Crime

The crime genre includes the broad selection of books on criminals and the court system, but the most common focus is investigations and sleuthing. Mystery novels are usually placed into this category, although there is a separate division for "crime". Hard Case Crime is one example. ...more

Inside Man (Head Cases, #2)
Missing Sam
Such a Perfect Family
Make It Out Alive (Quinn & Costa, #7)
A Field Guide to Murder
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
Wildwood (Northwoods, #2)
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
The Einstein Vendetta: Hitler, Mussolini, and a True Story of Murder
Divine Ruin (Sister Holiday Mysteries #3)
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
قضية مخالب القط (تحقيقات نوح الألفي، #5)
The Invite
Fire Must Burn (Sparks & Bainbridge, #8)
  • Hyde and Seek by John A. Hoda
    Hyde and Seek (A Jekyll & Murphy Mystery Book 1)
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    A Little Pinprick (Rainey Paxton, #1)
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    Release date: Jul 10, 2022
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    A Defiant Woman: A Modern Tudor Mystery
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  • The God of the Woods
    Beautiful Ugly
    Gone Before Goodbye
    None of This Is True
    The Widow
    Don't Let Him In
    Local Woman Missing
    Hidden Pictures
    Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
    Love, Mom
    She Didn't See It Coming
    The River Is Waiting
    All the Colors of the Dark
    The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
    Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaDeeper Than the Dead by Debra WebbOn Her Watch by Melinda LeighThose Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea
    Crime Books That Should Be Movies
    1,188 books — 1,074 voters
    I See You by Clare MackintoshInto the Water by Paula HawkinsThe Girl Before by J.P. DelaneyHer Every Fear by Peter  SwansonFinal Girls by Riley Sager
    2017 Crime Books You're Excited For!
    142 books — 419 voters

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThose Empty Eyes by Charlie DonleaHidden Pictures by Jason RekulakTwenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
    Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
    1,959 books — 1,422 voters
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
    Murder Most Cold
    236 books — 397 voters

    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    And Then There Were None
    Gone Girl
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
    The Girl on the Train
    In Cold Blood
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Silent Patient
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

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