Best Modern Crime Novels - April 2024

Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

• ASIN: 0385333846
• ASIN: 0385333846
• ISBN: 0812988523
• Brand: Delta
• Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

The Silent Patient

• ASIN: 1250301696
• ASIN: 1250301696
• ISBN: 1250301696
• Brand: Celadon Books
• Manufacturer: Celadon Books

Big Little Lies

DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEPFrom the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Truly Madly Guilty, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead.Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and f... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0425274861
• ASIN: 0425274861
• ISBN: 0425274861
• Brand: Moriarty Liane
• Manufacturer: Berkley

Ordinary Grace

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2014 EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2014 DILYS AWARD A SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2013 From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger, a brilliant new novel about a young man, a small town, and murder in the summer of 1961.“That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.” New Bremen, Minnesota, 1961. The Twins were playing their debut season, ice-cold root beers were selling out at the so... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1451645856
• UPC: 884740901625
• ASIN: 1451645856
• ISBN: 1451645856
• Brand: Atria Books
• Manufacturer: Atria Books

Lethal White: A Cormoran Strike Novel

Lethal White is the fourth book in the Cormoran Strike series from the international best-selling author Robert Galbraith. "I seen a kid killed... He strangled it, up by the horse."  When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic.�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07H4W2ZCK
• ASIN: B07H4W2ZCK
• Manufacturer: Hachette Audio

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

• ASIN: 1400032717
• ASIN: 1400032717
• ISBN: 9781400032716
• Brand: Random House Inc
• Manufacturer: Vintage Contemporaries

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR  * TIME  * BUSTLE  * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE  * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS  * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African-American couple.” —Barack Obama “Haunting . . . Beautifully written.” —The New York Times Book Review   “Brilliant and heartbreaking . . . Unforgettable.” —USA Today   “A tense and timely love story . . . Packed with brave questi... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
• ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
• Manufacturer: Algonquin Books

Spilled Milk: Based on a true story

"Randis later would testify at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced to prison for his crimes. He was sentenced to up to 16 years in 2004. Her painful -- and ultimately triumphant -- story is recounted in Randis' first novel, "Spilled Milk." -Stacy Brown, Pocono Record Newspaper"I read this book in two days. I couldn't put it down." - Chelsea DeBoer, Teen Mom 2 "Spilled Milk is a story about resilience. The strength of the human mind and will power to live a better life." - The Weekly Sparkle"This book has changed lives." -Gabrielle Stone, Actress "The honest, raw open... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0615835600
• ASIN: 0615835600
• ISBN: 0615835600
• Manufacturer: K.L Randis

In Cold Blood

• ASIN: 0679745580
• ASIN: 0679745580
• ISBN: 9780679745587
• Brand: Truman Capote
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

New York Times bestseller THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS WHY RUSSIANS WANTED TO MEET WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN “Part John Grisham-like thriller, part business and political memoir.” —The New York Times “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder’s business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin’s Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year’s best books” (Fo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1476755744
• ASIN: 1476755744
• ISBN: 1476755744
• Brand: Bill Browder
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky (Modern Library)

This collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky's key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in his longer works, these small masterpieces move from the tender and romantic White Nights, an archetypal nineteenth-century morality tale of pathos and loss, to the famous Notes from the Underground, a story of guilt, ineffectiveness, and uncompromising cynicism, and the first major work of existential literature. Among Dostoevsky's prototypical characters is Yemelyan in The Honest Thief, whose tra... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375756884
• ASIN: 0375756884
• ISBN: 0375756884
• Brand: Modern Library
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Ulysses (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

• ASIN: B000FC1KRU
• ASIN: B000FC1KRU
• Manufacturer: Modern Library

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while pr... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0553447459
• ASIN: 0553447459
• ISBN: 0553447459
• Brand: BROADWAY
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

Crime and Punishment: Pevear & Volokhonsky Translation (Vintage Classics)

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadWith the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky's classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. "The best (translation) currently available"--Washington Post Book World.

