These mysteries focus on police investigations. They tend to be highly researched to show how actual police investigations function. They often include autopsy reports and forensic science. These stories may switch points of view between the detectives and the perpetrator of the crime.
Women's Murder Club Series, Book 22
22 Seconds
James Patterson
SFPD Sergeant Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbing
Read More View in CatalogDC Morgan Series, Book 1
The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh
At midnight, one of them is dead. By morning, all of them are suspects. It's the party to end all parties....but not everyone is here to celebrate. On New Year's Eve, Rhys Lloyd has a house full of guests. His vacation homes on Mirror Lake
Read More View in CatalogQuinn & Costa Series, Book 3
The Wrong Victim
Allison Brennan
A lethal attack with no clear motive…and a killer dead-set on keeping the truth buried. A bomb explodes on a sunset charter cruise out of Friday Harbor at the height of tourist season and kills everyone on board. Now this fishing and boating commun
Read More View in CatalogSean King & Michelle Maxwell Series, Book 2
Hour Game
David Baldacci
Ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic b
Read More View in CatalogRizzoli & Isles Series, Book 13
Listen to Me
Tess Gerritsen
Mothers know best . . . But who will listen? Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles are newly plagued by what seems like a completely senseless murder. Sofia Suarez, a widow and nurse who was universally liked by her
Read More View in CatalogVera Stanhope Series, Book 10
The Rising Tide
Ann Cleeves
For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged,
Read More View in CatalogHarry Bosch Series, Book 23
The Dark Hours
Michael Connelly
There’s chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year’s Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard waits out the traditional rain of lead as hundreds of revelers shoot their guns into the air. Only minutes after mid
Read More View in CatalogLong Bright River
Liz Moore
"A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has suddenly gone missing amid a series of mysterious murders; the
Read More View in CatalogWalt Longmire Series, Book 18
Hell and Back
Craig Johnson
What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? Wha
Read More View in CatalogAndrea Oliver Series, Book 2
Girl, Forgotten
Karin Slaughter
A small town hides a big secret... Who killed Emily Vaughn? A girl with a secret... Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn gets ready for the prom. For an athlete, who is smart, pretty and well-liked, this night should be the highlight of her high school
Read More View in CatalogLincoln Rhyme Series, Book 13
The Burial Hour
Jeffery Deaver
A businessman snatched from an Upper East Side street in broad daylight. A miniature hangman's noose left at the scene. A nine-year-old girl, the only witness to the crime. With a crime scene this puzzling, forensic expertise of the highest orde
Read More View in CatalogSpilling CID Series, Book 11
The Couple at the Table
Sophie Hannah
Honeymooners at a posh resort receive an ominous warning with deadly consequences in the latest gripping, twisty psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Sophie Hannah. Jane and William are enjoying their honeymoon at an exclusiv
Read More View in CatalogJohn Corey Series, Book 8
The Maze
Nelson DeMille
Inspired by and based on the actual and still-unsolved Gilgo Beach murders, The Maze takes us on a dangerous hunt for an apparent serial killer who has murdered nine--and maybe more--sex workers and hidden their bodies in the thick undergrowth on a l
Read More View in Catalog