Crime Novels that Should Be On TV List

Enjoy watching crime shows? Want to read more books like them? Check out this book list...




1) "The Nanotech Murders" by Lee Gimenez

The year is 2071 and there's a serial killer loose in Atlanta. Lieutenant Jak Decker, a homicide cop, is on the case but is getting nowhere. As the body count mounts, his boss assigns him a partner, the smart and beautiful Detective Cassandra Smith. Decker, a tough, wise-cracking loner, doesn't want a partner, especially when he finds out she's an android.

2) "The Boy In The Suitcase" by Lene Kaaberbol

Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Is the boy a victim of child trafficking? Can he be turned over to authorities, or will they only return him to whoever sold him? When Karin is discovered brutally murdered, Nina realizes that her life and the boy’s are in jeopardy, too. In an increasingly desperate trek across Denmark, Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and who exactly is trying to hunt him down.

3) "The Stakeout" by Elizabeth A. Hale

Detective Audrey Roscoe's life in a small mid-western town appears uneventful until the wife of her homicide partner is found dead. With the latest advances in forensic science, Audrey sets out to clear her partner's name before it's too late. Plagued by one dead end after another, Audrey quickly discovers someone wants her to pay the ultimate price. Will she discover the identity of the murderer before they kill again or will she be the next victim?

4) "Oracle" by J.C. Martin

With London gearing up to host the Olympics, the city doesn't need a serial killer stalking the streets, but they've got one anyway. Leaving a trail of brutal and bizarre murders, the police force is no closer to finding the latest psychopath than Detective Inspector Kurt Lancer is in finding a solution for his daughter's disability. Thrust into the pressure cooker of a high profile case, the struggling single parent is wound tight as he tries to balance care of his own family with the safety of a growing population of potential victims. One of whom could be his own daughter. Fingers point in every direction as the public relations nightmare grows, and Lancer's only answer comes in the form of a single oak leaf left at each crime scene.

5) "In Another Life" by W.D. James

Police Detective Roger Mackay’s chance encounter with a woman whose reflection he saw for only a fleeting moment in a grocery store deli case leads him on an adventure that forces him to question coincidence, time and ultimately, whether he can alter the course of fate. Mackay balances police work, love and crushing loss, his choices leading him to either a new beginning with a soul mate or to a lonely, tragic end. Can Mackay change events or will he be forced to watch it all slip through his fingers, knowing what might have been?

6) "A Better Class of Angels" by Lisa Adcock

Can you really fall in love with a woman you've never met? Locke County Sheriff Jack Talburt is about to find out. Burned out, newly divorced and overworked, Jack is falling in love with a woman he knows only through the pages of her unfinished manuscript.

Duty brought him to the abandoned automobile that cold November morning but it was instinct and experience that drew him further into the dense woods of the old bayou. And it was there, surrounded by centuries-old cypress trees, that he found Paige Bennett, unconscious, half-naked and bleeding.

What is it about her that so intrigues him? Why is he sitting beside her hospital bed, willing her to open those blue eyes? And why does he continue to see himself in her unfinished book?

Jack doesn't know why he feels such a need to protect her but even he realizes that if he isn't careful, his feelings will jeopardize her case, his job and perhaps even her life.

The first in the Jack Talburt Series, A Better Class of Angels is the deeply romantic story of a good man who learns that it is never too late to take a chance on love.

7) "Chorus of the Dead" by Tracy L. Ward

Morgue surgeon at one of London's most prestigious hospitals, Dr. Peter Ainsley is familiar with the smells of the dead and the dying but when the brilliant, young doctor is summoned to a small English town in the north his ability to keep his patients at a cold, comfortable distance is put to the test. Convinced the untimely death of a twelve year old girl, Josephine Lloyd was an act of poison, Ainsley and the local physician Dr. Bennett must battle the wealthy and stubborn Lloyd family to gain access to the body of the girl, knowing an autopsy is their only chance to detect what ended the young girl's life. Even as her older sister, Lillian, languishes in bed fearing the poison will take her as well, the family remains obstinate. When Dr. Bennett is found dead in his own house, the rebellious Ainsley has no choice but to take matters into his own hands if he is to save the life of the beautiful Lillian Lloyd.

8) "Eyes of a Child" by Richard North Patterson

A man has been found dead, a gun still wedged in his mouth. It looks like Ricardo Arias killed himself…but the physical evidence tells a different story. The police investigation turns up all sorts of troubling data--a bitter estrangement between Ricardo and his wife, Terri; an ugly custody battle over their six-year-old daughter, Elena; charges of child molestation. And before long there's a murder suspect: San Francisco defense attorney and political hopeful Christopher Paget.

But where's the motive? It could be that Paget is Terri's new lover. Or that Paget's own teenage son is the one who's accused of abusing Elena. But a series of long-hidden secrets--on both sides of the case--are slowly rising to the surface…and threaten to explode in the courtroom, where the final verdict will be delivered. Where the truth about what really happened to Ricardo Arias will either be revealed--or buried for good...