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The best Mystery Police Procedural books
Honest reviews and recommendations for mystery police procedural readers.
24 reviews in this genre.
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Highest-rated mystery police procedural on the shelf
Blind Date
by Frances Fyfield
Frances Fyfield's 1998 standalone. A traumatized woman ex-cop and the killer who took her sister. One of the British psychological-thriller form's genuine peaks.
Final Frame
by Jane Adams
The fourth Mike Croft. A photographer's posthumous show, an image that should not exist, and Jane Adams in fully realized form.
Sea of Green
by Thomas Adcock
The first Neil Hockaday mystery by Thomas Adcock. NYPD detective in mid-90s Hell's Kitchen, before the neighborhood got polite.
Stiff News
by Catherine Aird
The 17th Sloan procedural. A retirement-home death that may not be natural. Catherine Aird at her most institutional and her most quietly biting.
Amendment of Life
by Catherine Aird
The 19th Inspector Sloan. A body in a country church maze and Catherine Aird in her purest form.
Unlikely Victims
by Alvin Abram
Alvin Abram's Maxie Lewis Toronto mysteries. Yiddish-inflected procedural with serious neighborhood texture.
After Effects
by Catherine Aird
Inspector Sloan investigating a pharmaceutical company's drug-trial gone wrong. Aird writing institutional procedural.
Little Knell
by Catherine Aird
The 18th Inspector Sloan. A piece of garden statuary, a missing mother, and Catherine Aird at her most procedural.
Evan Blessed
by Rhys Bowen
The ninth Constable Evan Evans mystery. Rhys Bowen in cozy Welsh-village form. Reliable comfort reading.
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