Detective books
Books led by someone who investigates: police officers, private eyes, sharp-eyed amateurs. Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a classic of the puzzle mystery, Terry Pratchett's Night Watch sends Commander Vimes back through time, and Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice puts the pensioners of the Thursday Murder Club on the case. Thrillers like The Silence of the Lambs belong here too.
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30 of 154 books and series on this topic — the finder shows them all
- 1A Drop of Corruption
8.78.7 / 10 - 2Leviathan Wakes
8.68.6 / 10 - 3Guards! Guards!
8.58.5 / 10 - 4The Man Who Died Twice
8.48.4 / 10 - 5The Sandman
8.48.4 / 10 - 6Fugitive Telemetry
8.38.3 / 10 - 7Cigars of the Pharaoh
8.28.2 / 10 - 8The Missing of Clairdelune
8.28.2 / 10 - 9The Screaming Staircase
8.28.2 / 10 - 10The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
8.28.2 / 10 - 11Mastiff
8.18.1 / 10 - 12The Naked Sun
8.18.1 / 10 - 13Out Law
8.18.1 / 10 - 14Legion
8.18.1 / 10 - 15The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
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8.18.1 / 10 - 16The Day of the Jackal
8.08.0 / 10 - 17Mindhunter
8.08.0 / 10 - 18Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man)
8.08.0 / 10 - 19Hellboy
8.08.0 / 10 - 20Penric and the Shaman
8.08.0 / 10 - 21Red Dragon
7.97.9 / 10 - 22The Naturals
7.97.9 / 10 - 23Cetaganda
7.97.9 / 10 - 24The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7.97.9 / 10 - 25The Eyre Affair
7.87.8 / 10 - 26The Black Echo
7.87.8 / 10 - 27The A.B.C. Murders
7.87.8 / 10 - 28Rivers of London
7.87.8 / 10 - 29The Cuckoo's Calling
7.77.7 / 10 - 30Storm Front
7.57.5 / 10