From 1960 till 2010 all the crime novels have been analyzed by our editorial team based on different criteria and then we have created a list of the top 100 crime novels of all time. The list contains novels written by authors from all around the world.
A list for The Top 100 crime novels of all time contains the author’s name of the specif novel right adjacent to the novel name. This will provide you with an option to decide which novel to select for reading based on your authors’ preference.
We have ranked these Crime Novels in alphabetical order starts from A to Z which means that all the novels in this list contain the same value and we request you to select the novels without discrimination on the numbers in the list as the numbers are just for the counting.
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We have selected The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time from thousands of crime novels which have been published from 1960 to 2010. Also, the profiles of these authors play a major role in being selected for this list. Our motive is to provide our readers with the legit information that is up to the mark instead of presenting junk.
So let’s jump right into The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
| Book | Author | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Certain Justice | P.D. James |
| 2 | A Drink Before the War | Dennis Lehane |
| 3 | A Free Man of Color | Barbara Hambly |
| 4 | A Suitable Vengeance | Elizabeth George |
| 5 | A Trick of the Light | Louise Penny |
| 6 | A Trouble of Fools | Linda Barnes |
| 7 | Angels & Demons | Dan Brown |
| 8 | Ask the Right Question | Michael Z. Lewin |
| 9 | Aunt Dimity’s Death | Nancy Atherton |
| 10 | Baptism for the Dead | Robert Irvine |
| 11 | Before I Go to Sleep | S.J. Watson |
| 12 | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty |
| 13 | Blunt Darts | Jeremiah F. Healy |
| 14 | Brother Cadfael’s Penance | Ellis Peters |
| 15 | Bury Your Dead | Louise Penny |
| 16 | Career of Evil | Robert Galbraith |
| 17 | Dark Places | Gillian Flynn |
| 18 | Death at La Fenice | Donna Leon |
| 19 | Death du Jour | Kathy Reichs |
| 20 | Deception on His Mind | Elizabeth George |
| 21 | Decoys | Richard Hoyt |
| 22 | Defending Jacob | William Landay |
| 23 | Déjà Dead | Kathy Reichs |
| 24 | Desert Heat | J.A. Jance |
| 25 | Embrace the Wolf | Benjamin Schutz |
| 26 | Evil Under the Sun | Agatha Christie |
| 27 | Extenuating circumstances | Jonathan Valin |
| 28 | Faceless Killers | Henning Mankell |
| 29 | Farewell, My Lovely | Raymond Chandler |
| 30 | For the Sake of Elena | Elizabeth George |
| 31 | Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn |
| 32 | In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner | Elizabeth George |
| 33 | Inferno | Dan Brown |
| 34 | Katwalk | Karen Kijewski |
| 35 | Maisie Dobbs | Jacqueline Winspear |
| 36 | Morality For Beautiful Girls | Alexander McCall Smith |
| 37 | Motor City Blue | Loren D. Estleman |
| 38 | Murder With Peacocks | Donna Andrews |
| 39 | Mystic River | Dennis Lehane |
| 40 | Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger |
| 41 | Pepper Pike | Les Roberts |
| 42 | Playing for the Ashes | Elizabeth George |
| 43 | Postmortem | Patricia Daniels Cornwell |
| 44 | Promised Land | Robert B. Parker |
| 45 | Purple Cane Road | James Lee Burke |
| 46 | Rafferty’s Rules | W. Glenn Duncan |
| 47 | Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier |
| 48 | Seven Up | Janet Evanovich |
| 49 | Shutter Island | Dennis Lehane |
| 50 | Still Life | Louise Penny |
| 51 | Strike Three You’re Dead | Richard Rosen |
| 52 | The 39 Steps | John Buchan |
| 53 | The Alienist | Caleb Carr |
| 54 | The Alvarez Journal | Rex Burns |
| 55 | The Back Door Man | Dave Buschi |
| 56 | The Beekeeper’s Apprentice | Laurie R. King |
| 57 | The Big Sleep | Raymond Chandler |
| 58 | The Black Echo | Michael Connelly |
| 59 | The Black Ice | Michael Connelly |
| 60 | The Client | John Grisham |
| 61 | The Closers | Michael Connelly |
| 62 | The Club of Queer Trades | G.K. Chesterton |
| 63 | The Concrete Blonde | Michael Connelly |
| 64 | The Cuckoo’s Calling | Robert Galbraith |
| 65 | The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| 66 | The Firm | John Grisham |
| 67 | The Girl on the Train | Paula Hawkins |
| 68 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest | Stieg Larsson |
| 69 | The Girl Who Played with Fire | Stieg Larsson |
| 70 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson |
| 71 | The High Window | Raymond Chandler |
| 72 | The Holy Thief | Ellis Peters |
| 73 | The Innocence of Father Brown | G.K. Chesterton |
| 74 | The Killing Circle | Andrew Pyper |
| 75 | The Lady in the Lake | Raymond Chandler |
| 76 | The Last Child | John Hart |
| 77 | The Last Good Kiss | James Crumley |
| 78 | The Life We Bury | Allen Eskens |
| 79 | The lime pit | Jonathan Valin |
| 80 | The Little Sister | Raymond Chandler |
| 81 | The Long Goodbye | Raymond Chandler |
| 82 | The Lost Symbol | Dan Brown |
| 83 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold |
| 84 | The Maltese Falcon | Dashiell Hammett |
| 85 | The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side | Agatha Christie |
| 86 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | Agatha Christie |
| 87 | The Nebraska Quotient | William J. Reynolds |
| 88 | The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern |
| 89 | The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency | Alexander McCall Smith |
| 90 | The Pelican Brief | John Grisham |
| 91 | The Silkworm | Robert Galbraith |
| 92 | The Simple Art of Murder | Raymond Chandler |
| 93 | The Siskiyou Two-Step | Richard Hoyt |
| 94 | The Thin Woman | Dorothy Cannell |
| 95 | The Wrong Case | James Crumley |
| 96 | The Zarahemla Vision | Gary Stewart |
| 97 | They Do It With Mirrors | Agatha Christie |
| 98 | To the Hilt | Dick Francis |
| 99 | Uncivil Seasons | Michael Malone |
| 100 | Witness for the Prosecution: Mysteries | Agatha Christie |
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