100 Best Crime Series Books of All Time

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The Reversal (Mickey Haller, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #21) book cover1

The Reversal (Mickey Haller, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #21)

Michael Connelly

5.0
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, new DNA evidence means convicted killer Jason Jessup has been granted another trial. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.

Together

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The Drop

Michael Connelly

4.8
In his fierce search for a new case, Detective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DNA evidence -- and a political conspiracy that could destroy the Los Angeles Police Department.

DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) book cover3

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)

Agatha Christie

4.8
Belgian Inspector Hercule Poirot has retired to the countryside in the small English village of King's Abbot. Dr. Sheppard, observing his new neighbor, is sure that he must be a former hairdresser. But the brutal murder of a local squire reveals the truth: the peculiar little man is actually a detective par excellence. The Murder of the wealthy industrialist Roger Ackroyd begins the night before w
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1) book cover4

The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)

Michael Connelly

4.7
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist be
Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #20; Harry Bosch Universe, #30) book cover5

Two Kinds of Truth (Harry Bosch, #20; Harry Bosch Universe, #30)

Michael Connell

4.5
Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando Police Department and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's 3-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous, big business world of pill mills and prescription drug abuse.

Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to h
The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3) book cover6

The Concrete Blonde (Harry Bosch, #3; Harry Bosch Universe, #3)

Michael Connelly

4.5
Detective Harry Bosch was sure he'd shot the serial killer responsible for a string of murders in LA . . . but now, a new crime makes him question his convictions.

They call him the Dollmaker, a serial killer who stalks Los Angeles and leaves a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. When a suspect is shot by Detective Harry Bosch, everyone believes the city's nightmare is over. But
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13) book cover7

The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)

Agatha Christie

4.5
When Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already on to the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one down, twenty-five to go.

There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway guide beside each victim's body. But if A is for Alice Asher, bludgeoned to death in Andover; and B is for Betty Bernard, strangled with her belt on the beach at Bexhi
The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #28) book cover8

The Wrong Side of Goodbye (Harry Bosch, #19; Harry Bosch Universe, #28)

Michael Connelly

4.5
Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from thirty years with the LAPD speak for themselves.

Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young,
Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #11) book cover9

Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9; Harry Bosch Universe, #11)

Michael Connelly

4.5
The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for A
The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4) book cover10

The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4)

Michael Connelly

4.5
Harry attacked his commanding officer and is suspended indefinitely, pending a psychiatric evaluation. At first he resists the LAPD shrink, but finally recognizes that something is troubling him and has for a long time. In 1961, when Harry was twelve, his mother, a prostitute, was brutally murdered, and no one has ever been accused of the crime.

With the spare time a suspension brings, Harry opens
Diamonds Are For Never: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery Series Book 2 book cover11

Diamonds Are For Never: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery Series Book 2

Paul Aertker

4.5
After sabotaging a mass kidnapping in Paris, Lucas Benes faces a new and perilous threat from Siba Günerro and her anything-but-good Good Company.

When a briefcase-toting kid from the Falkland Islands joins the New Resistance, 14-year-old Lucas learns the truth about his mother and becomes a boy on a mission. Lucas and friends speed in and around Rome—from the Colosseum to the Vatican—until they s
Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6) book cover12

Trunk Music (Harry Bosch, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #6)

Michael Connelly

4.4
Back on the job after an involuntary leave of absence, LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch is ready for a challenge. But his first case is a little more than he bargained for.


It starts with the body of a Hollywood producer in the trunk of a Rolls-Royce, shot twice in the head at close range - what looks like "trunk music," a Mafia hit. But the LAPD's organized crime unit is curiously unintereste
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1) book cover13

1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)

James Patterson

4.4
James Patterson, bestselling author of the Alex Cross novels Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, and Pop Goes the Weasel, offers the first of a new series dubbed The Women's Murder Club, featuring a four-woman team that occasionally works outside the system. None of the gritty darkness or frenzied action is lost in 1st to Die, although the female protagonists offer an even deeper emotional contex
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) book cover14

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)

Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland

4.4
Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible
Priceless: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery Series book cover15

Priceless: Crime Travelers Spy School Mystery Series

Paul Aertker

4.4
"This middle grade series reads like the Bourne Identity - but for kids." - Mark Robichaux, Editor, New Yorker

