A Police or Detective Story

This list of titles fulfill the UBN 2024 category of a police or detective story.

Updated October 30, 2024
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The blue bar
Biswas, Damyanti
Paper Book
On the dark streets of Mumbai, the paths of a missing dancer, a serial killer, and an inspector with a haunted past converge in an evocative thriller about lost love and murderous obsession. After years of dancing in Mumbai's bars, Tara Mondal was desperate for a new start. So when...
BURNING
CASTILLO, LINDA
Paper Book
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this next riveting installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight...
Celine : a novel
Heller, Peter
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The River and The Dog Stars comes another "gorgeously wrought story--equal parts character study and mystery--a young woman asks Celine, a badass Brooklyn private eye, to investigate the death of her father, a nature photographer" (...
Death at the sign of the rook
Atkinson, Kate
Paper Book
THE INSTANT #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER (SUNDAY TIMES, UK) * The highly anticipated return of "irresistible" (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as "unputdownable" by Time "How delicious...
A death in Tokyo : a mystery
Higashino, Keigo
Ebook
In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is faced with a very public murder that doesn't quite add up, a prime suspect unable to defend himself, and pressure from the highest levels for a quick solution. In the Nihonbashi...
Fortune favors the dead : a novel
Spotswood, Stephen
Paper Book
A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, Fortune Favors the Dead introduces Pentecost and Parker, an audacious new detective duo for the ages. "Razor-sharp style, tons of flair, a snappy sense of humor, and all the most...
The hypnotist
Kepler, Lars.
Paper Book
A Time Magazine Top 10 Fiction book for 2011 One of the Wall Street Journal's Top 10 Mysteries of the Year 2011   Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a...
The kind worth saving : a novel
Swanson, Peter
Paper Book
"The inventive Mr. Swanson never lets the willing reader down. With The Kind Worth Saving, he surpasses his own high standard." -- Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal In this spectacularly devious novel by New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson, a private...
Lavender House
Rosen, Lev AC
Audiobook
The murder at the vicarage
Christie, Agatha
Paper Book
RAGING STORM
CLEEVES, ANN
Paper Book
Ann Cleeves--New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--returns with The Raging Storm, the extraordinary third installment in the Matthew Venn series. Fierce winds, dark secrets,...
Vera Wong's unsolicited advice for murderers
Sutanto, Jesse Q.
Paper Book
A USA Today bestseller Edgar Award Winner for Best Original Paperback Audie Award Winner for Mystery Libby Award Winner for Best Mystery A lonely shopkeeper takes it upon herself to solve a murder in the most peculiar way in this captivating mystery by...

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