Police Procedurals

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

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.

All Detective Sergeant Peter Grant wanted was a nice holiday up in Scotland. He'll need one once this is over...

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge....

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 #1 New York Times bestselling authors Preston & Child return with a thrilling tale in which archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson, while investigating bizarre deaths in the desert, awaken an ancient evil more terrifying than anything they’ve faced before.

Death imitates art in the brand-new crime thriller starring homicide cop Eve Dallas from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author J.D. Robb.

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.

For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night.

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.

When a very personal cold case murder is reopened, a detective’s secrets come to light in a novel of shocking twists and suspense by a Wall Street Journal bestselling author.

In this gripping installment of the Edgar Award winning series, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a brutal double murder that takes her into the dark underbelly of society and exposes the dangers of Amish lives gone wrong.

Renée Ballard is working the night beat again and returns to Hollywood Station in the early hours only to find a stranger rifling through old file cabinets. The intruder is retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin....

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 masterful, intensely suspenseful novel about a reader whose obsession with a reclusive writer goes far too far....

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.

A Karin Slaughter Will Trent thriller collection featuring Fractured, Undone, and Broken....

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.

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.

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.

When two cross-country cases collide, Bree Taggert and Mercy Kilpatrick join forces to catch a serial killer in an addictive novel of suspense by bestselling authors Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot....

In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil....

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.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence....

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

Struggling to balance her personal and professional life, young DS Becca Vincent has landed the biggest case of her career–and she knows that it will make or break her. But how can she identify one face in a sea of thousands? With the help of Police Super Recogniser Joe Russell, she strives to catch a glimpse of the elusive murderer, but he’s watching her every move.

Une famille toxique. Huit invités suspects. Tout le monde est coupable. Mais qui est le tueur ? Pour Will Trent, agent spécial du GBI, et Sara Linton, médecin légiste, McAlpine Lodge, une magnifique propriété au sommet d'une montagne, semblait être l'endroit idéal pour célébrer leur lune de miel. Jusqu'à ce qu'un cri glaçant perce la nuit. Mercy McAlpine, la directrice du Lodge, est morte. Alors qu'une violente tempête fait rage et que la seule route d'accès à la propriété a été emportée par les eaux, il devient évident que le meurtrier se trouve parmi eux.

Detective Inspector Jo Shaw is bored, desk-bound, and absolutely not supposed to answer the phone call that sends her to a body in an empty house. Thrown in at the deep end after an injury that almost killed her, she’s determined to prove she’s fit to work. And while a case full of unclear motives and multiple suspects isn’t quite what the doctor ordered, being back in a relationship with her favorite doctor certainly won’t hurt. When the investigation takes a chilling turn and the Serious Crime Team struggles to connect the dots, Jo asks Isla Munro to help her follow the slenderest of leads.

Deep in the majestic Northern California woods, hidden in a remote hunting cabin, lies a secret too shocking for words: a mystery that could derail FBI Special Agent Sadie Gray’s career before it even starts. Grass Valley, California, is home to all sorts of people, their darkest secrets, and the shadows where they hide them. It was also the location of a series of abductions, including Sadie's abduction, spanning back nearly twenty years.

Detective Inspector Alec McKay is drawn into a chilling hunt for a serial killer. But first he must face the demons of his own past… Still grieving the tragic loss of his daughter, McKay becomes obsessed with a seemingly cold missing persons case—until bodies start turning up across the Black Isle. Each victim is surrounded by roses and candles, leaving McKay and his team to untangle the disturbing ritual behind the murders. As they struggle to crack the killer’s cryptic pattern, McKay’s own life begins to unravel.

Prison psychologist Dr. Alison Payne has interviewed hundreds of convicted killers, advocating for their release—or determining if they should remain behind bars. But when a suspected killer she once interviewed escapes, Alison must delve into the dark corridors of his mind to save others before it's too late—and to save herself.