#1 Best selling series in multiple categories THE UNBELIEVABLE CONCLUSION TO THE CRIME TRAVELERS MYSTERY SERIES ALSO AVAILABLE: BOOK 1 - BRAINWASHED, BOOK 2 - DIAMONDS ARE FOR NEVER Age Level: 8 - 14 US Grade Level: 2nd - 8th NOW WITH ILLUSTRATIVE MAPS

"If it's opposite day, it could alr
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3) book cover16

Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

Robert Galbraith, Robert Glenister, et al

4.4
Cormoran Strike is back, with his assistant Robin Ellacott, in a mystery based around soldiers returning from war.

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg.

Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible – and
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3) book cover17

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)

Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland

4.4
The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy.

Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for thre
The Closers (Harry Bosch, #11; Harry Bosch Universe, #14) book cover18

The Closers (Harry Bosch, #11; Harry Bosch Universe, #14)

Michael Connelly

4.4
Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases. The murder of a 16 year old girl in 1988 is his first file. A DNA match makes the case very much alive again, and it turns out to be anything but cold. The ripples from this death have destroyed at least two other lives, and everywhere he probes, Bosch finds hot grief, hot rage, and a bottomless well of be
The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10; Harry Bosch Universe, #13) book cover19

The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10; Harry Bosch Universe, #13)

Michael Connelly

4.4
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the

Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #16) book cover20

Echo Park (Harry Bosch, #12; Harry Bosch Universe, #16)

Michael Connelly

4.4
More than a decade ago, Harry Bosch worked on the case of Marie Gesto, a twenty-two-year-old who went missing but was never found. Now, with the Gesto file still on his desk, Bosch gets a call from the District Attorney: A serial killer has confessed. Did Harry miss a key clue? Or is something more going on here?

In 1993 Marie Gesto disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. Harry Bosch worked
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The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #16; Harry Bosch Universe, #24)

Michael Connelly

4.4
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved.

Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and conne
The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #15) book cover22

The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #15)

Michael Connell

4.4
Mickey Haller has spent all his professional life afraid that he wouldn’t recognize innocence if it stood right in front of him. But what he should have been on the watch for was evil.

Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, c
Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #7) book cover23

Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.4
An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. Now the streets are superheating. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling. And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile
Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, #14; Harry Bosch Universe, #20) book cover24

Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch, #14; Harry Bosch Universe, #20)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.

Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word
Naked in Death (In Death #1) book cover25

Naked in Death (In Death #1)

J. D. Robb

4.3
Here is the novel that started it all- the first book in J.D. Robb's number-one New York Times-bestselling In Death series, featuring New York homicide detective Lieutenant Eve Dallas and Roarke.

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But New York City Detective Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing: passi
A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7; Terry McCaleb, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #9) book cover26

A Darkness More Than Night (Harry Bosch, #7; Terry McCaleb, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #9)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Terry McCaleb, the retired FBI agent who starred in the bestseller "Blood Work," is asked by the LAPD to help them investigate aseries of murders that have them baffled. They are the kind of ritualized killings McCaleb specialized in solving with the FBI, and he is reluctantly drawn from his peaceful new life back into the horror and excitement of tracking down a terrifying homicidal maniac. More
The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch, #14; Mickey Haller, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #18) book cover27

The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch, #14; Mickey Haller, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #18)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time,
Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Box Set (Divergent, #0.1-3) book cover28

Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Box Set (Divergent, #0.1-3)

Veronica Roth

4.3
Available together for the first time--all three books in the #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent trilogy, plus the companion volume told from the perspective of the immensely popular character Tobias. Perfect for established fans who want to own the full Divergent library or readers new to the series, this box set includes Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, and Four: A Divergent Collection as w
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) book cover29

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

Stieg Larsson and Reg Keelan

4.3
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) book cover30

Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)

Patricia Cornwell

4.3
Four women with nothing in common, united only in death. Four brutalized victims of a brilliant monster - a "Mr. Nobody", moving undetected through a paralyzed city, leaving behind a gruesome trail of carnage . . . but few clues. With skilled hands, an unerring eye, and the latest advances in forensic research, an unrelenting female medical examiner - Kay Scarpetta - is determined to unmask a mani
City of Bones (Harry Bosch, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #10) book cover31

City of Bones (Harry Bosch, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #10)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Detective Harry Bosch tears open a 20-year-old murder case - with an explosive ending that leave all Bosch fans hungrily awaiting the next instalment.

