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.

Ill Will
Say Nothing
See What I Have Done
Lola
The Cutaway
After the Dark (Killer Instinct, #1)
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Murder on the Serpentine (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #32)
Down City: A Daughter's Story of Love, Memory, and Murder
The Shut-In
Overturned
Proof of Lies
Tattletale
My Darling Detective
The Painted Gun

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  • Silent Child
    A Criminal Defense
    The Girl on the Train
    The Missing Ones (Detective Lottie Parker, #1)
    Last Breath (Detective Erika Foster, #4)
    The Couple Next Door
    Mississippi Blood
    The Dry (Aaron Falk, #1)
    The Fix (Amos Decker #3)
    The Marriage Lie
    The Burial Hour (Lincoln Rhyme #13)
    The Black Book
    Vicious Circle (Joe Pickett, #17)
    The Trapped Girl (Tracy Crosswhite #4)
    No Man's Land (John Puller, #4)
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    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
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    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    Dark Places
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    The Godfather
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    Sharp Objects
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
    The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

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    Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, which will be published by Flatiron Books (Macmillan) in May 2017. It is also forthcoming from publishers internationally. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow and Rona Jaffe Award recipient, she has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in The New York Times, Oxford American, Iowa Review, and many other publications, and were recognized “notable” in Best American Essays 2013, 2015, and 2016.

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