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Best Mystery Books

Mystery and detective fiction

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  1. The False Prince

    Jennifer A. Nielsen

    ★ 4.2 (76k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a kingdom nearing civil war, an orphan is forced into a competition to impersonate a lost prince, uncovering deceit where truth may be the most dangerous lie.

  2. Rules of Prey

    John Sandford

    ★ 4.1 (75k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A serial killer who enjoys outsmarting the police with traps meets his intellectual match in Lieutenant Lucas Davenport.

  3. American Assassin

    Vince Flynn

    ★ 4.2 (75k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After the Lockerbie attack kills his girlfriend, Mitch Rapp changes from a college athlete into a deadly black ops agent, enacting revenge across Europe and Beirut.

  4. The Rooster Bar

    John Grisham

    ★ 3.6 (75k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Three law students, burdened by predatory debt from a fraudulent institution, devise a plan to expose the corrupt system and escape financial ruin by quitting school just months before graduation.

  5. A Reliable Wife

    Robert Goolrick

    ★ 3.3 (74k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An isolated, wealthy businessman and a calculating woman with a secret plan marry, each intending to kill the other, only to find their sinister goals complicated by an unexpected love.

  6. Only Time Will Tell

    Jeffrey Archer

    ★ 4.1 (74k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A dockworker's son in 1920s Bristol learns a secret about his parents, moving him from the shipyards to an elite school and forcing a choice between Oxford and WWII, all while questioning who he is.

  7. 61 Hours

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.1 (74k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Stranded in a brutal South Dakota snowstorm, Jack Reacher finds himself in a desperate race against a professional assassin to protect a lone woman whose testimony could expose a town's deadly secrets, all while a ticking clock counts down their final 61 hours.

  8. The Woods

    Harlan Coben

    ★ 4.0 (74k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A prosecutor, haunted by his sister's disappearance at summer camp two decades ago, finds his past violently colliding with his present when a new murder case reopens old wounds and shatters everything he thought he knew about that night in the woods.

  9. Nightmares and Dreamscapes

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.9 (73k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Stephen King's third collection takes readers into a vast cave of imagination, where fingers emerge from drains, novelty teeth become deadly, and Castle Rock's legend grows, promising sleepless nights as he crafts your nightmares and triumphs.

  10. Echo Burning

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.0 (73k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Stranded in West Texas, drifter Jack Reacher helps a woman escape her violent husband, only to uncover a deeper plot of murder and family secrets at a remote ranch where no one is trustworthy.

  11. Diary

    Chuck Palahniuk

    ★ 3.6 (73k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A jaded artist on a tourist-trap island finds her creative spark reignited by a mysterious compulsion to paint, only to discover she's a pawn in a sinister conspiracy tied to her comatose husband's dark secrets and threatening hundreds of lives.

  12. Salem Falls

    Jodi Picoult

    ★ 3.8 (73k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A man accused of misconduct finds peace and love in a new town, only for history to repeat itself when a group of teenage girls makes a new allegation, forcing his lover to confront his shadowed past and the town's hidden truths.

  13. Sizzling Sixteen

    Janet Evanovich

    ★ 4.0 (72k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    When her boss is kidnapped over a massive gambling debt, Trenton bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must wrangle a mobster, a toilet paper bandit, and a pet alligator named Mr. Jingles, all while deciding which of two dangerously attractive men will be her lucky charm.

  14. Flawless

    Sara Shepard

    ★ 3.9 (72k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the exclusive town of Rosewood, four 'perfect' girls discover their darkest secrets are being used against them by a hidden tormentor, who knows everything, even about their supposedly dead friend, Alison.

  15. A Fatal Grace

    Louise Penny

    ★ 4.1 (71k) average on Goodreads

    In the quiet, snow-covered village of Three Pines, a disliked socialite is electrocuted on a frozen lake during a curling tournament, and Chief Inspector Gamache must solve a murder everyone saw but no one understood.

  16. Bad Luck and Trouble

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.2 (71k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Jack Reacher reunites with his elite ex-army team to unravel a deadly conspiracy when their former comrades start turning up dead, leading them from the California desert to the neon glow of Las Vegas and the shadows of international terrorism.

  17. The Chemist

    Stephenie Meyer

    ★ 3.7 (71k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A rogue government chemist, on the run from her shadowy ex-employers, must risk everything on one last, deadly assignment, only to find her heart ensnared by the very man who could compromise her survival.

  18. The Crying of Lot 49

    Thomas Pynchon

    ★ 3.7 (71k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Tasked with executing her ex-lover's will, Oedipa Maas spirals into a hallucinatory quest through 1960s California, uncovering a vast, secret postal conspiracy that may or may not exist.

  19. Forever Odd

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.0 (71k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by a murdered child's plea, short-order cook Odd Thomas uses his ability to see the dead to unmask a monster and save his abducted friend from a terrible fate.

  20. Never Never

    Colleen Hoover

    ★ 4.1 (71k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Two amnesiac teenagers, best friends and lovers, must retrace their erased past to discover why they've forgotten everything, and if their love is worth rediscovering.

  21. The Whisper Man

    Alex North

    ★ 4.1 (71k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A grieving father and his son move to a town haunted by a serial killer known as “The Whisper Man,” only for history to chillingly repeat itself when a new disappearance mirrors the old crimes, and the boy begins to hear whispers at his window.

  22. Lock Every Door

    Riley Sager

    ★ 3.9 (70k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A heartbroken woman uncovers a sinister pattern of disappearances among apartment sitters in a luxurious, secretive Manhattan building, forcing her to confront its dark history before she becomes the next victim.

  23. Disclosure

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.8 (70k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A high-tech executive fights to save his career and fortune when his new female boss accuses him of sexual harassment after he rejects her advances.

  24. Sleeping Giants

    Sylvain Neuvel

    ★ 3.8 (70k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A mysterious, colossal metal hand discovered by a young girl sparks a global race against time to decipher its alien origins and purpose, threatening to either unite or obliterate humanity.

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