When the bones of a twelve-year-old boy are found scattered in the Hollywood Hills, Harry Bosch is drawn into a case that brings up the darkest memories from his own haunted past. The bones have been buried for years, but the cold case doesn't deter

Black Ice book cover32

Black Ice

Michael Connell

4.3
Danger is hard to resist in this sexy thriller from Becca Fitzpatrick, the New York Times bestselling author of the Hush, Hush saga.

Britt Pheiffer has trained to backpack the Teton Range, but she isn’t prepared when her ex-boyfriend, who still haunts her every thought, wants to join her. Before Britt can explore her feelings for Calvin, an unexpected blizzard forces her to seek shelter in a remote
My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1) book cover33

My Sister's Grave (Tracy Crosswhite, #1)

Robert Dugoni

4.3
Tracy Crosswhite has spent twenty years questioning the facts surrounding her sister Sarah’s disappearance and the murder trial that followed. She doesn’t believe that Edmund House — a convicted rapist and the man condemned for Sarah’s murder — is the guilty party. Motivated by the opportunity to obtain real justice, Tracy became a homicide detective with the Seattle PD and dedicated her life to t
The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #18; Mickey Haller, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #27) book cover34

The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #18; Mickey Haller, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup.

Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He
The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #25) book cover35

The Gods of Guilt (Mickey Haller, #5; Harry Bosch Universe, #25)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Mickey Haller gets the text, "Call me ASAP - 187," and the California penal code for murder immediately gets his attention. Murder cases have the highest stakes and the biggest paydays, and they always mean Haller has to be at the top of his game.

When Mickey learns that the victim was his own former client, a prostitute he thought he had rescued and put on the straight and narrow path, he knows he
The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #22) book cover36

The Fifth Witness (Mickey Haller, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #22)

Michael Connelly

4.3
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.

Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealing
The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #29) book cover37

The Late Show (Renée Ballard, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #29)

Michael Connelly

4.3
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly, a new thriller introducing a driven young detective trying to prove herself in the LAPD

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a
Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1) book cover38

Along Came a Spider (Alex Cross, #1)

James Patterson

4.2
A missing little girl named Maggie Rose . . . a family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C. . . . the thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher . . . a psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who is so terrifying that the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police cannot outsmart him - even after he's been captured.

Gary Soneji wants to commit the crime of the ce
Evil Games (D.I. Kim Stone, #2) book cover39

Evil Games (D.I. Kim Stone, #2)

Angela Marsons

4.2
The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game…

When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work.

With the investigation quickly gathering momentum, Kim finds herself exposed to great danger and in the sig
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood book cover40

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

Gregg Olsen

4.2
A shocking and empowering true-crime story of three sisters determined to survive their mother’s house of horrors.

After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.

For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadisti
Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4) book cover41

Lethal White (Cormoran Strike, #4)

Robert Galbraith

4.2
"Rowling's wizardry as a writer is on fulsome display" (USA Today) in this #1 New York Times bestseller from the international bestselling author Robert Galbraith.

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, a
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay book cover42

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald – The Original Screenplay

J.K. Rowling

4.2
At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.

In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plan
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The Burning Room (Harry Bosch, #17; Harry Bosch Universe, #26)

Michael Connelly

4.2
In the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet nine years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which the body is still fresh, but any other evidence is virtually nonexistent.

Now Bosch and his new partner, rookie Detective Lucia Soto, are tasked with solving what turns out to be a h

Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1) book cover44

Still Life (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #1)

Louise Penny

4.2
As the early morning mist clears on Thanksgiving Sunday, the homes of Three Pines come to life - all except one…

To locals, the village is a safe haven. So they are bewildered when a well-loved member of the community is found lying dead in the maple woods. Surely it was an accident - a hunter's arrow gone astray. Who could want Jane Neal dead?

