It is called a detective novel or a "Murder Mystery".
Its not a genre but a radio format that includes r&b slow jams and smooth jazz aka "baby making music"
I would say that this film falls under the category of a crime suspense, as it is not necessarily a horror film per se.
a sub category of a specific genre. Example Mystery is a genre and detective is a meta genre of the mystery genre.
antonym for genre
The genre of The Simpsons is comedy
mystery
Film noir.
True crime has such characters, and so do a lot of mysteries.
Crime, Fantasy
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment is considered a psychological drama.
comedy/crime/mystery
It is Crime fiction
realistic fiction
Genre of novel or short story in which a mystery is solved mainly by the action of a professional or amateur detective. Where the mystery to be solved concerns a crime, the work may be called crime fiction. The traditional formula for the detective story starts with a seemingly irresolvable mystery, typically a murder, features the astute, often unconventional detective, a wrongly accused suspect to whom the circumstantial evidence points, and concludes with a startling or unexpected solution to the mystery, during which the detective explains how he or she solved the mystery. The earliest work of detective fiction as understood today was 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' (1841) by Edgar Allan Poe, and his detective Dupin became the model for those who solved crimes by deduction from a series of clues.
crime fiction
Emily Dickinson writes about crime
it is a tragedy,romance and crime