Maj Sjowall
With its wonderfully observed lawmen (including the inimitable Martin Beck), its brilliantly rendered felons and their murky Stockholm underworld, and its deftly engineered plot, The Laughing Policeman is a classic of the police procedural and ... [... more]
Random House |
Marcos Villatoro
The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoro's first Romilia Chacon novel, won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character, suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective ... [... more]
Random House |
Donald Harstad
With his dead-on depictions of the rural crime beat in such critically acclaimed novels as Eleven Days, Known Dead, and The Big Thaw, Donald Harstad proved himself to be a master of the police procedural and a keen ... [... more]
Random House |
Forty Words for Sorrow
It gets dark early in Algonquin Bay. Take a drive up Airport Hill at four o' clock on a February afternoon, and when you come back half an hour later the streets of the city will glitter below you in the dark like so many runways. The forty-sixth ... [... more]
$32.95
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Piece of My Heart: A Novel of Suspense
Should Have Read It Sooner I'm always a little wary of the moniker "A Novel of Suspense" as it usually indicates that there's no real mystery to the mystery, if you know what I mean. The culprit is revealed half-way through, and the rest of the ... [... more]
$24.95
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Holiday in Death (In Death #7)
In the seventh of J.D. Robb's futuristic romance thrillers, NYPD Lieutenant Eve Dallas is on the trail of a serial killer terrorizing the city during the holidays. The only link between the victims--all are patrons of an exclusive dating service, ... [... more]
$36.95
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Hollywood Station
A #1 New York Times bestselling author, Joseph Wambaugh invented the modern police procedural thriller. Now in his long-awaited return to the LAPD, he deploys his bone-deep understanding of cops' lives--and a lethal sense of humor--in a stunning new ... [... more]
$7.99
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The Last Coyote/Trunk Music
Two Top Notch Early Bosch Thrillers This book combines two of Michael Connelly's earliest, best Hieronymus Bosch thrillers, "The Last Coyote," and "Trunk Music." They were written right after his very first, the two "Black" ... [... more]
$12.95
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The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander Mysteries)
Dalgliesh. The Man Who Smiled begins with Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to ... [... more]
$24.95
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Police Procedurals (Academy Mystery Novellas, Vol 2)
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$11.00
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Strange Bedfellows: A Charlotte Justice Novel (Charlotte ...
In LAPD homicide detective Charlotte Justice, acclaimed crime writer Paula L. Woods has created a heroine for our times. Caught between her proud African American family and colleagues who still can't deal with diversity, Detective Justice returns to an ... [... more]
$23.95
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The Stargazey: A Richard Jury Mystery
It all starts with two unlikely passengers on the same number 14 Fulham Road bus--Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury and a glamorous blonde woman in a sable coat. He can't keep his eyes off her, and when she disembarks, Jury follows her to the ... [... more]
$27.95
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