Police Procedural category: 10739 books

Middle-class parents Victoria and Nicholas Foulkes are distraught when their children are kidnapped against Nicholas’ gambling debts. Penniless and desperate the couple turn to crime as a way to raise the ransom. Hot on their heels is recently bereaved DI Harry Evans and his Major Crimes...

New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock has been after infamous criminal Nicholas Bennett for years. When Bennett kills someone close to Doug, however, Doug's investigation—and his life—start spiraling out of control. He's placed on indefinite suspension from the police force and breaks things...

Ben Aaronovitch's bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series • “The perfect blend of CSI and Harry Potter.” —io9 • 2015 Locus Recommended Reading for Fantasy When two young girls go missing in rural Herefordshire, police constable and wizard-in-training Peter Grant is...

A moody mystery set in Italy from the New York Times–bestselling author: “One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” —The Washington Post Guido Brunetti has to deal every day with crimes big and small, suffocating corruption, and a never-ending influx of tourists....

**"Dark, gorgeous…feels authentically Chinese and it works like a charm." --Washington Post Book World on A Case of Two Cities Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Department is offered a bit of luxury by friends and supporters within the Party – a week's vacation at...

Rick Montoya is looking forward to a break from his translation business in Rome - a week of skiing in the Italian Alps with old college buddy Flavio. But Rick's success helping the Italian police with a murder in Tuscany sends the Campiglio cops his way. An American banker working in Milano is missing....

When the traffic police call the local police station, who call CID, DI Brock is none too pleased to be forced to attend the scene of a traffic accident when he doesn't see how it's any of his business. But then it turns out that the body of a woman discovered in a ditch alongside the crashed car...

Jack Lord and Belle had re-decorated the office. Belle loved it, but Jack wasn't happy about the result. However, they were expecting a new customer today, "Let's hope this new customer likes the place." thought Jack as he heard a knock on the door. Belle quickly opened, and an elderly lady...

In this thrilling chapter in Faye Kellerman’s bestselling series, Rina Lazarus makes a shocking discovery in the woods of her upstate New York community that leads her husband, police detective Peter Decker, through a series of gruesome, decades old, unsolved murders, pointing to a diabolical, serial...

Feargal MacIntosh McGregor is the greatest exercise in positive PR that the police force have had in years. Son of Sir Robert McGregor, Britain's most famous policeman who, as the celebrated head of Scotland Yard, ran the Met with an iron hand and efficiency not achieved either before or after his...

Its the summer of 1980. Philadelphia Police Homicide Captain, John Quintana and his elite Dead End Gang are on the hunt for a diabolical serial killer. It is the most puzzling case the squad has ever encountered. Pressure mounts when Quintana and his special squad are left with little clues. The City...

Matt Royal is going back to the courtroom. He has agreed to defend his good friend and wife of Longboat Key’s Police Chief.  Abby Lester has been charged with the murder of Nate Bannister, an unlikeable, shady character.  He was found shot to death in his downtown Sarasota condo and the evidence...

Police work is often funny, sometimes scary, but always interesting. Cops share their stories with each other all the time, often over coffee, or over drinks after work. The tales cover the spectrum of humorous to deadly. Often, it is not what happens to the criminal or the citizen that makes the...

Book 2 in the award-winning Anna Kronberg Mystery series. "...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."...