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.

High Season
The Witch's Orchard
The Once and Future Me
Doll Parts
If You're Seeing This, It's Meant for You
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us
The Executioners Three
The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective
Five Found Dead
A Particularly Nasty Case
The Grand Paloma Resort
A Spell to Wake the Dead
She Didn't Stand a Chance
Just Another Dead Author (Berit Gardner #2)
Lime Juice Money
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    The River Is Waiting
    The Guest List
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    Rock Paper Scissors
    The Paris Apartment
    A Flicker in the Dark
    Culpability
    The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
    Such Quiet Girls
    The Lost Apothecary
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    Cold Island (Detective Tommy Kelly #1)
    Game of Nines
    Dating After the End of the World
    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
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    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le CarréThe Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le CarréThe Bourne Identity by Robert LudlumThe Day of the Jackal by Frederick ForsythThe Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
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    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    BrownA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAngels & Demons by Dan    Brown
    Thrillers
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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. RowlingMockingjay by Suzanne Collins
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    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
    Best Historical Mystery
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    And Then There Were None
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Silent Patient
    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 Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)

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