In a long and distinguished career with the Sûreté du Q
Fallen (Will Trent, #5) book cover45

Fallen (Will Trent, #5)

Karin Slaughter

4.2
There's no police training stronger than a cop's instinct. Faith Mitchell's mother isn't answering her phone. Her front door is open. There's a bloodstain above the knob. Her infant daughter is hidden in a shed behind the house. All that the Georgia Bureau of Investigations taught Faith Mitchell goes out the window when she charges into her mother's house, gun drawn. She sees a man dead in the lau
A Crime of Passion (Joe Dillard, #7) book cover46

A Crime of Passion (Joe Dillard, #7)

Scott Pratt

4.2
A beautiful, young, rising star in the country music world is found dead in a Nashville hotel room.

The owner of her record company is charged with murder.

In the seventh installment of Scott Pratt's bestselling Joe Dillard series, Dillard is hired to travel to Tennessee's capital city to defend Paul Milius, a record company baron accused of strangling Kasey Cartwright, his label's young star. Dil
The Poet book cover47

The Poet

Michael Connelly

4.2
Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story wit
The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1) book cover48

The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)

Tess Gerritsen

4.2
IN BOSTON, THERE'S A KILLER ON THE LOOSE...

A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them.

But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investig
Broken (Will Trent, #4) book cover49

Broken (Will Trent, #4)

Karin Slaughter

4.2
When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, need
Fractured (Will Trent, #2) book cover50

Fractured (Will Trent, #2)

Karin Slaughter

4.2
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Undone (Will Trent, #3)

Karin Slaughter

4.2
When a tortured young woman enters the trauma center of an Atlanta hospital, Dr. Sara Linton is thrust into a desperate police investigation with Special Agent Will Trent and his partner, Faith Mitchell. Though guarding their own wounds and their own secrets, Sara, Will, and Faith find that they are all that stand between a madman and his next victim.
Into the Killer Sphere (Chase Williams detective stories #1) book cover52

Into the Killer Sphere (Chase Williams detective stories #1)

Stefania Mattana

4.2
What if a former British detective from Scotland Yard is called to solve a murder case in Italy?
What if a domestic accident turns into a murder case?
Mystery, conspiracy, drugs, family intrigues. Life is not easy in Tursenia.

Chase Williams is looking forward to a solitary week off, away from the office, when he is dragged into a strange murder case by his friend, Inspector Angelo Alunni.

Piero Gall
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1) book cover53

The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

Robert Galbraith

4.2
A brilliant mystery in a classic vein: Detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office.

Then John Bristow walks through his door
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In the Clearing

Robert Dugoni

4.2
Detective Tracy Crosswhite has a skill, and a soft spot, for tackling unsolved crimes. Having lost her own sister to murder at a young age, Tracy has dedicated her career to bringing justice and closure to the families and friends of victims of crime.

So when Jenny, a former police academy classmate and protégé, asks Tracy to help solve a cold case that involves the suspicious suicide of a Native A
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The Lewis Man (The Lewis Trilogy, #2)

Peter May

4.2
A body is recovered from a peat bog on the Isle of Lewis. The male Caucasian corpse is initially believed by its finders to be over 2000 years old, until they spot the Elvis tattoo on his right arm. The body, it transpires, is not evidence of an ancient ritual killing, but of a murder committed during the latter half of the 20th century.
Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1) book cover56

Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)

Lee Child

4.2
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he's arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Jack knows is that he didn't kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn't stand a chance of convincing anyone. not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.
Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2) book cover57

Body of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)

Patricia Cornwell

4.2
After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scratched on her car. But the very night she returns to Richmond, she deactivates her burglar alarm and opens her door to someone who nearly decapitates her. Why did she let him in, wonders Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta? And,
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Cruel & Unusual (Kay Scarpetta, #4)

Patricia D. Cornwell

4.2
Virginia Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta is called in to autopsy the body of convicted murderer Ronnie Waddell after his execution. Several days after the execution, a young boy is discovered murdered in the fashion of Waddell's earlier killings, with Waddell's prints near the body. Scarpetta, along with FBI Agent Benton Wesley and Detective Pete Marino, try to discover how a dead inmate coul
The Overlook (Harry Bosch, #13; Harry Bosch Universe, #17) book cover59

The Overlook (Harry Bosch, #13; Harry Bosch Universe, #17)

Michael Connelly

4.1
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Triptych (Will Trent, #1)

Karin Slaughter

4.1
Librarian’s note: This is an updated cover image for Kindle.
See previously published cover here.


BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from Karin Slaughter's Unseen.

