Best Police Procedural Mystery Books

The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Cop Hater

by Ed McBain

"The murder of three detectives in quick succession in the 87th Precinct leads Detective Steve Carella on a search through the city's underside and ultimately into the murderer's sights"--NoveList.

Cover Her Face

by P.d. James

Knots and Crosses

by Ian Rankin

Edinburgh policeman, John Rebus, must solve murders involving seeming crank letters. He is not the only officer workering the case, but the only one who has all the pieces to resolve it.

Faceless Killers

by Henning Mankell

Along Came a Spider

by James Patterson

A missing little girl named Maggie Rose.A family of three brutally murdered in the projects of Washington, D.C.The thrill-killing of a beautiful elementary school teacher.A psychopathic serial kidnapper/murderer who call...

Still Life

by Louise Penn

Gideon's Day

by John Creasey

A Clubbable Woman

by Reginald Hill

In the Bleak Midwinter

by Julia Spencer-Fleming

IT'S A COLD, SNOWY DECEMBER in the upstate New York town of Millers Kill, and newly ordained Clare Fergusson is on thin ice as the first female priest of its small Episcopal church. The ancient regime running the parish...