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KCLS BookMatch: Police Procedurals

This list was created by a King County Library System librarian for a reader interested in police procedurals with realism, quirkiness, good morals, and a surprising ending. Request your own personalized reading list at http://www.kcls.org/bookmatch.

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  • Delpha Wade needs a job, and Tom Phelan needs a secretary. She's newly free from prison after serving 14 years for the voluntary manslaughter of one of the two men who were attacking her; he's a Vietnam vet who lost part of a finger on an…
    BookEl Paso, Texas : Cinco Puntos Press, [2015] — FIC SANDLIN
  • Detective John Cardinal is on the hunt for an ingenious killer even as he mourns his own wife's tragic death in this thriller of heart-stopping suspense. Autumn has arrived in Algonquin Bay, and with it an unusual spate of suicides. The…
    eBookNew York : St. Martin's Paperbacks, [2008, 2006] — eBOOK OVERDRIVE
  • In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat.…
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2020. — M MOORE
  • It is a cold January morning and Shetland lies beneath a deep layer of snow. Trudging home, Fran Hunter's eye is drawn to a splash of color on the frozen ground, ravens circling above. It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbor,…
    BookNew York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007. — M CLEEVES
  • Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death in a rural village south of Montreal. Jane Neal, a local fixture in the tiny hamlet of Three Pines, just…
    BookNew York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Minotaur, c2005. — M PENNY
  • When it comes to law and order, East Texas plays by its own rules--a fact that Darren Mathews, a black Texas Ranger, knows all too well. Deeply ambivalent about growing up black in the lone star state, he was the first in his family to get…
    BookNew York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, [2017] — M LOCKE
  • A week's holiday in a luxurious Yorkshire time-share is just what Scotland Yard's Superintendent Duncan Kincaid needs. But the discovery of a body floating in the whirlpool bath ends Kincaid's vacation before it's begun. One of his new…
    BookNew York : Avon Books, [2003], c1993. — M CROMBIE
  • During a routine drug bust, on a narrow bridge over white-water falls in the center of town, Spokane detective Caroline Mabry finds herself face-to-face with a brutal murderer. Within hours, the body of a young sex worker is found on the…
    BookNew York : Harper Perennial, 2009, c2001. — M WALTER
  • A kind and well-loved woman was brutally and inexplicably murdered. The pregnant wife of a respected police inspector, her death has left Scotland Yard shocked and searching for answers. Perhaps most horrifying of all, the trigger of the…
    eBookPymble, NSW ; New York, NY : HarperCollins e-books, 2006. — eBOOK M GEORGE
  • A forensic analyst in Rome investigates the supposedly accidental death of her own husband and uncovers a series of disappearances that may have connections to an ancient, secret society.
    BookNew York : Little, Brown, 2013. — M CARRISI