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ENGLISHGood Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girls Guide To Murder, #2)
EnglishDeadly Little Secrets: The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder
EnglishPaddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
EnglishBind, Torture, Kill
EnglishThe Last Temptation: Book 3 (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan)
EnglishScam Me If You Can Paperback – 27 August 2019
EnglishTo the Tome of Murder: 7 (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery) 
EnglishFear No Truth: A Faith Mcclellan Novel: 1 (Faith Mcclellan, 1) New on BookR
EnglishThree Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries)New
EnglishA Bone to Pick (Aurora Teagarden Mysteries)New
EnglishFancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks Paperback – 2 May 2024New
EnglishLast Bus to Woodstock: The First Case in the Classic Inspector Morse SeriesNew
EnglishRed Queen: A Novel: 1 (Antonia Scott, 1)New
EnglishHe Walks Among Us: A Chilling Alaskan Mystery: 2 (True Crime Junkies) Paperback – 23 January 2024New
EnglishMURDER AT THE SERPENTINE BRIDGE: A Wrexford & Sloane Historical Mystery: 6 (Wrexford & Sloane Mysteries, 6)New
EnglishTell No Lies: A Faith McClellan Novel: 6 (The Faith McClellan, 6) Paperback – Import, 25 July 2023NewMore crime reads
EnglishThe Hillside Stranglers
EnglishLike LionsENGLISHGood Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girls Guide To Murder, #2)
EnglishNo Sin Unpunished: A Faith McClellan Novel: 3 (Faith McClellan, 3) Paperback – Import, 2 March 2021
EnglishThe Black Hand: The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican Mafia
EnglishIn the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and Deliverance
EnglishGHETTOSIDE A TRUE STORY OF MURDER IN AMEEnglishBind, Torture, KillAll crime books
EnglishRed Queen: A Novel: 1 (Antonia Scott, 1)EnglishTell No Lies: A Faith McClellan Novel: 6 (The Faith McClellan, 6) Paperback – Import, 25 July 2023
EnglishHERONS CRY: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel: 2
EnglishThe Lazarus Heist: Based on the No 1 Hit podcast Paperback – Import, 9 June 2022EnglishNo Sin Unpunished: A Faith McClellan Novel: 3 (Faith McClellan, 3) Paperback – Import, 2 March 2021
EnglishTHE BOBBY GIRLS' SECRETS Paperback – 9 February 2021
EnglishA Dangerous Man: 18 (Elvis Cole and Joe Pike)ENGLISHGood Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girls Guide To Murder, #2)EnglishLike Lions
EnglishDead Ringer: A gripping crime thriller with a killer twist: 1 (DI Chilcott) Paperback – Import, 14 March 2020
EnglishCold Cold Ground: A Child Bride: 1 (Detective Sean Duffy: The Troubles Trilogy, 1)
EnglishTHE PUNISHMENT SHE DESERVES: AN INSPECTOR LYNLEY NOVEL: 17 Paperback – 7 March 2019EnglishThe Hillside Stranglers
EnglishFall From Grace: Her husband is missing . . . in this BREATHTAKING THRILLER Paperback – 14 August 2014
EnglishRake: A Novel Paperback – 13 May 2014EnglishThe Last Temptation: Book 3 (Tony Hill and Carol Jordan)
EnglishPeople Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her UpEnglishThe Black Hand: The Story of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez and His Life in the Mexican MafiaEnglishBind, Torture, Kill
EnglishThe American Boy
EnglishDevil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
EnglishCareless Whispers: The Award-Winning True Account of the Horrific Lake Waco Murders (St. Martin's True Crime Classics)
EnglishIn A Dry Season Paperback – 24 October 2002EnglishTo the Tome of Murder: 7 (Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery) EnglishFear No Truth: A Faith Mcclellan Novel: 1 (Faith Mcclellan, 1) EnglishIn the Place of Justice: A Story of Punishment and DeliveranceEnglishGHETTOSIDE A TRUE STORY OF MURDER IN AME
engBody of Evidence (Kay Scarpetta, #2)Why read crimes
A good crime is a shortcut to focus. The pace pulls you in, the characters stay with you, and a physical copy makes it easy to step away from the screen.
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Crime questions, answered
What are the best crime books for beginners?
Start with Scam Me If You Can Paperback – 27 August 2019 by Frank Abagnale, then explore the most-read shelf above.
Can I read crime books in Hindi on BookR?
Use the language filter above. It is populated from the languages currently returned by the catalogue API.
How many books can I read with a Library Pass?
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Can I rent these books instead of buying them?
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