Police Procedural category: 10739 books

Everyone is entitled to a voice, but has a protest group turned to murder to make themselves heard? A fatal stabbing in a local park appears to be a mugging gone wrong – but Detective Charlie Cooper suspects there’s more to this murder than meets the eye. The victim worked at a local pharmaceutical...

First in the police procedural series, this “plot [is] replete with shocks . . . Her vivid portrayal of Naples, in its glory and its gloom, is unforgettable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).   When a college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastery, Capt. Natalia Monte of the...

A controversial professor is murdered in London in this novel from “a master of mysteries” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Following her ordeal in the stakeout at the Silvermeadow supermall, Det. Sergeant Kathy Kolla is on leave, so haunted by past events that she’s tempted to quit the force...

A trio of sharp-witted British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and “a most ingenious” author (The New Yorker). In her debut novel in the long-running mystery series, The Religious Body, Catherine Aird introduced the sleuthing team of shrewd...

Will a mother’s search for the truth about her son cost her the two children she has left? Jackie Rose is a mother on a mission. Determined to prove her eldest son did not commit suicide, she enlists the help of her best friend’s husband, Homicide Detective Charlie Cooper. Reluctant...

It's the tail end of a hot summer when half of Reykjavík is on holiday and the other half wishes it was. Things are quiet when a man is reported missing from his home in the suburbs. As Gunna and Helgi investigate, it becomes clear that the missing man had secrets of his own that lead to a sinister...

Two rogue terror groups, one treacherous plan. An attack is coming but… where? Detective Kate Bowen is no stranger to dealing with Ireland’s worst. Life in SIU, Dublin’s elite surveillance unit puts her in daily danger. But what if the world’s worst terrorists formed an alliance…...

A set of intriguing British whodunits featuring Detective Inspector Sloan—from a CWA Diamond Dagger winner and “most ingenious” author (The New Yorker).   Over the course of twenty-four crime novels set in the fictional County of Calleshire, England, and featuring the sleuthing team of shrewd...

A detective faces off against a man without conscience in this psychological thriller, the first in the British police procedural series. There’s evil—and then there’s Patrick Sullivan. There are no depths to which this drug dealer, pimp, and murderer won’t sink—and Detective Inspector...

During the last days of World War I, Det. Inspector Ernest Hardcastle is encumbered with a complicated murder investigation. March, 1918. The Great War is grinding slowly to its bloody finale. Divisional Det. Inspector Ernest Hardcastle, head of the Whitehall Division of the Metropolitan Police,...

A drug dealer found dead in an abandoned warehouse, a failed businessman and banker die in creepily similar ways in a private hospital. These deaths can’t be related. Or can they? Detective Kate Bowen’s colleague believes a string of unconnected deaths are related and a serial killer must...

Starring a female police detective and set in Iceland, “this procedural series [is] a standout” (Kirkus Reviews). Officer Gunnhildur Gísladóttir, recently promoted from her post in rural Iceland to Reykjavík’s Serious Crime Unit, is tasked with hunting down escaped convict Long Ommi,...

IF YOU HURT SOMEONE BAD ENOUGH, FOR LONG ENOUGH THERE’S NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING YOU CAN’T MAKE THEM DO. Bobby Ress is a cop with a simple life. He believes in making a difference. He loves his wife and his daughter. He has a place in the world. Then people start dying, a lot of them,...

“No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can.” — Los Angeles Times Critically acclaimed across Europe, Karin Fossum’s Inspector Sejer novels are masterfully constructed, psychologically convincing, and compulsively readable. They evoke a world that is at once profoundly...