Police Procedural category: 10739 books

It's 1909, and Cairo is the murder capital of the world. Deaths are two a piastre. But the death of an effendi is something different. Effendis - the Egyptian elite - are important. Especially if they happen to be foreign. When effendi Tvardovsky is shot at a gathering of financiers in Crocodilopolis,...

The highs and lows of cops on the job. The cases that make them, break them, bring them laughs, maybe even love. Police on the beat, working one-officer shops and seasoned detectives pursue a cunning home intruder, a full-moon prankster, false friends, vengeful partners. Adrenaline-charged...

This “superb” international mystery features a Slovakian police commander shattered by loss, and set on justice (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Devastated by her lover’s death in an explosion—on the same day a student was shot and killed in sleepy Bratislava after sneaking into a hotel...

A police commander suspects an international criminal conspiracy: “The portrayal of life in post-Communist Slovakia is riveting” (USA Today).   Prudent Jana and impetuous Sofia were best friends as schoolmates, including the day when Sofia was assaulted by someone high up in the Communist Party....

In Mike Worley’s fifth mystery/thriller, Detective Angela Masters is on the trail of a sociopath who murdered and dismembered a teen-aged girl.Late one night, a resident of Santa Rosa reports that someone was banging on his front door and screaming for help. A raging fire which threatens...

In the most vicious precinct in Brooklyn, a female detective wages war on corruption In the New York Police Department, Monty Adams is the prince of pain. An Old Testament officer, he believes that God is wrathful, and that the police are the Lord’s favorite weapon. The toughest cop in South...

Homosexuality--its religious, social and political implications--is the backdrop for "Cast the First Stone," the fifth book in James Paavola's "Murder In Memphis" series. Three gay men have been murdered. A video of Memphis police officers beating a gay man goes viral. The City Council passionately...

Police Captain Alexander Moffat came out of his last case with an addition to the family: a new foster son for whom Alex and his wife Jean quickly develop a fondness. They worry that the teenager refuses to face the stress from the adversities of his young life. They don’t realize he keeps secrets. Brian...

A 50th-anniversary edition of the pioneering novel featuring African American police detective Virgil Tibbs—with a foreword by John Ridley, creator of the TV series American Crime and Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave “They call me Mr. Tibbs” was the line immortalized by...

Hôpital de Cressac. Vingt-deux heures. Service des urgences. Plongé dans un coma profond, un homme impossible à identifier est conduit chambre 127. Pas de papiers, plus d’empreintes, un visage modifié par la chirurgie esthétique. La police soupçonne un cas de grand banditisme, et la presse...

Detective Sergeant Sarah Kemp, newly arrived in the small East Anglian market town of Tenley and still wary from her experience of mayhem in her last post, finds herself neck deep in intrigue once again. People keep turning up dead and no one in the community is willing to speak to the police. Sarah,...

“Small town Colorado police detective Gemma Monroe is a human and fallible heroine I can't wait to meet again, and Littlejohn's prose is lyrical and gripping.”—Deborah Crombie In Emily Littlejohn's follow-up to her acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, a twisted killer stalks his prey in...

Murder, meltdown or misadventure? Police officer, John Tyson, has disappeared on a remote mountain range and Detective Bridgette Cash has been sent to investigate. Hampered by local police as she tries to discover the truth, Bridgette becomes the target of a syndicate as she uncovers secrets...

Police officer Ellery Hathaway and FBI profiler Reed Markham take on two difficult new cases in this stunning follow-up to The Vanishing Season. "A gripping and powerful read. It is what we call an edge-of-your-seat, rollercoaster of a thriller. You will not be able to put it down before...