Sidetracked
Lana Myers helps Logan Bennett on an FBI case while hiding her own revenge killings.
2,794-word summary · 12 min read
Tag: crime
264 books with this tag.
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Shantaram
An escaped Australian convict hides in Bombay slums, working for gangsters while running a free clinic.
2,042-word summary · 9 min read
Scarlet Angel
Lana edge closer to Logan while her list and flashbacks get darker in book three.
1,942-word summary · 9 min read
No Country for Old Men
A Texas hunter takes cartel cash in 1980 and is tracked across motels and desert by a killer while an aging sheriff follows.
2,952-word summary · 13 min read
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Miami blood spatter analyst Dexter kills killers by code until a killer without code finds him.
1,927-word summary · 9 min read
Career of Evil
A severed leg delivered to Robin forces Strike to face four men from his past as a London killer stalks, testing the agency and her wedding plans ahead.
2,887-word summary · 13 min read
Batman: The Killing Joke
The Joker shoots Barbara Gordon and tortures Jim Gordon to prove madness is one bad day away from anyone.
2,016-word summary · 9 min read
The Risk
Quiet Lana hunts past attackers by night while falling for Logan Bennett, the FBI agent tracking her.
2,360-word summary · 10 min read
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller defends a rich assault suspect from his Lincoln while doubting his innocence.
2,317-word summary · 10 min read
The It Girl
Ten years after April murder at Oxford, new claims of innocence force pregnant Hannah to rethink friends.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
Still Life
A beloved teacher found with an arrow in Three Pines looks like hunting accident until Gamache looks closer.
1,996-word summary · 9 min read
Batman: Year One
Honest cop Gordon and returning Bruce Wayne start at the bottom of rotten Gotham in endless rain.
1,993-word summary · 9 min read
All Good People Here
A journalist returns home to care for her uncle and reopens a 20 year old child murder tied to a new abduction.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
The Silkworm
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
3,583-word summary · 16 min read
The Runaway Jury
A tobacco trial in Biloxi is quietly rigged from inside the jury box and by a woman offering to sell the verdict.
2,920-word summary · 13 min read
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Retired Poirot probes a locked study murder in King's Abbot, told by the village doctor.
3,582-word summary · 16 min read
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.
3,579-word summary · 16 min read
My Sister, the Serial Killer
Korede covers up her sister Ayoola's murders in Lagos until Ayoola starts dating Tade, the doctor Korede secretly loves.
2,739-word summary · 12 min read
Killing Floor
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.
2,872-word summary · 13 min read
Defending Jacob
A Newton prosecutor defends his fourteen year old son after a classmate is stabbed in the park.
2,994-word summary · 13 min read
Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.
2,989-word summary · 13 min read
Artemis
Jazz Bashara, a porter and small-time smuggler in the Moon city Artemis, takes a sabotage job that drags her into a fight for the city.
2,863-word summary · 13 min read
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
2,522-word summary · 11 min read
The Outsider
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
2,586-word summary · 11 min read