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

Evil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #24)
Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime
The Ivory City
Mischance Creek (Hirsch series 5)
The Christmas Cracker Killer (Edie O'Sullivan, #2)
The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery
The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1)
The Monsters We Make: Murder, Obsession, and the Rise of Criminal Profiling
Murder Most Haunted
Silent Bones (Karen Pirie, #8)
The Last Death of the Year (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #6)
Two Truths and a Murder (Phyllida Bright Mystery, #5)
The Grave Robber: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History and the Bureau’s Quest to Set Things Right
The Black Carnival
Murder on the River (Warwick & Bell #5)
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    Mean Little People
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  • Gone Before Goodbye
    The Widow
    The God of the Woods
    The Perfect Marriage
    Beautiful Ugly
    Don't Let Him In
    The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
    Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    None of This Is True
    The Guest List
    She Didn't See It Coming
    What She Saw
    Hidden Pictures
    The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8)
    Local Woman Missing
    Miranda Bay by Susan TarrDominoes by C.B. BlahaSecrets of the Realm by Bev StoutSpellbound in His Arms by Angel SeferCircle of Five by Jan Raymond
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    494 books — 520 voters
    The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonMurder on Family Grounds by Susan  RowlandThe Elephant Tree by R.D. RonaldThe Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
    Favourite Crime & Thrillers
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    Stormbreaker by Anthony HorowitzI'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterFledgling by Mark A. CooperPoint Blank by Anthony HorowitzThe Recruit by Robert Muchamore
    Spy Kids
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    Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
    Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
    530 books — 376 voters

    In Cold Blood by Truman CapoteHelter Skelter by Vincent BugliosiThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleThe Devil in the White City by Erik LarsonColumbine by Dave Cullen
    Best True Crime
    1,339 books — 1,886 voters
    Bound by Honor by Cora ReillyRuthless People by J.J. McAvoyBound by Duty by Cora ReillyMonster in His Eyes by J.M. DarhowerBound by Hatred by Cora Reilly
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    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    And Then There Were None
    Gone Girl
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    The Girl on the Train
    In Cold Blood
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Silent Patient
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)

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