Crime/mystery fiction

• a browse of the fiction shelves looking for a green sticker or Sherlock Holmes hat sticker for mystery /crime stories or on the spine of the book.
• a search of the library catalogue. In "Advanced Search'; select 'subject' by clicking on the down arrow under 'keyword', then type in 'mystery.'
• searching for characters by name e.g. Adam Dalgliesh, Temperance Brennan, Miss Marple, Alex Cross, Eve Dallas, Dalziel and Pascoe, Kay Scarpetta etc
• searching on the 'Literature Resource Centre' and 'Books and Authors' database on the library website to discover more authors or title of interest. Both of these let you search by genre, also themes, time periods, etc. 

Detective/private investigator Aird, Catherine Brett, Simon Brookmyre, Christopher Chandler, Raymond Child, Lee Christie, Agatha Cross, Amanda Crais, Robert Crumley, James Ferrigno, Robert Friedman, Kinky Green, Christine Holt, Hazel                           Johnston, Paul Joseph, Alison Lehane, Dennis Lewis, Roy Moyes, Patricia Muller, Marcia Nadelson, Reggie                 Norman, Geoffrey Paretsky, Sara Pelecanos, George Radley, Sheila Rendell, Ruth Ross, Jonathan Simpson, Dorothy Staincliffe, Cath Womack, Steven
Legal/financial Arnold, Catherine Dias, Dexter Fairstein, Linda A. Gardner, Erle Stanley Grisham, John Margolin, Phillip Martini, Steve Patterson, Richard North Woods, Sara
Police work Adams, Jane Aird, Catherine Armstrong, David Ashford, Jeffrey    Bannister, Jo Barnard, Robert Battison, Brian Beaton, M. C. Bolitho, Janie Burke, James Lee Butler, Gwendoline Cleeves, Ann Curzon, Clare Dexter, Colin Dibdin, Michael Eccles, Marjorie Fraser, Anthea Freeling, Nicolas George, Elizabeth Gosling, Paula   Graham, Caroline                   Granger, Ann Grimes, Martha Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia Hill, Reginald Hillerman, Tony Hunter, Alan Jardine, Quintin Jonathon Kellerman Kernick, Simon King, Laurie R. La Plante, Lynda Leon, Donna McBain, Ed McGown, Jill Maron, Margaret Marsh, Ngaio Masters, Priscilla Melville, James Melville, Jennie Moore, Harker Neel, Janet O’Connell, Carol Pearson, Ridley Penny, Louise Rankin, Ian Rendell, Ruth Robinson, Peter     Ross, Jonathan Scholefield, Alan Simenon, Georges Staynes, Jill Thomson, June Todd, Charles Turnbull, Peter Wainwright, John Wood, Ted Wright, Eric
Historical  Chisholm, P. F. Clynes, Michael Cook, Judith Davis, Lindsey Doherty, Paul Gregory, Susanna Harrison, Ray Jecks, Michael Knight, Alanna Knight, Bernard Lake, Deryn Linscott, Gillian Pearce, Michael Perry, Anne Peters, Ellis Robb, Candace Saylor, Steven Sedley, Kate Todd, Marilyn Tremayne, Peter Wishart, David
Humorous  Babson, Marian Braun, Lilian Jackson Brett, Simon Edwards, Ruth Dudley Hiaasen, Carl Thomas, Paul
General crime writers  Black, Cara Brown, Sandra Clark, Mary Higgins Coben, Harlan Cole, Martina Cornwell, Patricia Deaver, Jeffery Edric, Robert Ferrars, Elizabeth French, Nicci Gerritsen, Tess Grafton, Sue Greeley, Andrew M. Greenwood, Kerry James, Bill James, P. D. King, Jonathon McDermid, Val Mankell, Henning Nadel, Barbara Parker, Robert B. Patterson, James Pennac, Daniel Pickard, Nancy Pilkington, John Quick, Amanda Reichs, Kathy Robb, J. D. Truman, Margaret Vine, Barbara Walters, Minette Westlake, Donald E. Yorke, Margaret