Death of a Red Heroine (Inspector Chen Cao #1)

Qiu Xiaolong

L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

James Ellroy

Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski, #2)

Sara Paretsky

A Is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone #1)

Sue Grafton

The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)

Robert Crais

The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)

Michael Connelly

Razorblade Tears

S.A. Cosby

The Power of the Dog (Power of the Dog, #1)

Don Winslow

Pick-Up

Charles Willeford

The Getaway

Jim Thompson

Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1)

Femi Kayode

Red Queen (Antonia Scott, #1)

Juan Gómez-Jurado

The Gun

Fuminori Nakamura

The Chalk Circle Man (Commissaire Adamsberg #1)

Fred Vargas

A Beautiful Place to Die (Detective Emmanuel Cooper, #1)

Malla Nunn

Bloody January (Harry McCoy, #1)

Alan Parks

Faceless Killers (Kurt Wallander, #1)

Henning Mankell

The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter (The Glasgow Trilogy, 1)

Malcolm Mackay

Thunder Bay (Rebecca Connolly, #1)

Douglas Skelton

No Man's Land (Connor Fraser, #1)

Neil Broadfoot

Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)

Ian Rankin

Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)

Callum McSorley

Devil's Peak (Benny Griessel, #1)

Deon Meyer

The Tenant (Kørner and Werner, #1)

Katrine Engberg

The Ice Princess (Fjällbacka, #1)

Camilla Läckberg

Palm Beach, Finland

Antti Tuomainen

The Man Who Died

Antti Tuomainen

Dark Pines (Tuva Moodyson Mystery, #1)

Will Dean

The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland #1)

Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

The Keeper of Lost Causes

Jussi Adler-Olsen