The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time by BookBub

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The Keeper of Lost Causes (2007) by Jussi Adler-Olsen
Only Time Will Tell (2011) by Jeffrey Archer
Case Histories (2004) by Kate Atkinson
The Red Queen Dies (2013) by Frankie Y. Bailey
Memory Man (2015) by David Baldacci
Track of the Cat (1993) by Nevada Barr
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1993) by John Berendt
Sleepyhead (2001) by Mark Billingham
Open Season (2002) by C. J. Box
Angels and Demons (2000) by Dan Brown
The Neon Rain (1987) by James Lee Burke
The Alienist (1994) by Caleb Carr
The Crucifix Killer (2009) by Chris Carter
Sworn to Silence (2009) by Linda Castillo
Killing Floor (1997) by Lee Child
And Then There Were None (1939) by Agatha Christie
Weep No More, My Lady (1987) by Mary Higgins Clark
Raven Black (2006) by Ann Cleeves
Tell No One (2001) by Harlan Coben
The Black Echo (1992) by Michael Connelly
The Poet (1996) by Michael Connelly
Scarpetta (2008) by Patricia Cornwell
The Cove (1996) by Catherine Coulter
L. A. Requiem (1999) by Robert Crais
A Share in Death (1993) by Deborah Crombie
Dark Pines (2017) by Will Dean
The Bone Collector (1997) by Jeffery Deaver
The Lion's Game (2000) by Nelson DeMille
The Poacher's Son (2010) by Paul Doiron
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) by Arthur Conan Doyle
An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser
Gone Girl (2012) by Gillian Flynn
The Third Twin (1996) by Ken Follett
Even Money (2009) by Dick Francis
In the Woods (2007) by Tana French
The Cuckoo's Calling (2013) by Robert Galbraith
Hollywood Homicide (2017) by Kellye Garrett
A Great Deliverance (1988) by Elizabeth George
The Surgeon (2001) by Tess Gerritsen
The Client (1993) by John Grisham
Land of Shadows (2014) by Rachel Howzell Hall
Red Dragon (1981) by Thomas Harris
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) by Thomas Harris
Birdman (2000) by Mo Hayder
Fear of the Dark (1988) by Gar Anthony Haywood
The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping (2017) by Keigo Higashino
Deeper Than the Dead (2009) by Tami Hoag
Retribution (2003) by Jilliane Hoffman
Verity (2018) by Colleen Hoover
Magpie Murders (2016) by Anthony Horowitz
The Nowhere Man (2017) by Gregg Hurwitz
Tortured Dreams (2013) by Hadena James
Cover Her Face (1962) by P. D. James
The Pawn (2007) by Steven James
The Cold Dish (2004) by Craig Johnson
The Ritual Bath (1986) by Faye Kellerman
When the Bough Breaks (1985) by Jonathan Kellerman
The Unquiet Dead (2015) by Ausma Zehanat Khan
Mr. Mercedes (2014) by Stephen King
Grotesque (2003) by Natsuo Kirino
Baby's Got Blue Eyes (1987) by L M Krier
Iron Lake (1998) by William Kent Krueger
Defending Jacob (2012) by William Landay
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) by Stieg Larsson
Rum Punch (1992) by Elmore Leonard
Unknown Man #89 (1977) by Elmore Leonard
Death at La Fenice (1992) by Donna Leon
City of the Dead (1976) by Herbert Lieberman
The Cutting Season: A Novel (2012) by Attica Locke
Ink and Ashes (2015) by Valynne E. Maetani
Heartstone (1978) by Phillip Margolin
The Widows of Malabar Hill (2018) by Sujata Massey
Fatal Vision (1983) by Joe McGinniss
Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) by Walter Mosley
Blanche on the Lam (1992) by Barbara Neely
Saint's Gate (2011) by Carla Neggers
Mallory's Oracle (1994) by Carol O'Connell
Natural Causes (2012) by James Oswald
The Godwulf Manuscript (1973) by Robert B. Parker
Along Came a Spider (1993) by James Patterson
Still Life (2005) by Louise Penny
An Innocent Client (2008) by Scott Pratt
The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002) by Douglas Preston
The Cobra Event (1977) by Richard Preston
Salt is Leaving (1966) by J. B. Priestley
He Died with His Eyes Open (1984) by Derek Raymond
Déjà Dead (1997) by Kathy Reichs
Murder on the Red River (2017) by Marcie R. Rendon
Naked in Death (1995) by J. D. Robb
Rules of Prey (1989) by John Sandford
Dark Fire (2004) by C. J. Sansom
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown (2011) by Julia Scheeres
Look Again (2009) by Lisa Scottoline
Triptych (2006) by Karin Slaughter
Child 44 (2008) by Tom Rob Smith
The Daughter of Time (1951) by Josephine Tey
Maisie Dobbs (2003) by Jacqueline Winspear
Aunty Lee's Delights (2013) by Ovidia Yu

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