These are the crime books that I have read and reviewed. I tend to love books which have a good, strong forensic basis.

Non-fiction

• The Royal Art of Poison by Eleanor Herman
• The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper by Maxim Jakubowski & Nathan Braund
• Pack of Thieves? 52 Port Arthur Lives by Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Susan Hood

Series

• Rockton series by Kelley Armstrong
• Veiled Magic series by Deborah Blake
• The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #10)
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes #3)
• The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith (Cormoran Strike #1)
• The Surgeon by Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles #1)
• The Apprentice by Tess Gerritsen (Rizzoli & Isles #2)
• Death in Daylesford by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher #21)
• Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris (Harper Connelly #1)
• Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency #1)
• Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #1)
• CHERUB Series by Robert Muchamore
• Temperance Brennan series by Kathy Reichs

Short story collections

• The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski

Standalones – Novels

• Hard Cheese by Ulf Durling
• Bloody Valentine by James Patterson

Standaloness – Novellas

• Hot August Moon by Katherine Sutcliffe

Standalones – Short stories

• Hollywood Lanes by Megan Abbott
• To Ease the Rage by C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp
• The Face of the Killer by Violet Addison & David N. Smith
• His Last Victim by K.G. Anderson
• The Ballad of Kate Eddowes by David Bishop
• Catch Me When You Can…. by M. Christian
• In the Wake of the Autumn Storm by Adrian Cole
• Slider by Reed Farrel Coleman
• It’s All in the Genes by Cara Cooper
• My Name is Jack… by Andrew Darlington
• Undying Love by Hilary Davidson
• Ripper Familias by Terry Davis & Patrick Jones
• Oh Have You Seen the Devil? by Stephen Dedman
• Nice Guy Type by Sean Doolittle
• Kross Kill by J.M. Edwards
• Blue Serge by Martin Edwards
• Signed Confession by Martin Feekins
• The Murmurations of Vienna Von Drome by Jeffrey Ford
• The Simple Procedure by Paul A. Freeman
• The Roebuck Cabal by Martin Gately
• Loose Lips by Andrew Grant
• Kosher by Michael Gregorio
• Only Joseph by Sophie Hannah
• The Great Plains by Chris F. Holm
• Boiling Point by Alex Howard
• The Guided Tour by Rhys Hughes
• Pigeon from Hell by Stephen Graham Jones
• Knowledge of Medicine by Erin N. Kennemer
• The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4) by Caitlin R. Kiernan
• A Small Band of Dedicated Men by Andrew Lane
• The Monster’s Leather Apron by Adrian Ludens
• Bluebeard’s Wife by Catherine Lundoff
• Dear Boss by Nic Martin
• A Child of the Darkness by Brett McBean
• The Keys to the Door by William Meikle
• The Ripper Legacy by John Moralee
• A Head for Murder by Keith Moray
• Flowers of the Chapel by Sarah Morrison
• Bertie by Barbara Nadel
• The Curious Case of the Moondawn Daffodil Murder by Garth Nix
• Martha by Columbkill Noonan
• Blyth’s Secret by Mike O’Driscoll
• Serenity by Brad Parks
• Madame X by Nicky Peacock
• Chatter by Gary Phillips
• Short Term by Daniel Pyle
• Autumn of Terror by C.L. Raven
• A Mote of Black Memory by Josh Reynolds
• Chemotherapy by Kat Richardson
• Jack’s Back by Vanessa de Sade
• Trespass by Sally Spedding
• A Lodging for the Night by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Pavilion on the Links by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Rajah’s Diamond by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Suicide Club by Robert Louis Stevenson
• PR Problems by Eric James Stone
• They All Love Jack by Nick Sweet
• Monkeys by Steve Rasnic Tem
• A Murder of Vampires by Bev Vincent
• Seven Drops of Blood by Robert Weinberg
• The Ripper is You by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro