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
    Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieChocolate Chip Cookie Murder by Joanne FlukeThe Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha ChristieThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
    Best Cozy Mystery Series
    2,399 books — 2,637 voters
    Throne of Glass by Sarah J. MaasGraceling by Kristin CashorePoison Study by Maria V. SnyderCrown of Midnight by Sarah J. MaasThe Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
    Books With Heroes/Heroines Who Are Assassins
    1,213 books — 4,592 voters

    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenHopeless by Colleen HooverDivergent by Veronica RothFallen Too Far by Abbi Glines
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    8,050 books — 2,636 voters
    Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuireFifty Shades of Grey by E.L. JamesEasy by Tammara WebberThoughtless by S.C. StephensSlammed by Colleen Hoover
    I AM IN LOVE !!!
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    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

    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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