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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/498016 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj Author: Richard Neville, Julie Clarke Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 58 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. ***NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR TV SERIES *** DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE CRIME STORY OF SERIAL KILLER, CHARLES SOBHRAJ, AND THE RACE TO BRING HIM TO JUSTICE Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up with a fluid sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s hippie route, leaving a trail of dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake. First published in 1979, but updated here to include new material, On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj's life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke. Blurring the boundaries between true crime and novelisation, this remains the definitive book about Sobhraj - a riveting tale of sex, drugs, adventure and murder. © Julie Clarke 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442942 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer Author: Jennifer Jordan, Liza Rodman Narrator: Aida Reluzco, Andi Arndt Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 1 minute Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 34 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 5 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: This chilling true story and “harrowing account of the evil that can lurk around the edges of girlhood” (Carolyn Murnick, author of The Hot One)—reminiscent of Ann Rule’s classic The Stranger Beside Me—follows a little girl longing for love who finds friendship with her charismatic babysitter, unaware that he is a vicious serial killer. Growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s, Liza Rodman was a lonely little girl. During the summers, while her mother worked days in a local motel and danced most nights in the Provincetown bars, her babysitter—the kind, handsome handyman at the motel where her mother worked—took her and her sister on adventures in his truck. He bought them popsicles and together, they visited his “secret garden” in the Truro woods. To Liza, he was one of the few kind, understanding, and safe adults in her life. But there was one thing she didn’t know; their babysitter was a serial killer. Though Tony Costa’s gruesome case made screaming headlines in 1969 and beyond, Liza never made the connection between her friendly babysitter and the infamous killer of numerous women, including four in Massachusetts, until decades later. Haunted by nightmares and horrified by what she learned, Liza became obsessed with the case. Now, she and cowriter Jennifer Jordan reveal “a suspenseful portrayal of murderous madness in tandem with a child’s growing loneliness, neglect, and despair, a narrative collision that will haunt” (Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita) you long after you finish it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/444609 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dirty Gold: The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring Author: Kyra Gurney, Jim Wyss, Jay Weaver, Nicholas Nehamas Narrator: Gustavo Rex Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 21 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: The explosive story of the illegal gold trade from South America, and the three Miami businessmen who got rich on it In March of 2017, a team of FBI agents arrested Juan Granda, Samer Barrage, and Renato Rodriguez, or as they called themselves, 'the three amigos.' The trio--first identified publicly by the authors of this book-- had built a $3.6 billion dollar business in metals trading, mostly illegal Peruvian gold. Their arrests and subsequent prosecution laid bare more than a corrupt finance firm, though. Instead, Dirty Gold lifts the veil on an illegal international business that is five times as lucrative as trafficking cocaine, and arguably more dangerous. As the award-winning team of Miami Herald reporters show, illegal gold mines have become a haven for Latin American drug money. The gold is then sold to metals traders, and ultimately to Americans who want it in their jewelry, smartphones, and investment portfolios. By following the trail of these three traders, Dirty Gold leads us into a criminal underworld that has never before been in full view.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493645 to listen full audiobooks. Title: On the Trail of the Serpent: The Epic Hunt for the Bikini Killer Author: Julie Clarke, Richard Neville Narrator: Homer Todiwala Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: The complete story of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer who inspired the hit Netflix series The Serpent. Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great conmen, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up deprived of a sense of identity, moving to France before being imprisoned and stripped of his multiple nationalities. Driven to floating from country to country, continent to continent, he became the consummate con artist, stealing passports, smuggling drugs and guns across Asia, busting out of prisons and robbing wealthy associates. But as his situation grew more perilous, he turned to murder, preying on Western tourists dropping out across the 1970s 'hippie trail,' leaving dead bodies and gruesome crime scenes in his wake, triggering an international manhunt that put him at the top of INTERPOL's most wanted list. On the Trail of the Serpent draws its readers into the story of Sobhraj's life as told exclusively to journalists Richard Neville and Julie Clarke by the investigators, families of the victims, and even Sobhraj himself. Blurring the boundaries between true crime and novelization, this remains the definitive book about Sobhraj--a riveting tale of sex, drugs, adventure, and murder.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/493205 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hillside Stranglers: The Inside Story of the Killing Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles Author: Darcy O'brien Narrator: Perry Daniels Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 15 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 2, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: For weeks, the body count of sexually violated, brutally murdered young women escalated. With increasing alarm, Los Angeles newspapers headlined the deeds of a serial killer they named the Hillside Strangler. The city was held hostage by fear. But not until January 1979, more than a year later, would the mysterious disappearance of two university students near Seattle lead police to the arrest of a security guard—the handsome, charming, fast-talking Kenny Bianchi—and the discovery that the strangler was not one man but two. Compellingly, O'Brien explores the symbiotic relationship between Bianchi and his cousin Angelo Buono, their lust for women as insatiable as their hate, before examining the crimes they remorselessly perpetrated and the lives of the unsuspecting victims they claimed. Equally riveting is O'Brien's account of the trial—one of the longest and most controversial criminal court cases in American history—with the defense team parading, one after another, expert witnesses who had been effectively duped by Bianchi's impersonation of a man suffering multiple personality disorder. It's one way a man might contrive to get away with murder. Darcy O'Brien weds the narrative skill of an award-winning novelist with the detailed observations of an experienced investigator to unravel this chilling true-crime story.