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

Notes on an Execution
The Overnight Guest
The Accomplice
The Red Palace
The Fields (Riley Fisher, #1)
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
Something to Hide (Inspector Lynley #21)
Last Seen Alive (Ellery Hathaway, #5)
Desolation Canyon (Detective Margaret Nolan, #2)
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
The Torqued Man
Mermaid Confidential
A Fatal Crossing
Taking Down Backpage: Fighting the World's Largest Sex Trafficker
Decorum
The Judge's List (The Whistler, #2)
A Flicker in the Dark
The Guest List
The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #35)
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Lucky
Local Woman Missing
One Step Too Far (Frankie Elkin, #2)
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
The Night She Disappeared
Better off Dead (Jack Reacher, #26)
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
No Way Back (Jack McNeal #1)
Mercy (Atlee Pine #4)
We Were Never Here
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
6,647 books — 14,151 voters
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn BarnesKiller Instinct by Jennifer Lynn BarnesThe Fixer by Jennifer Lynn BarnesI Hunt Killers by Barry LygaOne of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Young Adult Crime/Murder Mysteries
348 books — 536 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 — 1,297 voters
Sempre by J.M. DarhowerBeautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireBound by Honor by Cora ReillyMonster in His Eyes by J.M. DarhowerCrow's Row by Julie Hockley
Best Mafia/Mob Romance Books
918 books — 4,126 voters


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

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V.E. Schwab
“ Some people steal to stay alive, and some steal to feel alive. Simple as that. ”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

G.K. Chesterton
“ The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. ”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Blue Cross: A Father Brown Mystery

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