Novels and series focusing on the work and lives of police officers and detectives.

Bayer, William

Frank Janek, NYPD detective.
Mirror Maze
Pattern Crimes
Wallflower

Caunitz, William

Various NYPD detectives and officers.
Black Sand
Chains of Command
Exceptional Clearance
Pigtown
Suspects

Connelly, Michael (Mystery)

LA Police Department Detective Harry Bosch.
Angel’s Flight
The Black Echo
The Black Ice
Blood Work
The Concrete Blonde
The Last Coyote
Trunk Music

Constantine, K.C. (Mystery)

Mario Balzic, police chief in a small PA town.
Always a Body to Trade
Blood Mud
Brushback
Cranks and Shadows
Family Values
Good Sons
Grievance
… and many others

Cunningham, E.V. (Mystery)

Masao Masuto, Detective of the Beverly Hills PD.
Cynthia
Lydia

Deaver, Jeffrey

Lincoln Rhymes, forensic scientist, and NYPD officer Amelia Sachs.
The Bone Collector
The Coffin Dancer
The Empty Chair
The Lesson of Her Death

Dee, Ed

NY detectives Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory.
14 Peck Slip
Bronx Angel

Forrest, Katherine V. (Mystery)

Lesbian LA Police detective Kate Delafield.
Apparition Alley

Griffin, W.E.B.

Various personnel of the Philadelphia PD.
The Investigators
The Murderers

Himes, Chester (Mystery)

Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, officers in Harlem in the 1950s.
Blind Man With a Pistol

Jance, J.A. (Mystery)

J.P. Beumont, homicide detective in Seattle.
Breach of Duty
Name Withheld

Kaminsky, Stuart (Mystery)

Abe Lieberman, Chicago police detective.
The Big Silence
Lieberman’s Choice
Lieberman’s Day
Lieberman’s Folly
Lieberman’s Law

Porfiry Rostnikov, Moscow police detective.
Blood and Rubles
A Cold Red Sunrise
Fall of a Cosmonaut
A Fine Red Rain
Hard Currency
Red Chameleon

Kellerman, Faye (Mystery)

LAPD detective Peter Decker and his wife Rita Lazarus.
Day of Atonement
False Prophet
Jupiter’s Bones
Justice
Milk and Honey
… and others

King, Laurie (Mystery)

Kate Martinelli, San Francisco homicide detective.
A Grave Talent
Night Work
To Play the Foul
With Child

Lescroart, John T.

Dismas Hardy, ex-cop, ex-lawyer.
The 13^th Juror
A Certain Justice
Hard Evidence
The Mercy Rule

Lindsey, David

Stuart Haydon, Houston Police Department.
An Absence of Light
A Cold Mind
The Color of Night
Heat From Another Sun
In the Lake of the Moon
Mercy
Requiem for a Glass Heart

Mahoney, Dan

New York police detective Brian McKenna.
Detective First Grade
Hyde
Once In, Never Out

Martin, Lee (Mystery)

Deb Ralston of the Fort Worth PD.
Hacker
Hal’s Own Murder Case
The Mensa Murders
Too Sane to Murder

McBain, Ed (Mystery)

The members of the 87^th Precinct in a ficticious city named Isola.
The Big Bad City
Eight Black Horses
Ghosts
Hail to the Chief
Heat
Ice
…and others

Newman, Christopher

Joe Dante, NYPD detective.
Dead End Game

O’Connell, Carol (Mystery)

Kathleen Mallory of the NYPD.
Judas Child
Killing Critics
Mallory’s Oracle
The Man Who Cast Two Shadows
Shell Game
Stone Angel

O’Donnell, Lillian (Mystery)

Norah Mulcahaney, NYPD policewoman.
Casual Affairs
A Good Night to Kill
Ladykiller
Lockout
The Other Side of the Door
… and many others

Paul, Barbara (Mystery)

Marian Larch, NYPD officer.
The Apostrophe Thief
Fare Play
Full Frontal Murder

Pearson, Ridley

Lou Boldt of the Seattle PD and police psychologist Daphne Matthews.
The Angel Maker
Beyond Recognition
The First Victim
Middle of Nowhere
The Pied Piper

Sanders, Lawrence

Edward Delaney, retired NYPD detective.
The First Deadly Sin
The Second Deadly Sin
The Third Deadly Sin
The Fourth Deadly Sin

Sandford, John (Mystery)

Lucas Davenport, Minneapolis police detective.
Certain Prey
Easy Prey
Eyes of Prey
… and many others

Shannon, Dell (Mystery)

LAPD homicide detective Luis Mendoza.
Appearances of Death
Blood Count
Coffin Corner
Cold Trail
Deuces Wild
Exploit of Death
… and many others

Smith, Julie (Mystery)

Skip Langdon, New Orleans police detective.
Crescent City Kill
Jazz Funeral

Wambaugh, Joseph

Police detectives throughout Southern California.
The Black Marble
The Blue Knight
The Choirboys
Finnegan’s Week
… and many others

Wilcox, Collin (Mystery)

Frank Hastings, San Francisco Homicide.
Aftershock
Bernhardt’s Edge
Dead Center
A Death Before Dying
The Disappearance
Doctor, Lawyer…