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115 past books matching Police Procedural
A wealthy Icelandic family reunites at a remote hotel surrounded by lava fields, but tension simmers beneath the surface.
You Can’t See Me
Thriller · Mystery · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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A wealthy Icelandic family reunites at a remote hotel surrounded by lava fields, but tension simmers beneath the surface. When one guest disappears during a violent storm, suspicion turns inward and secrets unravel fast. Isolation, power, and buried guilt collide in this chilling Nordic noir with 4.2 stars on Amazon and award winning acclaim.
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After a brutal murder in Northern Sweden leaves a woman dead and her grandson missing, prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson senses a deeper connection others refuse to see.
The Second Deadly Sin
Mystery · Police Procedural
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After a brutal murder in Northern Sweden leaves a woman dead and her grandson missing, prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson senses a deeper connection others refuse to see. Pushed off the case, she hunts a killer whose crimes trace back more than a century. An atmospheric Scandi noir mystery with 4.4 stars on Amazon and nearly 7,000 Goodreads ratings.
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A double homicide draws Detective Matthias Honeywell into a case tied to a killer from his past, placing everyone he cares about in danger.
The Devil Comes Calling
Mystery · Police Procedural
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A double homicide draws Detective Matthias Honeywell into a case tied to a killer from his past, placing everyone he cares about in danger. When crime photographer Emma Anderson realizes she may be the next target, their investigation becomes deeply personal. The Devil Comes Calling is a chilling police procedural filled with buried secrets and escalating stakes. Rated 4.7 stars on Amazon and 4.6 on Goodreads.
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“Two bodies. One male, approximately fifty years old. One female, mid-twenties. Both shot execution-style, with one bullet to the back of the head.”
When a murderous ghost from Erie City Police Detective Matthias Honeywell’s past appears unexpectedly, his investigation into a double homicide in a quiet residential neighborhood gets increasingly complicated, and puts everything and everyone he cares about at risk – including photographer Emma Anderson.
Emma’s first day as the crime beat photographer for ErieLIVE wasn’t meant to see her photographing the scene of her predecessor’s murder, and with ties to the victim as well as a deadly fire that follows in the wake of the crime, she fears she may also be in the killer’s sightlines.
To solve the case and catch the killer, Matthias and Emma will have to face their own demons. But what happens when the devil himself comes calling?
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The Reaping follows forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and agent Evangeline Reed as a new murder links to a decades-old family massacre.
The Reaping
Mystery · Police Procedural
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The Reaping follows forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and agent Evangeline Reed as a new murder links to a decades-old family massacre. When children in Alku begin to disappear, the case forces Harry to confront the trauma of his sister’s abduction. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and over 12,000 Goodreads ratings, this thriller delivers chilling, character-driven suspense.
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By-the-book forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck and rogue BCA agent Van Reed must catch a cold-case killer who’s returned to abduct a small town’s children one by one in this heart-stopping novel from the Edgar Award–nominated author of Unspeakable Things.
In 1998 an Alku, Minnesota, family of five was brutally murdered in their sleep. The event shook the insulated community but, without any solid leads, was relegated to the cold case files, where it moldered for twenty-five years. Until today.
Agent Harry Steinbeck hoped never to return to the northland, a place that holds terrible memories of his sister’s abduction. But when a recent homicide is connected to Alku’s unsolved mass murder, he and cold case agent Evangeline Reed have no choice but to investigate.
The case grows impossibly darker as, one by one, the children of Alku begin disappearing. And Harry and Van can’t shake the sensation that someone is watching every move they make.
As an elusive killer’s trail leads to a truth more sinister than either imagined, Harry knows there’s only one way to crack this case: he must finally face the secrets of his own past—even if doing so will cost him everything.
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This is a strong fit for readers who like cold-case mysteries with isolated settings, emotional weight, and a creeping sense that the truth has been hidden on purpose.
Cold Island
Mystery · Police Procedural
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A child’s remains surface on Nantucket thirty-five years after the murder, and the most unsettling part is that no boy from that time was ever reported missing. Detective Tommy Kelly arrives to investigate and quickly finds himself up against a community that has spent decades keeping its secrets buried. Partnered with local detective Jo Harris, he starts pulling at threads tied to old violence, old silence, and a past the island would rather leave untouched. This is a strong fit for readers who like cold-case mysteries with isolated settings, emotional weight, and a creeping sense that the truth has been hidden on purpose.
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When the remains of a young murder victim on Nantucket Island are discovered after thirty-five years, a detective begins to unearth the dark secrets of a community gone silent.
Massachusetts State Police detective Tommy Kelly is called to Nantucket Island, where a boy’s skeletal remains have been discovered at a construction site—interred for thirty-five years. The crime is especially gutting for Tommy, the father of two boys. It’s also the beginning of a grim mystery. Because no child during that period was even reported missing.
Tommy is partnered with Nantucket PD’s best detective, Jo Harris, who first chafes at the idea of a mainlander encroaching on her territory. And their work together is only raising more troubling questions. Then a possible link is found to the decades-old case of a serial killer—a vigilantly hidden part of the past that this tight-knit community would prefer to forget and never speak of again.
The secrets in their silence are so shocking they soon pull Tommy into a very dark place. Suddenly, offseason on Nantucket has never felt so cold, so isolating, or so dangerous.
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In rural Sweden, two teenage friends become suspects when a body is found in a car trunk, a crime that shadows the town for twenty years.
The Living and the Dead
Mystery · Police Procedural
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In rural Sweden, two teenage friends become suspects when a body is found in a car trunk, a crime that shadows the town for twenty years. When a second corpse appears, long-buried secrets force the community to confront what really happened. With major Nordic crime awards and strong international praise, The Living and the Dead offers a brooding, unforgettable mystery.
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THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
One town. Two crimes. Twenty years of silence.
A “brooding and brilliant” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) murder mystery set in a rural Swedish town, where one community’s secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . .
Small towns sometimes have a voice of their own.
On a snowy winter night in 1999, Sander and Killian leave a house party together outside a small town in rural Sweden. The very best of friends, the two seventeen-year-olds imagine they will remain so forever. But by the next morning, a corpse is found in the trunk of a car, and each boy is a suspect in the murder. Each has something they want to conceal from the police. And from the other.
The hunt for the killer will take more than twenty years. It will see the lead detective leave the force forever. And it won’t end until a second body turns up in similar circumstances, and the tight-knit community’s secrets are finally brought to light.
In The Living and the Dead, renowned criminologist Christoffer Carlsson masterfully transports us to the fields and forests of western Sweden, a region of farmers and truck drivers torn apart by economic injustice and self-deceit—a world where the portal between the living and the dead is flung wide open and where no one is entirely innocent.
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Detective Mason Callahan investigates a brutal Portland murder that links a conspiracy theorist to Ava McLane’s case involving slain officers.
The Silence
Thriller · Mystery · Romance · Police Procedural
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Detective Mason Callahan investigates a brutal Portland murder that links a conspiracy theorist to Ava McLane’s case involving slain officers. When Ava’s twin sister disappears and sabotage strikes close to home, the investigation turns personal and perilous. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and more than thirty three thousand Goodreads ratings, The Silence heightens the tension of the Columbia River series.
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When a man is murdered outside Portland, Detective Mason Callahan follows blood evidence that points to a deeper and more unsettling truth. The victim, Reuben Braswell, was a conspiracy theorist whose files reveal hostility toward law enforcement and an unexpected tie to Mason’s fiancée, FBI agent Ava McLane. Reuben had been her informant, a man she dismissed as weary and harmless, until his death intersects with her investigation into the killings of police officers.
As Ava searches for the missing links, her twin sister vanishes and sabotage creeps into her personal life, turning every lead into a threat. Mason and Ava soon face a network of violence that grows more dangerous with each discovery.
With 4.4 stars on Amazon and over thirty three thousand Goodreads ratings, The Silence delivers a gripping Columbia River thriller.
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In The First Death, Rowan Wolff, a search and rescue expert shaped by a childhood kidnapping, becomes entangled in a new string of murders that echo her past.
The First Death
Mystery · Romance · Police Procedural
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In The First Death, Rowan Wolff, a search and rescue expert shaped by a childhood kidnapping, becomes entangled in a new string of murders that echo her past. Detective Evan Bolton discovers every victim ties back to her, pulling them into a case where old wounds and new dangers collide. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this installment delivers gripping, emotional suspense.
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A haunting discovery in the Oregon wilderness pulls two investigators into a past that refuses to stay buried in The First Death. Rowan Wolff survived a childhood kidnapping that claimed the lives of her brother and babysitter, but the forest never returned what was taken. Now a devoted search and rescue expert, she spends her days with her loyal canine partner searching for the grave that may finally bring her peace.
Detective Evan Bolton enters her world when a new series of murders mirrors the crimes committed by the man already behind bars. Each victim leads back to Rowan, tightening a web of danger neither can ignore. As uncovered remains reveal long hidden truths, both confront a deadly pattern threatening to begin again.
With 4.6 stars on Amazon and strong Goodreads acclaim, this suspense novel deepens the acclaimed Columbia River series.
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In Along Came a Spider, detective and psychologist Alex Cross races to find two kidnapped children taken by their teacher, a criminal who craves notoriety.
