https://pithybooks.com/tags/crime/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “crime”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:09 GMT https://pithybooks.com/books/1st-to-die/ https://pithybooks.com/books/1st-to-die/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco. https://pithybooks.com/books/in-a-dark-dark-wood/ https://pithybooks.com/books/in-a-dark-dark-wood/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens. https://pithybooks.com/books/kiss-the-girls/ https://pithybooks.com/books/kiss-the-girls/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi. https://pithybooks.com/books/mr-mercedes/ https://pithybooks.com/books/mr-mercedes/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot. https://pithybooks.com/books/red-dragon/ https://pithybooks.com/books/red-dragon/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Graham consults Lecter to catch Tooth Fairy Dolarhyde. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-coworker/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-coworker/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and revenge. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-locked-door/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-locked-door/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-maidens/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-maidens/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-only-one-left/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-only-one-left/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders. https://pithybooks.com/books/the-outsider/ https://pithybooks.com/books/the-outsider/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco. https://pithybooks.com/books/wrong-place-wrong-time/ https://pithybooks.com/books/wrong-place-wrong-time/ Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder. https://pithybooks.com/books/in-the-woods/ https://pithybooks.com/books/in-the-woods/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier. https://pithybooks.com/books/oliver-twist/ https://pithybooks.com/books/oliver-twist/ Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-flicker-in-the-dark/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-flicker-in-the-dark/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders. https://pithybooks.com/books/a-study-in-scarlet/ https://pithybooks.com/books/a-study-in-scarlet/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it. https://pithybooks.com/books/along-came-a-spider/ https://pithybooks.com/books/along-came-a-spider/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows. https://pithybooks.com/books/as-good-as-dead/ https://pithybooks.com/books/as-good-as-dead/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Pip faces online threats and a stalker as she investigates a serial case in the trilogy finale. https://pithybooks.com/books/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/ https://pithybooks.com/books/perfume-the-story-of-a-murderer/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Born with a perfect nose in 1738 Paris, Grenouille masters perfume craft then murders young women in Grasse to bottle the ultimate scent. https://pithybooks.com/books/pretty-girls/ https://pithybooks.com/books/pretty-girls/ Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Estranged sisters Claire and Lydia reunite after a murder exposes snuff films, their sister Julia's fate, and a killer near Lydia's daughter.