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    • Dangerous Women - True Crime Stories
    • By: Gregg Olsen
    • Narrated by: Karen Peakes
    • Series: Dangerous Women - True Crime Stories
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • At 5:02 p.m. on June 5, 1986, an emergency call came into the local sheriff’s office in the small town of Auburn, Washington State. A distressed housewife, Stella Nickell, said her husband, Bruce, was having a seizure....

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    • Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
    • By: Zeke Faux
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 540 ratings
    • Investigative reporter Zeke Faux provides an uproarious account of a crypto delusion; how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars.

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    • One Thriller Writer's Personal Horror Story
    • By: Tim Tigner
    • Narrated by: Tim Tigner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • When it comes to divorce, forewarned is forearmed. This book delivers both in a story you won't be able to pause....

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    • LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
    • By: Rick Emerson
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 471 ratings
    • In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex, psychosis, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD's fearsome reputation....

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    • The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church
    • By: Gareth Gore
    • Narrated by: Gareth Gore
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Investigative journalist Gareth Gore recounts how members of Opus Dei—a secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic sect—pushed its radical agenda within the Church and around the globe, using billions of dollars siphoned from one of the world’s largest banks.

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    • The Story of the Murdaugh Family of South Carolina & a Century of Backwoods Power
    • By: Jason Ryan
    • Narrated by: Joe Hempel
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • The stranger-than-fiction story of the now-notorious low country clan, in all its Southern Gothic intensity—by an author with unparalleled access to and knowledge of the players, the history, and the place.

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    • How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
    • By: Anna Akbari
    • Narrated by: Anna Akbari, Justin Price
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfish, a thrilling personal account of three women coming face-to-face with an internet predator and teaming up to expose them....

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    • Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
    • By: Mandy Matney
    • Narrated by: Mandy Matney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 768 ratings
    • The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Murdaugh Murders Podcast, Mandy Matney....

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    • How One Man Bribed, Bilked, and Seduced the U.S. Navy
    • By: Craig Whitlock
    • Narrated by: Dan Bittner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • Fat Leonard is the unvarnished story of how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers, defrauded the US Navy of tens of millions of dollars, and jeopardized our nation’s security.

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    • By: Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
    • Narrated by: Will Collyer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,600 ratings
    • Now a number-one international best seller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history....

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    • The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
    • By: Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone, Tony Tetro, Giampiero Ambrosi
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters—exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio....

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    • Prosecuting Casey Anthony
    • By: Jeff Ashton
    • Narrated by: Jeff Ashton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,207 ratings
    • Filled with explosive new information, this is the definitive inside story of the case that captivated the nation and the verdict that no one saw coming....

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    • The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy
    • By: James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 399 ratings
    • In 2016, the fate of Paramount Global—the multibillion-dollar entertainment empire that includes Paramount, CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, Showtime, and Simon & Schuster—hung precariously in the balance....

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    • The Double Life of David Miller
    • By: Karen Kingsbury
    • Narrated by: Kate Zane
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 117 ratings
    • A New York Times bestselling author and former Los Angeles Times reporter's dives deep into the life of a con artist and bigamist who resorts to murder to hide his double life....

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    • Many listened to the Dirty John podcast, which introduced the world to John Meehan, a dangerous serial predator who infiltrates the life of Debra Newell and ultimately dies at the hand of her daughter, Terra....
    • How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
    • By: Max Frumes, Sujeet Indap
    • Narrated by: Chris Kipiniak
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 398 ratings
    • It was the most brutal corporate restructuring in Wall Street history. The 2015 bankruptcy brawl for the storied casino giant, Caesars Entertainment, pitted brilliant and ruthless private equity legends against the world's most relentless hedge fund wizards....

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    • The Search for the Elusive Texas Jewel Thief
    • By: Rena Pederson
    • Narrated by: Erin Dion
    • Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • As a string of high-profile jewel thefts went unsolved during the Swinging Sixties, the press dubbed the elusive thief the King of Diamonds. Like Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief, the King was so bold that he tip-toed into the homes of millionaires while they were home....

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