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

Honey
The Last Book Club
The Rainshadow Orphans (Rainshadow, #1)
Safari Murder Party
Artifacts
All Them Dogs
A River Red with Blood
In the Blood
Body of Lies (Kat and Lock #4)
Śpij kochany, śpij (Róża Krull na tropie, #8)
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
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    Forgotten Summer: In the Spotlight, Every Secret Casts a Shadow
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    Release date: Jun 04, 2026
    Hollywood star, Summer, takes a last chance role for a reality series desperate for her hometown secrets, but is the price too high to pay?
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    A Life in Days

    Release date: Aug 17, 2025
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    New Australia
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  • Beautiful Ugly
    The God of the Woods
    Ironwood (Catalina, #2)
    None of This Is True
    Don't Let Him In
    London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
    Local Woman Missing
    The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
    Judge Stone
    She Didn't See It Coming
    Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
    The Widow
    Hidden Pictures
    26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
    So This Is Love (The Bridge Series #2)
    Sempre by J.M. DarhowerBound by Honor by Cora ReillyBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireMonster in His Eyes by J.M. DarhowerRuthless People by J.J. McAvoy
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    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
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    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThose Empty Eyes by Charlie DonleaThe Reluctant Juror by Baldwin HughesGirl With Two Names by Patrick Guy Daniels
    Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
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    The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
    Historical Ghost Fiction
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    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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