Crime

Dark alleys and courtrooms, prison cells and forensics labs set the stage for gripping tales of justice and injustice, where detectives, lawyers, and criminals clash in society's shadows. These stories and investigations expose the underbelly of human nature, from sophisticated financial fraud to brutal murders, while exploring the complex machinery of law enforcement and criminal justice that shapes our world.

Crime Book Summaries

The Devil's Star Summary

The Devil's Star

by Jo Nesbø 2003 528 pages

Prophet's Prey Summary

My Seven-Year Investigation into Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints

by Sam Brower 2011 336 pages

Gun Street Girl Summary

Gun Street Girl

by Adrian McKinty 2015 313 pages

Kingpin Summary

How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

by Kevin Poulsen 2011 288 pages

Case Closed Summary

Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK

by Gerald Posner 1993 640 pages

American History

Bluebird, Bluebird Summary

Bluebird, Bluebird

by Attica Locke 2017 320 pages

Mystery Thriller

Tokyo Vice Summary

An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan

by Jake Adelstein 2009 335 pages

Seconds Away Summary

by Harlan Coben 2012 338 pages

Tell Me Your Dreams Summary

Tell Me Your Dreams

by Sidney Sheldon 1998 384 pages

Mystery Thriller

Glory in Death Summary

by J.D. Robb 1995 296 pages

Dead I Well May Be Summary

Dead I Well May Be

by Adrian McKinty 2003 384 pages

The Murders in the Rue Morgue Summary

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

by Edgar Allan Poe 1841 38 pages

Seduction in Death Summary

Seduction in Death

by J.D. Robb 2001 354 pages

The Ghosts of Belfast Summary

The Ghosts of Belfast

by Stuart Neville 2009 336 pages

Alex Cross's Trial Summary

Alex Cross's Trial

by James Patterson 2009 380 pages

The Dope Summary

The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade

by Benjamin T. Smith 2021 464 pages

The Confession Summary

by John Grisham 2010 418 pages

Please Tell Me Summary

by Mike Omer 2023 379 pages

Mystery Thriller

Battle Mountain Summary

Battle Mountain

by C.J. Box 2025 358 pages

American Kompromat Summary

American Kompromat

How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery

by Craig Unger 2021 368 pages

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity Summary

The Ministry of Unladylike Activity

by Robin Stevens 2022 387 pages

Historical Fiction

The Overlook Summary

by Michael Connelly 2007 225 pages

The Broker Summary

by John Grisham 2005 422 pages

Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief Summary

Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief

by Bill Mason 2004 384 pages

Sworn to Silence Summary

Sworn to Silence

by Linda Castillo 2009 321 pages

Savages Summary

by Don Winslow 2010 302 pages

Stealing Your Life Summary

Stealing Your Life

The Ultimate Identity Theft Prevention Plan

by Frank W. Abagnale 2007 256 pages

The Lazarus Heist Summary

The Lazarus Heist

From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War

by Geoff White 2022 304 pages

The Christmas Jigsaw Murders Summary

The Christmas Jigsaw Murders

by Alexandra Benedict 2023

The Violence Project Summary

The Violence Project

How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic

by Jillian Peterson 2021 240 pages

These Monstrous Deeds Summary

These Monstrous Deeds

by T.J. Hamel 2021 456 pages

Bad City Summary

Peril and Power in the City of Angels

by Paul Pringle 2022 304 pages

Forensics Summary

What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

by Val McDermid 2014 310 pages

The Big Con Summary

The Story of the Confidence Man

by David W. Maurer 1940 315 pages

The Minotaur Summary

by Barbara Vine 2005 341 pages

Pretty Dark Vows Summary

Pretty Dark Vows

by Callie Rose 2023 418 pages

I Hear the Sirens in the Street Summary

I Hear the Sirens in the Street

by Adrian McKinty 2013 334 pages

The Hunter Summary

by Tana French 2024 467 pages

Mystery Thriller

The Detective Up Late Summary

The Detective Up Late

by Adrian McKinty 2018 299 pages

Catch Me Summary

by Lisa Gardner 2012 400 pages

Manifest Injustice Summary

Manifest Injustice

The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom

by Barry Siegel 2013 400 pages

Black River Summary

by Nilanjana Roy 2022 368 pages

A Criminal History of Mankind Summary

A Criminal History of Mankind

by Colin Wilson 1985 815 pages

Voodoo River Summary

by Robert Crais 1995 320 pages

Judge & Jury Summary

by James Patterson 2006 419 pages

Tourist Season Summary

by Carl Hiaasen 1986 404 pages

The Murder Book Summary

The Murder Book

by Jonathan Kellerman 2002 614 pages

The Complete Sherlock Holmes Summary

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1914 709 pages

The Mars Room Summary

by Rachel Kushner 2018 338 pages

Literary Fiction

In the Morning I'll be Gone Summary

In the Morning I'll be Gone

by Adrian McKinty 2014 326 pages

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