Police Procedurals

SFPD homicide detective Lindsay Boxer knows her way around a crime scene. But nothing can prepare her for the shock of recognition: the victim is Warren Jacobi, Lindsay’s onetime partner who rose to chief of police.

The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods—then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty, impeccably dressed young woman.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly introduces a new cop relentlessly following his mission in the seemingly idyllic setting of Catalina Island.

In the dark woods of Olive Park, in the hills above Sacramento, a California Highway Patrol officer stumbles over a gnarled branch. But it isn’t a branch. It is an arm. Reaching up from a shallow grave....

"One of the greatest crime novelists writing today" (Vox) weaves a masterful, atmospheric tale of suspense, asking how to tell right from wrong in a world where neither is simple, and what we stake on that decision....

The young man with the shock of white-blond hair lay spread-eagled on the floor, surrounded by fallen books. His hand reached out to the scattered pages, as though he was trying to tell her something....

For years the boglands of Northern Europe have given up bodies of the long-deceased. Bodies that are thousands of years old, uncannily preserved. Bodies with strange injuries that suggest ritual torture and human sacrifice.

In an intense, emotional mystery that spans a decade in the life of a small town, best-selling author Brian Freeman brings us an unforgettable heroine who discovers that the dead may sometimes be easier to rescue than the living....

In the city of Atlanta, young women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race.

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author, the 6:20 Man returns, this time sent to the Pacific Northwest to aid the in a complicated FBI case—and he’s about to come face-to-face with his nemesis, the girl on the train.

Fourteen years ago, prosecutor Jessica Yardley's husband went to prison for a series of brutal murders. She's finally created a life with her daughter and is a well-respected attorney. She's moving on....

Following a murder and a woman’s sudden disappearance, investigations into old crimes and new collide in an alarming novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: Patrol Officer Maddie Bosch, Harry’s daughter.

The beautiful young woman is perfectly still, curled up in the trunk of the car, her long dark hair hiding her face. Her cotton blouse has ridden up a little, revealing two small dots an inch apart on her back. Just like the others....

A violent death and a vault of stolen treasures has Eve Dallas struggling to solve crimes old and new in the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war.

If you love mysteries with action, suspense and a touch of humor and romance, then the David Wolf series is for you....

Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano.

This collection includes books 1-4 in the USA Today best-selling Dead Cold series from two-million copy best-selling author Blake Banner: An Ace and a Pair, Two Bare Arms, Garden of the Damned, and Let Us Prey....

Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any map, someone has managed to track down Armand Gamache, head of homicide at the Sûreté, as he sits with his wife in their back garden.

From the New York Times bestselling author and cohost of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid comes the thrilling book two in her national bestselling series, told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and a medical examiner seeking justice.

Detective Jenna Murphy comes to the Hamptons to solve a murder - but what she finds is more deadly than she could ever imagine. No. 7 Ocean Drive is a gorgeous, multi-million-dollar beachfront estate in the Hamptons, where money and privilege know no bounds....

Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from author David Baldacci....

A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner....

In this gripping chapter in New York Times bestselling author Anne Hillerman’s Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series, the detectives must sort out a save-the-planet meditation group connected to a mysterious death and a nefarious scheme targeting vulnerable indigenous people living with addiction.

In the city of Atlanta, young women are dying—at the hands of a killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this cunning madman is bringing together dozens of lives, crossing the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career.

This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn't leave any fingerprints?

Outside Denver, Joe Rickards stands over a small aircraft wreckage, studying burnt remains still smoldering in a field of freshly fallen snow...an investigator for the NTSB, working to carefully roll back the last several hours and identify the cause of the accident. But this time, he can't. The details behind this tragedy don't add up. Unlike every other investigation of Joe's career, the facts make no sense. Each new piece of information only makes the accident more mysterious, and more baffling.

When Lacey Gibson’s daughter disappears, she’ll do anything to find her—even track down a man she hasn’t seen in sixteen years. U.S. Marshall Mason Stone had no idea he was a father, but when he discovers his daughter is missing, the news shakes his carefully controlled world. In a race against the clock, can Lacey and Mason work together to find their child… before danger finds them?

Lana Burrell grew up on an idyllic Napa Valley vineyard with her best friend Jess—until Jess mysteriously disappeared and Lana’s father was falsely accused of her murder. Over twenty years later, he’s still serving a life sentence, but Lana knows he’s innocent, just like she knows Jess’s real killer is still out there. Now, as a seasoned FBI agent in the San Francisco field office, Lana figures she can handle just about anything—until a killer strikes the Valley again and those old wounds come bursting open.

