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Contemporary Crime Books
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The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 3,540,575 ratings — published 2005
Troubled Blood (Cormoran Strike, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.39 — 154,722 ratings — published 2020
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.78 — 458,174 ratings — published 2007
The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.93 — 70,365 ratings — published 2009
The Distant Echo (Karen Pirie, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 24,841 ratings — published 2003
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.04 — 394,618 ratings — published 2014
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.05 — 303,135 ratings — published 2014
The Final Target (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.26 — 32,213 ratings — published 2026
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.13 — 718,279 ratings — published 2022
The Mystic and the Missing Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 776 ratings — published 2026
The Ruin (Cormac Reilly, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 54,978 ratings — published 2018
Not Quite Dead Yet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 272,775 ratings — published 2025
The Coroner (Jenny Cooper, #1)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,229 ratings — published 2009
Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder (Pomona Afton #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,322 ratings — published 2025
Dead Wrong (Joanna Brady, #12)
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avg rating 4.13 — 7,947 ratings — published 2006
The Searcher (Cal Hooper, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.81 — 179,443 ratings — published 2020
Wicked Women (DI Kim Stone, #23)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,041 ratings — published
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 11,871 ratings — published
The Most Mysterious Bookshop in Paris (Paris Bookshop Mysteries)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,166 ratings — published
Murder by the Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 865 ratings — published 2025
Berwick (DCI Ryan Mysteries #24)
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avg rating 4.48 — 11,646 ratings — published 2026
A Darker Domain (Inspector Karen Pirie, #2)
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avg rating 4.01 — 16,916 ratings — published 2008
For Reasons Unknown (DCI Matilda Darke, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 6,219 ratings — published 2015
The Dentist (DS Cross Mysteries, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 20,860 ratings — published 2020
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.20 — 80,788 ratings — published 2025
Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 19,157 ratings — published 1975
The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,166,282 ratings — published 2020
Білий попіл (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,168 ratings — published 2018
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,949,267 ratings — published 2019
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 264,260 ratings — published 2021
Bright Shining As the Sun: An Émile Cinq-Mars Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.60 — 5 ratings — published
A Killing in November (DI Ryan Wilkins, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,528 ratings — published 2022
The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.59 — 119,840 ratings — published 2023
Little Children (DI Kim Stone, #22)
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avg rating 4.71 — 6,438 ratings — published
The Museum Detective (A Museum Detective Novel)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.83 — 2,362 ratings — published 2025
Sweet Revenge (A Lady Arianna Regency Mystery #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,878 ratings — published 2011
Hidden Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 49,971 ratings — published 2025
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.40 — 293,553 ratings — published 2018
The Shrine (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #16)
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avg rating 4.27 — 17,705 ratings — published 2020
Blood Moon (Blood, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 24,948 ratings — published
Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 31,085 ratings — published 1989
Murder in Chianti (Armstrong and Oscar Cozy Mystery, #2)
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avg rating 4.30 — 6,322 ratings — published 2023
Midnight and Blue (Inspector Rebus #25)
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avg rating 4.27 — 11,046 ratings — published
36 Hours (DI Kim Stone, #21)
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avg rating 4.48 — 4,819 ratings — published 2024
All The Rage (DI Adam Fawley, #4)
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avg rating 4.16 — 16,367 ratings — published 2019
No Way Out (DI Adam Fawley, #3)
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avg rating 4.14 — 17,299 ratings — published 2019
In the Dark (DI Adam Fawley, #2)
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avg rating 4.17 — 23,935 ratings — published 2018
Close to Home (DI Adam Fawley, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,364 ratings — published 2017
All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-crime)
avg rating 4.43 — 86,654 ratings — published 2020
Outback (DS Walker, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 26,897 ratings — published 2022