Cops & Crime

Police Procedurals set in the United States

Thomas Adcock. Sea of Green
(Nick Hockaday, NYPD)

Douglas Allyn. The Cheerio Killings
(Lupe Garcia, Detroit P.D.)

Greg Bean. No Comfort in Victory
(Harry Starbranch, Police Chief, Wyoming)

Linda Berry. Death and the Easter Bunny
(Trudy Roundtree, police officer, Georgia) 

Paul Bishop. Tequila Mockingbird
(Fey Croaker, LAPD) 

Ethan Black. Irresistible 
(Conrad Voort, NYPD)  

Eleanor Taylor Bland. Dead Time
(Marti McAlister, Chicago P.D.) 

Edna Buchanan. Cold Case Squad
(Cold Case Squad, Miami P.D.) 

James Lee Burke. Heaven’s Prisoners
(Dave Robicheaux, police officer, Louisiana) 

Stephen Cannell.  The Tin Collectors
(Shane Scully, LAPD)  

Michael Connelly.  The Black Echo
(Harry Bosch, LAPD)  

K.C. Constantine.  The Rocksburg Railroad Murders
(Mario Balzac, Chief of Police, Rocksburg, PA)

David Cray. Little Girl Blue
(Julia Brennan, NYPD)  

Bill Crider.  Too Late to Die
(Dan Rhodes, Texas sheriff) 

Barbara D’Amato.  Killer.app
(Chicago P.D.-no series character) 

Tony Hillerman.  The Blessing Way
(Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee, Navajo tribal police) 

Hugh Holton. Presumed Dead
(Larry Cole, Chicago P.D.)  

Fay Kellerman.  The Ritual Bath
(Lt. Peter Decker, LAPD & Rina Lazarus)  

David Lindsey. A Cold Mind
(Stuart Hayden, Houston, Texas P.D.)

Mary Logue. Blood Country
(Claire Watkins, policewoman, Wisconsin) 

Dan Mahoney. Detective First Grade
(Brian McKenna, NYPD)  

Archer Mayor.  Open Season
(Joe Gunther, Police Chief, Vermont)  

Ed McBain. Cop Hater
(“87^th Precinct” NYPD)  

Michael McGarrity. Tularosa
(Kevin Kearney, Santa Fe P.D.) 

Lillian O’Donnell.  The Phone Calls
(Norah Mulcahaney, NYPD) 

Robert B. Parker.   Night Passage
(Jesse Stone, Chief of Police, Massachusetts) 

Ridley Pearson,  Undercurrents
(Sgt. Lou Boldt & Policewoman Daphne Matthews, Seattle P.D.) 

John Sandford.  Rules of Prey
(Lt. Lucas Davenport, Minneapolis P.D.) 

Bob Sloan. Bliss
(Lenny Bliss, NYPD)  

Julie Smith.  New Orleans Mourning
(Policewoman Skip Langdon, New Orleans P.D.) 

Jack Trolley. Balboa Firefly
(Tommy Donahoo, San Diego P.D.)  

Joseph Wambaugh.  The Blue Knight, The New Centurions 
(LAPD)  

Anne Wingate.  The Eye of Anna
(Mark Shigata, Police Chief, Texas) 

Stuart Woods.  Orchid Beach
(Holly Barker, Deputy Police Chief, Florida)  

Mark Richard Zubro.  Sorry Now? 
(Paul Turner, Chicago P.D.)