How the Light Gets In
Gamache investigates the murder of the last Ouellet quintuplet while the Sûreté he served is dismantled from inside by the man who took his protégé.
2,279-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: police procedural
13 books with this tag.
Bury Your Dead
Recovering from a failed raid that killed his officers, Gamache investigates a murder in a Quebec City library while Beauvoir reopens a case in Three Pines.
2,022-word summary · 9 min read
The Trespasser
A Dublin Murder Squad detective investigates a staged dinner-party killing and finds a cover-up that reaches into her own department.
2,051-word summary · 9 min read
Rules of Prey
Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport hunts a killer who leaves a new rule at every scene and treats murder as a game of wits.
1,914-word summary · 9 min read
The Late Show
Exiled to the LAPD night shift after accusing her supervisor, Renée Ballard keeps two cases that were meant to be handed off at dawn: a brutal assault and a…
2,563-word summary · 11 min read
The Last Mile
Melvin Mars is hours from execution for his parents' murder when another man confesses, and FBI cold case detective Amos Decker goes looking for the trap.
2,746-word summary · 12 min read
A Rule Against Murder
Gamache's anniversary at a remote lodge turns into a closed-circle murder when the family statue kills Julia, and everyone at the Manoir had a reason.
2,201-word summary · 10 min read
Men at Arms
The City Watch gets new recruits and a murder case when the Disc's only handgun turns up in Ankh-Morpork, in the fifteenth Discworld novel.
2,216-word summary · 10 min read
Triptych
A GBI agent with dyslexia hunts a rapist while two Atlanta cops hide pasts.
2,576-word summary · 11 min read
The Bat
Oslo detective Harry Hole aids Sydney police after a young Norwegian woman is murdered and finds a wider pattern. Grief, drink, and a lost partner shape the…
2,766-word summary · 12 min read
Memory Man
Amos Decker, a detective who cannot forget, hunts the link between his family murder and a school shooting.
2,931-word summary · 13 min read
The Surgeon
A Boston killer copies an attack surgeon Catherine Cordell survived, and detective Jane Rizzoli must stop him before he reaches her.
2,154-word summary · 10 min read
Naked in Death
In 2058 New York, Lt. Eve Dallas hunts the killer of a senator's granddaughter and collides with suspect Roarke.
2,470-word summary · 11 min read