Tag: crime

264 books with this tag.

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The Only One Left

Riley Sager · 2023

Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.

2,592-word summary · 12 min read

The Maidens

Alex Michaelides · 2021

Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder.

2,234-word summary · 10 min read

The Locked Door

Freida McFadden · 2021

Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.

2,465-word summary · 11 min read

The Coworker

Freida McFadden · 2023

When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and revenge.

2,511-word summary · 11 min read

Red Dragon

Thomas Harris · 1981

Graham consults Lecter to catch Tooth Fairy Dolarhyde.

2,592-word summary · 12 min read

Kiss the Girls

James Patterson · 1995

Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.

2,397-word summary · 11 min read

In a Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware · 2015

Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens.

2,253-word summary · 10 min read

1st to Die

James Patterson · 2001

Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.

2,536-word summary · 11 min read

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens · 1838

An orphan flees the workhouse for London's thieves, and Dickens indicts a cruel society.

2,763-word summary · 12 min read

In the Woods

Tana French · 2007

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

The Pelican Brief

John Grisham · 1992

Law student Darby Shaw writes a brief on murdered justices and becomes a target, fleeing with a reporter.

2,994-word summary · 13 min read

The Godfather

Mario Puzo · 1969

Vito Corleone and son Michael navigate mafia wars, loyalty, and power in Puzo's crime saga.

2,950-word summary · 13 min read

The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 2019

Libby Jones inherits a Chelsea mansion and a past tied to a cult house, two runaways, and a baby left waiting.

3,300-word summary · 15 min read

The Client

John Grisham · 1993

Eleven-year-old Mark Sway learns a mob secret in Memphis and hires lawyer Reggie Love for one dollar.

2,536-word summary · 11 min read

Pretty Girls

Karin Slaughter · 2015

Estranged sisters Claire and Lydia reunite after a murder exposes snuff films, their sister Julia's fate, and a killer near Lydia's daughter.

2,498-word summary · 11 min read

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

Patrick Suskind · 1985

Born with a perfect nose in 1738 Paris, Grenouille masters perfume craft then murders young women in Grasse to bottle the ultimate scent.

2,561-word summary · 11 min read

Along Came a Spider

James Patterson · 1993

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

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887

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

A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham · 2022

Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders.

3,074-word summary · 14 min read

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris · 1988

Clarice Starling seeks Hannibal Lecter's help to catch Buffalo Bill before Catherine Martin runs out of time.

2,616-word summary · 12 min read