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Gun Street Girl

Adrian McKinty · 313 pages

"Belfast, 1985, amidst the "Troubles": Detective Sean Duffy, a Catholic cop in the Protestant RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary), struggles with burn-out as he investigates a brutal double murder and suicide. Did Michael Kelly really shoot his parents at point blank and then jump off a nearby cliff? A suicide note points to this conclusion, but Duffy suspects even more sinister circumstances. He soon

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The Neon Rain

James Lee Burke · 275 pages

Corrupt PoliceDetective ProtagonistCrimeAtmospheric
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The Black Dahlia

James Ellroy · 364 pages

The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.

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Gorky Park

Martin Cruz Smith · 384 pages

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI and New York police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected American fu

Corrupt PoliceDetective ProtagonistCrimeAtmospheric
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The Trespasser

Tana French · 488 pages

"Being on the Murder Squad is nothing like Detective Antoinette Conway dreamed it would be. Her partner, Stephen Moran, is the only person who seems glad she's there. The rest of her working life is a stream of thankless cases, vicious pranks, and harassment. Antoinette is savagely tough, but she's getting close to the breaking point. Their new case looks like yet another by-the-numbers lovers' qu

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The Ruin

Dervla McTiernan · 380 pages

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A Grain of Truth

Zygmunt Miloszewski · 380 pages

It is spring 2009, and prosecutor Teodor Szacki is no longer working in Warsaw--he has said goodbye to his family and to his career in the capital and moved to Sandomierz, a picturesque town full of churches and museums. Hoping to start a "brave new life," Szacki instead finds himself investigating a strange murder case in surroundings both alien and unfriendly. The victim is found brutally murder

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The Fatherland Files

Volker Kutscher · 578 pages

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The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler · 220 pages

Philip Marlowe, a private eye who operates in Los Angeles's seamy underside during the 1930s, takes on his first case, which involves a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder

CrimeCorrupt PoliceDetective FictionDetective Protagonist
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Quietly in Their Sleep

Donna Leon · 258 pages

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The Redbreast

Jo Nesbo · 519 pages

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Batman: The Long Halloween

Jeph Loeb · 369 pages

Unaware of being watched, Batman pursues villains including Killer Croc and Poison Ivy, and discovers that Poison Ivy's latest plan will require that he ally himself with Catwoman in order to defeat his old friend Superman.

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The Skull Mantra

Eliot Pattison · 406 pages

When a headless corpse is found on a remote Tibetan mountainside, veteran inspector Shan Tao Yun is the perfect candidate to solve the crime--except he's been stripped of rank and imprisoned in the gulag for offending the Party in Beijing. Desperate to close the case before the arrival of high-profile American tourists, the district commander grants Shan a temporary release.

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Helsinki Blood

James Thompson · 306 pages

Inspector Kari Vaara investigates the case of a young woman with Down syndrome who was promised work and a better life in Finland and has since disappeared. One more missing girl is a drop in the barrel for a police department that is understaffed and overburdened, but for Kari, the case is personal: it's a chance for redemption, to help the victims his failed black-ops unit was intended to save,

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The Black Wolf

Louise Penny · 375 pages

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The Coffin Maker’s Garden

Stuart MacBride · 496 pages

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Black and Blue

Ian Rankin · 489 pages

John Biblia aterrorizó a Glasgow en los años 60 y 70, cuando asesinó a tres mujeres. asesinatos por los cuales nunca pudieron detenerlo. Ahora, Johnny Biblia, como lo han bautizado los medios de comunicación, parece matar para apropiarse de la gloria del legendario asesino. Son cuatro los casos que el inspector, John Rebus, relaciona y que aparentemente conducen al depravado asesino. Al mismo tiem

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The Seagull

Ann Cleeves · 416 pages

An encounter with an old enemy draws Vera into a cold case investigation with ties to her father.

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The Long Fall

Walter Mosley · 305 pages

A brand-new mystery series from one of the country's best-known, best-loved writers: a new character, a new city, a new era. A new Walter Mosley.His name is etched on the door of his Manhattan office: LEONID McGILL, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR. It's a name that takes a little explaining, but he's used to it. "Daddy was a communist and great-great-Granddaddy was a slave master from Scotland. You know, the

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The Black Ice

Michael Connelly · 448 pages

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Chasing Darkness

Robert Crais · 288 pages

Elvis was a hero when he cleared an innocent man of a murder charge. But when that innocent man is found dead three years later holding photos of the victim, Elvis is the one on trial.

Corrupt PoliceCrimeDetective FictionMystery
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Garden of Lamentations

Deborah Crombie · 414 pages

Corrupt PoliceDetective FictionDetective ProtagonistCrime
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In the Midst of Death

Lawrence Block · 198 pages

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Watching the Dark

Peter Robinson · 416 pages

The twentieth installment in the Inspector Banks series. When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered in the tranquil grounds of the St Peter's Police Treatment Centre, DCI Banks is called in to investigate. It emerges that Reid's murder may be linked to the disappearance of an English girl called Rachel Hewitt, in Estonia, six years earlier. The deeper Banks looks into the old case, the m

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