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. ...more

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Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham #4)
The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)
Two Bodies Are Better Than One (Lorraine Highsmith Mysteries Book 1)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, #2)
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)
The Harvey Girl
How to Get Away with Murder
I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
The Hadacol Boogie (Dave Robicheaux, #25)
The Replacement (DS Liam Kilshaw, #2)
El asesino de invierno
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
The Invisible Woman
Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18)
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)
Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
Un animal salvaje
The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
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Cozy Crimes
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonOne for the Money by Janet EvanovichA Is for Alibi by Sue GraftonThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithDéjà Dead by Kathy Reichs
Fearless Females
774 books — 926 voters

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
And Then There Were None
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Red-Headed League - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

Agatha Christie
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." "Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant. ...more
Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile

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