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. ...more

Safecracker
A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind
Deliberate Evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader
The Girl in the Ground (Nikki Hunt, #4)
48 Hours to Kill
Old Fashioned (Jack Daniels #14)
Canticle Creek
The Memory Bones (Detective Casey White #5)
Decorum
Hello, Transcriber
All the Queen's Men
White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland
The Mitford Vanishing (Mitford Murders, #5)
Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession
The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
The Guest List
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #35)
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
Local Woman Missing
The Night She Disappeared
Better off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
Mercy (Atlee Pine #4)
We Were Never Here
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
The Best of Friends
The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
Fear No Evil (Alex Cross,  #29)
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
927 books — 1,538 voters
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
634 books — 1,298 voters

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
Favourite Crime & Thrillers
1,446 books — 1,118 voters
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie MeyerFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertTwilight by Stephenie Meyer
I Don't Understand All That Fuss
818 books — 2,448 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 on the Train
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
In Cold Blood
Sharp Objects
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
Dark Places
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)

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Ayn Rand
“ There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ...more ”
― Ayn Rand

Noam Chomsky
“ For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. ”
― Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

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