Police Procedural category: 10739 books

The Poisoned Rock by Robert Daws “Robert Daws is an exciting addition to the canon of 21st-century crime writers…he brilliantly and vividly brings the darkness of wartime Gibraltar into the glare of contemporary crime-busting searchlights.” Peter James. International bestselling...

Susan Hill—the Man Booker Prize nominee and winner of the Whitbread, Somerset Maugham, and John Llewellyn Rhys awards—returns with a hair-raising new novel, the ninth book in one of the most acclaimed mystery series of our time. Featuring the enigmatic and brooding chief police inspector Simon...

Someone is watching them… When a missing teenage girl reappears unharmed but pregnant, the case falls to Detective Edina Ogborne, the newest recruit of Canterbury Police. But Edina’s already got her hands full with a team who don’t want her, an ex who won’t quit, and terrible guilt over a...

Sam Jenkins is the new police chief in town and everyone wonders, will Prospect, Tennessee ever be the same? Here are six novelettes where Jenkins gets to show off his skills learned as a former New York detective. A LABOR DAY MURDER and A MURDER IN KNOXVILLE take the reader into the...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **• Karin Slaughter, author of the bestselling Will Trent novels, is widely acclaimed as “one of the best crime novelists in America” (The Washington Post). Now she delivers her first stand-alone novel: an epic story of a city in the midst of seismic upheaval, a...

From the New York Times–bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: An “absorbing” and “chilling” historical mystery “dripping with evil atmosphere” (The Times, London). December 12, 1945. The Third Reich lies in ruins as a British warplane lands in Bückeburg, Germany. A...

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation,...

It didn't seem possible the largest city in the US could go bankrupt, but in 1975 that's exactly what happened--NYC went bust. In what was called The Layoff Period, younger officers were sent home, their careers on hold, while NYPD veterans went back to patrol the streets. Meanwhile, with the thin...

It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but “Charlie” Chan Siu-kai’s biggest concern is a gruesome triple murder case, with no solid leads. Chan, a...

A Canadian police detective investigates a death by unnatural causes in this “bracingly original mystery series” from a “first-rate crime writer” (Publishers Weekly). Stinging deaths aren’t uncommon in the summertime, but when Henry Wiest turns up stung to death at an Indian reservation,...

***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION'S INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2017*** ***WINNER OF THE DANISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' PALLE ROSENKRANTZ PRIZE (Best Crime Novel 2012)*** ***WINNER OF THE FINNISH ACADEMY OF CRIME WRITERS' AWARD (Best Crime Novel 2012)*** ***WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY (Best Scandinavian...

Realtor Veronica Gillis is loud and aggressive and some people hate her. Police Captain Alexander Moffat, routinely described as soft-spoken and kind, begins the first homicide investigation of his new job in California’s picturesque Gold Country when her body is discovered at the church she planned...

LA MAISON VIDE   Au printemps de l’année 1894, la population de Londres, et spécialement la haute société, fut jetée dans la consternation par le meurtre de l’honorable Ronald Adair, qui se produisit dans des conditions aussi extraordinaires qu’inexplicables. Le public...

Most witches don’t work for police departments, but Michelle isn’t your average witch. She’s clanless, looking for a warlock who isn’t offended by her lack of family connections, and in danger of losing her job if she can’t find the eight escaped trolls before they start eating the local...