1st to Die
Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.
2,536-word summary · 11 min read
crime + detective
9 books tagged both “crime” and “detective”.
Kiss the Girls
Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.
2,397-word summary · 11 min read
Mr. Mercedes
Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.
2,281-word summary · 10 min read
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
In the Woods
A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.
2,773-word summary · 12 min read
A Study in Scarlet
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
Along Came a Spider
Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows.
2,523-word summary · 11 min read
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
2,856-word summary · 13 min read
The Cuckoo's Calling
Broke detective Strike and temp Robin investigate a supermodel's fatal fall in London.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read