Titles

Second place is a nice title for the first loser
― Sarah J. Maas

Some of the best crime fiction novels ever published. Though who defines best is a moot point. Do you like your crime cosy or dark?

A

• Affairs of State
• After the Fire
• All the Wicked Girls
• And Then There Were None
• An Uncertain Place
• Asylum, The

B

• Babylon Berlin
• Backflash
• Baltimore Boys, The
• Beast, The
• Black Cherry Blues
• Bloodhounds
• Blood Wedding
• Blunderer, The
• Boy Soldier
• Bravo Two Zero
• Briarpatch
• Broken
• Burglar Who Liked to Quote Kipling, The

C

• Camille
• Cast a Yellow Shadow
• Chalk Pit, The
• Cimarron Rose
• Commis D’Office
• Cops and Robbers
• Cuckoo's Calling, The

D

• Dance at the Slaughterhouse, A
• Dark Entries
• Darkest Room, The
• Dark Winter
• Dead Lions
• Dead Man's Time
• Dead Souls
• Death and the Joyful Woman
• Death at La Fenice
• Death Comes Knocking
• Death Deserved
• Defence, The
• Destroying Angel
• Dirty War
• Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer, The
• Distant Echo, The

E

• Echoes from the Dead
• Eight Curious Cases of Inspector Zhang, The
• Encyclopedia Mysteriosa
• End in Tears
• Enough Rope

F

• Face on the Cutting-Room Floor, The
• Fallen Curtain Stories, The
• False Inspector Dew, The
• Farewell, My Lovely
• Fatal Inversion, A
• Fatherland Files, The
• Firm, The
• Fools in Town Are on Our Side, The
• Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime
• Forgotten Dead, The

G

• Get Even
• Godmother, The
• Good Behavior
• Goodnight Lady
• Gorky Park
• Great Swindle, The
• Grotesque

H

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Hog Murders, The
• Hollow Man, The
• Host
• Hunting Dogs, The

I

• Incredulity of Father Brown, The
• Inheritors, The
• Innocent Blood
• Innocent Man, The
• It Walks by Night

J

• Jewels of Paradise, The

K

• Katharina Code, The
• Killed in the Ratings
• Knock Knock

L

• Labyrinth Makers, The
• Lastnight
• Le Loup d’Hiroshima
• Le Roi Lézard
• Lewis Man, The
• Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The
• Little Sister, The
• Lockdown
• Long Good-bye, The
• Lorraine Connection

M

• Maigret and the Headless Corpse
• Mama Black Widow
• Man From Beijing, The
• Man Who Was Thursday, The
• March Fallen, The
• March Violets
• Maul and the Pear Tree, The
• Metropolis
• Morbid Taste for Bones, A
• Murder is , A
• My Friend Maigret

N

• Never Pick Up Hitch-Hikers
• Nightwing
• Now You See Them

O

• One Step Behind
• One Two Buckle My Shoe
• Operation Napoleon
• Other Paths to Glory
• Out

P

• Philosophical Investigation, A
• Pick-Up
• Pimp
• Prefecture D

R

• Rain Gods
• Real World
• Redemption of Alexander Seaton, The
• Rough Trade

S

• Second Life of Inspector Canessa, The
• Seeker, The
• Seventeen
• Shadow District, The
• Shark Infested Custard, The
• Shroud for a Nightingale
• Sideswipe
• Silence of the Grave
• Six Four
• Slow Horses
• Smoke and Whispers
• Snakehead
• Soft Target
• Sorry
• Spade and Archer
• Stain on the Snow, The
• Still
• Stranger Diaries, The
• Strangers on a Train
• Swing, Swing Together

T

• Talented Mr Ripley, The
• Tall Oaks
• Thirteen
• Thirteen Detectives
• Three Evangelists, The
• Three Seconds
• Time of Predators, A
• Time to Kill, A
• Tokyo Station
• Tomorrow's Ghost
• Torment of Others, The
• Trick Baby
• Troubled Blood
• Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, The
• Truth Behind the Lie, The
• Twisted

U

• Uniform Justice

W

• Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand
• We Begin at the End
• We Know You Remember
• Witch Hunt

Y

• You
• You Will Never be Found

0-9

• 32 Cadillacs

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Elly Griffiths

Dominique Manotti

Lawrence Block

Charles Willeford

Stephen Leather

William L. DeAndrea

Steve Cavanagh

Roberto Perrone

Martin Cruz Smith

Natsuo Kirino

Andy McNab

Martina Cole

Sara Lövestam

Val McDermid

Georges Simenon

Hideo Yokoyama

Zoran Drvenkar

Patricia Highsmith

Volker Kutscher

John Dickson Carr

Joël Dicker

Chris Whitaker

Rith Rendell

Ian Rankin

Dominique Sylvain

Robert Galbraith

Agatha Christie

Raymond Chandler

John Grisham

Iceberg Slim

Hannelore Cayre

Jørn Lier Horst

Donald E Westlake

S G MacLean

Philip Kerr

James Lee Burke

Roslund and Hellström

Tove Alsterdal

Ross Thomas

Pierre Lemaitre

Johan Theorin

Arnaldur Indriðason

Peter James

Ellis Peters

Peter Lovesey

Henning Mankell

Joe Gores

P.D. James

Mick Herron

Cameron McCabe

Donna Leon

Anthony Price

Peter May

G.K. Chesterton

Fred Vargas

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