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Best Mystery Books

Mystery and detective fiction

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  1. Fever Dream

    Douglas Preston

    ★ 4.1 (32k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A Special Agent's decade-old grief for his supposedly deceased wife shatters when he unearths her murder, spiraling him into a treacherous quest to expose her killer and confront the shocking truth of the woman he never truly knew.

  2. Chasing the Dime

    Michael Connelly

    ★ 4.0 (32k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A tech mogul, adrift after a breakup, stumbles into a dangerous digital underworld of escorts and murder when he answers a phone meant for a woman named Lilly, forcing him to trade his pursuit of millions for a fight for his life.

  3. Whiteout

    Ken Follett

    ★ 3.6 (32k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Amidst a Christmas Eve blizzard, a security director races against time to recover twelve stolen samples of a deadly virus from a converging group of desperate individuals, each with their own hidden agenda, before the whiteout becomes a bloodbath.

  4. The 39 Steps

    John Buchan

    ★ 3.6 (32k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Framed for murder and pursued across the Scottish moors by a ruthless conspiracy, Richard Hannay must decipher the enigmatic 'thirty-nine steps' to unmask an assassination plot threatening to plunge Europe into war.

  5. Lord Edgware Dies

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.9 (32k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a woman claims to have killed her husband, only for him to turn up dead with her having an ironclad alibi, Hercule Poirot must untangle a web of lies where nothing is as it seems.

  6. Curtain

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 4.1 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A dying Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings reunite at Styles to catch a murderer, 'X,' before they kill again, in a final case that costs the detective his life.

  7. Promises in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.4 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a fellow cop and friend of her chief medical examiner is brutally murdered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas must navigate a web of secrets stretching from Atlanta to New York, only to find the killer's taunting threats connect directly to her own dark past, promising a deadly confrontation.

  8. Cradle and All

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    As immaculate conceptions herald a global apocalypse, a former nun turned PI must unravel a divine conspiracy to save two virgin mothers and humanity's future from an unholy war between light and darkness.

  9. Life Expectancy

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by his dying grandfather's chilling prophecy of five dark days, Jimmy Tock must confront an escalating series of nightmarish events, each pushing him closer to a destiny as terrifying as it is wondrous.

  10. Silent Scream

    Angela Marsons

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    D.I. Kim Stone unearths a decades-old pact of silence and murder, forcing her to confront the chilling echoes of her own past to stop a killer whose gruesome spree began with a child's grave.

  11. Lunar Park

    Bret Easton Ellis

    ★ 3.6 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A famous author, Bret Ellis, is haunted by his past and the specter of his own fictional creations. He descends into a terrifying reality where his new family and his sanity are threatened by murders that mirror his darkest novels.

  12. Midnight Crossroad

    Charlaine Harris

    ★ 3.7 (31k) average on GoodreadsFantasy
  13. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

    Olga Tokarczuk

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a secluded Polish village, an eccentric astrologer and animal lover embarks on a personal crusade to uncover a series of bizarre murders, convinced the perpetrators are not human and that only she can decipher the celestial clues.

  14. Midnight Bayou

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An impulsive lawyer buys a decaying New Orleans mansion, uncovering a century-old tragedy and a passionate romance as he battles ghostly visions and unearths the house's dark secrets with a woman tied to its past.

  15. A Place Called Here

    Cecelia Ahern

    ★ 3.7 (31k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A woman who finds lost things disappears into 'Here,' a place for all that's missing, making her face what loss and belonging really mean.

  16. The Crossing Places

    Elly Griffiths

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A solitary forensic archaeologist, who likes ancient bones and two cats, is drawn into a modern mystery when child remains on a desolate beach link to a decade-old disappearance, a taunting killer, and her Iron Age home.

  17. Broken Angels

    Richard K. Morgan

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A jaded mercenary hunts an alien starship gate on a war-torn planet, navigating radioactive ruins and deadly nanotechnology in a future where consciousness shifts bodies, proving loyalty only to himself.

  18. The Vanishing Stair

    Maureen Johnson

    ★ 4.2 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Pulled from the enigmatic Ellingham Academy, true-crime sleuth Stevie Bell is forced to choose between unraveling a decades-old mystery that has already claimed one classmate and protecting a fragile, forbidden romance with the son of a powerful, manipulative politician.

  19. The Judas Strain

    James Rollins

    ★ 4.1 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A deadly plague linked to an ancient threat sweeps the globe. A SIGMA Force commander races against time with an unlikely ally, following Marco Polo's trail to a cure hidden in humanity's genetic code, all while battling a madman and potential betrayal.

  20. The Swan Thieves

    Elizabeth Kostova

    ★ 3.5 (31k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A psychiatrist's ordered life shatters when a renowned painter's violent obsession with a 19th-century French Impressionist mystery pulls him into a labyrinth of lost loves, artistic genius, and historical tragedy spanning generations and continents.

  21. The Big Over Easy

    Jasper Fforde

    ★ 3.9 (31k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a rainy Reading where nursery rhyme characters are real and crime is absurd, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt solves Humpty Dumpty's murder amidst a conspiracy of money laundering, beanstalk problems, and the arrival of the JellyMan.

  22. The Thousandth Floor

    Katharine McGee

    ★ 3.7 (31k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future New York, a thousand-story skyscraper holds a world of luxury, secrets, and engineered perfection. Five teenagers navigate forbidden love, betrayals, and the climb for status, knowing one wrong step could send them falling from their gilded cage.

  23. Moon Over Manifest

    Clare Vanderpool

    ★ 4.0 (31k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    In a town full of forgotten stories, a young girl finds a cigar box of secrets that reveals her father's mysterious past and the hidden history of Manifest, Kansas.

  24. The Quiet Game

    Greg Iles

    ★ 4.2 (31k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A widowed lawyer returns to his Mississippi hometown, only to unearth a decades-old murder, a blackmail scheme against his father, and the tangled, dangerous secrets of his own past, all while battling a corrupt judge and the lingering presence of J. Edgar Hoover's legacy.

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