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
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    Great Indie Novels
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    Best Twists
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    Best Cozy Mystery Series
    2,416 books — 2,642 voters

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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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