Best Crime & Mystery Books
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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 91 times as crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 70,610 ratings — published 1965
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 64 times as crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 22,036 ratings — published 2005
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 50 times as crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,670 ratings — published 1985
Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 49 times as crime)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,373 ratings — published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Audio Cassette)
by Erik Larson (shelved 49 times as crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 31,520 ratings — published 2003
The Silence of the Lambs (Paperback)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 45 times as crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 46,796 ratings — published 1988
The Godfather (Paperback)
by Mario Puzo (shelved 45 times as crime)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,104 ratings — published 1969
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 44 times as crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,510 ratings — published 1994
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by Jeff Lindsay (shelved 43 times as crime)
avg rating 3.73 — 7,378 ratings — published 2004
The Black Dahlia (Paperback)
by James Ellroy (shelved 43 times as crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 3,974 ratings — published 1987
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 42 times as crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,461 ratings — published 1892
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 40 times as crime)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,395 ratings — published 2006
Body Of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 40 times as crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,306 ratings — published 1991
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler (shelved 39 times as crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,882 ratings — published 1939
Dix Petits Nègres (Reliure inconnue)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 38 times as crime)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1939
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 37 times as crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,903 ratings — published 1992
Point Of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 37 times as crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,150 ratings — published 1998
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 37 times as crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,561 ratings — published 1995
Cause Of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 35 times as crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,633 ratings — published 1993
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 34 times as crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,247 ratings — published 1934
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 33 times as crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,289 ratings — published 1999
Red Dragon (Hardcover)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 33 times as crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,730 ratings — published 1981
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
by Janet Evanovich (shelved 32 times as crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 22,848 ratings — published 1994
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Mass Market Paperback)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 32 times as crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 9,176 ratings — published 1902
In the Woods (Hardcover)
by Tana French (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.54 — 9,853 ratings — published 2007
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by Dashiell Hammett (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,566 ratings — published 1929
Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 30 times as crime)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,758 ratings — published 1999
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hardcover)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 30 times as crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,521 ratings — published 1926
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by Dan Brown (shelved 29 times as crime)
avg rating 3.70 — 137,295 ratings — published 2000
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 29 times as crime)
avg rating 3.57 — 301,255 ratings — published 2000
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
by Janet Evanovich (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,216 ratings — published 1996
Hannibal (Paperback)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.35 — 6,599 ratings — published 1999
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,605 ratings — published 1994
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,802 ratings — published 2003
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by Jeff Lindsay (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,224 ratings — published 2005
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by Vincent Bugliosi (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,610 ratings — published 1976
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, Book 2)
by James Patterson (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.66 — 41,644 ratings — published 1995
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,312 ratings — published 2006
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,904 ratings — published 2006
Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.50 — 5,972 ratings — published 2003
Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,425 ratings — published 1996
L.A. Confidential (Paperback)
by James Ellroy (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,744 ratings — published 1990
A Time to Kill (Paperback)
by John Grisham (shelved 25 times as crime)
avg rating 3.74 — 66,644 ratings — published 1989
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by Caleb Carr (shelved 25 times as crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,550 ratings — published 1994
The Lovely Bones (Paperback)
by Alice Sebold (shelved 24 times as crime)
avg rating 3.67 — 172,466 ratings — published 2002
El perfume: historia de un asesino (Paperback)
by Patrick Süskind (shelved 24 times as crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 14 ratings — published 1984
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 24 times as crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,556 ratings — published 2003
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 24 times as crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,510 ratings — published 2001
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by Jeff Lindsay (shelved 24 times as crime)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,332 ratings — published 2007
Deadly Décisions (Temperance Brennan, #3)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 24 times as crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,545 ratings — published 2000
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"I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)
— Jeff Lindsay (Dexter in the Dark)
"You can lie through your teeth, but your teeth don't lie"
— Charles Bosworth Jr.
— Charles Bosworth Jr.













