Crime

The crime genre includes the broad selection of books on criminals, courts, and investigations. Mystery novels are usually placed into this category, although there is a separate division for "crime". Hard Case Crime is one example.

Ill Will
The Black Book
Girl in Disguise
Say Nothing
A Colony in a Nation
Žízeň (Harry Hole #11)
Lola
See What I Have Done
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Murder on the Serpentine (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #32)
Dishonorable
Proof of Lies
The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
The Painted Gun
Dark Asylum (Jem Flockhart, #2)

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  • The Girl on the Train
    Silent Child
    The Couple Next Door
    In a Dark, Dark Wood
    Wrong Number, Right Guy (The Bourbon Street Boys, #1)
    The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
    Cole
    The Marriage Lie
    The Chemist
    The Widow
    Pretty Girls
    Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett, #17)
    Snapshot
    The Coppersmith Farmhouse (Jamison Valley, #1)
    Heartbreak Hotel (Alex Delaware, #32)
    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
    755 books — 1,026 voters
    Complicate Me by M.  RobinsonForbid Me by M.  RobinsonSuit by Jettie WoodruffMercy by Lucian BaneNo Mercy by Lucian Bane
    Must reads 2015
    579 books — 680 voters

    Shadow Roll by Ki LongfellowGood Dog, Bad Dog by Ki LongfellowAmerican Tabloid by James EllroyThe Girl in the Next Room by Ki LongfellowCaught Stealing by Charlie Huston
    Best Noir of the 21st Century
    173 books — 311 voters
    Token Huntress by Kia Carrington-RussellThe Law of Attraction by N.M. SilberBeatless by Amber L.  JohnsonCircle of Five by Jan RaymondIt's a Fugly Life by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
    Our Favorite Indie Reads
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    Taste of Fire by Jeannie Faulkner BarberThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonHeavy Duty People by Iain ParkeThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
    Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
    706 books — 766 voters
    In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonThe Manson File by Nikolas Schreck
    True Crime
    504 books — 503 voters

    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    Dark Places
    The Godfather
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    Sharp Objects
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
    The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

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