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Best Mystery Books

Mystery and detective fiction

2,086 summaries

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  1. The Secret Agent

    Joseph Conrad

    ★ 3.6 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A Russian spy in London plans a disastrous anarchist bombing, exposing the dark ironies and widespread fear hidden beneath Edwardian society.

  2. The Mysterious Howling

    Maryrose Wood

    ★ 3.9 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A determined young governess must civilize three wild, dog-like children at a mysterious estate, all while unraveling the secrets of their past before Lady Constance's holiday ball.

  3. The High Tide Club

    Mary Kay Andrews

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsRomance

    A ninety-nine-year-old heiress tasks a young attorney with unraveling a decades-old murder and reconciling the fractured legacies of her youthful 'High Tide Club' friends on a secluded, secret-filled island.

  4. Never Have I Ever

    Sara Shepard

    ★ 4.0 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A murdered girl's long-lost twin sister steps into her seemingly perfect life to unmask a killer, only to discover a web of dangerous games and vengeful secrets that put her own life at risk.

  5. Red Riding Hood

    Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

    ★ 3.5 (19k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a village hunted by a werewolf, a young woman caught between two lovers realizes she alone can hear the beast's voice, forcing her to confront a dark secret connecting her to the creature before the blood moon destroys everyone she loves.

  6. The Fourth Monkey

    J.D. Barker

    ★ 4.1 (19k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A detective races against time to decipher a dead serial killer's final, elaborate puzzle, navigating the psychopath's chilling diary and his own fractured past to save a kidnapped victim who may still be alive.

  7. The Mill River Recluse

    Darcie Chan

    ★ 3.6 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A reclusive, disfigured widow, hidden for decades in a marble mansion, holds a secret that will unravel the lives of a quaint Vermont town, from its nosy newcomers to a spoon-stealing priest.

  8. Sweetheart

    Chelsea Cain

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by the serial killer who tortured him, Detective Archie Sheridan is drawn back into a deadly game of cat and mouse when she escapes, forcing him to confront his obsession to stop her, even if it means sacrificing himself.

  9. The Mind Readers

    Lori Brighton

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Cameron Winters, gifted with telepathy, joins a secret society of Mind Readers, only to find her unique power makes her a pawn in a looming war, forcing her to choose between love, loyalty, and survival.

  10. Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

    Wendy Mass

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    A careful, candy-collecting almost-thirteen-year-old goes on a city-wide search with his brave best friend to find the missing keys to a mysterious box that promises life's meaning, but he finds the real answers in the journey itself.

  11. The Midnight Palace

    Carlos Ruiz Zafón

    ★ 3.6 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In 1930s Calcutta, orphaned twins Ben and Sheere must unravel a sixteen-year-old mystery and confront a terrifying, shadowy entity that hunts them through the city's dark palaces on the eve of their sixteenth birthday.

  12. The Bourne Objective

    Eric Van Lustbader

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After faking his death to unmask his attacker, Jason Bourne uncovers a plot involving a downed airliner and a secret group, forcing him to confront who wants him dead and who he truly is before a global war starts.

  13. Mississippi Blood

    Greg Iles

    ★ 4.4 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In the conclusion to a Southern epic, a grieving Penn Cage races to untangle his father's murder trial from the Klan-laced secrets of Mississippi's past, risking everything to save his family.

  14. Noble Beginnings

    L.T. Ryan

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A Marine on loan to the CIA in 2002 Iraq, Jack Noble's intervention to protect an Iraqi family from rogue agents pulls him into a deadly conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the U.S. government.

  15. The Labours of Hercules

    Agatha Christie

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Before he can retire, Hercule Poirot takes on twelve final cases, each a mystery mirroring the ancient Greek myths, from tracking a lost poet to unmasking a deadly cult leader.

  16. Mercy

    Lucian Bane

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A sadist's controlled world shatters when the enigmatic Mercy offers help, a proposition he intends to turn into his own twisted game.

  17. The Mystery at Lilac Inn

    Carolyn Keene

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Teenage detective Nancy Drew's summer at Lilac Inn turns perilous as she untangles a web of clues to unmask a cunning jewel thief.

  18. An Inspector Calls

    J.B. Priestley

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on Goodreads

    An inspector investigates a wealthy English family, revealing their shared blame in a young woman's suicide and upending their comfortable lives in one evening.

  19. High Heat

    Lee Child

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    During the 1977 New York City blackout and Son of Sam panic, a young Jack Reacher helps a woman, beginning his vigilante path.

  20. The Perfect Wife

    J.P. Delaney

    ★ 3.7 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A woman with no memory awakens to a tech mogul husband who claims she's a scientific resurrection, forcing her to question if his 'perfect wife' is a love story or a high-tech prison.

  21. The Minority Report

    Philip K. Dick

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future where crimes are stopped before they start, the system's creator is accused by his own invention, forcing him to outwit fate to prove his innocence.

  22. Blue is for Nightmares

    Laurie Faria Stolarz

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by prophetic nightmares and armed with her grandmother's folk magic, Stacey must unmask a deadly stalker targeting her best friend before her visions of white lilies and murder become a horrifying reality at boarding school.

  23. The Witness

    Nora Roberts

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Years after a traumatic night forced her into hiding, a reclusive programmer's defenses are challenged by a police chief who suspects her secrets hide a dangerous past.

  24. Clouds of Witness

    Dorothy L. Sayers

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    When his future brother-in-law is murdered and his own brother is accused, Lord Peter Wimsey must navigate aristocratic secrets and a vanishing letter to prevent a bullet from finding its mark on his own kin.

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