From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood
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Unseen (Will Trent, #7)

Karin Slaughter

4.1
Karin Slaughter’s novels featuring Special Agent Will Trent are utterly riveting and masterfully drawn. Her latest thriller, Unseen, pits detectives, lovers, and enemies against one another in an unforgettable standoff between righteous courage and deepest evil.

Will Trent is a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent whose latest case has him posing as Bill Black, a scary ex-con who rides a motorcycl
Criminal (Will Trent, #6) book cover62

Criminal (Will Trent, #6)

Karin Slaughter

4.1
Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda’s motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they ha
Unlucky 13 (Women's Murder Club, #13) book cover63

Unlucky 13 (Women's Murder Club, #13)

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

4.1
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident.

The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people.

While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting. Sightings of her ex-collea
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Field of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #24)

John Sandford

4.1
The night after the fourth of July, Layton Carlson Jr., of Red Wing, Minnesota, finally got lucky. And unlucky.

He’d picked the perfect spot to lose his virginity to his girlfriend, an abandoned farmyard in the middle of cornfields: nice, private, and quiet. The only problem was . . . something smelled bad—like, really bad. He mentioned it to a county deputy he knew, and when the cop took a look,
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The Hard Way (Jack Reacher, #10)

Lee Child

4.1
In Lee Child’s astonishing new thriller, ex–military cop Reacher sees more than most people would...and because of that, he’s thrust into an explosive situation that’s about to blow up in his face. For the only way to find the truth—and save two innocent lives—is to do it the way Jack Reacher does it best: the hard way….

Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New
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The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy, #1)

Peter May

4.1
A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.

A MURDER
Detective Inspector Fin Macleod is sent from Edinburgh to investigate. For Lewis-born Macleod, the case represents a journey both home and into his past.

A SECRET
Something lurks within the close-knit island community. Something sinister.

A TRAP
As Fin investigates, old skel
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The Informant (Kaz Phelps, #1)

Susan Wilkins

4.1
Set in London and Essex, The Informant is a story of ruthless criminals, corrupt cops, obsessive love and the villainy that operates on both sides of the law.

As a drug-fuelled teenage tearaway, Kaz Phelps took the rap for her little brother Joey over a bungled armed robbery and went to jail.

Six years later she's released on licence. Clean and sober, and driven by a secret passion for her lawyer, H
Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18) book cover68

Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18)

Lee Child

4.1
After an epic and interrupted journey all the way from the snows of South Dakota, Jack Reacher has finally made it to Virginia. His destination: a sturdy stone building a short bus ride from Washington D.C., the headquarters of his old unit, the 110th MP. It was the closest thing to a home he ever had.

Why? He wants to meet the new commanding officer, Major Susan Turner. He liked her voice on the p

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2) book cover69

The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)

Robert Galbraith

4.1
Private investigator Cormoran Strike returns in a new mystery from Robert Galbraith, author of the #1 international bestseller The Cuckoo's Calling.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days—as he has done before—and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.

Bu
70

The Girl With No Name

Lisa Regan

4.1
Detective Josie Quinn is horrified when she’s called to the house of a mother who had her newborn baby snatched from her arms.

A woman caught fleeing the scene is Josie’s only lead, but when questioned it seems this mysterious girl doesn’t know who she is, where she’s from or why she is so terrified…

Is she a witness, a suspect, or the next victim?

As Josie digs deeper, a letter about a mix-up at a
Indelible (Grant County, #4) book cover71

Indelible (Grant County, #4)

Karin Slaughter

4.1
An officer is shot point-blank in the Grant County police station and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver is wounded, setting off a terrifying hostage situation with medical examiner Sara Linton at the center. Working outside the station, Lena Adams, newly reinstated to the force, and Frank Wallace, Jeffrey's second in command, must try to piece together who the shooter is and how to rescue their friend
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Running Blind (Jack Reacher, #4)

Lee Child

4.1
The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher.

Across the country women are being murdered, victims of a disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. They are, truly, perfect crimes. In fact, there’s only one thing that links one victim to the next.
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The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)

Jane Harper

4.1
A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.
Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his child

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12th of Never (Women's Murder Club, #12)

James Patterson and Maxine Paetr

4.1
It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose.

Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career.

