The Latest Police Procedurals for You to Devour
Love reading about the thrilling stories of police officers and detectives at work solving a case? Then you’re in luck, because there have been some truly exciting and page-turning police procedurals, crime novels, and PI novels hitting shelves in recent months. Here are six thrilling new police procedurals that you’re not going to want to put down.
The Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller returns for a sixth mystery, The Law of Innocence, and it might just be the most thrilling and high stakes one yet. When police find the body of a client in the trunk of Mickey Haller’s Lincoln, Mickey is charged with murder. Mickey knows he’s been framed. But who is plotting to destroy his life? And why? Determined to prove his innocence, Mickey decides to defend himself, building his case and strategizing within the walls of his jail cell.
The Russian is the latest police procedural thriller from James Patterson’s Michael Bennett series. Michael Bennett is alarmed when he notices that a series of gruesome murders in New York City bear a shocking resemblance to multiple cold cases across the country—from Atlanta to San Francisco. But before Bennett has time to connect the dots in all of the cases, the killer strikes again. And all of this just weeks before Bennett, the city’s top crime investigator, is set to marry the love of his life.
Related: Read the Excerpt: The Russian by James Patterson and James O. Born
Lovers of detective thrillers won’t want to miss out on James Patterson’s latest: The Red Book. This is the second book in the Black Book series, written with David Ellis. In this second installment, Detective Billy Harney returns to solve what might be his toughest case ever. A drive by shooting on Chicago’s west side has turned political, and people are so hungry for justice that there are threats of riots. Detective Billy Harney is feeling the pressure to get a quick solve on this case, but his instincts tell him there’s more to this case than meets the eye. And the more he looks into the shooting, the more the easy answers seem to be the wrong ones. But Harney is having trouble getting to the truth behind the shooting when there’s so much pressure on him from the outside. And when his investigation leads him back to his own troubled past, the case becomes so much more complicated than anyone could have predicted.
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