The Ice Man

Subtitle: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer

Author: Philip Carlo

Narrator: Michael Prichard

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

Top Mafia hit man. Doting father. For 30 years, Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey.

Kuklinski was Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano's partner in the killing of Paul Castellano, John Gotti hired him to kill his neighbour and he was also intimately involved in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa. He conducted this sadistic business with cold-hearted intensity, never disappointing his customers. For an additional price, he would make his victims suffer. By his own estimate, he killed over 200 men, taking enormous pride in his cunning and the ferocity of his technique. The Iceman is a blood-chilling insight into the mind of one of the world's most prolific contract killers.

Philip Carlo was the author of the international best seller The Ice Man, as well as The Night Stalker, Gaspipe and The Killer Within. He lived in New York until his death in November 2010.

Critic Reviews:

With brutal honesty, Philip Carlo writes from the heart (Robert De Niro)

"A dramatic biography uncovers Kuklinski's trail of blood in terrifying graphic detail" (News of the World)

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Title: The Killer Within

Subtitle: In the Company of Monsters

Author: Philip Carlo

Narrator: Kate Bateman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

As research for his acclaimed true-crime books, Philip Carlo interviewed at length some of the most infamous criminals and killers of our times in prison and on death row. He was able to forge a trusting relationship with his subjects, enabling him to extract the facts behind their infamy and identify what motivated them to commit their horrific crimes.

His successful books reveal the truth about notorious characters such as LA serial killer Richard Ramirez (The Night Stalker), Mafia contract killer Richard Kuklinski (The Ice Man) and crime-family boss Anthony Casso (Gaspipe), and, working closely with the DEA, Carlo also wrote the definitive account of Bonanno Mafia family assassin Tommy 'Karate' Pitera (The Butcher).

Carlo's investigative achievements were remarkable, but what wasn't known to his readers was that, while working on The Ice Man, he learnt he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a terminal illness that caused all of the muscles in his body to atrophy over time. Suddenly, after years of penetrating the minds of killers, Carlo was himself being pursued by the grim reaper. But rather than lying down and succumbing to the disease, Carlo continued to work right up until his death in 2010, and his books were published to critical and commercial acclaim.

In The Killer Within, Carlo documents his difficult experiences with ALS and explains how he managed to continue working as a true-crime author in the face of adversity. He provides an intimate account of his relationships with Ramirez, Kuklinski and Casso and reveals intriguing information about writing his bestsellers while simultaneously coping with the numerous challenges that ALS presented as it slowly began to steal his life away.

Philip Carlo was the author of the international bestseller The Ice Man, as well as The Night Stalker, Gaspipe and The Killer Within. He lived in New York until his death in November 2010.

Critic Reviews:

"With brutal honesty, Philip Carlo writes from the heart (Robert De Niro)

An inspiring testament to what the human mind can accomplish in the wake of devastating change a brave psychological exploration of a writer's craft and terminal illness" (Kirkus Reviews)

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Title: The Good Nurse

Author: Charles Graeber

Narrator: Will Collyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed 'The Angel of Death' by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favourite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver.

Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history. Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Investigative journalist Charles Graeber's portrait of Cullen depicts a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill, and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden even to his family and friends.

Were it not for the hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children, there's no telling how many more lives could have been lost.

In the tradition of In Cold Blood, The Good Nurse does more than chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship and betrayal.

Critic Reviews:

"A stunning book... It should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood... The Good Nurse succeeds in being about much more than Mr Cullen s murderous kinks...the eagerness of ambitious hospital administrators to cover up his misdeeds is revelatory. And the police investigation that brought him down is a thriller in every sense of that word." (New York Times)

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Title: Until You Bleed

Subtitle: The Caheri Gutierrez Story

Author: James O'Brien

Narrator: Mia Chiaromonte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 17 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, True Crime

Publisher's Summary:

There are places in America where a scar, physical or emotional, speaks louder than a badge or a pulpit or a diploma ever could. In 2008, Caheri Gutierrez, a young model from one of Oakland's most dangerous neighborhoods, was shot in her beautiful face and nearly killed in a drive-by. Until You Bleed tells the story of her journey from troubled youth to traumatized victim to community leader seeking to heal herself and her city.

Visión Hispana calls Until You Bleed "captivating." The San Francisco Chronicle says Gutierrez is "an unforgettable subject." Until You Bleed features interviews with the Mayor of Oakland and other city leaders, while it traces the history of the homicide rate in Oakland and the city's slow awakening to its impact and meaning. But it is Gutierrez' story, her courage and honesty, that readers find most riveting. Survivors of gun violence have crucial things to tells us about how the bullet wounded not just their bodies, but their minds and lives, their families and communities. Until You Bleed gives a victim and a city each a voice.

Editorial Reviews:

In 2008, Caheri Gutierrez had a life full of promise: the gorgeous 18-year-old was a member of the Vixens, a crew of models-slash-party-girls, and her beauty seemed destined to lead her somewhere. But then, a drive-by shooting shattered her face and changed her life forever. Performed by stage and screen actress Mia Chiaromonte with bravery and emotion that will compel listeners, Until You Bleed follows Gutierrez's journey from a troubled home, where her older brother was a gang member, to where she is today, a community leader speaking out against gun violence. Her story is juxtaposed with that of Oakland, a beautiful city that is also one of America's most dangerous places. Haunting, challenging, and ultimately inspiring, Until You Bleed is a truly riveting listen.

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