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.

Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
A Line in the Dark
The Hanging Girl
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives
Righteous (IQ, #2)
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
Ghosts of Greenglass House (Greenglass House, #2)
Little Secrets
Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder
I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street
The Policewoman
Silent Fear
Illusions of Evil (Illusions Duet, #1)
Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami
Losing Leah Holloway (Claire Fletcher & Detective Parks Mystery #2)

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  • Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)
    The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
    The Rooster Bar
    I Am Watching You
    Don't Let Go
    The Cuban Affair
    Deep Freeze (Virgil Flowers, #10)
    The Girl on the Train
    The Couple Next Door
    Sweet Little Lies
    Camino Island
    The Good Daughter
    The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
    Haunted (Michael Bennett, #10)
    Silent Child
    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)
    The Girl on the Train
    And Then There Were None
    In Cold Blood
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Study in Scarlet
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    Dark Places
    The Godfather
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    Sharp Objects

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