Mystery

The mystery genre is a genre of fiction that follows a crime (like a murder or a disappearance) from the moment it is committed to the moment it is solved. Mystery novels are often called “whodunnits” because they turn the reader into a detective trying to figure out the who, what, when, and how of a particular crime. Most mysteries feature a detective or private eye solving a case as the central character.

High Season
The Witch's Orchard
The Once and Future Me
Doll Parts
If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
The Executioners Three
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
Five Found Dead
A Particularly Nasty Case
The Grand Paloma Resort
A Spell to Wake the Dead
She Didn't Stand a Chance
Just Another Dead Author (Berit Gardner #2)
Lime Juice Money
  • Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
    Christine Falls (Quirke, #1)

    Release date: Aug 19, 2025
    The hero of Christine Falls, Quirke, is a surly pathologist living in 1950s Dublin. One night, after having a few drinks at a party, he returns to the ...more
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  • The Silver Swan by Benjamin Black
    The Silver Swan

    Release date: Aug 19, 2025

    It has been two years since the events of Christine Falls, the bestselling novel that introduced the world to an irascible Dublin pathologist named Qu

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  • Gone in the Night by Joanna Schaffhausen
    Gone in the Night (Detective Annalisa Vega, #5)
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    Release date: Aug 12, 2025
    Detective Annalisa Vega hasn’t forgiven her brother for his role in a murder, and he hasn’t forgiven her for turning him in, so she’s surprised when h ...more
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  • The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
    The Guest List
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    The River Is Waiting
    The Paris Apartment
    Rock Paper Scissors
    A Flicker in the Dark
    The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
    Culpability
    Such Quiet Girls
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    Cold Island (Detective Tommy Kelly #1)
    The Lost Apothecary
    One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
    All Good People Here
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
    Best Literary Mysteries
    2,504 books — 4,482 voters
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAngels & Demons by Dan    Brown
    Thrillers
    4,507 books — 5,471 voters

    A Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboToken Huntress by Kia Carrington-RussellThe Law of Attraction by N.M. SilberLost in Yaba by Walt GleesonHail Strike by Brett Arquette
    Our Favorite Indie Reads
    3,738 books — 3,328 voters
    And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
    Best Detective/Mystery Series
    2,184 books — 2,275 voters

    Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboThe Clearing by Thomas RydderEveryone Burns by John DolanSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseHeavy Duty People by Iain Parke
    Great Indie Novels
    2,102 books — 2,186 voters

    And Then There Were None
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Silent Patient
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

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