Police Procedural category: 10739 books

Fresh from a well-deserved vacation, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders returns to find the homicide department deep into an investigation of the shooting death of a wealthy local businessman. But when a sergeant on the investigating team disappears with the case’s eyewitness, only Sanders’s...

A tip-off leading to the discovery of a young woman’s body throws Harry Vicary and his team into another perplexing murder investigation. ‘Big Andy’ Cragg’s drunken disclosure to an undercover police officer in a West London pub that he was once party to the disposal of the body of...

DI Alex Randall and coroner Martha Gunn search for a missing child, but their investigation is compromised by local superstitions and beliefs In the peaceful setting of the National Trust near Church Stretton, south of Shrewsbury, Tracey Walsh drives herself and her four-year-old daughter, Daisy,...

Policemen Harpur and Iles get mixed up in the criminal world of fine art dealing Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the greatest informant Harpur has ever dealt with –...

Dundee International Book Prize winner 2009 Award winning crime novel set in Dundee, Scotland, A mystery and detective story which is a combination of police procedural, and woman in jeopardy. Book 2 of The Dundee Crime Series, with the popular DS Bill Murphy. Kara owes money to Dundee...

Any Port in a Storm introduces us to Inspector Emmanuel Smith, a twenty-two year veteran of the Bay Port City Police Department. He’s a law enforcement burnout, having been a corpse cop for nearly a decade too long ... but he’s tougher than a trigonometry test and solving whodunits is the only...

This isn't your mother's Little House on the Prairie... Detective Marek Okerlund unknowingly passes by a dying man in a Dakota blizzard—and gets what he changed jobs to avoid: a homicide. Acting Sheriff Karen Mehaffey asks for a part-time detective to teach her the ropes and loses what she...

In Frank Smith's police procedural Thread of Evidence, Shropshire Detective Chief Inspector Neil Paget leads an investigation into the brutal murder of a leading real estate developer. Discovered stabbed to death in his regular suite at the upscale Tudor Hotel, Jim Bolen has many enemies, both personal...

The ninth installment in the Carina Quintana Murder Mysteries series, Three Strikes and You’re Dead pits the tough and beautiful Fort Lauderdale police chief against the worst sort of serial killer imaginable. A profiler's nightmare, this cleverly disguised, merciless merchant of death travels the...

A detective story following a police detective's procedural investigation of a local triple murder which in turn leads to another triple murder outside his jurisdiction. From a Littleton IL small commodities trading firm to Chicago's version of the mafia, the "Outfit," Dectective Ploester follows leads...

Early in Proud Beggars, a brutal and motiveless murder is committed in a Cairo brothel. But the real mystery at the heart of Albert Cossery’s wry black comedy is not the cause of this death but the paradoxical richness to be found in even the most materially impoverished life.      Chief among...

Detective Lottie King battles the clock and an unexpected Big Bad as she joins Colorado Springs Police in a race to find a bomb planted at a Christmas light parade where her Girl Power troop is marching. A Detective Lottie King Holiday Mystery that first appeared in New Shoes: Detective Lottie King...

Detective Inspector Sep Black returns to take on two connected cold cases in this hard-hitting police procedural from the author of Dead or Alive. When a wealthy businessman suffers a fatal fall from his office window, the forensic evidence points to murder. But with no suspects, no clues,...

The beginning of The Beat, Belbin's groundbreaking police procedural series, finds Clare Coppola about to go on patrol for the first time when her own home is broken into. A fast paced mystery from the author of the best selling Bone and Cane series, this story introduces a cast of young police...