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Police
Police is the tenth novel in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole crime series, first published in Norwegian in 2013. The story follows an Oslo police unit investigating the murders of officers at locations connected to crimes they had failed to solve, while Harry's status initially remains uncertain. It combines...
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The top alternative to Police in 2026 is Five Little Pigs with a score of 9.18/10, followed by Red Harvest (9.12) and The Daughter of Time (9.06).
Five Little Pigs
Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs, first published in 1942, gives Hercule Poirot a murder whose immediate evidence has...
Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett's first novel, Red Harvest, appeared in 1929 after serialization in Black Mask. Its narrator is the unn...
The Daughter of Time
Confined to a hospital bed, Inspector Alan Grant turns to a historical question in Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time,...
The Hollow Man
Two apparently impossible murders draw Dr. Gideon Fell into John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man, published in 1935 and is...
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X, a Japanese crime novel published in 2005, is a full-length entry in the Det...
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Published in 1986 under Ruth Rendell's Barbara Vine pseudonym, A Dark-Adapted Eye examines a family's past through the r...
In the Woods
Tana French's 2007 debut novel In the Woods introduces the Dublin Murder Squad through Detective Rob Ryan's investigatio...
Sidetracked
Sidetracked is a crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell featuring police inspector Kurt Wallander. First publishe...
One Step Behind
One Step Behind is a crime novel by Henning Mankell featuring Swedish police inspector Kurt Wallander. First published i...
The Redbreast
The Redbreast is a crime novel by Jo Nesbo and the third book in the series featuring Oslo police detective Harry Hole....
The Fifth Woman
The Fifth Woman is a crime novel by Henning Mankell and the sixth book in the series centered on Swedish police inspecto...
Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret Sets a Trap is a 1955 detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring Commissaire Jules Maigret of...
Revelation
Revelation is a 2008 historical mystery novel by C. J. Sansom and the fourth installment in the Matthew Shardlake series...
The Narrows
The Narrows is a 2004 crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring former Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch. Bosch i...
The Concrete Blonde
The Concrete Blonde is a 1994 crime novel by Michael Connelly and the third book featuring Los Angeles police detective...
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand
Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand is a crime novel by French writer Fred Vargas featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Ada...
Echo Park
Echo Park is a 2006 crime novel by Michael Connelly featuring Los Angeles police detective Harry Bosch. A suspected seri...
The Devil's Star
The Devil's Star is the fifth novel in Jo Nesbø's Harry Hole series, first published in Norwegian in 2003. During an unu...
Knife
Knife is a 2019 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo and the twelfth book in the Harry Hole series. The story finds...
The Thirst
The Thirst is a 2017 crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbo and the eleventh book in the Harry Hole series. Hole is dr...
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