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

A Map to Murder (The Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco Mysteries, 3)
A Killer for Christmas
Tell Me Something True
Truth to Power: A Luke Cage Marvel Crime Novel
The Dying Light (Two Rivers, #4)
Ten Perfect Guests
Die Famous
The Vanished Sister (Lady Sherlock, #9)
The Secret Bookstore Sleuth Society (Deluxe Edition)
A Field Guide to Death and Deceit (Harry & Emma, #2)
First Chance
A Double Life: The Anatomy of a Premeditated Murder
A Rainy Night in Georgia
The Christmas Killer (DI Barton #9)
Five Voices
  • Tell Me Something True by Michael Robotham
    Tell Me Something True
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    Release date: Jan 05, 2027
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    Giveaway dates: Sep 15 - Oct 14, 2026

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  • The Heights by Ian Rankin
    The Heights
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    Release date: Nov 03, 2026
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  • A Warning to the Curious by John Shen Yen Nee
    A Warning to the Curious (A Dee and Lao Mystery)
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    Release date: Nov 03, 2026
    A missing shipment of weapons for China and the murder of an aspiring scientist kick-start a madcap dash through the world of seances, prizefighting, ...more
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  • The Divorce
    My Husband's Wife
    Warm Bodies
    The God of the Woods
    None of This Is True
    Beautiful Ugly
    Trust No One
    London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth
    Local Woman Missing
    The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
    Don't Let Him In
    The Secrets We Hide (North Falls, #2)
    Getting Away with Murder
    The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
    The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder
    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
    Italy
    1,041 books — 547 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
    1,035 books — 2,654 voters

    Caught Stealing by Charlie HustonThe Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellAll That Glitters by Michael  MurphyBeautiful, Naked & Dead by Josh Stallings
    Best Noir of the 21st Century
    263 books — 390 voters
    The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth PastorRunning with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsInto the Wild by Jon KrakauerLeaving Isn't the Hardest Thing by Lauren  HoughGirl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
    Unsettling Memoirs & Biographies
    576 books — 502 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
    665 books — 1,271 voters

    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)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Silent Patient
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)

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