Crime
Discover amazing crime book series. Browse our complete collection with reading order guides.
Adam Dalgliesh
14 Books • 1962-2008
Adam Dalgliesh is a Scotland Yard detective who rises from Chief Inspector to Commander over fourteen novels, and who also happens to be a published p...
Alex Cross
36 Books • 1993-2026
Alex Cross is a Washington D.C. homicide detective with a PhD in psychology from Johns Hopkins. He specializes in cases involving serial killers and, ...
Aloysius Archer
3 Books • 2019-2022
Aloysius Archer is a WWII veteran and former inmate who becomes a detective in 1949 Cold War America. Created by David Baldacci, Archer operates in a ...
Atlee Pine
4 Books • 2018-2021
FBI Special Agent Atlee Pine is stationed at the Grand Canyon, the most remote posting in the Bureau, a choice she made deliberately. As a six-year-ol...
Bill Hodges Trilogy
3 Books • 2014-2016
Stephen King's crime thriller trilogy follows retired detective Bill Hodges as he pursues a serial killer who uses a car as a weapon. Across Mr. Merce...
Chief Inspector Gamache
21 Books • 2005-2026
Louise Penny's mystery series follows Chief Inspector Armand Gamache investigating crimes in the Quebec village of Three Pines and beyond. Gamache is ...
Cormoran Strike
8 Books • 2013-2025
J.K. Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith, created private detective Cormoran Strike and his assistant Robin Ellacott, who solve high-profile crimes i...
Grant County
6 Books • 2002-2008
Karin Slaughter's crime series is set in a small Georgia town where detective Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton investigate brutal mur...
Harry Bosch
24 Books • 1992-2022
Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch, named after the medieval painter, is an LAPD homicide detective whose code is simple: everybody counts, or nobody coun...
Harry Hole
13 Books • 1997-2022
Harry Hole is an Oslo homicide detective with a drinking problem, a talent for catching serial killers and a habit of wrecking everything good in his ...
Jake Brigance
3 Books • 1989-2020
John Grisham's Jake Brigance is a small-town Mississippi lawyer defending underdogs in cases that pit him against corruption, injustice, and the weigh...
Jesse Stone
23 Books • 1997-2026
Jesse Stone was a promising LAPD homicide detective until his drinking and a failed marriage cost him his job. He gets a second chance as police chief...
Kay Scarpetta
29 Books • 1990-2025
Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta is a forensic pathologist whose medical expertise and dogged investigation style make her a formidable detective. Th...
Lucas Davenport (Prey)
36 Books • 1989-2026
The Prey novels follow Lucas Davenport, a Minneapolis detective who later works for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and then the U.S. Ma...
Memory Man
7 Books • 2015-2022
David Baldacci's Amos Decker is a former football player with hyperthymesia, perfect recall of nearly everything he witnesses, who becomes an investig...
Miss Marple
12 Books • 1930-1976
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is an elderly English villager whose observations of human nature make her an uncanny detective despite having no offici...
Myron Bolitar
12 Books • 1995-2024
Harlan Coben's Myron Bolitar is a sports agent and former athlete who stumbles into private investigation while protecting his clients. The series mix...
Renée Ballard
6 Books • 2017-2024
Renee Ballard, an LAPD detective working the night shift, takes on cold cases and overlooked crimes that the day shift ignores. Michael Connelly's ser...
Ruth Galloway
15 Books • 2009-2023
Dr Ruth Galloway is a forensic archaeologist who teaches at the University of North Norfolk and lives in a remote cottage on the edge of the saltmarsh...
Stephanie Plum
31 Books • 1994-2025
Stephanie Plum, a down-on-her-luck divorcee, becomes a bounty hunter in New Jersey and tangles with criminals, eccentric neighbors, and romantic compl...
Temperance Brennan
22 Books • 1997-2024
Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist, solves murders by examining skeletal evidence and works both with the FBI and a Montreal police departm...
The 6:20 Man
3 Books • 2022-2024
Will Tanner takes a job at a prestigious wealth management firm in New York and discovers the company harbors dark secrets and powerful enemies. David...
The Camel Club
5 Books • 2005-2010
Before conspiracy thrillers dominated bestseller lists, Baldacci created the Camel Club—four unlikely vigilantes exposing government corruption in Was...
The Lincoln Lawyer
8 Books • 2005-2025
The Lincoln Lawyer series follows Mickey Haller, a Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates his practice from the back seat of his Lincoln T...
Walt Longmire
21 Books • 2004-2025
The Walt Longmire series follows the laconic sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, as he investigates crimes in the shadow of the Bighorn Mountains. Se...
Will Trent
12 Books • 2006-2024
Will Trent is a GBI special agent with an eidetic memory, severe dyslexia, and scars from eighteen years in Atlanta's foster care system. He compensat...