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The Best Classic and Contemporary Crime Novels

by Editorial Staff

Looking for the perfect crime? We have a few big thrillers and page-turning mystery reads for you!  Revisit a classic like The Big Sleep or pick up a well-loved bestseller like The Girl in the Spider’s Web.

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    Wolf Hour

    by Jo Nesbo

    From “one of today’s most interesting thriller writers” (Lee Child) comes an immersive, propulsive novel in which a detective and a crime writer conduct parallel investigations, six years apart, into a series of puzzling murders. Wolf Hour is a twisty and unforgettable thriller in classic Jo Nesbø style, which bears out Vanity Fair’s observation that “Nesbo explores the darkest criminal minds with grim delight and puts his killers where you least expect them … His novels are maddeningly addictive.”
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    The Missing Half

    by Ashley Flowers

    Two women haunted by their sisters’ unsolved disappearances band together in this captivating mystery from the author of All Good People Here and host of the #1 true crime podcast Crime Junkie.
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    The Hunter

    by Tana French

    It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die … From the writer who is “in a class by herself” (The New York Times), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we’ll do for our loved ones, what we’ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.
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    Tokyo Express

    by Seicho Matsumoto

    From “Japan’s Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?
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    Crook Manifesto

    by Colson Whitehead

    The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Harlem Shuffle continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. Crook Manifesto is a darkly funny tale of a city under siege, but also a sneakily searching portrait of the meaning of family. Colson Whitehead’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem is sure to stand as one of the all-time great evocations of a place and time.
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    Worse than a Lie

    by Ben Crump

    In this gripping thriller, truth and justice are called into question when a Black man is gunned down in cold blood — the first novel in a riveting series from renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
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    No Country for Old Men

    by Cormac McCarthy

    From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Road comes a “profoundly disturbing and gorgeously rendered” (The Washington Post) novel that returns to the Texas-Mexico border, setting of the famed Border Trilogy. Here, McCarthy simultaneously strips down the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this morning’s headlines. No Country for Old Men is a triumph.
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    The In Crowd

    by Charlotte Vassell

    An electrifying, whip-smart whodunit about the dastardly misbehavior of London’s high society — where being “in” or “out” can be a life-and-death matter. As Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp investigates parallel cases, he plunges into the exclusive world of money, title, and power as only England can dish it up, where justice is available only to the privileged.
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    Age of Vice

    by Deepti Kapoor

    Deftly shifting through time and perspective in contemporary India, Age of Vice is an epic, action-packed story propelled by the seductive wealth, startling corruption, and bloodthirsty violence of the Wadia family — loved by some, loathed by others, feared by all. Equal parts crime thriller and family saga, transporting readers from the dusty villages of Uttar Pradesh to the urban energy of New Delhi, Age of Vice is an intoxicating novel of gangsters and lovers, false friendships, forbidden romance, and the consequences of corruption. It is binge-worthy entertainment at its literary best.
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    The Power of the Dog

    by Don Winslow

    From the New York Times bestselling author, here is the first novel in the explosive Power of the Dog series — an action-filled look at the drug trade that takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. From the streets of New York City to Mexico City and Tijuana to the jungles of Central America, this is the war on drugs like you’ve never seen it.
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    You Know What You Did

    by K. T. Nguyen

    Annie “Anh Le” Shaw grew up poor, but seems to have it all now: a dream career, a stunning home, and a devoted husband and daughter. When Annie’s mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie’s carefully curated life begins to unravel.  With dizzying twists, You Know What You Did is both a harrowing thriller and a heartfelt exploration of the refugee experience, the legacies we leave for our children, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
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    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

    by Agatha Christie

    The story that made Agatha Christie famous ends with one of her most dramatic twists. The villagers of King’s Abbot are shocked when a wealthy local widow commits suicide and the very next day her fiancé, Roger Ackroyd, is stabbed to death. All the guests and staff at Ackroyd’s country house seem to have solid alibis — except for his missing stepson. But as the authorities hone in on their most obvious suspect, the recently retired detective Hercule Poirot unexpectedly turns up and joins the fray …
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    Charcoal Joe

    by Walter Mosley

    In the latest installment of the Easy Rawlins series from beloved and bestselling author Walter Mosley, the L.A. private eye has his hands full with the investigation of a racially charged murder.
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    L.A. Confidential

    by James Ellroy

    Three detectives descend into the underbelly of Los Angeles, where all the classic elements of an Ellroy novel — police corruption, Hollywood scandal, and organized crime — collide in this bestselling installment in the L.A. Quartet.
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    The Big Sleep (Special Edition)

    by Raymond Chandler

    A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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    The Reckoning

    by John Grisham

    In a major novel unlike anything he has written before, John Grisham takes us on an incredible journey, from the Jim Crow South to the jungles of the Philippines during World War II; from an insane asylum filled with secrets to a Mississippi courtroom.
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    The Chalk Man

    by C. J. Tudor

    The Chalk Man is a riveting and relentlessly compelling psychological suspense debut that weaves a mystery about a childhood game gone dangerously awry, and will keep readers guessing right up to the shocking ending.
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    The Girl in the Spider’s Web

    by David Lagercrantz

    A genius hacker who has always been an outsider. A journalist with a penchant for danger. The duo find themselves working together again – each with their own agenda. Their search for the truth leads them into an underworld of spies, cybercriminals, and government operatives willing to kill to protect their secrets.
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