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.

The Force
Here and Gone
The Fourth Monkey (A 4MK Thriller, #1)
MatchUp
The Last Place You Look
Persons Unknown (DS Manon, #2)
UNSUB (UNSUB, #1)
She Rides Shotgun
The Drowned Girls (Angie Pallorino, #1)
Knife Creek (Mike Bowditch, #8)
The Monster in the Closet (Romantic Suspense, #19; Baltimore, #5)
Love Like Blood  (Tom Thorne, #14)
Fateful Mornings (Henry Farrell  #2)
Al Capone's Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition
Sweet Little Lies

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  • Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
    Camino Island
    The Girl on the Train
    The Couple Next Door
    A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick #1)
    Silent Child
    Final Girls
    In a Dark, Dark Wood
    The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
    Dead Certain
    The Child
    16th Seduction (Women's Murder Club, #16)
    A Merciful Truth (Mercy Kilpatrick #2)
    A Criminal Defense
    Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
    One for the Money by Janet EvanovichHard Eight by Janet EvanovichDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieThe Quiche of Death by M.C. BeatonDiners, Dives & Dead Ends by Terri L. Austin
    Cozy Crimes
    357 books — 203 voters
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
    Best Crime & Mystery Books
    5,186 books — 12,330 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 — 679 voters
    Unthinkable Consequences by Bob RectorSpellbound in His Arms by Angel SeferRiptide by Amber Lea EastonAmong the Shrouded by Amalie JahnReckless Endangerment by Amber Lea Easton
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    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    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)
    And Then There Were None
    The Girl on the Train
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Study in Scarlet
    Dark Places
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    The Godfather
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    Sharp Objects
    The Hound of the Baskervilles

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