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
Lies Sleeping (Peter Grant, #7)
The Best Bad Things
Her Last Move
The Stranger Diaries
The Lying Woods
The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne, #2)
Robert B. Parker's Blood Feud (Sunny Randall)
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
Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli: Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin
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  • Past Tense (Jack Reacher, #23)
    The Reckoning
    Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
    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)
    Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine, #1)
    Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)
    A Bone to Pick (Widow's Island, #2)
    A Spark of Light
    What Have You Done
    The Christmas Scorpion (Jack Reacher, #22.5)
    Target: Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #26)
    The Girl in the Letter
    Bleak Harbor
    The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas   HarrisDarkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff LindsayRed Dragon by Thomas   HarrisAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
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    The Book of Paul by Richard  LongA Reason to Live by Matthew IdenEVO by Diane  MayHeartsick by Chelsea CainThe Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
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    364 books — 359 voters

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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)
    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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