Police Procedural category: 10739 books

Hate superheroes? Yeah. They probably hate you, too. ‘There are two kinds of people with lawyers on tap, Mr Grey. The powerful and the corrupt.’ ‘Thank you.’ ‘For implying you’re powerful?’ ‘For imagining those are two different groups.’ From Crawford Award nominee...

*"A great recommendation for fans of J.A. Jance's Arizona-set mysteries"*Booklist A murder leads Sarah Burke to investigate a money-laundering ring with connections extending far beyond Tucson – but does the key to solving the case lie closer to home than she realises? The...

RESTRAINING ORDER Alexis Fields is in the prime of her life, has just finished medical school and is celebrating her dream of becoming a doctor. But things go terribly wrong when she ends a volatile relationship with a disturbed man, Wilfred "Will" Bachman. Unable to handle the rejection,...

“With complexity worthy of Ross Macdonald”, the award-winning author of Hard Line delivers a tightly crafted police procedural featuring Lt. Leroy Powder (Publishers Weekly).   Nineteen years in Night Cover plus five years running the Missing Persons Bureau in the Indianapolis PD has certainly...

A set of compelling 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...

"Read the first page of THE DEAD SOUL and you won't stop. … Phelps’s narrative grabs you by the lapels and doesn’t let go." –John Lutz, New York Times bestselling author In this first novel, serial killer expert, star of Investigation Discovery’s “Dark Minds,” New York Times...

First title in a new series starring Harry "The Dead Detective" Doyle Strong candidate for all major mystery awards: Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, etc. Will appeal to a wide range of crime-fiction fans: regular mystery fans, police procedural fans, etc.

A detective looks into a skeleton in a Scottish cemetery—and, perhaps, into his own family’s past—in this “top-notch police-procedural” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). When a woman’s bones are discovered in a grave in St. Andrews—with no coffin and no marker—DCI Andy Gilchrist is...

The Savages (A Murder Thriller) 'This is a taut, handsome job, beautifully written, full of real characters and acute observations.' The New York Times When Colonel Bannister-Coates, an experienced Intelligence officer, fails to return to his Oxfordshire village home and his immaculate...

Bill Slider and his team investigate the murder of a victim with a decidedly shady past in this gripping contemporary mystery. The body of a smartly-dressed businessman turns up in the yard of Eli Simpson?s car workshop. But there?s no ID in the pockets and Eli swears he?s never seen the man...

A hard-hitting DI Sarah Quinn police procedural - 'Olivia Kent is lying. Olivia Kent is crying. Olivia Kent is dying. I could make it quicker. Put her out of her misery. But I won't.' The anonymous letter sent to the chief superintendent would appear to be a piece of malicious nonsense. But schoolteacher...

Ice-cool Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and fiery reporter Caroline King lock horns once again in this latest intriguing mystery. When the body of a teenage girl is found in a local park, it is assumed she is the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been plaguing the area. But when...

Monika Paniatowski’s boss is trying to destroy her career, but the dead end case he assigns her turns out to be something else entirely . . . DCI Monika Paniatowski recognises her latest assignment as advisor to the Earl of Ridley’s rock festival for what it really is – an attempt by the chief...

A Shaw & Valentine mystery When a body is discovered beneath the waves off Scolt Head Island, the contents of the dead man’s pockets lead Detective Inspector Peter Shaw to suspect an outbreak of ‘samphire wars’: a turf battle for control of the prized sea asparagus which sells for...