Top 100 Crime Fiction Books

📘 The coldest winter ever

A New York Times and USA TODAY Bestseller “50 Most Impactful Black Books of the Last 50 Years.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Criminology

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Black Dahlia

The Black Dahlia is a roman noir on an epic scale: a classic period piece that provides a startling conclusion to America's most infamous unsolved murder mystery--the murder of the beautiful young woman known as The Black Dahlia.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 True to the Game

It's the late 1980s, and Gena, a young girl from the projects, meets Quadir, a millionaire drug dealer, and falls madly in love. Quadir builds a massive empire while fighting his rivals and enemies. Gena faces the challenges of holding onto her man, her house, her car, and the cash.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 True to the Game II

TRUE TO THE GAME II will pick up where True to the Game left off-- with one difference, Gena is now seeing a new guy named Jay. Little does Gena know that the man she has fallen in love with, so soon after Quadir's death, is his archrival, Jerrell Jackson.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Tanah Para Bandit

A book where bad guys are raised from birth.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 I'll Be Gone in the Dark

For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Midnight

Sent to America with his mother when his father's powerful empire is attacked, underworld lieutenant Midnight draws on his African intelligence and Muslim mindset to protect those he loves and reclaim his wealth and way of life.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Black Gangster

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less

The conned: an Oxford don, a revered society physician, a chic French art dealer, and a charming English lord. They have one thing in common. Overnight, each novice investor lost his life's fortune to one man. The con: Harvey Metcalfe. A brilliant, self-made guru of deceit. A very dangerous individual. And now, a hunted man.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Heist Fiction

📘 Out

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The dopeman's wife

Nautica was raised by the streets and forced to grow up quick. The allure of the fast life pulled her into a world of scandal, schemes, and hustling. When Nautica comes upon a big scam and her biggest payday ever, she decides to move the the East Coast in search of a new beginning. What she thought was to be a new start turns out to be a nightmare.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Whoreson

Whoreson Jones, the novel's hero, is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. By the age of sixteen, he is a full-fledged pimp, cold-blooded and ruthless.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Under the bridge

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Brighton rock

An atmospheric crime thriller featuring a teenage sociopath intent on becoming the underworld boss of Brighton.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Filth

With the festive season almost upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson is winding down at work and gearing up socially - kicking off Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Tsotsi

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Invisible darkness

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Third Man

Initially written as a screenplay Greene later transferred the film treatment to novel form as a novella, published together with The Fallen Idol. Set in post-war Vienna The Third Man concerns the mysterious Harry Lime, a black market trader thought by the authorities to be dead.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 L.A. Confidential

*Classic L.A. Noir... terse dialogue, sharp characters and better than the movie.*

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 The Sicilian

After his three-year exile in Sicily, Michael Corleone is charged to return to America with Salvatore Giuliano, a young Sicilian bandit whose activities have angered the head of the Sicilian Mafia.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 True Crime

<i>True Crime</i> is an edge-of-the-seat suspense novel that graphically portrays the final moments leading up to a condemned killer's appointment with the executioner. The plot is familiar but convincing: An inmate, Frank Beachum, denies any involvement in the murder of a young pregnant woman.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 True to the Game III

The third and most explosive installment of the groundbreaking True to the Game trilogy will take you on a marathon race through the mean streets of Philly.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Diary of a Street Diva

After Remy dies by gunshot, Cease goes on trial for murder. On the morning of his trial, he delves into her diary to bare the deep, dark secrets of her past. Walk with Cease as he discovers the other side of Remy and tries to save his own neck.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The cartel 6

"The Cartel series is back and more deadly than ever. Las Vegas. A city built on obscene wealth and corrupt deals, cunning entrepreneurs, and the ruthless mob. The Cartel's plan to open a casino will rake in cash, but comes with great sacrifice. The stakes have never been this high, and rules of the game have never been this hard to manipulate.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Tren Bala

Five killers on a bullet train, one to steal a bag, one to kill his brother... and five to die together. One group is after a bag of gold, the other is after a death. Only their connection to a murder will help them to the end of the trip.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Cartel 3

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Don't blink

The Lombardo Steak House in New York has three reasons why it's famous, the menu, the clientele and now the murder of an infamous mob lawyer. The assassin is able to slip through the police's fingers and a blaze of accusations begin about who ordered the hit ...

