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"

The Disaster Gay Detective Agency
Murder by Design (Edison Bixby #1)
Headlights
A Murder in Springtime (Bruno, Chief of Police #19)
Ironwood (Catalina, #2)
A Murder in Hollywood
An Ordinary Sort of Evil (A Rip Through Time, #5)
Your Murder Next
Ironwood (Catalina, #2)
26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)
Murder by Design (Edison Bixby #1)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #41)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)
A Welcome Reunion
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
Never Flinch (Holly Gibney, #4)
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
Mademoiselle le Sleuth (Paris Backstage Murders)
Out Law (The Dresden Files #18.75)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
1,244 books — 1,143 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
136 books — 135 voters
Blacksad by Juan Díaz CanalesFatale, Vol. 1 by Ed BrubakerBatman by Jeph LoebAmerican Vampire, Vol. 1 by Scott SnyderCriminal, Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker
Crime Comics & Graphic Novels
234 books — 69 voters

Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandIncident at the Ranch Retreat by Linda A. MortonBetrayal at the Opera by Linda A. MortonHigh Desert Grave Robber by Linda A. MortonTwenty Years Later by Charlie Donlea
Top Fast-Paced Mystery
980 books — 1,021 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
320 books — 709 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)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

When those we care about are weakest, that’s when we must be strong for them.
A.G. Russo, The Cases Nobody Wanted

John  Green
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory? ...more
John Green, Paper Towns

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