A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confr
Blindsighted (Grant County, #1) book cover75

Blindsighted (Grant County, #1)

Karin Slaughter

4.1
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear. Sara's ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation -- a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another l
One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1) book cover76

One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)

Janet Evanovich

4.1
You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do?

If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter; you go after the big money. That means a cop gone
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Don't Tell a Soul (Detectives Kane and Alton, #1)

D.K. Hood

4.0
The floor was stone cold on her bare skin. Her heart pounded in her chest. ‘Not a soul knows where I am,’ she thought as she took in the darkness around her. And then she heard his footsteps…

When a body is found stuffed into a barrel at a garbage dump, covered in long red lacerations, Detective Jenna Alton and her new deputy, David Kane, rush to the scene.

Nothing ever happens in the small American
78

The Body Keeper (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries Book 3)

Anne Frasier

4.0
The Thriller Award–winning series continues as Detective Jude Fontaine finds a decades-old connection to missing children that will freeze her blood.

A boy’s frozen body is found trapped in the ice of a Minneapolis lake. The horrifying discovery leads Detective Jude Fontaine and her partner, Uriah Ashby, to more bodies in the ice, all of twelve-year-old boys missing for twenty years.

Then, in one of
7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club, #7) book cover79

7th Heaven (Women's Murder Club, #7)

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

4.0
A terrible fire in a wealthy suburban home leaves a married couple dead and Detective Lindsay Boxer and her partner Rich Conklin searching for clues. And after California's golden boy, Michael Campion has been missing for a month, there finally seems to be a lead in his case--a very devastating lead.

As fire after fire consume couples in wealthy, comfortable homes, Lindsay and the Murder Club must
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No Man's Land (John Puller, #4)

David Baldacci

4.0
Special Agent John Puller, combat veteran and the army's most tenacious investigator, is back in this action-packed thriller from worldwide #1 bestselling author David Baldacci.
NO MAN'S LAND

Two men. Thirty years.

John Puller's mother, Jackie, vanished thirty years ago from Fort Monroe, Virginia, when Puller was just a boy. Paul Rogers has been in prison for ten years. But twenty years before that

Threat Bias: Ben Porter Series - Book Two book cover81

Threat Bias: Ben Porter Series - Book Two

Christopher Rosow

4.0
82

Dark Sacred Night (Renée Ballard, #2; Harry Bosch, #21; Harry Bosch Universe, #31)

Michael Connelly

4.0
LAPD Detective Renée Ballard teams up with Harry Bosch in the new thriller from #1 NYT bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again, and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him ou
83

All That Remains (Kay Scarpetta, #3)

Patricia Cornwell

4.0
In Richmond, Virginia, young lovers are dying. So far, four couples in the area have disappeared, only to be found months later as mutilated corpses. When the daughter of the president's newest drug czar vanishes along with her boyfriend, Dr. Kay Scarpetta knows time is short. Following a macabre trail of evidence that ties the present homicides to a grisly crime in the past, Kay must draw upon he
84

The Girl in the Ice (Detective Erika Foster, #1)

Robert Bryndza

4.0
Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one.

When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.

The victim, a beautiful young socialite, appeared to have the perfect life. Yet when Erika begins to dig deeper, she
The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2) book cover85

The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad, #2)

Tana French

4.0
In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Ale
Find Her Alive (Detective Josie Quinn #8) book cover86

Find Her Alive (Detective Josie Quinn #8)

Lisa Regan

4.0
Josie treads gently, careful not to disturb the pile of perfect white bones laid out in the grass by her feet. Her voice is little more than a whisper.
“No! Not my sister…”

Detective Josie Quinn hasn’t heard from her sister since Trinity stormed out of the house in the heat of an argument three weeks ago. So, when human remains are found at the remote hunting cabin where Trinity was last seen, Jos
87

Police (Harry Hole, #10)

Jo Nesbø

4.0
When a police officer is found murdered at the scene of an old unsolved murder case that he was involved in investigating, it can hardly be a coincidence. When the same thing happens to two other officers in a matter of months the pattern is as clear as it is terrifying. None of the old cases were ever solved. The killings are extremely brutal and the police have no leads. What’s more, they’re mis
88

Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)

Lee Child

4.0
Never forgive, never forget.

Jack Reacher lives for the moment. Without a home. Without commitment. But he has a burning desire to right wrongs - and rewrite his own agonizing past.