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Runner

In Richmond, Australia, in 1919, fifteen-year-old Charlie Feehan becomes an errand boy for a notorious mobster, hoping that his ability to run will help him, his widowed mother, and his baby brother to escape poverty.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Innocent

"After years of tricking for money, Tamara lands a job as a prison guard with the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. Soon after, Tamara realizes that her baby daddy is on death row at the prison that she works and will soon be executed for a hideous crime.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Rum Punch

Ordell "Whitebread" Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie Burke couriers Ordell's profits from Freeport to Miami.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The ultimate evil

On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrorized New York City for more than thirteen months. Berkowitz eagerly confessed to being a lone marauder—one who had carried out eight senseless shootings with a .44 caliber Bulldog revolver. The case was officially closed.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Double indemnity

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Hit them where it hurts

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 A moment of silence

Handsome, young, Muslim, and married to two women living in one house along with his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja: can Midnight manage? He is surrounded by Americans who don't share or understand his faith or culture, and adults who are offended by his maturity, intelligence, or his natural ability to make his hard work turn into real money.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Cherry

The unnamed narrator, a young man from Cleveland, drops out of college and enlists in the United States Army as a medic during the Iraq War. Suffering from PTSD, the narrator starts self-medicating with opiates while deployed and continues once back home.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Bully

Bobby Kent was a bully—a steroid-pumped 20-year-old who dominated his peers in their comfortable, middle-class Ft. Lauderdale beach community through psychological, physical and sexual abuse. But on a summer night in 1993, Bobby was lured to the edge of the Florida everglades with a promise of sex and drugs. . .and was never seen alive again.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Daddy Cool

Larry Jackson, better known as Daddy Cool, is a ruthlessly efficient black hit man, equally effective with a gun or a knife in nailing his prey. The only thing that can melt his icy heart is his love for his teenage daughter Janet.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Killer Inside Me

Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Crime and criminology

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 American Kingpin

In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything—drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons—free of the government’s watchful eye.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 They Never Learn

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 The Cartel 7

"The saga of love, loyalty, and crime continues in the next explosive book in the Cartel series from the minds of New York Times bestselling authors Ashley & JaQuavis. After the tragic and bloody end to The Cartel's reign, Carter is forced into isolation to evade the law.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The death of innocence

The parents of JonBent Ramsey, murdered in her Boulder, Colorado, home on Christmas night, 1996, answer their accusers by sharing their hearts, emotions, and reflections, and they reveal their own theories about the crime. of photos. Proceeds to go to the JonBent Ramsey Children's Foundation.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Cartel 5

While the Diamond family has weathered murder, deceit, and betrayal, all new secrets and lies are revealed that threaten everyone. When a Boeing 747 drops out of the sky with the men of the Cartel aboard, the women of the family have to step into their own.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Bound By Hatred (Born in Blood Mafia Chronicles) (Volume 3)

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Without pity

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 House Of Secrets (True Crime)

The most dysfunctional family in America,the Sexton family is written about by Lowell Cauffiel in his true crime book,House Of Secrets.Lowell Cauffiel takes readers into a shocking world of abuse, incest, and family murder. In October 1993, Eddie Lee Sexton told his daughter, Pixie, to silence her crying baby.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Bodega dreams

The word is out in Spanish Harlem: Willy Bodega is king. Need college tuition for your daughter? Start-up funds for your fruit stand? Bodega can help. He gives everyone a leg up, in exchange only for loyalty--and a steady income from the drugs he pushes. Bodega turns to Chino, a smart, promising young man, for a favor.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Gone

"A crime lord has declared war on America. Only Detective Michael Bennett knows why. Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatic and ruthless leader, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suit.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The onion field

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Whoever fights monsters

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 By Their Father's Hand

Neighbors were unaware of what went on behind the tightly closed doors of a house in Fresno, California—the home of an imposing, 300-pound Marcus Wesson, his wife, children, nieces, and grandchildren.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Bound by temptation

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Ripley Under Ground

It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he lives in a beautiful French villa, surrounded by a world-class art collection and married to a pharmaceutical heiress. All seems serene in Ripley's world until a phone call from London shatters his peace.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Hard rain falling

A prisoner in San Quentin falls in love with his cellmate.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Escrava de favela

Petala Parreira, prostituta, puta e membro de “Piranhas para Jesus” publicou seu novo livro “Escrava de favela”, em que ela narra a vida horrível de uma menina vendida por seu pai em troca de drogas ao traficante local.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Candy licker

SHE WANTED TO BE A HIP-HOP STAR BUT THE STREETS GOT IN THE WAY.Have you ever laid down with a man and wasn't sure if you'd ever get back up? Tossed the sheets with a bone-knocking fear that only a hard-core hustler could produce? Sexed him like your life depended on it, because in reality it did? You still with me? Then let's roll over to my house.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Devil's knot

Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Snitch

Julia DiVino, a college-bound student at South Bay High School, has vowed never to join a gang, but she faces some difficult decisions when her dream guy, Eric Valiente, becomes a gang member.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Pronto

The feds think bookie Harry Arno will squeal on his wiseguy boss if they put word on the street that he's skimming profits -- but Arno's off to Italy. After losing the bookie once, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens wants him back... if he can find the fugitive before he's whacked.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Heart Full of Lies

An idyllic Hawaiian wedding held the promise of a wonderful future for handsome, athletic Chris Northon, an airline pilot, a confirmed bachelor-turned-devoted family man; and Liysa, an acclaimed surf photographer, loving mother, and aspiring Hollywood screenwriter.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Five Families

