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The Longest True Crime Audiobooks

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, 25 unabridged True Crime audiobooks in our catalog run 20 hours or more. These are the longest, by the store's own running time.

The True Crime shelf sits under Mystery, Thriller & Horror on the store.

The list

#TitleAuthorLength
1Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia EmpiresSelwyn Raab34 hrs
2And the Sea Will TellVincent Bugliosi28.8 hrs
3The FBI’s Unwanted: Spics, Spooks and BroadsHugo A. Rodriguez27.9 hrs
4The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case InvestigationMatthew McGough27.3 hrs
5On the Farm: Robert William Pickton and the Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing WomenStevie Cameron26 hrs
6The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of SamMaury Terry24.9 hrs
7Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing in an Age of FraudTom Mueller24.7 hrs
8The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the MafiaWilliam Oldham24.5 hrs
9The FamilyEd Sanders24 hrs
10'Until You Are Dead': The Wrongful Conviction of Steven TruscottJulian Sher23.4 hrs
11My Sister MillyGemma Dowler22.6 hrs
12The Sixth Family: The Collapse of The New York Mafia and The Rise of Vito RizzutoAdrian Humphreys22.3 hrs
13The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced AmericaT. J. English22.1 hrs
14Love’s Blood: The Shocking True Story of a Teenager Who Would do Anything for the Older Man She Loved-Even Kill Her Whole FamilyClark Howard22 hrs
15Collateral Damage: The Mysterious Deaths of Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Kilgallen, and the Ties that Bind Them to Robert Kennedy and the JFK AssassinationMark Shaw21.3 hrs
16Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American GangsterT. J. English21.2 hrs
17Blood and MoneyThomas Thompson21.2 hrs
18The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & BetrayalNick Bryant20.9 hrs
19Dead by SunsetAnn Rule20.8 hrs
20Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America's CounterintelligenceJames Bamford20.7 hrs
21Everything She Ever WantedAnn Rule20.4 hrs
22Future CrimesMarc Goodman20.2 hrs
23Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple MurderJerry Bledsoe20.1 hrs
2422 Murders: Investigating the Massacres, Cover-up and Obstacles to Justice in Nova ScotiaPaul Palango20 hrs
25The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown with the KGBMilton Bearden20 hrs

Ordered by the store's running time, longest first. Computed from unabridged English-language audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026); children's titles are not ranked. Methodology.

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