Police Procedural category: 10739 books

An English professor, shot dead in his office. His neighbor, a professor of mathematics, who discovered the body and called the police.  And is the most likely suspect. A police detective, seemingly more interested in the apple pie at the local diner than in solving the case. A...

The Brown Bag Bandit was feeding OO Buck into a Sage Sidewinder. Five fat magnum shells, each containing twelve copper-jacketed pellets instead of the standard nine. On fully automatic the stubby shotgun could put sixty chunks of lead into the air with devastating firepower.The Bandit held the shotgun...

"When the first armchair smashed into the asphalt, Sergeant Ashmouni was at his usual spot on the median of the Nile Corniche, trapped by the road's twin currents turbulently flowing forth to Maadi and back to Old Cairo. He was wiping the sweat away from his eyes with his worn out sleeve and...

Sexy stripper Mata appears to have everything—lucrative career, fabulous friends, and beautiful home in an upscale Vancouver suburb. It also doesn’t hurt that this sharp-witted blond beauty has a body that men would die for—literally!So why does big-hearted Mata—known to her friends as “fairy...

The novella takes place in the city of Greenville where a heinous murder occurs. The killer leaves messages for the police written in her victim’s blood, maybe to annoy the police or maybe to leave a clue about the next murder. The point of views interchange betwixt the protagonist, Detective Lynn...

Bucolic Painters Mill is plunged into darkness in this new short mystery, from the New York Times bestselling author of Among the Wicked, featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder. It’s Friday the 13th in Painters Mill and rumors of an Amish “rager”—a huge outdoor party rife with underage...

In North London families are being slaughtered by a merciless serial killer, with only one female relative left alive each time. There are no clues, just the sinister text messages sent to each surviving victim. Ex- Detective Sergeant Terence Marsland is trying to forget his former life as a...

Church pandemonium, as congregants begin to drop like flies, after drinking arsenic-laced coffee just after the liberal Unitarian church Sunday morning service. Four later die, including Alicia Holmes, a visiting minister. Riverton, Alabama’s new Police Chief and church member, Donald Ginsburg,...

A crime spree ends in murder for Canadian police chief Reid Bennett, “one of the most interesting series whodunit heroes of the decade” (Chicago Sun-Times). There is no rest tonight for Reid Bennett, police chief of tiny Murphy’s Harbor in Canada. Not if he keeps getting phone calls,...

Businessman Gordon Murphy has something of a Midas touch…in everything but love. Now he’s set his sights on Cassandra Mitchell, even though she’s happily sharing a bed and breakfast with Sergeant Karl Alberg of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Meanwhile, Alberg has some actual policing problems...

Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare? Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have been a murder. The dead man was himself a...

Is the age-old myth about a full moon true? Philadelphia police officers Tim Flannery and Jack Kerrigan find out, up close and personal in this story of one insanely crazy midnight, or ‘last-out’ shift, in the 26th Police District. "If the moon moves whole oceans, what's it do to people's brains?"

Mitch stammered, stunned. It had just hit him. He had not happened upon just any old wino. The man standing down in the bin was Dorset's most famous and reclusive resident, Wendell Frye, the man who had single-handedly redefined modern American sculpture...His towering, breathtaking scrap-metal sculptures...

Levi Vogue, Chairman of the powerful Utah Board of Pardons and Parole, is gunned down in the driveway of his home as he returns from a late evening tryst with Sue Ann Winkler, an exotic dancer employed in a Salt Lake City strip club. Sam Kincaid, Chief of the Special Investigations Branch (SIB) of...