A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow
A Coffin for Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine (Ruth Rendell)
A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell
A Place of Execution by Val McDermid
A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Thief of Time by Tony Hillerman
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
Absent in the Spring by Agatha Christie (as Mary Westmacott)
Absolute Power by David Baldacci
After the Funeral by Agatha Christie
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Angels Flight by Michael Connelly
Angels & Demons by Dan Brown
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P. D. James
Ashes to Dust by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie
Bad Debts by Peter Temple
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Black Ice by Michael Connelly
Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell
Black Sunday by Thomas Harris
Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi
Blackout by Ragnar Jónasson
Blood Work by Michael Connelly
Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
Bones Are Forever by Kathy Reichs
Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs
Borderlands by Brian McGilloway
Broken Harbor by Tana French
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent
By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie
Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Cathedral of the Sea by Ildefonso Falcones
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Chinatown Beat by Henry Chang
Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
Cold Granite by Stuart MacBride
Cold in Hand by John Harvey
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (crime element)
Coma by Robin Cook
Cop Hater by Ed McBain
Cover Her Face by P. D. James
Criminal by Karin Slaughter
Crooked House by Agatha Christie
Cross by James Patterson
Crossfire by Dick Francis
Crossroads by Belva Plain (crime family saga)
Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters
Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
Dead Beat by Val McDermid
Dead Famous by Ben Elton
Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Death in Holy Orders by P. D. James
Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Deep South by Nevada Barr
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
Die a Little by Megan Abbott
Die Trying by Lee Child
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee (crime-driven theme)
Dissolution by C. J. Sansom
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick (crime sci-fi)
Doctor Sleep by Stephen King (crime/fantasy blend)
Dog Eat Dog by Edward Bunker
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Don’t Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
Down River by John Hart
Dragon Tattoo (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) by Stieg Larsson
Dreaming of the Bones by Deborah Crombie
Dressed to Kill by Lynn LaPlante
Dust and Shadow by Lyndsay Faye
East of Eden (crime subplot) by John Steinbeck
Echo Burning by Lee Child
Eight Million Ways to Die by Lawrence Block
Enduring Love by Ian McEwan
Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie
Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell
Faithless by Karin Slaughter
Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg
Fatherland by Robert Harris
Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb (crime subplot)
Field of Blood by Denise Mina
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (crime subplot)
Final Jeopardy by Linda Fairstein
Firestarter (crime horror) by Stephen King
Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin
Flowers for the Judge by Margery Allingham
Follow the Saint by Leslie Charteris
Forensic by Val McDermid
Four Blind Mice by James Patterson
Free Fire by C. J. Box
Friends in High Places by Donna Leon
From Doon with Death by Ruth Rendell
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (crime backdrop)
Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard
Ghostman by Roger Hobbs
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
Grave Secrets by Kathy Reichs
Great Deliverance by Elizabeth George
Green River, Running Red by Ann Rule
Guards! Guards! (comic crime fantasy) by Terry Pratchett
Guilty as Sin by Tami Hoag
Half Broken Things by Morag Joss
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Hard Rain by Barry Eisler
Hard Times (crime element) by Charles Dickens
Harlan Coben: Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers
Heartstone by C. J. Sansom
He Who Fears the Wolf by Karin Fossum
Hell’s Angels (crime doc) by Hunter S. Thompson
Hide & Seek by Ian Rankin
High Fidelity (crime love subplot) by Nick Hornby
High Profile by Robert B. Parker
H is for Homicide by Sue Grafton
House of Evidence by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson
House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
House of the Sleeping Beauties by Yasunari Kawabata (crime undertone)
How the Light Gets In by Louise Penny
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
I, the Jury by Mickey Spillane
Ice Princess by Camilla Läckberg
If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon
In a Dry Season by Peter Robinson
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In the Woods by Tana French
Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky
Inferno by Dan Brown
Innocent Blood by P. D. James
Inspector Imanishi Investigates by Seichō Matsumoto
Invisible Man (crime themes) by Ralph Ellison
Iron Lake by William Kent Krueger
Jack’s Return Home by Ted Lewis
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason
Judgment Day by Penelope Lively
Killing Floor by Lee Child
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
L. A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
Last Seen Wearing by Hillary Waugh
Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear
Legacy of Ashes (crime doc) by Tim Weiner
Legal Eagles (inspired crime tales)
Let’s All Kill Constance by Ray Bradbury
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling)
Licence Renewed by John Gardner
Lies of Silence by Brian Moore
Life of Crime by Kimberley Chambers
Little Face by Sophie Hannah
Little Women (crime subplot) by Louisa May Alcott
Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming
Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King
London Bridges by James Patterson
Long Time Coming by Robert Goddard
Look to the Lady by Margery Allingham
Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
Lost Light by Michael Connelly
Love Lies Bleeding by Edmund Crispin
Madame Bovary (crime consequence) by Gustave Flaubert
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles
Man and Boy by Tony Parsons (crime subplot)
Manhattan Noir by Lawrence Block (ed.)
