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8 Police Procedurals Built Around Difficult Cases
Police procedurals make an investigation a shared undertaking, even when one detective becomes its most visible face.
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Police procedurals make an investigation a shared undertaking, even when one detective becomes its most visible face. These eight books feature teams working through obscure connections, old cases, and threats close to their own profession. The notes identify the particular pressure in each case. Expect different periods and locations rather than one uniform style of policing or level of darkness.
The Nemesis Cell
Deaths among adults conceived through one fertility program send a detective into its history. This procedural uses a medical connection as the central puzzle linking apparently separate victims.
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Chloe - Lost Girl
A missing student and a murdered officer challenge DI Carl Sant's team. A cryptic sequence of numbers offers their route into a case connecting past events with current danger.
Carl Sant Murder Mysteries · Book 1
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Gallows Walk
A fatal bank robbery starts a manhunt in 1950s Britain. Choose this for a historical police investigation led by a former wartime pilot tracing a resourceful gunman.
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Vengeance List
Murders among Darwin's police and legal community leave Russell Foley searching for a link. His personal difficulties add pressure to a case striking close to the justice system.
Foley & Rose Series · Book 1
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A Measure of Trouble
A distillery owner's death brings DCI Alex Warren into a case with plentiful motives. Choose this for Glasgow crime fiction where private turmoil complicates an already tangled investigation.
Alex Warren Murder Mysteries · Book 2
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With Wanton Disregard
An investigator's determination to clear a murder suspect becomes increasingly risky. This Long Beach crime story suits readers interested in attraction and judgment under professional pressure.
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You Choose
A killer forces a police officer to choose between family members. This is a darker procedural option built around an urgent hostage dilemma and the investigators' pursuit.
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The Quasimodo Killings
Threatening letters announce a sequence of London murders after a police commissioner's speech. Vance and Shepherd must interpret the killer's demands while trying to prevent the next death.
Vance and Shepherd Mysteries · Book 1
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