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

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I, Spy
Artifacts
A River Red with Blood
In the Blood
Five Gears In Reverse (Criminal #12)
Muntu (Ivory's Story, #1)
Śpij kochany, śpij (Róża Krull na tropie, #8)
Murder at the Hotel Orient
A Violent Masterpiece
Blood Trail
The Secrets of the Abbey (Brittany Mystery Series, #11)
The Nuremberg Women: The Untold Story of the Eight Women Who Brought the Nazis to Justice
Lest Angels Weep (Detective Liz Moorland #5)
Mary Miasta (Komisarz Bondys, #5)
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  • Beautiful Ugly
    The God of the Woods
    None of This Is True
    Don't Let Him In
    Local Woman Missing
    Hidden Pictures
    The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
    London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
    Judge Stone
    She Didn't See It Coming
    The Widow
    Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
    The River Is Waiting
    Dissection of a Murder
    26 Beauties (Women's Murder Club, #26)
    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
    1,016 books — 2,630 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
    1,465 books — 2,093 voters

    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
    543 books — 401 voters
    Gone Girl by Gillian FlynnMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieAn Angel in Los Angeles by A.M. SardarTriptych by Karin SlaughterAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
    Best Female Crime/Mystery/Thriller Writers
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    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    And Then There Were None
    Gone Girl
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
    The Girl on the Train
    In Cold Blood
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #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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