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

New Releases Tagged "Detective"

How to Get Away with Murder
I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
The Hadacol Boogie (Dave Robicheaux, #25)
Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
The Replacement (DS Liam Kilshaw, #2)
Inside Man (Head Cases, #2)
Definitely Maybe Not a Detective
The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
The Devil in the Details (A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery, #11)
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
Stolen in Death (In Death, #62)
Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
Twelve Months (The Dresden Files, #18)
The Invisible Woman
Return of the Spider (Alex Cross, #34)
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
No One Is Safe (Noone #1)
The Big Bad by Brad HuestisShadows of Truth by Barry FinlayDon't Close Your Eyes by Lynessa JamesComplicated Moonlight by Lynessa LayneMad Love by Lynessa Layne
Murder
312 books — 87 voters
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Bookish Thrillers
123 books — 131 voters

The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasThe Big Bad by Brad HuestisShadows of Truth by Barry FinlayThe Nameless Dead by Leta SerafimWitch in Disguise by Karen McSpade
Crime Fiction
536 books — 238 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

Raymond Chandler
I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. ...more
Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

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