Procedurals A police procedural is a crime novel in which the emphasis is on the procedures used by the police in solving the crime.

Ayers, Noreen A World the Color of Salt Ball, John In the Heat of the Night Bland, Eleanor Gone Quiet Bruen, Ken London Boulevard Buchanan, Edna Squad; Shadows Burke, James Lee The Neon Rain; Jolie Blon’s Bounce; Pegasus Descending; Last Car to Elysian Fields Camilleri, Andrea The Potter’s Field; The Track of Sand; The Shape of Water; The Age of Doubt; ; ; The Smell of the Night; The Wings of the Sphinx; August Heat; The Terra- Cotta Dog; Cannell, Stephen Cold Hit; Vertical Coffin Castle, Richard Heat Wave; Naked Heat; Heat Rises; Frozen Heat Caunitz, William One Police Plaza Charyn, Jerome Blue eyes Connelly, Michael The Closers; the Last Coyote; The Poet Cornwell, Patricia Hornet’s Nest Count, E.W. The Hundred Percent Squad Crombie, Deborah All Shall be Well; And Justice There is None; Dreaming of the Bones; A Finer End; In a Dark House; Kissed a Sad Goodbye; Leave the Grave Green; Mourn not Your Dead; Water Like a Stone; Where Memories Lie; Necessary as Blood; No Mark Upon Her; the Sound of Breaking Glass D’Amato, Barbara Good Cop, Bad Cop Deaver, Jeffery The Cold Moon; The Twelfth Card; The Bone Collector; The Coffin Dancer Dee, Ed Bronx Angel DeMille, Nelson The General’s Daughter Dymmoch, Michael The Man who Understood Cats Early, Jack Donato and Daughter Ellroy, James The Black Dahlia Estleman, Loren Stress Evans, Geraldine Absolute Poison; Dead Before Morning; Dying for You; Love Lies Bleeding French, Tana Broken Harbor; Faithful Place; In the Woods; The Likeness Glass, Leslie Burning Time Goldberg, Leonard Deadly Care Graham, Caroline Faithful Unto Death Granger, Ann That Way Lies; Shades of Murder; Beneath These Stones; Call the Dead Again; A Fine Place for Death; A Restless Evil Harris, Thomas The Silence of the Lambs Harvey, John Cold Light; A Darker Shade of Blue; Far Cry; Cold in Hand; Gone to Ground; Darkness and Light; Ash and Bone; Flesh and Blood; Last Rites; Wasted Years; Cutting Edge Hayes, J.M. Broken Heartland; Plains Crazy; Prairie Gothic; Server Down Higgins, George The Judgment of Deke Hunter Hightower, Lynn Flashpoint Hunter, Stephen Dirty White Boys Indridison, Arnaldur Outrage; Arctic Chill; Voices Izzi, Eugene Bad Guys James, Bill Club; Come Clean; Double Jeopardy; Easy Streets; The Girl with the Long Back; The Lolita Man; Naked at the Window; Panicking Ralph; Protection; Roses, Roses; The Sixth Man, and Other Stories; Take; Top Banana; Undercover; Vacuum; Wolves of Memory; You’d Better Believe it James, P.D. Death of an Expert Witness; Taste for Death Jance, J.A. Without Due Process; Desert Heat; Tombstone Courage Kaminsky, Stuart Death of a Dissident Katzenbach, John The Shadow Man Kellerman, Faye The Ritual Bath; Double Homicide King, Laurie A Grave Talent LaPlante, Lynda Leon, Donna Acqua Alta Leonard, Elmore City Primeval; ; Freaky Deaky; ; ; Lewis, Catherine Dry Fire Lindsay, Paul Witness to the Truth Lovesey, Peter The Wore Silk Drawers McBain, Ed Fiddlers MacBride, Stuart Dying Light McCullough, Colleen On, Off Maron, Margaret One Coffee With; The Right Jack; Corpus Christmas Marshall, William Yellowthread Street Martin, Lee Hacker Mayor, Archer Open Season; Tag Man; Paradise City Mills, Kyle Rising Phoenix; Storming Heaven Neel, Janet Death’s Bright Angel Nesbo, Jo Bat; The Devil’s Star; The Leopard; Phantom; ; ; The Snowman Norman, Michael On Deadly Ground; The Commission Parker, Robert Night Passage; Sea Change Parker, T. Jefferson Black Water; The Blue Hour; The Border Lords; California Girl; Cold Pursuit; The Fallen; Hook, Line & Sinister; Iron River; The Jaguar; L.A. Outlaws; Laguna Heat; Little Saigon; Pacific Beat; Red Light; The Renegades; Silent Joe; Storm Runners; Summer of Fear; The Triggerman’s Dance; Where Serpents Lie Patterson, James The Midnight Club; Kiss the Girls; Mary, Mary; Cat & Mouse; NYPD Red Pearson, Ridley Probable Cause; The Angel Maker; No Witnesses; Chain of ; The Pied Piper Penny, Louise The Beautiful Mystery; The Brutal Telling; Bury Your Dead; The Cruelest Month; A Fatal Grace; A Rule Against Murder; Still Life; A Trick of the Light Perry, Anne Cardington Crescent; The Hyde Park Headsman Rankin, Ian The Black Book; ; Dead Souls; Death is Not the End; ; ; Fleshmarket Alley; The Hanging Garden; Hide and Seek; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Rushford, Patricia As Good as Dead; Dying to Kill; Deadly Aim Schwegel, Theresa Officer Down Smith, April North of Montana Spencer, Sally Lambs to the Slaughter; Blackstone and the Great War; Backlash; Echoes of the Dead; Blackstone and the Wolf of Wall Street; The Ring of Death; The Dead Hand of History; Blackstone and the New World; Fatal Quest; Dying Fall; Death Watch; Dangerous Games; Sins of the Fathers; A Long Time Dead; Stone Killer; Dying in the Dark; The Butcher Beyond; The Witch Maker; Dead on Cue; The Golden Mile to Murder; The Dark Lady Stabenow, Dana Fire and Ice Swindle, Howard Doin’ Dirty; Jitter Joint Thurlo, Aimee Black Thunder; Never-Ending Snake; Earthway; Coyote’s Wife; Turquoise Girl; Mourning Dove; White Thunder; Wind Spirit; Plant them Deep; Changing Woman; Red Mesa; Bad Medicine; Shooting Chant; Blackening Song; Tracking Bear Turnbull, Peter The Killing Floor Walker, Martin The Dark Vineyard Wambaugh, Joseph Finnegan’s Week Weir, Charlene A Cold Christmas; Consider the Crows; The Edge of Midnight; Family Practice; Murder at the Movies; Up in Smoke; The Winter Widow