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.

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
Lies Sleeping (Peter Grant, #7)
Her Last Move
The Stranger Diaries
The Lying Woods
The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne, #2)
In Too Deep (Dive Team Investigations, #2)
City of Ash and Red
Cards of Love: Five of Cups
Cherish (Cherish #3)
In Peppermint Peril (Book Tea Shop Mystery, #1)
Death or Glory, Vol. 1
Fool's Moon (Tarot Cats Mystery #1)
Perfect Bones (Dr. Samantha Willerby, #3)
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    Hunting Game (An Embla Nyström Investigation #1)
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  • Cold Dark Places by Kylie Brant
    Cold Dark Places (Cady Maddix Mystery #1)
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  • Black Dahlia by Rick Geary
    Black Dahlia
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  • Past Tense (Jack Reacher, #23)
    The Reckoning
    Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #31)
    I Am Watching You
    Close to the Bone (Widow's Island, #1)
    A Bone to Pick (Widow's Island, #2)
    Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
    Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine, #1)
    Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
    A Spark of Light
    What Have You Done
    Cut and Run
    Target: Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #26)
    The Girl in the Letter
    My Sister, the Serial Killer
    One for the Money by Janet EvanovichDeath on the Nile by Agatha ChristieHard Eight by Janet EvanovichThe Quiche of Death by M.C. BeatonDiners, Dives & Dead Ends by Terri L. Austin
    Cozy Crimes
    446 books — 245 voters

    Sworn to Silence by Linda CastilloGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithBlood Orchids by Toby NealJar City by Arnaldur IndriðasonIn the Woods by Tana French
    CRIME WRITERS WHO DESERVE MORE ATTENTION
    540 books — 312 voters
    The Book of Paul by Richard  LongA Reason to Live by Matthew IdenEVO by Diane  MayHeartsick by Chelsea CainThe Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
    Crime Books That Should Be Movies
    364 books — 359 voters

    Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 1 by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha ChristieThe Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Best British Crime/Mystery Fiction
    1,127 books — 1,138 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
    849 books — 1,333 voters

    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)
    And Then There Were None
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    In Cold Blood
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    Dark Places
    The Godfather (Mario Puzo's Mafia)
    Sharp Objects
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)

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    Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which will be published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in May 2017. It is also forthcoming from publishers internationally. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Rona Jaffe Award recipient, she has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Iowa Review, and many other publications, and were recognized “notable” in Best American Essays 2013, 2015, and 2016.

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