Nonfiction Thrillers

Nonfiction thrillers encompass true stories with espionage, detectives, or survival tactics. They hinge upon real world suspense, crime, or climactic historical events exploiting the truth.
Product List
    • The Story of Gary Heidnik
    • By: Ken Englade
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 338 ratings
    • Serial killer Gary Heidnik's name will live on in infamy, and his home, 3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia, is a house tainted with the memory of unbelievable horrors. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • By: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30,930 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    • By: Gregg Olsen
    • Narrated by: Karen Peakes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,817 ratings
    • Number-one New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors....

    Regular price: $25.00

    • The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
    • By: Maureen Callahan
    • Narrated by: Amy Landon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,885 ratings
    • Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires
    • By: Selwyn Raab
    • Narrated by: Paul Costanzo
    • Length: 33 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,973 ratings
    • Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo, and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York and built the Mafia into an underworld empire....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins and WWII Heroes
    • By: Tim Brady
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • May 10, 1940. The Netherlands was swarming with Third Reich troops. In seven days it's entirely occupied by Nazi Germany. Joining a small resistance cell in the Dutch city of Haarlem were three teenage girls who would soon band together to form a singular female underground squad....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • And Four Who Tried to Save Her
    • By: Brion McClanahan
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 479 ratings
    • 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America is a new look back at American history that unabashedly places blame for our nation's current problems on the backs of nine very flawed men....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival
    • By: Misty Griffin
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5,491 ratings
    • When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: Jane Austen
    • Narrated by: Rosamund Pike
    • Series: Jane Austen's Novels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43,034 ratings
    • One of Jane Austen’s most beloved works, Pride and Prejudice, is vividly brought to life by Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl)....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • A Complete History
    • By: Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

    Regular price: $30.09

    • The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel
    • By: William Rempel
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 523 ratings
    • In this riveting and relentless nonfiction thriller, award-winning investigative reporter William C. Rempel tells the harrowing story of former Cali cartel insider Jorge Salcedo....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 699 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • A Bigfoot Thriller
    • By: Ethan Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • What begins as a rescue mission quickly turns into a harrowing fight for survival. When renowned cryptozoologist John Hadley disappears while ...

    Regular price: $4.99

  • Regular price: $17.98

    • A Dogman Thriller
    • By: Ethan Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • "This isn’t a myth—it’s a predator." In the secluded woodlands of Northern Michigan, the Harwood family finds their peaceful life shattered ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • Wendigo Winter: A Wendigo Thriller
    • By: Ethan Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • "Winter Unleashes the Damned." Tom and Rachel Smith, along with their son Caleb and infant daughter Lily, move to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to ...

    Regular price: $4.99

    • By: Robert Greene
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 23 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25,385 ratings
    • Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

    Regular price: $19.84

    • By: Georgia Hunter
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati, Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,360 ratings
    • he New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies sold worldwide. Inspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive - and to reunite....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom
    • By: Larry Loftis
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • The Watchmaker’s Daughter is one of the greatest stories of World War II that listeners haven’t heard: the remarkable and inspiring life story of Corrie ten Boom—a groundbreaking, female Dutch watchmaker, whose family unselfishly transformed their house into a hiding place....

    Regular price: $25.19

    • By: Truman Capote
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15,326 ratings
    • On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues....

    Regular price: $20.25

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