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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A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)
The Detective: A Detective Sam Speedman Thriller
A Present Mistake (Deadly Mistakes, #3)
The Pie & Mash Detective Agency
Nobody's Baby (Dorothy Gentleman, #2)
The Star from Calcutta (Perveen Mistry, #5)
A Day of Judgment (Inspector Ian Rutledge #25)
The Harvey Girl
Living Dead (PsyCop, #15)
Ironwood (Catalina, #2)
A Deadly Episode (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #6)
Out Law (The Dresden Files #18.75)
Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)
Murder by Design (Edison Bixby #1)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #41)
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
A Welcome Reunion
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
The Invisible Woman
The Summer Guests (The Martini Club, #2)
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Murder
344 books — 90 voters
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Top Fast-Paced Mystery
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Bookish Thrillers
135 books — 134 voters

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Best YA Spy/Mystery Novels
644 books — 1,636 voters
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Science Fiction Detective Novels
236 books — 161 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)

Raymond Chandler
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge. ...more
Raymond Chandler, Red Wind: A Collection of Short Stories

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Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.
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