Get Caught With a Good Book

In honor of Get Caught Reading Month, this list of police procedurals and books with "Caught" in the title will have you wondering "Who Dunnit?"

Updated April 11, 2025
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Next of kin : a novel
Allen, Samantha Jayne
Paper Book
From Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author Samantha Jayne Allen comes Next of Kin, a mesmerizing novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town, where the past is never far away. At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly-licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old...
Caught
Coben, Harlan
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive 17-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to...
Goodbye girl
Grippando, James
Paper Book
"This is the eighteenth Swyteck novel since The Pardon (1994), and it's just as good as the rest. Grippando keeps coming up with complex and timely cases, and this one is first-rate."  -- Booklist A contentious intellectual piracy case leads to an unsolved murder,...
The judge's list
Grisham, John
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * John Grisham returns to Florida, where The Whistler's Lacy Stoltz takes on a cold case that reveals a judge's darkest secrets. "One of the best crime reads of the year . . . a world-class shocker, worth staying up all night to...
The appeal
Grisham, John.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Fascinating ... filled with deadly accurate characterizations by an author who knows both the law and politics from the inside."--Los Angeles Times In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict...
Lights, camera, bones
Haines, Carolyn
Paper Book
The latest novel in the series that Kirkus Reviews characterizes as "Stephanie Plum meets the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" featuring sassy Southern private investigator Sarah Booth Delaney. Delaney Detective Agency gets a taste of the spotlight when they are called to a case...
Who to believe
Hill, Edwin
Paper Book
In a twisty, claustrophobic suburban suspense novel for fans of Ruth Ware and Liane Moriarty, the aftermath of a murder in a quiet coastal New England town reveals a web of dark secrets among friends . . . "An inventive and fiendishly-layered exploration of secrets dark and...
Crime scene : a novel
Kellerman, Jonathan
Paper Book
Natural causes or foul play? That's the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren't part of his beat--not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than meets his highly trained eye.Eccentric, reclusive Walter...
An insignificant case : a thriller
Margolin, Phillip
The raven thief
Pandian, Gigi
Paper Book
"Super-fun." -The Boston Globe A Lefty Nominee for Best Mystery Novel An Agatha Nominee for Best Contemporary Mystery Novel One murder. Four impossibilities. A fake séance hides a very real crime. Secret Staircase Construction just...
Pay dirt
Paretsky, Sara
Paper Book
Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a mystery with roots dating back to the Civil War in this edge-of-your-seat thriller from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. V .I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her intelligence, her humor, her unflinching courage, and her...
The #1 lawyer
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Biloxi's best criminal defense attorney has never lost a case. Then his client's beautiful wife is murdered, and America's #1 lawyer suddenly becomes its #1 suspect.  Stafford Lee Penney is a small-town lawyer with a big-time reputation for winning every case...
The grey wolf
Penny, Louise
Paper Book
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone calls interrupt the peace of a warm August morning in Three Pines. Though the tiny Québec village is impossible to find on any...
Two nights : a novel
Reichs, Kathy
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A standalone thriller featuring a "tough-talking, scarred heroine"* from the author of the Temperance Brennan series, the basis for the hit TV show Bones. Meet Sunday Night, a woman with physical and psychological scars, and a killer...
The truth about the Devlins
Scottoline, Lisa
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA Today Bestseller Lisa Scottoline, the #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts, presents another pulse-pounding domestic thriller about family, justice, and the lies that tear us apart. TJ...
Daughter of ashes
Tuti, Ilaria
Paper Book
Superintendent Teresa Battaglia, a trailblazing criminal detective on the Italian police force, is on sick leave, recovering from her recent brush with death in pursuit of a killer. But none of her colleagues - not even her partner, Inspector Marini - know that her Alzheimer's is getting worse, and...

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