El legendario restaurador de arte y espía Gabriel Allon ha llegado sigilosamente a Londres para asistir a una recepción en la Galería Courtauld, que celebra la devolución de un autorretrato robado de Vincent van Gogh. Pero cuando un viejo amigo de la Policía de Devon y Cornualles le pide ayuda en la investigación de un misterioso asesinato, Gabriel se ve involucrado en la persecución de un nuevo adversario poderoso y peligroso.

In his first novel, the best-selling true crime author and star of ID's hit series Dark Minds takes you into the world of a sadistic serial killer.

New to the force, detective Bridgette Cash faces her first murder case when a young woman's body is found in the forest. Convinced it's the work of a serial killer, she must navigate skeptical superiors and scant evidence to uncover the truth. As the clock ticks and the pressure mounts, she scrambles to gather clues and catch the perpetrator before they strike again.

When Skye married into the wealthy Turner family, she thought she was entering paradise. But now, several years later, she remains uneasy amid the opulence of her husband's world, struggling with her own secrets and working to maintain a normal life for their young daughter, Tilly. Skye's delicate balance is undone when the family patriarch, Sir Campbell Turner, dies suddenly and an illegitimate heir comes forward to stake his claim in the luxury goods empire the old man leaves behind.

Emily thought she was leaving her money troubles behind when she inherited an old house from her great aunt who went missing the previous year. When she and her husband Jesse arrive at the house, they discover Aunt Matilda was murdered—and the culprit is still at large. Guided by the ghosts of Matilda and the orphans she raised, Emily and Jesse must catch the criminal and save themselves before it's too late.

Una niña desaparecida. Un capitán atormentado por su pasado. Un pueblo donde nadie quiere que se sepa la verdad. ¿Y si la verdad sobre una desaparición nunca fue enterrada… sino cuidadosamente ocultada? En Morella, un pueblo con demasiados silencios, la reaparición de una pulsera ensangrentada reabre un caso que todos creían cerrado: la desaparición de Clara Llorens hace más de veinte años. El capitán Gabriel Ferrer, veterano de la Guardia Civil, recibe un sobre anónimo que contiene pruebas que jamás debieron existir. Pero cuanto más profundiza, más descubre que su ...

Der packende neue Thriller von Bestsellerautor Elias Haller. Jemand wie ich verdient die Hölle. Dabei bin ich weder böse noch gut. Aber die Hölle ist heute nicht mein Problem, sondern ein siebenjähriges Mädchen. Er tötet Frauen und entstellt ihre Körper. Die Presse nennt ihn den Fotografen. Seit neun Jahren jagen ihn die Ermittler des BKA. Jedes Jahr ein Opfer, von dem er stets nur ein einziges Foto macht und an den Meistbietenden verkauft. Das ist seine Art von Kunst, die niemand begreifen kann. Er ist ein Phantom und will es bleiben, bis seine Mission erfüllt ist.

A town on the brink. A police force outmatched. A chief with everything to lose. After LAPD brass scrutinized his split-second decision in a deadly bank shootout, Detective Jake Dalton left the city behind for his hometown—Fairview, Oklahoma. But his return to small-town life is anything but quiet. Taking over a struggling four-person police department, Jake believes he’s left big-city crime in the past—until the Chinese mafia moves in, turning Fairview into the hub of a ruthless billion-dollar marijuana empire . When Jake sounds the alarm, federal agents dismiss him, and local ...

Ein toter Cop. Eine toughe Privatermittlerin. Und ein skrupelloser Mörder, der die Macht in seinen Händen hält. Dunkelste Nacht ist der 1. Thriller der New-Orleans-Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin Karen Rose. Der junge Star-Koch Gabe kann und will nicht glauben, dass sein Vater Rocky Selbstmord begangen haben soll. Er ist überzeugt, dass jemand den Polizisten zum Schweigen bringen wollte. Deshalb wendet er sich an den ehemaligen Partner seines Vaters: Burke Broussard hilft als Privatermittler denen in New Orleans, die sonst keine Hilfe erwarten dürfen.

The Forgotten Daughter A Small-Town Detective Thriller About a Vanished Girl and a Secret That Won’t Stay Buried by Russell Knight #StorytellerUK2025 ★★★★★ “Gripping from page one. Emotional, atmospheric, unforgettable.” – Early Reader Review 📚 A long-cold case. A missing girl no one wants to find. A detective who won’t stop digging—no matter the cost. Twenty-one years ago, Claire Lawson disappeared without a trace. Labeled a runaway. Forgotten by the town of Ashford Hollow. Until now. When veteran detective Gabriel Foster receives an anonymous envelope containing ...

