• Skip to content
  • Skip to search
  • Skip to website navigation
  • Skip to section navigation
  • Skip to bottom

Christchurch City Libraries' logo

  • My Account
  • Catalogue
  • Contact Us
  • Help
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • flickr
  • Facebook
  • the Source
  • Recreation
  • Reference
  • Heritage
  • Teens
  • Kids
  • Māori
  • Community
  • Business
  • Learning

You are here: Home > Recreation > Literature > Mystery

Recreation

In Literature

Home

  • Best reads
  • Events
  • If you like...
  • Internet Gateway
  • Literary prizes
  • New Titles: fiction
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Read the book, then see the film

OverDrive e-books and audiobooks

Take our survey & win an iPod Nano (conditions apply)

Christchurch City Libraries Blog

Join the conversation on our blog

Email Newsletters

Get on the e-listBe the first to know — subscribe today

the Source: Discover | Connect | Play

  • Books & Authors
  • LitFinder
  • Literature Resource Center
  • Novelist Plus
  • OverDrive e-books & audiobooks
  • Short Story Index

If you like...

Hardboiled Crime

For those who prefer crime novels that walk on the wild side. Off limits to those who like their detective stories refined and respectable.

  • Lawrence Block
  • James Lee Burke
  • Raymond Chandler
  • Jerome Charyn
  • Robert Crais
  • James Crumley
  • James Ellroy
  • Loren D. Estleman
  • Robert Ferrigno
  • Sue Grafton
  • A. W. Gray
  • John Harvey
  • J. F. Healy
  • George V. Higgins
  • Bill James
  • Russell James
  • Elmore Leonard
  • John Lutz
  • Marcia Muller
  • Sara Paretsky
  • Robert B Parker
  • Ian Rankin
  • Derek Raymond
  • Marc Savage
  • Mickey Spillane
  • John Straley
  • Doug J. Swanson
  • Mark Timlin
  • Andrew Vachss
  • Minette Walters
  • Charles Willeford

CCC logo

  • Terms of Use
  • Digital Library
  • About the Library
  • Library Locations