Literature primarily about crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. See also Detective Literature, Mystery Literature, and Gangster Fiction.
- 87th Precinct
- After Dark, My Sweet
- Aimee
- American Psycho
- The Apocalypse According to Marie
- Asshole Yakuza Boyfriend
- Archie Sheridan
- Arsène Lupin
- And Then There Were None
- Angels and Demons
- The Authorities
- Babylon
- Bad Monkeys
- The Barbarotti Series
- Beasts in Velvet
- Beautiful Bones: Sakurako's Investigation
- Be My Enemy
- Billy Summers
- Bitter Wash Road
- Blaze
- The Burnt Orange Heresy
- Butler Parker
- Case File nº221: Kabukicho
- The Case Files of Yakushiji Ryoko
- The Cartel
- Cassie Dewell
- The Caves of Steel
- Charlie Parker Series
- The City & the City
- City of Devils
- Conciencia y Voluntad
- The Continental Op
- Cop Craft
- The Corrupted Chronicles of Coco Claramisa
- Country of the Blind
- Crime
- Crime and Punishment
- Cormoran Strike Novels
- Daddy's Little Girl
- Dalziel and Pascoe
- Dancing Aztecs
- The Day of the Jackal
- The Da Vinci Code
- Death Wish
- Disclosure
- Tim Dorsey's "Serge Storms" novels.
- Dortmunder
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
- Endless Love
- Ezzie
- The Father Luke Wolfe Trilogy
- Far Cry (nothing to do with the games)
- Filth
- Fox and O'Hare
- The Fragility of Bodies
- Get Blank
- The Glass Key
- The Gospel of Evil
- Grandmaster of Theft
- Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens
- Hamish Macbeth
- Hannibal
- Help I Am Being Held Prisoner
- House Rules
- How to Lead a Life of Crime
- Hungover and Handcuffed
- The Idylls of the Queen
- I Heard That Song Before
- I Hunt Killers
- Inferno
- Ino-Head Gargoyle
- J.P. Beaumont
- Kamal and Barnea
- King City
- L.A. Confidential
- Laura
- Leaphorn & Chee
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart
- A Light In The Dark
- Lincoln Rhyme
- The Lodger
- The Lost Symbol
- Madeline Dare
- A Field of Darkness
- The Crazy School
- Invisible Boy
- Valley of Ashes
- Maigret
- The Malaussène Saga
- The Maltese Falcon
- The Man Who Controlled Metal
- The Manchurian Candidate
- Matthew Bartholomew Chronicles
- The Mental State
- Moon (1985)
- Moonlight Becomes You
- Motherless Brooklyn
- Mr Blank
- Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Mysteries
- Murder in Coweta County
- Murder is Easy
- The Naked Sun
- The Name of the Rose
- The Naturals
- Nightmare Alley
- Nighttime Is My Time
- No Country for Old Men
- No Beast So Fierce
- The October List
- One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
- The Order of Melkizedek
- The Pact
- Parker
- Philip Marlowe
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Pretty Girls
- Quite Ugly One Morning
- Rebecca
- Rebus
- Ripliad
- The Robots of Dawn
- The Sacred Art of Stealing
- The Saint
- Sheriff Joanna Brady
- Sherlock Holmes
- Sid Halley
- Sly Cooper To Catch A Thief
- Smaller & Smaller Circles
- Smoke
- The Snuff Network
- Somebody Owes Me Money
- Something Promised
- The Spilling Series
- Star Wars: Scoundrels
- Suspicion
- Teen Power Inc.
- The Thirteenth Child
- The Thirteenth Pillar
- The Thursday Murder Club
- Tony Hill and Carol Jordan
- Triptych
- Two Little Girls in Blue
- Undead on Arrival
- Under Suspicion (Series)
- Void Moon
- While My Pretty One Sleeps
- Wyatt
- Yashim Series
- Young Sherlock Holmes