Mare’s Nest by Mary Fitt
Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
Miami Blues by Charles Willefford
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Misery by Stephen King
Mississippi Blood by Greg Iles
Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood
Murder Room by P. D. James
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Naked Lunch (crime underworld) by William S. Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
Nemesis by Jo Nesbø
Nerve by Dick Francis
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less by Jeffrey Archer
Obsession in Death by J. D. Robb
One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson
One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
Open Season by C. J. Box
Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy (crime subplot)
Original Sin by P. D. James
Our Kind of Traitor by John le Carré
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Painted Ladies by Robert B. Parker
Paranoia by Joseph Finder
Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie
Payback by Margaret Atwood
Persuader by Lee Child
Phantom by Jo Nesbø
Pig Island by Mo Hayder
Play Dirty by Sandra Brown
Plum Island by Nelson DeMille
Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
Prime Suspect by Lynda La Plante
Prizzi’s Honor by Richard Condon
Psycho by Robert Bloch
Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee
Queen of Suspense (works of Mary Higgins Clark)
Quietly in Their Sleep by Donna Leon
Racketeer by John Grisham
Raven Black by Ann Cleeves
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews
Relic by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child
Remains of the Day (crime backdrop) by Kazuo Ishiguro
Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin
Ring of Bright Water (crime subplot) by Gavin Maxwell
Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith
Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham
Room by Emma Donoghue
Roseanna by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö
Run Away by Harlan Coben
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
Safe House by Chris Ewan
Salem’s Lot (crime-horror) by Stephen King
Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell
Secret Place by Tana French
Secret River by Kate Grenville
Secret History by Donna Tartt
Secrets of the Jury by D. Graham Burnett
See Jane Die by Erica Spindler
Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
Shatter by Michael Robotham
Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter
Simple Plan by Scott Smith
Skeleton Road by Val McDermid
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Smallbone Deceased by Michael Gilbert
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Høeg
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Snowman by Jo Nesbø
So Long at the Fair by Christina Schwarz
Song of Kali by Dan Simmons (crime horror)
Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar
South Riding (crime subplot) by Winifred Holtby
Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré
Still Life by Louise Penny
Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith
Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers
Sudden Mischief by Robert B. Parker
Sugar Time by Jane Adams
Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
Suspects by David Thomson
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Sylvia Plath’s Journals (crime lens)
Tell No Lies by Gregg Hurwitz
Tell No One by Harlan Coben
Telling Lies by Paul Ekman
Testament of Youth (crime/historical) by Vera Brittain
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy
The Burning by Jane Casey
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
The Client by John Grisham
The Collector by John Fowles
The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly
The Confession by John Grisham
The Crossing by Michael Connelly
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Distant Echo by Val McDermid
The Firm by John Grisham
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Green Mile by Stephen King
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
The Night Manager by John le Carré
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
The Other Woman by Daniel Silva
The Outsider by Stephen King
The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie
The Payback by Martina Cole
The Poet by Michael Connelly
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Racketeer by John Grisham
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad
The Silence by Jane Ann Krentz
The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
The Stand (crime apocalypse) by Stephen King
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Thomas Berryman Number by James Patterson
The Trespasser by Tana French
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Twelve by Stuart Neville
The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
The Widow by Fiona Barton
The Woods by Harlan Coben
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon
Thirteen Steps Down by Ruth Rendell
Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
Through a Glass, Darkly by Donna Leon
Time to Murder and Create by Lawrence Block
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (crime subplot)
Too Close to Home by Linwood Barclay
Tracks by Louise Erdrich (crime subplot)
Tripwire by Lee Child
True Crime by Andrew Klavan
Trust by Hernan Diaz (crime subplot)
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante
Two for the Dough by Janet Evanovich
Unnatural Causes by P. D. James
Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
Until I Find You by John Irving
Venice Noir by Maxim Jakubowski (ed.)
Verdict of Twelve by Raymond Postgate
Vertigo by Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac
Vicious Circle by Wilbur Smith (crime subplot)
Victim by Saul Bellow (crime theme)
Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis
Virgin Suicides (crime elements) by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vision in White by Nora Roberts (crime subplot)
Vulnerable by Mary Burton
Wasted by Marya Hornbacher (crime/law context)
Water Like a Stone by Deborah Crombie
We Were the Mulvaneys (crime subplot) by Joyce Carol Oates
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
While My Pretty One Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark
White Butterfly by Walter Mosley
White Jazz by James Ellroy
White Nights by Ann Cleeves
Widow’s Pique by Blair Treynor
Widow’s Walk by Robert B. Parker
Wild Justice by Wilbur Smith
Without Fail by Lee Child
Without Remorse by Tom Clancy
Witness by Nora Roberts
Wolf Hall (crime subplot) by Hilary Mantel
Wolf to the Slaughter by Ruth Rendell
Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith
Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
World According to Garp (crime subplot) by John Irving
Written in Blood by Caroline Graham
Yesterday’s Spy by Len Deighton
Zoo Station by David Downing