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/485765 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb Author: Bernard Lefkowitz Narrator: Tom Parks Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 19 hours 33 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: It was a crime that captured national attention. In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. What went wrong in this seemingly flawless American town? In search of the answer, Bernard Lefkowitz takes the listener behind Glen Ridge's manicured façade into the shadowy basement that was the scene of the rape, into the mansions on 'Millionaire's Row,' into the All-American high school, and finally into the courtroom where justice itself was on trial. Lefkowitz's sweeping narrative, informed by more than 200 interviews and six years of research, recreates a murky adolescent world that parents didn't—or wouldn't—see: a high school dominated by a band of predatory athletes; a teenage culture where girls were frequently abused and humiliated at sybaritic and destructive parties; and a town that continued to embrace its celebrity athletes—despite the havoc they created—as 'our guys.' The clash of cultures and values that divided Glen Ridge, Lefkowitz writes, still divides the country. Contains mature themes.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/488562 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing Author: Sonia Faleiro Narrator: Sonia Faleiro Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 38 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 1 of Total 2 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: By the award-winning writer of Beautiful Thing, a masterly inquest into how the mysterious deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation. The girls' names were Padma and Lalli, but they were so inseparable that people in the village called them Padma Lalli. Sixteen-year-old Padma sparked and burned. Fourteen-year-old Lalli was an incorrigible romantic. They grew up in Katra Sadatganj, an eye-blink of a village in western Uttar Pradesh crammed into less than one square mile of land. It was out in the fields, in the middle of mango season, that the rumors started. Then one night in the summer of 2014 the girls went missing; and hours later they were found hanging in the orchard. Who they were, and what had happened to them, was already less important than what their disappearance meant to the people left behind. In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small community held to be true, and instigate a national conversation about sex and violence. Slipping deftly behind political maneuvering, caste systems and codes of honor in a village in northern India, The Good Girls returns to the scene of Padma and Lalli's short lives and shameful deaths, and dares to ask: what is the human cost of shame?

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/442948 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Princess Spy: The True Story of World War II Spy Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones Author: Larry Loftis Narrator: Kate Reading Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 46 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.18 of Total 17 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER “As exciting as any spy novel” (Daily News, New York), The Princess Spy follows the hidden history of an ordinary American girl who became one of the OSS’s most daring World War II spies before marrying into European nobility. Perfect for fans of A Woman of No Importance and Code Girls. When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she would go on to live “a life of glamour and danger that Ingrid Bergman only played at in Notorious” (Time). As the United States enters the Second World War, the young college graduate is desperate to aid in the war effort, but no one is interested in a bright-eyed young woman whose only career experience is modeling clothes. Aline’s life changes when, at a dinner party, she meets a man named Frank Ryan and reveals how desperately she wants to do her part for her country. Within a few weeks, he helps her join the Office of Strategic Services—forerunner of the CIA. With a code name and expert training under her belt, she is sent to Spain to be a coder, but is soon given the additional assignment of infiltrating the upper echelons of society, mingling with high-ranking officials, diplomats, and titled Europeans. Against this glamorous backdrop of galas and dinner parties, she recruits sub-agents and engages in deep-cover espionage. Even after marrying the Count of Romanones, one of the wealthiest men in Spain, Aline secretly continues her covert activities, being given special assignments when abroad that would benefit from her impeccable pedigree and social connections. “[A] meticulously researched, beautifully crafted work of nonfiction that reads like a James Bond thriller” (Bookreporter), The Princess Spy brings to vivid life the dazzling adventures of a spirited American woman who risked everything to serve her country.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/464969 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream Author: Michael Shnayerson Narrator: Steven Jay Cohen Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 12 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel (1906–1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of the 1940s, Bugsy Siegel and his longtime partner in crime Meyer Lansky engaged in innumerable acts of violence. As World War II came to an end, Siegel saw the potential for a huge, elegant casino resort in the sands of Las Vegas. Jewish gangsters built nearly all of the Vegas casinos that followed. Then, one by one, they disappeared. Siegel's story laces through a larger, generational story of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/489439 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Hitler's Horses: The Incredible True Story of the Detective who Infiltrated the Nazi Underworld Author: Arthur Brand Narrator: Joe Jameson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 49 minutes Release date: February 4, 2021 Genres: True Crime Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The true story of a detective, two bronze horses and the dictator who set the world on fire. When detective Arthur Brand is summoned to a meeting with one of the most dangerous men in the art world, he learns that a clue has emerged that could solve one of the Second World War's unexplained mysteries: what really happened to the Striding Horses, Hitler's favourite statue, which disappeared during the bombing of Berlin. As Brand goes undercover to find the horses, he discovers a terrifying world ruled by neo-Nazis and former KGB agents, where Third Reich memorabilia sells for millions of dollars. The stakes get ever higher as Brand carefully lays his trap to catch the criminal masterminds trying to sell the statue on the black market. But who are they? And will he manage to bring them to justice before they discover his real identity? With a plot worthy of John Le Carré, Hitler's Horses is a thrilling retelling of one of history's most extraordinary heists. © Arthur Brand 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021