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In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by Truman Capote (shelved 99 times as crime)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,628 ratings — published 1965
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 71 times as crime)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,111 ratings — published 2005
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 52 times as crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 9 ratings — published 1985
Déjà Dead (Temperance Brennan, #1)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 51 times as crime)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,567 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 50 times as crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,488 ratings — published 2003
The Godfather (Paperback)
by Mario Puzo (shelved 47 times as crime)
avg rating 4.24 — 11,505 ratings — published 1969
The Silence of the Lambs (Paperback)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 46 times as crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 50,533 ratings — published 1988
The Body Farm (Kay Scarpetta, #5)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 45 times as crime)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,736 ratings — published 1994
Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
by Jeff Lindsay (shelved 44 times as crime)
avg rating 3.72 — 7,643 ratings — published 2004
The Black Dahlia (Paperback)
by James Ellroy (shelved 44 times as crime)
avg rating 3.51 — 4,103 ratings — published 1987
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
by Stieg Larsson (shelved 42 times as crime)
avg rating 4.23 — 7,814 ratings — published 2005
Body Of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 41 times as crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,520 ratings — published 1991
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler (shelved 40 times as crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,091 ratings — published 1939
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 40 times as crime)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,109 ratings — published 1939
Point Of Origin (Kay Scarpetta, #9)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 38 times as crime)
avg rating 3.79 — 6,295 ratings — published 1998
All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 37 times as crime)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,094 ratings — published 1992
From Potter's Field (Kay Scarpetta, #6)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 37 times as crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 7,733 ratings — published 1995
Cause Of Death (Kay Scarpetta, #7)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 35 times as crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,784 ratings — published 1993
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Kindle Edition)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 35 times as crime)
avg rating 3.50 — 3 ratings — published 1902
Death du Jour (Temperance Brennan, #2)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 34 times as crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,412 ratings — published 1999
Red Dragon (Hardcover)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 34 times as crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 6,953 ratings — published 1981
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 34 times as crime)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,622 ratings — published 1934
The Maltese Falcon (Paperback)
by Dashiell Hammett (shelved 33 times as crime)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,745 ratings — published 1929
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
by Janet Evanovich (shelved 32 times as crime)
avg rating 3.99 — 23,463 ratings — published 1994
Black Notice (Kay Scarpetta, #10)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.67 — 5,885 ratings — published 1999
In the Woods (Hardcover)
by Tana French (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.54 — 10,222 ratings — published 2007
Anges et démons (Hardcover)
by Dan Brown (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.95 — 27 ratings — published 2000
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by Dan Brown (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.57 — 312,321 ratings — published 2000
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hardcover)
by Agatha Christie (shelved 31 times as crime)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,681 ratings — published 1926
Bare Bones (Temperance Brennan, #6)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 30 times as crime)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,906 ratings — published 2003
Bones to Ashes (Temperance Brennan, #10)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 29 times as crime)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,443 ratings — published 2006
Two for the Dough (Stephanie Plum, #2)
by Janet Evanovich (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,644 ratings — published 1996
Hannibal (Paperback)
by Thomas Harris (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.36 — 6,807 ratings — published 1999
Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
by Jeff Lindsay (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,396 ratings — published 2005
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by John Berendt (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,231 ratings — published 1994
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by Vincent Bugliosi (shelved 28 times as crime)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,839 ratings — published 1976
Break No Bones (Temperance Brennan, #9)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,004 ratings — published 2006
Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.50 — 6,102 ratings — published 2003
Monday Mourning (Temperance Brennan, #7)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,651 ratings — published 2003
L.A. Confidential (Paperback)
by James Ellroy (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,793 ratings — published 1990
Kiss the Girls (Alex Cross, Book 2)
by James Patterson (shelved 27 times as crime)
avg rating 3.65 — 44,229 ratings — published 1995
A Time to Kill (Paperback)
by John Grisham (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.73 — 70,633 ratings — published 1989
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by Patrick Süskind (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 13,067 ratings — published 1984
Fatal Voyage (Temperance Brennan, #4)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,619 ratings — published 2001
Unnatural Exposure (Kay Scarpetta, #8)
by Patricia Cornwell (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,563 ratings — published 1996
Grave Secrets (Temperance Brennan, #5)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,632 ratings — published 2002
Cross Bones (Temperance Brennan, #8)
by Kathy Reichs (shelved 26 times as crime)
avg rating 3.70 — 2,754 ratings — published 2005
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Oxford World's Classics)
by Arthur Conan Doyle (shelved 25 times as crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,773 ratings — published 1892
Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
by Jeff Lindsay (shelved 25 times as crime)
avg rating 3.37 — 3,448 ratings — published 2007
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by Caleb Carr (shelved 25 times as crime)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,924 ratings — published 1994
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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)
"When the gap between the world of the city and the world my grandfather had presented to me as right and good became too wide and depressing to tolerate, I'd turn to my other great love, which was pulp adventure fiction. Despite the fact that [he] would have had nothing but scorn and loathing for all of those violent and garish magazines, there was a sort of prevailing morality in them that I'm sure he would have responded to. The world of Doc Savage and The Shadow was one of absolute values, where what was good was never in the slightest doubt and where what was evil inevitably suffered some fitting punishment. The notion of good and justice espoused by Lamont Cranston with his slouch hat and blazing automatics seemed a long way from that of the fierce and taciturn old man I remembered sitting up alone into the Montana night with no company save his bible, but I can't help feeling that if the two had ever met they'd have found something to talk about. For my part, all those brilliant and resourceful sleuths and heroes offered a glimpse of a perfect world where morality worked the way it was meant to. Nobody in Doc Savage's world ever killed themselves except thwarted kamikaze assassins or enemy spies with cyanide capsules. Which world would you rather live in, if you had the choice?"
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)
— Alan Moore (Watchmen)












