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 Devil and the Dark Water
Snow (St. John Strafford, #1)
Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
The Nightworkers
You Were Never Here
The Traveller and Other Stories
In the Study with the Wrench (Clue Mystery, #2)
Trust
And Now She's Gone
None Shall Sleep
Nobody Knows but You
Meme
The Forger's Daughter
Dead Man in a Ditch (The Fetch Phillips Archives, #2)
The Lakehouse
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  • The Sentinel (Jack Reacher, #25)
    The Cipher (Nina Guerrera, #1)
    Fortune and Glory (Stephanie Plum, #27)
    Below the Bones (Widow's Island #5)
    The Searcher
    A Broken Bone (Widow's Island #6)
    Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
    If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
    Invisible Girl
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The Family Upstairs
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    See Her Die (Bree Taggert, #2)
    The Lost Girls of Devon
    The Girl in the Mirror
    The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott LynchThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Thief by Megan Whalen TurnerArtemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
    Thieves
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    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisTell No One by Harlan CobenThe Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald
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    Caught Stealing by Charlie HustonAll That Glitters by Michael  MurphyBeautiful, Naked & Dead by Josh StallingsWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellThe Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
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    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)
    In Cold Blood
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    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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    “ Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. ”
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