• ASIN: 0679734503
• ASIN: 0679734503
• ISBN: 0679734503
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

One of Us Is Lying

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club” (EW.com) in this “flat-out addictive” (RT Book Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive.   Pay close attention and you might solve this.On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.    Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.     Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.     Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.    Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseba... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1524714682
• ASIN: 1524714682
• ISBN: 1524714682
• Brand: DELACORTE
• Manufacturer: Delacorte Press

Love You Gone: A Gripping Psychological Crime Novel with an Incredible Twist (Paperback)

'I couldn't put it down... jaw dropping... fantastic... If you're a fan of Gone Girl, you're seriously going to enjoy this!' Netgalley reviewer, 5 stars 'Hello? Police? My husband and our children... they're gone.' When

• UPC: 518802211

Stealing Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

While recovering from her last traumatic attempt to help the police catch a killer, psychic Cassie Neill's mind is filled with the thoughts of a pscyhopath, but as she struggles to place a name or

• UPC: 789555
• Rating: 4.0

The Department of Sensitive Crimes : A Detective Varg Novel

In the Swedish criminal justice system, certain cases are considered especially strange and difficult, in Malmö, the dedicated detectives who investigate these crimes are members of an elite squad known as the Sensitive Crimes Division.

• UPC: 757130824
• Rating: 3.0

Hiding in the Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

When Faith Parker awakens from a coma, she has no memory of her life--or of her friend Dinah, who has vanished without a trace. Death is stalking both women and one of them will not

• UPC: 25652341
• Rating: 4.167

Out of the Shadows : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

Sheriff Miranda Knight is reunited with FBI profiler Noah Bishop when her small town of Gladstone, Tennessee is torn apart by the kidnapping, torture, and murder of several teenagers, and Miranda is forced to use

• UPC: 815005
• Rating: 3.571

Crime Scene : A Novel

"A corpse lying at the bottom of the stairs. A beautiful but troubled young woman. A brutal, decades-old murder. And the man charged with making sense of it all. Clay Edison is a former star

• UPC: 55699278
• Rating: 3.25

Sleeping with Fear : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

In the thrilling, "New York Times" bestselling conclusion to Hoopers spellbinding Fear trilogy, Special Agent Riley Crane of the FBIs Special Crimes Unit wakes up alone in a beach cottage covered in blood, unable to

• UPC: 5278522
• Rating: 2.5

Blood Sins : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

A "New York Times"-bestselling author delivers once again with this chilling novel in which the Special Crimes Unit sends a Haven operative undercover to catch a charismatic killer, who promises his victims heaven in exchange

• UPC: 11019822
• Rating: 3.2

Whisper of Evil : A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

As a series of grisly murders terrorizes the small, backwoods town of Silence, Nell Gallagher, a young woman with special psychic gifts, holds the power to unravel the mystery, uncover the dark secrets that could

• UPC: 1800138
• Rating: 3.833

Past Crimes : A Van Shaw Novel

When his estranged grandfather is shot and left for dead, Army Ranger Van Shaw plunges into the criminal underworld of his youth to find a murderer and uncover a shocking family

• UPC: 40795331
• Rating: 4.667

VMC Virago Modern Classics Best Seller Collection 10 Paperback Book Box Set -CH2

• UPC: 153560693430
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 14 GBP

Snap: ‘The best crime novel I’ve read in a very long time’ Val McDermid,Belind

• UPC: 372336338399
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP

The Blood Road: Scottish Crime Fiction at its Very Best | Stuart MacBride

• UPC: 273711635071
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 12 GBP

Snap: ‘The best crime novel I’ve read in a very long time’ Val .9781784160852,

• UPC: 132796069695
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 2 GBP

Snap: 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid

• UPC: 303161314318
• Category: Other Books, Comics, Magazines
• Price: 3 GBP

Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermid

• UPC: 303161346905
• Category: Other Books, Comics, Magazines
• Price: 3 GBP

The Woman In The Window A.J. Finn Hardcover Best Seller Book Thriller Novel

• UPC: 173700659818
• Category: Fiction
• Price: 80 GBP

Snap: `The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermi-ExLibrary

• UPC: 303161346930
• Category: Other Books, Comics, Magazines
• Price: 3 GBP

Snap: 'The best crime novel I've read in a very long time' Val McDermi-ExLibrary

• UPC: 113755871349
• Category: Other Books, Comics, Magazines
• Price: 3 GBP