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Best Mystery Books

Mystery and detective fiction

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  1. Scorpia

    Anthony Horowitz

    ★ 4.2 (52k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by his father's past with the terrorist group Scorpia, teen spy Alex Rider must choose between a legacy of assassination and stopping a catastrophic attack.

  2. Wayward

    Blake Crouch

    ★ 4.1 (52k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the seemingly idyllic town of Wayward Pines, a sheriff uncovers the terrifying truth that the electrified fence isn't meant to keep them in, but to keep something far more sinister out.

  3. The Sins of the Father

    Jeffrey Archer

    ★ 4.1 (52k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A young man, desperate to outrun a scandalous past and forbidden love in wartime Britain, assumes the identity of a dead American sailor, only to find himself entangled in an even more dangerous web of secrets and a murder trial in 1940s New York.

  4. Reamde

    Neal Stephenson

    ★ 4.0 (52k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A reclusive, marijuana-smuggling tech mogul's virtual empire ignites a real-world global chase when a digital MacGuffin accidentally triggers an international incident involving Russian mobsters, Islamic terrorists, and a quest for a mythical treasure.

  5. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

    Katherine Howe

    ★ 3.7 (52k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A Harvard student finds a 300-year-old key and parchment in an abandoned Salem home, linking her ancestry to the witch trials and the secrets of a forgotten physick book.

  6. Slade House

    David Mitchell

    ★ 3.8 (51k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Every nine years, a hidden manor lures lonely souls into its reality-warping embrace, trapping them in a cycle of spiritual consumption by its immortal, parasitic residents.

  7. Point Blank

    Anthony Horowitz

    ★ 4.1 (51k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After two brutal assassinations, 14-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider infiltrates a chillingly perfect prep school for rebellious teens, only to uncover a sinister plot orchestrated by its principal and a cigar-chomping matron, leaving him a treacherous black ski run as his sole escape.

  8. Griffin and Sabine

    Nick Bantock

    ★ 4.0 (51k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A solitary artist's ordered life unravels through intimate, illustrated letters with a mysterious woman who can inexplicably see his paintings, blurring the lines between reality, romance, and the supernatural.

  9. Master of the Game

    Sidney Sheldon

    ★ 4.1 (51k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    From South Africa's diamond fields to global power, Kate Blackwell's ninety years are marked by vengeance, ambition, and a dynasty built on blackmail and murder.

  10. Truly Devious

    Maureen Johnson

    ★ 4.0 (51k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A true-crime obsessed teenager enrolls in a bizarre, riddle-filled boarding school to solve a decades-old kidnapping and murder, only to find herself embroiled in a dangerous new mystery when the killer, Truly Devious, resurfaces.

  11. Divine Justice

    David Baldacci

    ★ 4.2 (50k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Framed and hunted by the highest echelons of power, covert agent John Carr, aka Oliver Stone, must rely on the unwavering loyalty of his eccentric Camel Club friends to expose a conspiracy before his own secrets bury him.

  12. The Big Bad Wolf

    James Patterson

    ★ 4.0 (50k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    FBI agent Alex Cross hunts 'the Wolf,' a ghost-like predator running a human trafficking ring across America, forcing Cross to break rules to save innocent lives.

  13. Hidden Bodies

    Caroline Kepnes

    ★ 3.7 (50k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Joe Goldberg flees his bloody past to Los Angeles, only to find his new life and pursuit of 'true love' threatened by the very bodies he thought he'd left buried.

  14. Sister

    Rosamund Lupton

    ★ 3.8 (50k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When her sister Tess vanishes and the world presumes her dead, Beatrice goes into London's darkest corners, risking everything to find the truth behind a life she barely knew.

  15. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

    Washington Irving

    ★ 3.7 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A lanky schoolmaster with a love for the supernatural finds his own terrifying tale when a pumpkin-headed horseman gives chase through the haunted glens of Sleepy Hollow, leaving only questions and the whispers of a legend.

  16. The Black Circle

    Patrick Carman

    ★ 4.0 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Siblings Amy and Dan race against time and a secret organization in the Russian wilderness to find a Nazi-stolen treasure and the truth about a royal family's murder, all while facing the mystery of their parents' deaths.

  17. Blood Brothers

    Willy Russell

    ★ 4.2 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Separated at birth by poverty and reunited by friendship, two Liverpudlian twin brothers unknowingly head towards a tragic destiny.

  18. One False Note

    Gordon Korman

    ★ 3.9 (50k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a frantic global scavenger hunt for 39 Clues, siblings Amy and Dan must decipher a coded Mozart score in Vienna, all while outsmarting their treacherous relatives who will stop at nothing to claim the ultimate power.

  19. The Templar Legacy

    Steve Berry

    ★ 3.8 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A retired Justice Department operative returns to a global chase to uncover the Knights Templar's true, world-altering secret, hidden beneath centuries of myth and murder.

  20. The Murder on the Links

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.9 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Hercule Poirot uncovers a web of lies, secret identities, and a double murder on a French golf course after a millionaire's urgent plea for help ends in his mysterious death.

  21. Bury Your Dead

    Louise Penny

    ★ 4.3 (49k) average on Goodreads

    In Quebec City during Winter Carnival, Chief Inspector Gamache, still recovering from a past case, must solve a murder at a historical society involving Samuel de Champlain's remains and a 400-year-old secret, while also re-investigating a possible wrongful conviction in Three Pines.

  22. The Hypnotist

    Lars Kepler

    ★ 3.7 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A detective's desperate gamble to hypnotize a traumatized boy, the only survivor of a brutal triple murder, awakens terrifying secrets that shatter the hypnotist's own past.

  23. Evil Under the Sun

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 4.0 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    On a sun-drenched Devon beach, Hercule Poirot's holiday is interrupted by the murder of the notoriously provocative Arlena Stuart, forcing him to unravel a complex web of passion, jealousy, and meticulously planned evil beneath the idyllic surface.

  24. The Retribution of Mara Dyer

    Michelle Hodkin

    ★ 4.1 (49k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by her past and with powers she barely understands, Mara Dyer must face the truth of her existence and the dark forces controlling her before revenge consumes everyone.

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