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 Trial of Lizzie Borden
Save Me from Dangerous Men (Nikki Griffin, #1)
After the Eclipse
Solitary
The Five
A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself
The Conviction of Cora Burns
Heartlands (Detective Jessie Blake #1)
Hunter
The Mobster's Lament (City Blues Quartet)
Broken Cord (Boystown #12)
Parkland: Birth of a Movement
Evil: The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side
The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
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  • The Eighth Sister (Charles Jenkins, #1)
    Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)
    Secrets Never Die (Morgan Dane, #5)
    The Dispatcher
    Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
    Broken Wings (Dark Legacy, #1)
    Redemption (Amos Decker, #5)
    Someone Knows
    The First Lady
    The Rumour
    The Couple Next Door
    Past Tense (Jack Reacher, #23)
    The Lost Man
    Out of Sight
    A Spell of Trouble (Silver Hollow, #1)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldThe Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald
    Favourite Crime & Thrillers
    1,286 books — 957 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
    5,562 books — 13,218 voters

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    I Don't Understand All That Fuss
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    Dreams Come True by Bridgitte LesleyLost In Time by Bridgitte LesleyThe Dry by Rebecca NolenDeadly Thyme by R.L. NolenCatori's Worlds by Murielle Cyr
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    I See You by Clare MackintoshInto the Water by Paula HawkinsThe Girl Before by J.P. DelaneyHer Every Fear by Peter  SwansonFinal Girls by Riley Sager
    2017 Crime Books You're Excited For!
    134 books — 375 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
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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 Girl on the Train
    And Then There Were None
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    In Cold Blood
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    Sharp Objects
    Dark Places
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Godfather

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