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Best Mystery Books

Mystery and detective fiction

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  1. Gideon

    Jacquelyn Frank

    ★ 3.8 (949) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    A reclusive ancient demon healer must confront his past passion for the Demon King's sister and fight a rising tide of human necromancers to save her and their hidden world.

  2. The Adventure Of The Three Students

    Arthur Conan Doyle

    ★ 3.6 (931) average on Goodreads

    When a Greek exam paper is stolen and partially copied just before the test, Sherlock Holmes must deduce which of three brilliant students, each with a motive and opportunity, committed the academic theft before their futures are irrevocably ruined.

  3. Never Trust a Dead Man

    Vivian Vande Velde

    ★ 3.7 (928) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Accused of murder and sealed in a burial cave with his rival's corpse, Selwyn must grudgingly team up with the resurrected dead man and a witch to unmask the true killer before he starves or succumbs to something far more sinister.

  4. Exile

    Shannon Messenger

    ★ 4.1 (926) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Sophie, an elven telepath, must unlock fragmented memories and navigate the treacherous secrets of the Black Swan to protect her friends and the first female alicorn from a looming, unseen enemy.

  5. That Affair Next Door

    Anna Katharine Green

    ★ 3.7 (923) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    In an 1897 mystery, a detective uncovers human motives and clues to reveal the truth behind a crime in the house next door.

  6. Dead Reckoning

    Charlaine Harris

    ★ 4.1 (915) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When Merlotte's burns down, telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse is caught between an anti-shifter arson investigation and a vampire power struggle as her lover Eric plots regicide.

  7. The Rose of Tibet

    Lionel Davidson

    ★ 3.6 (909) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A British film director's quest for his missing brother in the treacherous, isolated kingdom of Tibet unravels a perilous web of ancient prophecies, forbidden love, and a race against time to uncover a sacred treasure before a ruthless warlord.

  8. Dead of Night

    Jonathan Maberry

    ★ 4.3 (884) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A prison doctor's experiment to prolong a serial killer's consciousness after death unleashes a ravenous, contagious undead plague upon the world.

  9. Music of the Ghosts

    Vaddey Ratner

    ★ 3.8 (883) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A young Cambodian American woman returns to her homeland, guided by a mysterious letter, to find out what happened to her father in a Khmer Rouge prison and face a nation trying to heal.

  10. Sammy Keyes and the Night of Skulls

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    ★ 4.2 (879) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Sammy Keyes's Halloween night takes a dark turn when a strange discovery in her trick-or-treat bag leads her to uncover the secrets of suspicious undertakers, pulling her into a mystery involving grave digging and a missing body.

  11. Sport

    Louise Fitzhugh

    ★ 3.7 (877) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    An eleven-year-old financial whiz kid's ordered life of managing his eccentric father's budget unravels into a high-stakes kidnapping at the Plaza Hotel when an inheritance turns him into a multimillionaire pawn in his mother's greedy scheme.

  12. Single White Female

    John Lutz

    ★ 3.6 (869) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A desperate New Yorker seeking a roommate unwittingly invites a shy, obsessive doppelgänger into her apartment, whose admiration curdles into a terrifying, identity-stealing nightmare with a bloody price.

  13. Denial

    Peter James

    ★ 4.0 (862) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A psychiatrist and an editor confront a terrifying truth when their patient, dismissed as delusional, offers irrefutable proof of God's existence, shattering their understanding of reality.

  14. Snowbound

    Cari Hunter

    ★ 4.0 (846) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Trapped by a blizzard and criminals, a doctor must save a wounded police officer during a hostage situation, leading to an unexpected romance.

  15. The Prophetess

    Barbara Wood

    ★ 3.8 (831) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An archaeologist unearths ancient scrolls in the Sinai as the millennium nears, pulling her into a global race against powerful groups to find a missing seventh parchment before Armageddon.

  16. Burning

    Danielle Rollins

    ★ 3.6 (820) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A teen inmate about to be released finds her world changed by a mysterious ten-year-old, whose arrival brings a terrifying, supernatural threat.

  17. Cracks

    Sheila Kohler

    ★ 3.4 (815) average on GoodreadsHistorical Fiction

    Forty years after a schoolgirl vanishes in the South African veld, her former swimming teammates must face the secrets and desires that caused a tragedy they buried.

  18. King Kong

    Delos W. Lovelace

    ★ 3.5 (809) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A huge ape, taken from his island home, develops a tragic affection for an actress in New York City, becoming both a spectacle and a victim of human exploitation.

  19. Alchemist

    Peter James

    ★ 4.0 (802) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When bizarre deaths plague an English town, a detective races to uncover a modern alchemist's dark secrets before more victims are sacrificed for immortality.

  20. The Iceberg Hermit

    Arthur J. Roth

    ★ 4.0 (795) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    Adrift in the 18th-century Arctic, a shipwrecked teen forges an unbreakable bond with an orphaned polar bear cub, battling the unforgiving ice and his own dwindling hope for survival.

  21. Death Watch

    Ari Berk

    ★ 3.8 (784) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Armed with a spectral clock and a legacy of death, a young boy must brave a crumbling, ghost-haunted town to find his missing mortician father and embrace his own destiny as an Undertaker of the dead.

  22. Operation Redwood

    S. Terrell French

    ★ 4.1 (780) average on GoodreadsChildren's

    After intercepting an email, Julian and his friends must outwit his greedy uncle's company to save ancient California redwoods using clever stunts and unwavering determination.

  23. Goldilocks

    Ed McBain

    ★ 3.7 (773) average on Goodreads

    In the sweltering heat of Florida, attorney Matthew Hope finds himself entangled in the brutal murder of a mother and her two daughters, forced to defend a man who confesses to the heinous crime despite having no discernible motive.

  24. The Miracle

    Irving Wallace

    ★ 3.6 (743) average on GoodreadsThriller

    At Lourdes, a skeptical journalist, a desperate young woman, a reluctant celebrity, and a dying American converge during the Virgin Mary's promised miracle cure, each with their own hopes and secrets, on a collision course with a truth more complex than divine intervention or simple fraud.

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