Detective

Detective fiction is a sub-genre of crime and mystery fiction in which an investigator (often a detective), either professional or amateur, investigates a crime, often murder. ...more

New Releases Tagged "Detective"

The Red Letter (The Orphanage by the Lake, #2)
The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant (Merritt & Blunt Mysteries, #1)
Can You Solve the Murder?
Stone and Sky (Rivers of London, #10)
Infinite Archive (The Midsolar Murders, #3)
Hudson River Homicides (Memento Mori, #4)
Stop That Witch!
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
We Are All Guilty Here (North Falls, #1)
Framed in Death (In Death, #61)
Strange Houses
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
Game of Nines
Twenty Years Later
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
The Summer Guests (The Martini Club, #2)
A Happy Marriage
Those Empty Eyes
Nobody’s Fool (Detective Sami Kierce, #2)
The Waiting (Harry Bosch, #25; Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)
Un animal salvaje
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Maltese Falcon by Dashiell HammettThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Fiction
1,177 books — 1,074 voters
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally CarterHeist Society by Ally CarterCross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally CarterOnly the Good Spy Young by Ally CarterDon't Judge a Girl by Her Cover by Ally Carter
Best YA Spy/Mystery Novels
606 books — 1,610 voters

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Bookish Thrillers
112 books — 126 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankPride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Books I think are great
874 books — 311 voters

Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
And Then There Were None
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)

Susan  Rowland
You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise.” [Anna] aimed her defiance at Mary. “And you? What’s your reason to hate me?” Caroline spoke quietly. “We nearly died — in the fire in those mountains and at the house when Ravi had a gun pointed at us.” Her eyes were full of tears. “The fire you set at The Old Hospital could have killed me as well as Janet and Agnes.” Anna muttered into the syrupy dregs of her tea. “Fire, you’re firing me?” Mary grimaced. There had been too much fire.
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

Robert B. Parker
Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them. ...more
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