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

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Storm Tide
Names Have Been Changed
The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Deluxe Edition)
Red Sheet
Death Was Not on the Guest List
Kingdom of Devils: A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
Thornbird
Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
Exit Wound (Veranda Cruz #4)
Las papierowy (Zalesie, #3)
Ugress (Henning Juul, #6)
The Last Book Club
I, Spy
In the Blood
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    John Wayne Gacy Decoded: Inside the Mind of America's Killer Clown (DECODED by Craig Beck)
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    The Room in the Ground: A Thriller (Bloodstorm Book 2)

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    Among the Ruins

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  • My Husband's Wife
    The God of the Woods
    Beautiful Ugly
    None of This Is True
    Don't Let Him In
    Hidden Pictures
    London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
    Local Woman Missing
    The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
    Judge Stone
    Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
    The Widow
    She Didn't See It Coming
    The River Is Waiting
    The Safe Room
    The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn BarnesKiller Instinct by Jennifer Lynn BarnesThe Fixer by Jennifer Lynn BarnesOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManusA Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly  Jackson
    Young Adult Crime/Murder Mysteries
    433 books — 657 voters
    I See You by Clare MackintoshInto the Water by Paula HawkinsThe Girl Before by J.P. DelaneyHer Every Fear by Peter  SwansonAn Angel in Los Angeles by A.M. Sardar
    2017 Crime Books You're Excited For!
    166 books — 489 voters

    Sempre by J.M. DarhowerBound by Honor by Cora ReillyBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireMonster in His Eyes by J.M. DarhowerRuthless People by J.J. McAvoy
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    1,237 books — 4,603 voters
    The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Thief by Megan Whalen TurnerArtemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
    Thieves
    663 books — 1,266 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 Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Silent Patient
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)

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    Mystery and thriller readers have plenty of options. You could spend a lifetime reading novels just from this broad and busy genre....
    Neal Stephenson
    Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, and devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.
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    All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
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