Never apologize. Never explain.

When Reacher witnesses a brutal kidnap attempt, he takes the law into his own hands. But a cop dies. Has Reacher lost his sense of right and wrong?
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The Lemonade Crime (The Lemonade War, #2)

Jacqueline Davies

4.0
Following the laws of our legal system, Evan and Jessie’s fourth grade class concocts a courtroom on the playground, putting Scott Spencer, alleged thief, on trial. They create a legitimate courtroom—with a judge, witnesses, a jury of their peers—and surprising consequences.
As she explores the difficulties of fairness, Jacqueline Davies once again reveals how good she is at understanding the com
Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3) book cover90

Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad #3)

Tana French

4.0
Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was nineteen, growing up poor in Dublin's inner city and living crammed into a small flat with his family on Faithful Place. But he had his sights set on a lot more. He and his girl, Rosie Daly, were all set to run away to London together, get married, get good jobs, break away from factory work and poverty and their old lives.

But on the winter night when they were suppo
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) book cover91

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)

Agatha Christie

4.0
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.

Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer—in case he or s
Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1) book cover92

Stillhouse Lake (Stillhouse Lake, #1)

Rachel Caine

4.0
Gina Royal is the definition of average—a shy Midwestern housewife with a happy marriage and two adorable children. But when a car accident reveals her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she must remake herself as Gwen Proctor—the ultimate warrior mom.

With her ex now in prison, Gwen has finally found refuge in a new home on remote Stillhouse Lake. Though still the target of stalkers and Int
10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club, #10) book cover93

10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club, #10)

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

4.0
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals - but that the victim may be keeping secrets.

At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castell
Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6) book cover94

Catch Me (Detective D.D. Warren, #6)

Lisa Gardner

4.0
Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21.

Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide dete
Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1) book cover95

Rules of Prey (Lucas Davenport, #1)

John Sandford

4.0
The "maddog" murderer who is terrorizing the Twin Cities is two things: insane and extremely intelligent. He kills for the pleasure of it and thoroughly enjoys placing elaborate obstacles to keep police befuddled. Each clever move he makes is another point of pride. But when the brilliant Lieutenant Lucas Davenport--a dedicated cop and a serial killer's worst nightmare--is brought in to take up th
96

11th Hour (Women's Murder Club, #11)

James Patterson

4.0
Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer - even her closest friends.

Lindsay is called next to the most biza
97

Without Fail (Jack Reacher, #6)

Lee Child, Dick Hill

4.0
Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast - because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They've planned well. There's just one thing they didn't plan on: Reacher.
A Book of Scars (Breen and Tozer, #3) book cover98

A Book of Scars (Breen and Tozer, #3)

William Shaw

4.0
1969.

Five years ago, teenager Alexandra Tozer was murdered on her family farm. Her sister Helen Tozer will never forget. Returning home after quitting the Met Police, she brings with her the recovering Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen, who slowly becomes possessed by the unsolved case.

He discovers the Tozers were never told the whole truth. Alexandra was tortured for twenty-four hours before she
The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, #9) book cover99

The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, #9)

James Patterson, Maxine Paetro

4.0
The most personal

A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their car in the garage of a shopping mall. There are no witnesses, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is left with only one shred of evidence: a cryptic message scrawled across the windshield in bloodred lipstick.

The most dangerous

The same night, the wife of A-list actor Marcus Dowling is woken by a cat

Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2) book cover100

Die Trying (Jack Reacher, #2)

Lee Child

4.0
Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

In a Chicago suburb, a dentist is met in his office parking lot by three men and ordered into the trunk of his Lexus. On a downtown sidewalk, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight by two men - practiced and confident - who stop them at gunpoint and hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into