A teen's suicide leads to a frightening pattern within a small town where nothing is as it seems. Details about the case remind Sam Hopewell, a local investigative journalist, of what happened to his older cousin back in the ‘90s. Sam prepares to confront his darkest memories, but if he can’t overcome his past, more innocent lives might be taken. Renowned Miami detective Anna Dedrick returns to her rural birthplace with hopes of leaving behind the vices of the big city. That dream shatters when the town’s pride—an African-American child prodigy—goes missing.

There’s been a murder at Elysium, a wellness retreat set in an English country manor. You arrive to find the body of a local businessman on the lawn–with a rose placed in his mouth. It appears he was stabbed with a gardening fork and fell to his death from the balcony above. But that balcony can only be accessed through a locked door, the key is missing, and everyone in Elysium is now a suspect…

A master of minds. A missing girl. The echoes of old nightmares stalking the present. Every buried fear claws to the surface, clawing at Dr. Rowan Myles. Brilliant profiler, haunted survivor—he hunts a predator whose tricks play straight from Rowan’s own worst memories. Each clue cuts deeper. Every shadow feels too familiar. A locked ward holds secrets wrapped in madness. One patient’s shattered mind holds a mirror to Rowan’s past—and the key to the girl’s fate. The hours slip through his fingers, blood-slick and burning. Memories turn deadly. Reality unravels. Some monsters ...

A city of ancient secrets. A killer enacting centuries-old vengeance. A reporter who is the final target. Disgraced investigative journalist Griffin Pike is chasing ghosts. Broke and desperate, he returns to his hometown of St. Augustine to cover a story that feels like a godsend: a bizarre, ritualistic murder at the heart of the city’s oldest monument, the Castillo de San Marcos. The victim is posed, the crime is theatrical, and the killer has a taste for history. As the bodies stack up, each murder more brutal and symbolic than the last, Griffin is pulled deep into a conspiracy that ...

A celebrated therapist. A patient with secrets sharp as knives. Trust slips. Sanity cracks. The game turns deadly. Elara Voss runs a practice built on trust and boundaries. She meets a client with charm as polished as his lies. Shadows flicker behind every smile, every word. The past claws at her, memories bleeding into every session. Every closed door hides more than she bargained for. Lines cross. Obsession blooms. Control unravels fast. Therapists are meant to diagnose, not disappear. Behind closed minds, monsters wear many faces. In Elara’s office, the final session may be hers.

The little girl’s body rests gently against the trunk of an old fir tree, her small hands laid delicately in her lap. From the day she became a Special Agent, Zoe Storm vowed to seek justice for the innocent. And for this little angel, her promise burns brighter than ever.

When a world-renowned Egyptologist is found dead at the foot of the Rosetta Stone, DCI Ellie Blackwell is plunged into a case that defies all logic. The victim, marked with an ancient Egyptian curse, is just the first casualty in a war she doesn't understand. Her investigation is a journey into the shadows, where two clandestine organizations are locked in a deadly conflict. One, a fanatical cult known as "The Heirs," uses ritualistic murder to reclaim their sacred history. The other, a ruthless cabal of corporate raiders called "The Meridian Club," uses high-tech espionage to plunder it ...

For DCI Eleanor Blackwell, history is a map to the truth. But when a renowned archaeologist is found dead in the bleak winter Fens, the clues left on his body—a single pressed poppy and a line of haunting war poetry—point to a history that kills. The ritualistic signature is an echo of a past case, pulling Blackwell and her team into the orbit of a shadowy cabal of academic purists. This secret society, hidden within the nation's most elite institutions, believes some historical narratives are worth killing for, and they see themselves as the guardians of the past. From ancient burial ...

By day, Judge Julia Remington hands down justice from her marble throne. By night, unseen crimes haunt her dreams and never stay buried. Whispers echo from courtroom corridors, clawing at the edges of her perfect world. Julia Remington built her life brick by legal brick, hiding cracks beneath polished stone. When a forgotten cold case returns, her veneer begins to shatter. Tangled secrets, coercion, and betrayal tighten around her like a noose. The same system she loves turns its back, threatening to expose every lie and truth she's sworn to protect. Truth claws up from the shadows, ...

