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Best Mystery Books

Mystery and detective fiction

2,086 summaries

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  1. The Hypnotist's Love Story

    Liane Moriarty

    ★ 3.7 (107k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A hypnotherapist falls for a man whose ex-girlfriend is stalking him, only to discover she's already met the mysterious woman in a shocking twist of fate.

  2. I Let You Go

    Clare Mackintosh

    ★ 4.1 (107k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After a tragic hit-and-run, Jenna flees to a remote Welsh cottage, only to discover the past she's running from is more sinister and closer than she imagined.

  3. To the Nines

    Janet Evanovich

    ★ 4.2 (107k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum chases a skip from Trenton to Vegas, evading assassins and uncovering a criminal plot, all while trying to manage her messy life and family.

  4. The Death of Mrs. Westaway

    Ruth Ware

    ★ 3.8 (107k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A cash-strapped tarot reader, mistaken for a long-lost granddaughter, infiltrates a wealthy, grief-stricken family's estate, only to unearth a decades-old secret more dangerous than any card she could have predicted.

  5. The Amityville Horror

    Jay Anson

    ★ 3.9 (107k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a house where a family was murdered, the Lutz family's new beginning turns into a 28-day nightmare of paranormal terror, forcing them to leave their home and face the truth that evil has a new address.

  6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    ★ 4.0 (107k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A respected doctor's chilling transformation into a monstrous alter-ego reveals the Victorian era's darkest worries about human nature, science, and hidden depravity.

  7. Presumed Innocent

    Scott Turow

    ★ 4.1 (107k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After a prosecutor's affair ends in his colleague's murder, he faces trial, fighting to prove his innocence against a relentless system and his own hidden truths.

  8. The Testament

    John Grisham

    ★ 3.9 (106k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A dying billionaire's shocking will, leaving his fortune to an unknown missionary in the Brazilian jungle, thrusts a disgraced lawyer into a perilous quest where greed, danger, and a woman's secret converge.

  9. The Slippery Slope

    Lemony Snicket

    ★ 4.0 (106k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    The Baudelaire orphans brave snow-covered mountains, facing deceitful maps, organized youngsters, and a persistent villain, all while finding a secret message that could change their fate.

  10. Proven Guilty

    Jim Butcher

    ★ 4.4 (104k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Drafted into the White Council, Harry Dresden juggles monstrous fear-feeders and a friend's troubled daughter while navigating the treacherous politics of wizardry and the supernatural chaos brewing in Chicago.

  11. An Anonymous Girl

    Greer Hendricks

    ★ 3.8 (104k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A young woman's attempt to earn easy money in a psychological study spirals into a terrifying experiment where her deepest secrets are weaponized and her reality unravels under the manipulative gaze of a mysterious doctor.

  12. The Turn of the Screw

    Henry James

    ★ 3.4 (104k) average on Goodreads

    A young governess, caring for two angelic orphans in a secluded country estate, battles terrifying apparitions, or perhaps, her own unraveling sanity.

  13. White Night

    Jim Butcher

    ★ 4.4 (103k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a dark conspiracy targeting magic users frames his own brother, Chicago wizard Harry Dresden must navigate the White Council's treacherous politics to clear his name and protect those he loves, even as the body count rises.

  14. The Street Lawyer

    John Grisham

    ★ 3.8 (103k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A D.C. corporate lawyer's life changes after a violent encounter with a homeless veteran, leading him to steal a top-secret file from his firm and dedicate his life to defending the people he once ignored.

  15. Everything We Keep

    Kerry Lonsdale

    ★ 3.9 (103k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A sous chef's perfect life crumbles with her fiancé's disappearance, only to uncover a chilling truth that forces her to question if the man she loved was a stranger all along.

  16. The House at Riverton

    Kate Morton

    ★ 3.9 (103k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    A dying housemaid, haunted by the glittering secrets and tragic demise of the aristocratic Hartford family, finally unveils the truth behind a poet's mysterious death at their grand estate, Riverton, seventy years prior.

  17. The Enemy

    Charlie Higson

    ★ 4.2 (103k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a London ravaged by a zombie virus that spares only those under fourteen, a desperate band of children navigates a city teeming with their former guardians-turned-monsters, all while clinging to the slim hope of a rumored safe haven.

  18. Post Office

    Charles Bukowski

    ★ 4.0 (102k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A hungover poet works twelve years as a mailman, dealing with drudgery, sadistic bosses, and vicious dogs, finding comfort only in women, booze, and the racetrack.

  19. NOS4A2

    Joe Hill

    ★ 4.1 (101k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A woman with a magical bike must confront the immortal monster who preys on children, and who once kidnapped her, when he abducts her own son and takes him to his terrifying, supernatural amusement park.

  20. Bitterblue

    Kristin Cashore

    ★ 4.0 (101k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by her psychopath father's mind-altering legacy, Queen Bitterblue must brave the shadowed streets of her kingdom and confront a forgotten past to heal her people, even as two enigmatic thieves unravel secrets of her heart and her history.

  21. Miss Nelson Is Missing!

    Harry Allard

    ★ 4.3 (101k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    When their sweet teacher Miss Nelson vanishes, the unruly students of Room 207 meet their match in the terrifying substitute Miss Viola Swamp, making them desperately miss the teacher they took for granted.

  22. Horns

    Joe Hill

    ★ 3.9 (101k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After waking with demonic horns and the chilling ability to elicit people's darkest confessions, a wrongly accused man embraces his infernal transformation to uncover the truth behind his girlfriend's brutal murder.

  23. Kane and Abel

    Jeffrey Archer

    ★ 4.3 (100k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Born on the same day on opposite sides of the world, a Boston millionaire's son and a penniless Polish immigrant are locked in a sixty-year saga of ambition, hatred, and the relentless pursuit of fortune that will ultimately intertwine their destinies in triumph and destruction.

  24. Duma Key

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.0 (100k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An amputee artist's new talent on a remote Florida key unleashes a terrifying supernatural force tied to a dying old woman's dark past and his own increasingly vivid, dangerous paintings.

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