Detective

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime and mystery fiction in which an investigator (often a detective), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder.

New Releases Tagged "Detective"

A Man Without Breath
Board Stiff (An Elliott Lisbon Mystery, #1)
Weird Detectives: Recent Investigations
Hold Fast
Red Planet Blues
Malicious Masquerade
A Matter of Trust

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  • Point Doom by Dan Fante
    Point Doom
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    From Dan Fante, the son of novelist John Fante, comes a gritty detective novel featuring JD Fiorella, an ex-private investigator who's bent on avengin…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: May 11 - May 27, 2013
    20 copies available, 224 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • The Happenstance Marshal by Michael O'Gara
    The Happenstance Marshal (Millie Mystery Series, #1)
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    Release date: Jan 11, 2013
    THE HAPPENSTANCE MARSHAL

    If you think you’d enjoy a mystery with some romance, humor, and action thrown in and wrapped in a cast of interesting charact…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 20 - May 31, 2013
    1 copy available, 102 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Pacifica by H.P. Oliver
    Pacifica
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    Release date: Feb 28, 2013
    I'm looking forward to giving away two signed trade paperback editions of the first novel in my Johnny Spicer series. Here's a brief description of th…more View Details »
    Giveaway dates: Apr 30 - May 31, 2013
    2 copies available, 151 people requesting
    Countries available: US
  • Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
    12th of Never (Women's Murder Club, #12)
    Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)
    Dead Silence (The Body Finder, #4)
    The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #18)
    The Forgotten (Puller, #2)
    Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
    Confessions of a Murder Suspect
    The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
    The House of Silk: A Sherlock Holmes Novel
    Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
    Moon Over Soho (Peter Grant, #2)
    The Leopard (Harry Hole, #8)
    10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club, #10)
    Fish & Chips (Cut & Run, #3)
    Everyone Burns by John DolanThe Coroner's Lunch by Colin CotterillThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithMurder Down Under by Arthur W. UpfieldThe Case of the Missing Servant by Tarquin Hall
    Best Multicultural Mysteries
    97 books — 70 voters
    Sin City, Vol. 1 by Frank MillerThe Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics by Paul GravettCriminal, Vol. 1 by Ed BrubakerThe Iron Wagon by JasonCrime Does Not Pay Archives, Vol. 1 by Various
    Crime comics
    19 books — 2 voters

    The House of Silk by Anthony HorowitzDeath Cloud by Andy LaneA Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleSherlock Holmes by Scott Beatty
    Books Featuring Sherlock Holmes
    16 books — 3 voters
    The Cold Blue Blood by David HandlerThe Hot Pink Farmhouse by David HandlerThe Bright Silver Star by David HandlerThe Burnt Orange Sunrise by David HandlerThe Sweet Golden Parachute by David Handler
    Berger and Mitry Mystery Series
    7 books — 2 voters

    I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterHeist Society by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally CarterDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
    Best YA Spy/Mystery Novels
    217 books — 649 voters

    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
    A Study in Scarlet  (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
    The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
    Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
    And Then There Were None
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Mysterious Affair At Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot #17)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4)

    Michael Connelly
    Michael Connelly The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #18)
    His Favorite Gifts for Mystery Lovers: The former journalist brings back famed L.A. detective Harry Bosch in The Black Box and offers his favorite hard-boiled crime fiction.
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    Dean Koontz
    Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.
    Dean Koontz, Odd Thomas

    Arthur Conan Doyle
    The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
    Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles

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