Police Procedural category: 10739 books

The South East London police squad are down and out: Detective Sergeant Brant is in hot water for assaulting a police shrink, Chief Inspector Roberts' wife has died in a horrific car accident, and WPC Falls is still figuring out how to navigate her job as a black female investigator in the notorious...

In this New York Times bestseller, an NYPD detective discovers an international conspiracy:****“The action builds with such intensity you’ll race to finish” (New York Daily News). The precinct house at 19 Elizabeth Street is one of the oldest in New York, and some things about it never...

A police detective finds a bizarre connection linking several murder victims in this “gripping” and gritty crime novel set in Brazil (Publishers Weekly).   The son of the foreign minister of Venezuela has been found dead in his apartment in Brasilia. Due to the political nature of the crime,...

“Imagine if Tom Wolfe had been born in 1975 and instead of writing 'Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers' in 1970, he'd have written a book about the state of society and it's obsession with social media, internet fame and all of the intricacies that go along with it. On shrooms. Using...

Two seemingly unconnected men--one a recent winner of a contest and the other a police detective--are both gunned down on the same evening. The widow of one hires Barney Harris, an auto mechanic who does detective work on the side, to sniff out police corruption and find her husband's killer.

Detective Masuto investigates a string of strange Southern California crimes that lead all the way back to Nazi Germany Returning from a funeral, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Briggs find their Beverly Hills mansion ransacked. As they wait for the police, they discover something unusual: Despite the chaos,...

Someone is murdering guests on Penny Wickens’ daytime talk show and it’s now becoming a problem scheduling new guests. Who wants to be next? Penny and Jim have returned from their mystery writers cruise and Penny has settled back into her duties as America’s favorite talk show host. When the...

The compelling thriller that launched the career of best-selling novelist Stuart Woods in an anniversary hardcover edition. In the bitter winter of 1920, the first body is found in Delano, Georgia; the naked corpse of an unidentified teenager. There is no direct evidence of murder, but the...

"...provocative and original..." Peter Kavanagh, CBC Radio Producer "...the new dream team of detective literature." KrimiLese "...a formidable dark-romantic conspiracy novel. A duel of two deduction monsters." Die Welt "Best Sherlock Holmes Mystery 2014" German...

“Quartey’s mastery of the art of misdirection serves him well in his third mystery featuring Accra, Ghana, homicide detective Darko Dawson . . . A winner” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A canoe washes up at a Ghanaian offshore oil-rig site. Inside it are the bodies of a prominent,...

The first in a stunning new series from the author of The Silence of the Sea, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel. The Legacy is the first installment in a fantastic new series featuring the psychologist Freyja and the police officer Huldar. The only person...

The shocking sixth novelin the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, finds Beck investigating a brutal assassination. With an introduction by Arne Dahl.  When Viktor Palmgren, a powerful Swedish industrialist is shot during...

The chilling third -- and breakthrough -- novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by the internationally renowned crime writing duo, finds Martin Beck investigating a string of child murders. With an introduction by Jo Nesbo: "Sjöwall and Wahlöö have shoulders that can accomodate all of today's...

The final novel in the Martin Beck mystery series by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö is a masterful, all consuming tale that rushes toward a thrilling, unexpected climax. With a new introduction by Dennis Lehane: "Tension so thick the reader could crack a tooth."   An American senator is...