Police Procedural category: 10739 books

A serial killer stalks the women of Nottingham in the first Charlie Resnick Mystery—****“A quantum leap for the police procedural” (Andrew Vachss, author of the Burke series).   Shirley Peters was murdered in her own home. A directionless young woman with a fondness for cheap red wine...

A teenage thug’s apparent suicide reveals a vicious cycle of violence: “No one does the British police procedural better” (Manchester Evening News).   Nicky Snape likes robbing old people. The fifteen-year-old snatches shirts from stores, purses from his teachers, and as much money as...

The author of the Frank Elder Mystery, Body & Soul, delivers **“**a powerful, first-class police procedural” (Kirkus Reviews). Raymond Cooke is looking for revenge, not corpses. It’s been six weeks since the gang of four young punks attacked him, since the one with the knife slit...

A detective’s dark past meets his violent present in “[a] rich tapestry that lifts the police procedural into the realm of the mainstream novel” (Sue Grafton). It starts with five professional thieves. At their first robbery, they press a sawed-off shotgun against a bank manager’s head,...

Two Chicago cops need to defuse an explosive situation in this “tightly plotted” police procedural (Chicago Tribune). After killing his wife and her lover, an unhinged and heavily armed Chicago cop named Bernie Shepard barricades himself at the top of a high-rise apartment building and...

DI Crosier has much more than the serial killer on his mind. Someone dear to his heart is missing. His priority now is to find her. It seems as if all his plans to catch the serial killer are going wrong. His boss from Manchester Railway Police Department is proving himself to be worse than useless...

A detective follows a missing girl into the jungles of Brazil—and uncovers a terrifying criminal conspiracy—in this “fast-paced” police procedural (Booklist). The Brazilian federal police wouldn’t typically get involved in the case of missing teenage girl—but when the girl in question...

The third trio of mysteries in the “beautifully crafted,” Silver Dagger Award–winning police procedural series set in Kent, England (*TheWashington Post*).**   Det. Inspector Luke Thanet may be a family man with a soft heart and bad back, but he also has a bloodhound’s nose for murder. With...

A young woman determines to find out what happened to her missing sister in this tense and twisting psychological thriller Elvie McCulloch’s sister Sophie has been missing for 57 days. She went out for a run – and never came home. Several young woman in the area have disappeared in similar...

Birmingham DI Sarah Quinn contends with a relentless TV reporter in this “crisply written” series debut from the author of the Bev Morriss novels (Library Journal).   When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent’s, ‘Ice Queen’ Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn is on the case....

“Lovers of twisty but plausible plotting and an out-of-the-ordinary lead will embrace [this] standout” police procedural featuring a Canadian detective (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is having a bad year. After major back surgery, she has no real...

Patrick Petrella is considered something of a curiosity by his fellow police officers. He is the son of a Spanish policeman and an English school mistress. He speaks four languages and is as good at picking fine wines as he is locks. The short stories contained in this volume follow his career as...

Savvy storytelling infused with a spicy Southwestern setting. ""Not only does Havill offer a melancholy reinterpretation of that grand western myth of the slow-talking, fast-thinking lawman, he also writes crisp, marvelously detailed police procedurals in which a mix of technical know-how...

Serial Killer Thrillers 5-Book Bundle contains five full length thriller novels by award winning criminologist and bestselling crime writer R. Barri Flowers, including Before He Kills Again, Dark Streets of Whitechapel, Justice Served, Killer in The Woods, and Murder in Maui. Before He Kills...