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.

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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir
Blacktop Wasteland
Someone's Listening
Cry Baby (Tom Thorne, #17)
More Better Deals
Lineage Most Lethal (Ancestry Detective #2)
The Revelators (A Quinn Colson, #10)
What Unbreakable Looks Like
Deadly Curious
The Art of Deception (The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes Mysteries #4)
The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular (2020) #1
Catwoman: 80th Anniversary Super Spectacular #1
Precious Ashes (Hill City Heroes, #5)
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  • Trust No One
    The Other Wife
    Camino Winds
    The Family Upstairs
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Her Final Words
    Fair Warning (Jack McEvoy, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #33)
    The End of Her
    White Out (Badlands Thriller, #1)
    Don't Ever Forget (Adler and Dwyer, #1)
    The Silent Wife
    Save Her Soul (Detective Josie Quinn, #9)
    Walk the Wire (Amos Decker #6)
    Find Me (Inland Empire, #1)
    The Summer House
    Triptych by Karin SlaughterMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieGone Girl by Gillian FlynnBlindsighted by Karin SlaughterIn the Woods by Tana French
    Best Female Crime/Mystery/Thriller Writers
    1,115 books — 609 voters
    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
    I Like Serial Killers
    831 books — 1,473 voters

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Zombie Room by R.D. RonaldThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldShutter Island by Dennis LehaneA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction
    1,262 books — 1,088 voters
    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 — 381 voters

    The Boy Who Saw In Colours by Lauren  RobinsonToken Huntress by Kia Carrington-RussellUna Historia de Ayer by Sergio CoboHail Strike by Brett ArquetteThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
    Our Favorite Indie Reads
    3,078 books — 3,537 voters
    Sworn to Silence by Linda CastilloGorky Park by Martin Cruz SmithJar City by Arnaldur IndriðasonBlood Orchids by Toby NealThe Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi Adler-Olsen
    CRIME WRITERS WHO DESERVE MORE ATTENTION
    588 books — 362 voters

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    Gone Girl
    And Then There Were None
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Girl on the Train
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    In Cold Blood
    Sharp Objects
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    Dark Places
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    The Godfather

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    Jeff Lindsay
    “ In my life long study of human beings, I have found that no matter how hard they try, they have found no way yet to prevent the arrival of Monday morning. And they do try, of course, but Monday always comes, and all the drones have to scuttle back to their dreary workday lives of meaningless toin and suffering. ”
    ― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

    Max Stirner
    “ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. ”
    ― Max Stirner

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