Along Came a Spider
Thriller · Police Procedural
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In Along Came a Spider, detective and psychologist Alex Cross races to find two kidnapped children taken by their teacher, a criminal who craves notoriety. Teaming with Secret Service supervisor Jezzie Flanagan only deepens the case’s complexity, drawing them into forbidden territory. With 4.5 stars on Amazon and massive Goodreads acclaim, this thriller introduces the now legendary Alex Cross series.
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Discover the classic thriller that launched the bestselling detective series from the world's most popular storyteller.
Alex Cross is in a race against time after two private-school children are kidnapped by their teacher—a man looking to commit the crime of the century.
The inspiration for the Prime Video show, Cross.
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in Southeast D.C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.
Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive job as supervisor of the Secret Service in Washington. Blond, mysterious, seductive, she's got an outer shell that's as tough as it is beautiful. She rides her black BMW motorcycle at speeds of no less than 100 mph. What is she running from? What is her secret?
Alex Cross and Jezzie Flanagan are about to have a forbidden love affair-at the worst possible time for both of them. Because Gary Soneji, who wants to commit the "crime of the century," is playing at the top of his game. Soneji has outsmarted the FBI, the Secret Service, and the police. Who will be his next victim?
Gary Soneji is every parent's worst nightmare. He has become Alex Cross's nightmare. And now, reader, he's about to become yours.
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When a podcaster is found murdered where five teens vanished decades ago, Mercy Kilpatrick and Truman Daly must confront a past drenched in secrets.
At the River
Mystery · Romance · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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When a podcaster is found murdered where five teens vanished decades ago, Mercy Kilpatrick and Truman Daly must confront a past drenched in secrets. As old memories surface, new deaths follow. At the River holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.5 on Goodreads, a tense, emotional thriller from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.
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Twenty years ago, five teenagers vanished in the Oregon wilderness. Two were found bound and left for dead on the rocky shore of the Columbia River. Only one survived, Devin Bonner, who remembers nothing of what happened that night. Now, the past has returned.
When a true-crime podcaster is discovered murdered at the same site, FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick and her husband, Police Chief Truman Daly, reopen the cold case that never stopped haunting their town. As Devin’s memories begin to resurface, a new trail of blood emerges, drawing Truman’s ward, Ollie, into a danger far greater than he understands.
At the River holds 4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.5 on Goodreads, a gripping Columbia River novel of memory, trauma, and buried truth from Kendra Elliot.
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A pair of killers leaves a trail of mutilated victims across the West.
The Killing Lessons
Thriller · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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A pair of killers leaves a trail of mutilated victims across the West. A survivor escapes their latest attack, and detective Valerie Hart races to find her before the killers strike again. 4.0 stars on Amazon and 3.7 on Goodreads for Saul Black’s The Killing Lessons, a dark and brilliantly written psychological thriller.
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"Shockingly good writing . . . It's impossible not to be swept away by its propulsive momentum. . . . peer into the depths of . . . many richly developed characters" —The New York Times Book Review
When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done.
For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims—women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly random series of objects inside them—has brought her from obsession to the edge of physical and psychological destruction. And she's losing hope of making a breakthrough before that happens.
But the murders at the Cooper farmhouse didn't quite go according to plan. There was a survivor, Rowena's ten-year-old daughter Nell, who now holds the key to the killings. Injured, half-frozen, terrified, Nell has only one place to go. And that place could be even more dangerous than what she's running from.
"Brilliant." —Jeffery Deaver, New York Times–bestselling author of The Skin Collector and Solitude Creek
"Compelling . . . graphic and disturbing." —Associated Press
"The Killing Lessons is state of the art in the ever-darkening serial-killer genre." —The Washington Post
"[An] exceptional police thriller." —Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Unbelievably good . . . this one has it all." —Lee Child, New York Times–bestselling author of Personal
"A powerhouse of a thriller." —Lisa Gardner, New York Times–bestselling author of Fear Nothing
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A bomber haunts New York with letters signed “your loyal admirer,” and Eve Dallas is his chosen target.
Loyalty in Death
Mystery · Police Procedural
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A bomber haunts New York with letters signed “your loyal admirer,” and Eve Dallas is his chosen target. Each explosion draws her deeper into a deadly game of loyalty and vengeance, where one mistake could cost everything. Loyalty in Death by J. D. Robb holds 4.7 stars on Amazon and over 37,000 Goodreads ratings.
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When a letter signed by “your loyal admirer” lands on her desk, NYPSD Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows it is more than a threat. It is a promise. Across New York City, explosions rip through the streets, and a calculating bomber is turning chaos into spectacle. Each message he sends taunts her with precision, daring her to stop him before the next strike.
As the attacks grow bolder, Eve races to protect her city and those she loves, piecing together a conspiracy born from vengeance and obsession. Every clue is a test of loyalty, every second a step closer to disaster.
In Loyalty in Death, #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb delivers pulse-pounding suspense and a 4.7-star fan favorite from the acclaimed In Death series.
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