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The man with the candy

The night David Hilligiest didn't come home was both like and unlike other nights when other Houston boys disappeared between the years 1971 and 1973. At three in the morning the police were called, but they just said that boys were running away from the best of homes nowadays and that they'd list David as a runaway.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Lost girls

"A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five Craigslist prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York magazine cover story"--

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Bitter Harvest

On the night of October 23/24, 1995 in Prairie Village, Kansas, a fierce, wind-driven fire devastated the luxurious mansion of Dr. Debora Green and her husband, Dr. Michael Farrar. Trapped and burned to death in the flames were twelve-year-old Tim and his six-year-old sister Kelly.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Blood brothers

A true crime story of a multimillion dollar inheritance, a Beverly Hills lifestyle, the double murder of parents and accusations of sexual abuse.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Omerta

Spanish translation of "Omerta". The secret code of honor of the mafia is violated.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Nightmare alley

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Supreme Clientele

When Zya's boyfriend, Jules, is sentenced to a five-year-bid, he temporarily hands his operation over to her. With little street knowledge, Zya turns his small operation into an untouchable empire. She becomes connected to a Cuban drug lord, and the sky is the limit.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Last dance, last chance

The title case is an account of the life and crimes of Dr. Anthony Pignataro, a cosmetic surgeon with a penchant for forged credentials, botched surgeries, to the attempted arsenic poisoning of his wife. Four other true cases follow.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 A Hustler's Wife

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 I, Michael Bennett

383, 17 pages ; 25 cm880L Lexile

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The Heist

Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy, searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio. Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Heist Fiction

📘 Smash Cut

THE PRINCIPALS Paul Wheeler. CEO of the Wheeler Enterprises empire. At age fifty-two, he's a pillar of Atlanta society and a brilliant businessman. But Paul is out of the picture even before the opening credits -- shot dead during an armed robbery. Julie Rutledge.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 A Beautiful Child

Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise. But her murderous, fugitive father had drawn her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American crime.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Deadly kin

He knifed her mother, poisoned her children and shot her father, but Susie Newsom Lynch still loved Cousin Fritz. Eight pages of photos accompany this bizarre true account of a first-cousin romance that left nine people dead.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Lifeguard

A lifeguard discovers the heist of a lifetime at a luxury resort, but his obsession with his new love complicates his mission to recover the stolen $5 million.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Heist Fiction

📘 Street Pharm

290 pages ; 21 cmHL500L Lexile

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Kiss kiss, bang bang

When a set-up goes wrong and Six finds herself sleeping with the enemy, who [sic] will she choose: the man she loves or the man she's supposed to hate?--P. [4] of cover.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Fools Die

Merlyn, a famous writer, is addicted to Las Vegas Casinos and the delights of Hollywood.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 In a lonely place

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 The Pussy Trap A Novel

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Deranged

On a warm spring day in 1928, a kindly, white-haired man appeared at the Budd family home in New York City, and soon persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Budd to let him take their adorable little girl, Grace, on an outing. The Budds never guessed that they had entrusted their child to a monster.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Big Nowhere

The author of *The Black Dahlia* presents the powerful second novel in his L.A. Quartet. In *The Big Nowhere*, three men are caught up in a massive web of ambition, perversion and deceit. A remarkably vivid portrait of a remarkable time and place.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Reportage on crime

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Florida Roadkill

Local trivia buff Serge loves inflicting pain. Drug-addled Coleman, his partner in crime, loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with righ dead men's money. Then there's Sean and David, who love fishing--and helping turtles cross busy thoroughfares.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 Payback Is A Mutha

In this gritty urban drama, New York Times bestselling author Wahida Clark tells the story of a woman who thinks she has everything, but who really has everything to lose—starting with her best friend, and ending with her life… Brianna and Shan couldn’t be more different.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Grifters

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Ghettoside

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The Day the Streets Stood Still

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Complicity

A journalist investigates a series of recent murders, leading him into the dark corners of Edinburgh’s underworld and testing the boundaries of moral integrity.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir

📘 Lincoln's Grave Robbers

A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 The Rembrandt Affair (Gabriel Allon #10)

Severing his ties with the Office to care for his traumatized wife after a violent showdown with Ivan Kharkov, Gabriel is reluctantly drawn into a case involving a murdered art restorer and discovers unsettling links between the killers and a recently discovered Rembrandt.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Heist Fiction

📘 The blooding

Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 The godfather returns

THE MISSING YEARS FROM THE GREATEST CRIME SAGA OF ALL TIMEThirty-five years ago, Mario Puzo's great American tale, The Godfather, was published, and popular culture was indelibly changed.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Organized Crime

📘 People Who Eat Darkness

An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared forever. The following winter, her dismembered remains were found buried in a seaside cave.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 In broad daylight

True story of a man who terrorized residents of Skidmore, MO and got away with crimes for years until he was finally shot down "in broad daylight" in the middle of town. Despite numerous witnesses, no one would talk and no one was ever charged with killing him.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 White Mans Justice, Black Man's Grief

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Criminal Underworld

📘 Shine

When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.

Genre: Crime Fiction Subgenre: Noir