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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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Ruth Rendell

Rith Rendell

Pierre Lemaitre

Pierre Lemaitre

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

Volker Kutscher

Volker Kutscher

J.K. Rowling / Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith

Tove Alsterdal

Tove Alsterdal

Donna Leon

Donna Leon

Dominique Manotti

Dominique Manotti

Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith

Steve Cavanagh

Steve Cavanagh

Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey

Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino

Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas

Dominique Sylvain

Dominique Sylvain

Iceberg Slim

Iceberg Slim

Philip Kerr

Philip Kerr

Joe Gores

Joe Gores

Anthony Price

Anthony Price

Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin

Joël Dicker

Joël Dicker

Zoran Drvenkar

Zoran Drvenkar

Henning Mankell

Henning Mankell

Jørn Lier Horst

Jørn Lier Horst

P.D. James

P.D. James

Sara Lövestam

Sara Lövestam

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

Hannelore Cayre

Hannelore Cayre

Donald E Westlake

Donald E Westlake

John Dickson Carr

John Dickson Carr

Arnaldur Indriðason

Arnaldur Indriðason

Peter James

Peter James

Peter May

Peter May

Mick Herron

Mick Herron

Martina Cole

Martina Cole

Roslund and Hellström

Roslund and Hellström

Hideo Yokoyama

Hideo Yokoyama

Lawrence Block

Lawrence Block

Chris Whitaker

Chris Whitaker

Johan Theorin

Johan Theorin

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon

Ellis Peters

Ellis Peters

Elly Griffiths

Elly Griffiths

Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith

G.K. Chesterton

G.K. Chesterton

Andy McNab

Andy McNab

William L DeAndrea

William L. DeAndrea

Raymond Chandler

Raymond Chandler

Stephen Leather

Stephen Leather

Roberto Perrone

Roberto Perrone

John Grisham

John Grisham

Ross Thomas

Ross Thomas

S.G. MacLean

S G MacLean

Val McDermid

Val McDermid

Cameron McCabe

Cameron McCabe

Charles Willeford

Charles Willeford

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