He was found beneath the roses—dead, posed, and stripped of every truth he once controlled. Billionaire Maxwell Thornton’s murder rattles the elite town of Greystone, but to journalist Evelyn Harper, it reeks of something darker. The scene is too staged. The details don’t add up. And someone doesn’t want her asking questions. A bloodstained cufflink that isn’t his. Footprints that vanish into silence. A final message… erased. Evelyn’s search for answers exposes a world of offshore secrets, dangerous debts, and allies who lie with a smile. Everyone around her has something to ...

When Jasmine moves into 13 Ravens Lane with her husband and two daughters, she’s excited to be finally settling into their forever home. But very soon, it becomes clear that something is wrong with the house. Sudden drops in temperature, unexplained swarms of insects, plants that keep dying for no reason. It’s almost like someone, or something, doesn’t want them there. It’s not long before Jasmine is forced to question whether she and her family are really safe in their new home. Or if whatever is lurking somewhere inside is going to be the death of them all…

In the isolated coastal town of Wirramurra Bay, where salt winds carry secrets across limestone cliffs and drought has left the landscape bone-dry, Detective Jodi Brennan arrives for what should be a punishment posting. What begins as the apparent suicide of veterinarian Dr. Sarah Kellerman evolves into something far more sinister, revealing connections between livestock poisoning and powerful corporate interests operating in the shadows of rural Australia. When Jodi discovers that Sarah was investigating environmental contamination targeting vulnerable farming families, she must navigate ...

In Dana Point, California, surf reports, sailing conditions, and real estate dominate the news… until the calm waters of this sleepy, seaside town are shattered when a woman's body washes up on the sand. Under the pressure of her first homicide case, new evidence surfacing in the supposed accidental death of her fiancé, and a seasoned partner who'd be happy to see her fail, Kat has more than enough on her plate… not to mention that troublesome problem she's been carefully hiding.

Detective Mary Hume stares at the crime scene in confusion. She's in an empty flat. Peeling wallpaper. A bloodstained chair in the middle of the room. But no body. Her sergeant hands her a burner phone. On it is a video clip. It shows a woman. Tied to the chair in the flat, a carving knife pressed to her throat. Placed in the woman's lap is a piece of cardboard. Written on it in blood-red is one word: DEADTOWN.

DCI Ellie Blackwell trusts the certainties of history, the clean lines of a 17th-century map. Her life is a fortress of order built against the chaos of her job. But when she's called to the scene of a wealthy developer's apparent suicide, the clues are a maddening mess of contradictions. At the heart of it all: a three-line Japanese poem that feels like a key to the wrong lock.

Cassidy Cantwell has devoted her life to becoming a detective, never forgetting the cold case that has influenced her entire career: the unsolved murder of her best friend. Cassidy tries to balance her demanding job with her suffocatingly close-knit family and her increasingly clingy boyfriend, but when a strange new murder case comes across her desk, she’s determined to solve it, especially when it turns out the victim was the wife of her college ex-boyfriend.

Un matrimonio, bajo los efectos de una nueva droga, ha cometido la mayor atrocidad de sus vidas. El caso se vuelve mediático y muchos interrogantes se abren durante la investigación, repleta de trabas y obstáculos. Marta está decidida a impartir justicia, aunque no imagina a quién deberá enfrentarse.

Rachel Hostetler’s world is turned upside down when she finds her brother’s body hanging in her family’s barn. Rachel is sure her brother Albie did not kill himself, but neither her father nor the police are willing to listen. When she spots Nate, her ex, now a detective in Oklahoma, back in Cedar Creek, she knows he is the answer to her problem and begs him to intercede.

Nueva York, 1896. John Schuyler Moore, reportero de sucesos de The New York Times, recibe en plena madrugada la llamada de su antiguo compañero de Harvard, el famoso alienista (como se conocía entonces a los psicólogos) Laszlo Kreizler, quien le cita en el puente de Williamsburg, escenario de un horrible asesinato. Theodore Roosevelt, jefe de policía de la ciudad, solicita la colaboración de ambos amigos para indagar el crimen, una atrevida iniciativa, pues el alienista es visto con desconfianza por una sociedad conservadora, que considera que un asesino nace y no se hace.