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

The Occidental Book of the Dead
Night of the Mallrats
Petrified Dreams (Hap and Leonard, #15)
The Best Kind of American: A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East
Everyone's a Liar
Exhumation
Fitcher's Bird
The Case of the Christmas Card (Ali Dawson, #2.5)
Dísa (Hildur, #6)
Takedown (Pursuit Collection)
The Man with the Golden Compass (Q Mysteries, #2)
The Final Hour (Pursuit Collection)
Death by Red Velvet Latte (A Bookstore Cafe Mystery, #16)
Tinasotilas (Antti Hautalehto, #14)
A Killer for Christmas
  • Rapid and Fatal by Patricia Cornwell
    Rapid and Fatal (Kay Scarpetta, #30)
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    Release date: Jan 19, 2027
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  • Jack by Tom Wherewolf
    Jack: The Gift
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    Release date: Oct 19, 2026
    Looking for your next crime thriller obsession? Meet Jack and immerse yourself in this new, fast-paced, addictive PI series—Jack: The Gift (Book 1)
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  • Shadows of the Fathers by Crowley Clark
    Shadows of the Fathers
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    Spies. Lies. Family Ties.
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  • The Divorce
    Warm Bodies
    Miss Wolcott's Ghost (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #21)
    Chain Reaction (Jack Reacher, #31)
    The God of the Woods
    None of This Is True
    Beautiful Ugly
    London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
    Gray After Dark
    The Hollow (Harry Bosch, #26; Harry Bosch Universe, #43)
    Mademoiselle le Sleuth (Paris Backstage Murders)
    Trust No One
    Local Woman Missing
    Don't Let Him In
    The Charity Shop Detective Agency (The Charity Shop Detective Agency, #1)
    The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Thief by Megan Whalen TurnerArtemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
    Thieves
    665 books — 1,270 voters
    The Woman in Black by Susan         HillThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. JamesThe Little Stranger by Sarah WatersThis House Is Haunted by John Boyne
    Historical Ghost Fiction
    181 books — 317 voters

    The Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
    I Don't Understand All That Fuss
    1,034 books — 2,660 voters
    Cut & Run by Madeleine UrbanZero at the Bone by Jane SevilleFair Game by Josh LanyonFatal Shadows / A Dangerous Thing by Josh LanyonAmong the Living by Jordan Castillo Price
    Favorite Gay Thrillers
    765 books — 444 voters

    Murder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandTwenty Years Later by Charlie DonleaDeeper Than the Dead by Debra WebbOn Her Watch by Melinda LeighThose Empty Eyes by Charlie Donlea
    Crime Books That Should Be Movies
    1,253 books — 1,302 voters
    In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
    Best True Crime
    1,535 books — 2,225 voters

    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)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Silent Patient
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)

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