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.

One of Us Knows
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)
Missing White Woman
You Know What You Did
Indian Burial Ground
The One That Got Away with Murder
A Letter to the Luminous Deep
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers
Nosy Neighbors
Bless Your Heart (Bless Your Heart, #1)
Granite Harbor
Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)
The Flower Sisters
Kill Her Twice
Earthflown
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    Every Arc Bends Its Radian

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    A Deceptive Composition (Lady Darby Mystery, #12)
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  • The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
    The Guest List
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    The Paris Apartment
    The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
    A Flicker in the Dark
    The 24th Hour (Women’s Murder Club, #24)
    The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
    The Husbands
    Apples Never Fall
    On Her Watch (Bree Taggert, #8)
    The Wrong Daughter
    All Good People Here
    The Lost Apothecary
    When We Lied
    Escaping Reality by Lisa Renee JonesThe 5th Wave by Rick YanceyReal by Katy EvansBranded by Abi KetnerThe Law of Attraction by N.M. Silber
    New Series (2013)
    1,002 books — 2,602 voters
    Una historia de ayer by Sergio CoboThe Clearing by Thomas RydderEveryone Burns by John DolanSend More Idiots by Tony Perez-GieseHeavy Duty People by Iain Parke
    Great Indie Novels
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    And Then There Were None
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl on the Train
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Silent Patient
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)

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