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

Murder at the Hotel Orient
A Violent Masterpiece
Blood Trail
The Secrets of the Abbey (Brittany Mystery Series, #11)
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
A Murder in Marylebone (Minnie Harper, #2)
Mary Miasta (Komisarz Bondys, #5)
Lest Angels Weep (Detective Liz Moorland #5)
Viimeinen pistos (Osasto C1, #3)
Stakeouts and Strollers
A Bad, Bad Place
The Survivor
Redbelly Crossing
Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks
Hard Times
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    Chandler & West: A Story of Los Angeles
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    We Will See You Bleed
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  • Beautiful Ugly
    The God of the Woods
    None of This Is True
    Don't Let Him In
    Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
    Judge Stone
    26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
    London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
    Local Woman Missing
    The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
    Hidden Pictures
    The Widow
    She Didn't See It Coming
    Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    The River Is Waiting
    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    Italy
    1,013 books — 534 voters

    Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaOn Her Watch by Melinda LeighDeeper Than the Dead by Debra WebbThose Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea
    Crime Books That Should Be Movies
    1,233 books — 1,125 voters
    Stormbreaker by Anthony HorowitzI'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterFledgling by Mark A. CooperPoint Blank by Anthony HorowitzThe Recruit by Robert Muchamore
    Spy Kids
    319 books — 709 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
    267 books — 418 voters
    The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayRed Dragon by Thomas  HarrisAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
    I Like Serial Killers
    1,029 books — 1,560 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)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #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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