Mystery

The mystery genre is a genre of fiction that follows a crime (like a murder or a disappearance) from the moment it is committed to the moment it is solved. Mystery novels are often called “whodunnits” because they turn the reader into a detective trying to figure out the who, what, when, and how of a particular crime. Most mysteries feature a detective or private eye solving a case as the central character.

Freyja
The Dog Park Murders
My Sister Is Going to Kill Me
Brimstone Hollow (Annie Gore, #2)
Murder Bites
The Whitechapel Full Moon Society
Some Kind of Haunted
Portrait of a Witch Undone
Mia
The Responsible Party
The Seekers of Deer Creek
The Silent Appeal (The Appeal, #2)
And the Sea Gave Up the Dead
Saint Delilah
These Walls Remember
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    Until She Dies (Noelle Marshall, #3)
    The Secrets We Hide (North Falls, #2)
    Trust No One
    The Perfect Divorce (Perfect, #2)
    The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder
    Daybreak (Sorrowsong University, #2)
    Hollow Bones
    The Paris Apartment
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    A Flicker in the Dark
    The Spider Silk Scarf: A Short Story
    The Castle in the Glen
    Delusional (Michael Bennett #18)
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    Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
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    And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
    Best Detective/Mystery Series
    2,367 books — 2,969 voters
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    Best Woman-Authored Books
    9,052 books — 6,874 voters

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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    And Then There Were None
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    The Silent Patient
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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    Ransom Riggs
    Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.
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