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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Caught bread handed
Alexander, Ellie
Paper Book
Welcome to Torte--a friendly, small-town family bake shop where the oven is heating up as high as the body count... Jules Capshaw is still chewing over her husband Carlos's return to Ashland, Oregon. Could there be too many cooks in the kitchen? Whatever is stirring between...
Next of kin : a novel
Allen, Samantha Jayne
At a gathering for her cousin's wedding party, newly licensed PI Annie McIntyre gets asked an age-old question: What really makes us who we are, nature or nurture? Clint Marshall, an up-and-coming musician and an adoptee at a personal crossroads, wants to hire Annie to find his biological parents,...
Caught /
Coben, Harlan,
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES * The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Missing You and Fool Me Once a twisted #1 New York Times bestseller about a man who--with the best of intentions--opens the wrong door... Reporter Wendy Tynes is making a name...
Swamp spies
DeLeon, Jana
Paper Book
Things have reached a critical point in the Middle East. Carter agreed to serve as a consultant for his old Force Recon unit but for reasons unknown to his friends and family, jumped from the command center and into the field. Now he's MIA, and Fortune is the only one who can put together a...
The plus one : a novel
Eddings, Mazey
Paper Book
Some facts are indisputable. The sun rises in the east, sets in the west. Gravity exists. Indira doesn't like Jude. Jude doesn't like Indira. But what happens when these childhood enemies find the only thing they can rely on is each other? On paper, Indira has everything together. An amazing job, a...
The love remedy
Everett, Elizabeth
Paper Book
Fit for murder /
Fletcher, Jessica,
Paper Book
" Jessica Fletcher learns that exercise can be murder in this new entry in the USA Today bestselling Murder, She Wrote series. Former editor of the Cabot Cove Gazette, Evelyn Phillips is back in Cabot Cove. Evelyn tells Jessica and...
Murder backstage
Fletcher, Jessica
Paper Book
Jessica Fletcher's British cousin, Emma MacGill, will be traveling to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, to perform with internationally famous star of stage, screen, and television Derek Braverman in an old-fashioned musical review. Emma would love for Jessica to join her there and suggests she bring...
The midnight feast : a novel
Foley, Lucy
Paper Book
"Sharp, stylish and stunning...Foley's best yet." -- Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of All the Colors of the Dark "It is an absolute bonkers delight (and I haven't even mentioned the local bird cult yet ...)." -- NPR, Best Books of the Year  ...
The perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh
Gray, Claudia
Paper Book
The third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge yet- preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr....
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...
Before I sleep
Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia
Paper Book
The clock is ticking for DCI Slider when a woman goes missing. Can he find her - and does she even want to be found? "[Slider is] one of Britain's most engaging coppers" Booklist Felicity Holland is missing. She left her...
Who to believe /
Hill, Edwin,
Paper Book
" In this skillfully crafted domestic suspense thriller, full of unpredictable twists, a murder in a small Massachusetts town brings turmoil to a group of friends connected by love, jealousy, and secrets. For fans of Shari Lapena, Riley Sager, and Ruth Ware. ...
Hanging with Hugo
Hyde, Katherine Bolger
Paper Book
Writer's retreat Windy Corner becomes a sanctuary of a different kind when a man and his foster daughter are harassed by a social worker, with tragic consequences. Emily and Luke have returned from their honeymoon and are caught in a whirlwind of activity. Emily's half...
Crime scene : a novel
Kellerman, Jonathan
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A former star athlete turned deputy coroner is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). Natural causes or foul play?...
Odd child out : a novel
Macmillan, Gilly
Paper Book
 How well do you know the people you love...' Best friends Noah Sadler and Abdi Mahad have always been inseparable.  But when Noah is found floating unconscious in Bristol's Feeder Canal, Abdi can't--or won't--tell anyone what happened. Just back from a mandatory leave...
An insignificant case : a thriller
Margolin, Phillip
Paper Book
A new standalone legal thriller from the international bestselling author of GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Charlie Webb is a third rate lawyer who graduated from a third rate law-school and, because he couldn't get hired by any of the major law firms, has opened his own law firm,...
Caught in time : a Kendra Donovan mystery
McElwain, Julie
Paper Book
Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret. October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to travel--back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But since that's not happening,...
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...
Hard to kill
Patterson, James
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller! "With Jane Smith, Alex Cross has reason to be jealous" (Good Morning America). Hard to Kill features James Patterson's greatest character yet-a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless...
Judge & jury
Patterson, James
Audiobook
When a single mom and aspiring actress ends up on an important jury, she must team up with an FBI agent to hunt down a vicious and powerful mob boss. Andie DeGrasse is not your typical juror. Hoping to get dismissed from the pool, she tells the judge that...
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 scenic route
Ruggle, Katie
Ebook
The body in the backyard
Score, Lucy
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Things We Left Behind Her spray-tanned, self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this psychic detective's bingo card. But not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley...
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...
Caught by surprise
Turano, Jen
Paper Book
Miss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger suddenly grabs her off the street and sends her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened. When Mr. Gilbert Cavendish is called upon to rescue a missing woman, he follows the trail to Chicago only to...

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