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Crime books - list of books about crime includes jacket covers when applicable. All books on crime are cataloged here alphabetically. This well-researched crime bibliography includes out-of-print titles and generally contains the most popular, famous, or otherwise notable books - fiction or non-fiction - about this topic. You should be able to answer the questions ""what are the best books about crime?"" with items on this reading list. Note that this crime book list can be sorted by any column, and most crime books can be bought on Amazon with one easy click from here. List features items like The Hours of the Virgin: An Amos Walker Novel, The Gone-Away World. You're able to copy this fact-based list to build your own just like it, re-rank it to fit your opinions, then publish it to share it on Facebook, Twitter or any other social networks you use regularly.

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Order   Name Author First Published Genre Subjects Original Language
  1. 1
    Val McDermid
    1999
    Fiction, Mystery, Crime Fiction
    Crime, Detective
    English Language
  2. 2

    Afterburn: A Novel

    Colin Harrison
    2000
    Novel, Fiction
    Crime, Sexual obsessions
  3. 3
    Howard Blum
    2008-09
    True crime
    Hollywood, Crime, James McNamara, John McNamara
  4. 4
    Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
    1998
    Novel, Fiction
    Crime, Politics
  5. 5
    Michael Dibdin
    1997-01-01
    Fiction, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense
    Italy, Crime, Police procedural, Police
    English Language
  6. 6
    James M. Cain, Horace McCoy, Cornell Woolrich, Kenneth Fearing, William Lindsay Gresham, Edward Anderson More
    1997
    Anthology
    Crime
  7. 7
    Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, Jim Thompson, David Goodis, Charles Willeford More
    1997
    Anthology
    Crime
  8. 8

    Evil Angels

    John Bryson
    1985
    Non-fiction
    Crime, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, Exoneration of Lindy Chamberlain, Azaria Chamberlain disappearance More
  9. 9
    Henning Mankell
    1997
    Novel, Fiction, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense
    Crime, Sweden, Mystery, Police procedural, Police
    Swedish Language
  10. 10
    G. K. Chesterton
    1996
    Novel, Fiction
    Crime, Detective
  11. 11

    Father Brown: The Essential Tales

    G. K. Chesterton
    2005
    Fiction
    Crime
  12. 12
    David Mitchell
    1999-08-19
    Novel
    Crime, Terrorism, Randomness
    English Language
  13. 13
    T. Jefferson Parker
    2008-02
    Crime Fiction
    Los Angeles, Crime, Outlaw, Armed Robbery
  14. 14
    Richard Price
    2008-03-04
    Novel, Fiction
    Crime, New York City, Murder, Manhattan
    English Language
  15. 15

    More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws

    John R. Lott Jr.
    1998
    Non-fiction
    Crime, Gun politics
    English Language
  16. 16
    Ian Rankin
    2000
    Novel, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense, Detective fiction
    Scotland, Crime, Police
    English Language
  17. 17
    Ross Macdonald
    1973-05
    Fiction, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Detective fiction
    Crime, California, Private investigator
    English Language
  18. 18
    John Shannon
    2004-05
    Detective fiction
    Crime, Revenge, Missing person
  19. 19

    The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--the '20s, '30s & '40s

    2007
    Anthology
    Crime
  20. 20
    Ross Macdonald
    1959
    Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense
    Crime, California
  21. 21
    Stieg Larsson
    Crime fiction, Mystery fiction, Thriller, Mystery
    Crime
  22. 22

    The Gone-Away World

    Nick Harkaway
    2008-06
    Science Fiction, Speculative fiction
    Crime, War
    English Language
  23. 23
    Loren D. Estleman
    1999
    Fiction, Mystery
    Crime, Private investigator
  24. 24
    Miles Harvey
    2000
    Mathematics, Non-fiction
    United States of America, History, 20th century, Crime, Libraries, Cartography More
  25. 25
    Ruth Rendell
    1996
    Fiction, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Suspense
    Crime, Adventure
    English Language

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