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

End of Days: Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America
The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster
Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (Enola Holmes #10)
Holy Boy
Blood Relay
The Obake Code
Witch Trial
Salvation
The Killing Time (Ali Dawson, #2)
G.I. G-Men: The Untold Story of the FBI’s Search for American Traitors, Collaborators, and Spies in World War II Europe
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate
The Final Score
The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
A Field Guide to Murder
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  • Beautiful Ugly
    The Price of Honey
    The God of the Woods
    Gone Before Goodbye
    Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
    None of This Is True
    Don't Let Him In
    The Widow
    Local Woman Missing
    Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
    Hidden Pictures
    Love, Mom
    Berwick (DCI Ryan Mysteries #24)
    She Didn't See It Coming
    The River Is Waiting
    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
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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 Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #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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