The river churned over the rocks beneath the bridge. Cold. Dark. DEADLY. When a woman dies going off a bridge in a small town, people talk. When the same thing happens to a second woman, people get nervous. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is called in to investigate which means agent Doc Hunter must put aside his quest to become a professional golfer for the time being. Doc isn’t pleased to be looking into what are two likely suicides, especially when he discovers the women may not have taken their own lives. Catching a killer will take more time, time he would rather ...

Revere Falk—FBI veteran, Arabic speaker—is an interrogator at “Gitmo,” assigned to a “hold-out,” a Yemeni prisoner who may have valuable information about al-Qaeda. But these duties are temporarily suspended when the body of an American soldier is found washed ashore in Cuban territory. No American has ever turned up dead on the wrong side of the fence before. Suddenly, Cold War tension is back, and Falk finds himself at the heart of it when he’s put in charge of the investigation into the death.

When a woman is found dead on her doorsteps—shot through the heart with an arrow—Clint Wolf and Susan Wilson go to work trying to track down the sadistic killer. On the very next day, a second victim is murdered in his driveway (killed in the same manner) and it's now a race against time to uncover the motive behind the killings and identify the murderer. What they know so far is that he's a skilled archer preying on human targets, and they have no clue where he'll strike next.

Der zweite Fall der Polizeireporterin Gianna Pitti am malerisch-mörderischen Gardasee. Eine unbekannte Frauenleiche, ein Entführungsversuch und geheime Schriften Winston Churchills, die womöglich die Weltgeschichte verändern: Gianna und ihre Familie verstricken sich erneut in brisante Ermittlungen. Die junge Journalistin Gianna Pitti soll auf Bitten ihres Vaters Arnaldo, der zurück am See ist, einen Informanten am Ostufer treffen. Da scheint niemand zu sein. Doch dann sieht sie etwas im Wasser liegen. Eine Frauenleiche!

The first three "Tara Jones" books bundled into a box set.

Dawn Grave is a career detective who's holding on to a dark past—one that destroys relationships and wreaks havoc on her personal life. For more than twenty years, she's tried to forget the horrors of her youth—while her sister has spent all that time digging for answers. Now a cryptic text message threatens to throw it all back into the light. Dawn attempts to call her sister, but when Lisa can't be reached, she knows something terrible has happened. But finding Lisa means returning to the remote tropical town in northern Australia where her nightmares all began.

Roped into helping his favorite millionaire author host a charitable Halloween gala at her mansion, Deputy Chief Vasily Korsokovach finds himself unusually annoyed at having to set aside his clandestine wedding planning; with the possible New Years date now visible on the horizon, not only are there far too many items to get pinned down than he would like, Vas is increasingly worried his fiancé has begun to realize something is afoot — and he knows from experience a suspicious Alejandro Ortega-Cortez is a force to be reckoned with. Constitutionally being unable to say no to Rosie ...

After a family tragedy, a tough Chicago cop returns to her hometown in rural Pennsylvania. Now a detective on the local police force, she investigates the murder of a teenage Amish girl. Soon, her and her son’s lives are in danger as she uncovers the dark underbelly of the picture-postcard town where anyone can be the killer. Book One in the Detective Beth Gould, AMISHLAND, murder mystery thriller series.

Mysteriöse Vermisstenfälle in der weiten, wilden Garrigue und eine toter Zwillingbruder im Schatten der Sainte-Victoire! Geheimnisvolle Garrigue: Eine junge Frau verschwindet spurlos, und die Gendarmerie findet nur ihren linken Schuh – auffällig platziert. Genauso war es schon vor 23 Jahren, als am selben Ort vier Frauen verschwanden. Diese Verbrechensserie wurde niemals aufgeklärt. Schlägt der Täter von einst jetzt wieder zu? Wie konnte er während der pandemiebedingten Ausgangssperre niemandem aufgefallen sein?

Some trails lead to rescue. Others lead to something much darker. FBI Special Agent Jackson Brooks has something to prove. His K9 partner, Ruby, is already a top-tier Search and Rescue dog, but convincing the Bureau she can also track dangerous criminals? That’s a different fight altogether—especially with a supervisor who seems dead set on seeing them fail. What should have been a standard certification test turns deadly when a storm rolls in. The wilderness becomes treacherous, and something about this exercise doesn’t add up. But when Ruby picks up a trail that was never part of ...