Best Modern Mystery, Crime fiction

Just like the title says: best modern crime fiction. Agatha Christie's books not allowed--everyone already knows how awesome they are :)

Note: Please DO NOT ADD books from other genres! They will be instantly removed. This is a list for crime/mystery fiction.
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4.29 avg rating — 17,052 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 3,396,519 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 81,168 ratings
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4.15 avg rating — 525,184 ratings
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4.18 avg rating — 165,776 ratings
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4.05 avg rating — 21,272 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 188,898 ratings
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4.50 avg rating — 18,329 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 58,002 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 705,164 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 23,321 ratings
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4.54 avg rating — 17,721 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 49,996 ratings
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4.27 avg rating — 20,724 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 11,651 ratings
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4.36 avg rating — 12,653 ratings
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4.56 avg rating — 2,260 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 2,746 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 7,657 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 218,889 ratings
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21

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4.30 avg rating — 8,272 ratings
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22

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4.08 avg rating — 442,678 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 61,485 ratings
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24

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3.91 avg rating — 38,129 ratings
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25

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4.33 avg rating — 3,221 ratings
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26

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4.01 avg rating — 652,571 ratings
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4.01 avg rating — 1,190,976 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 37,865 ratings
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4.60 avg rating — 4,111 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 27,155 ratings
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4.30 avg rating — 31,535 ratings
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4.39 avg rating — 441,225 ratings
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4.51 avg rating — 6,772 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 45,798 ratings
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35

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4.21 avg rating — 109,273 ratings
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36

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3.42 avg rating — 18,619 ratings
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4.20 avg rating — 89,196 ratings
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4.32 avg rating — 13,269 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 1,240 ratings
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4.59 avg rating — 4,298 ratings
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41

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4.34 avg rating — 32,554 ratings
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42

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4.08 avg rating — 1,297,396 ratings
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43

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3.79 avg rating — 403,922 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 150,114 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 160,220 ratings
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3.77 avg rating — 12,746 ratings
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4.17 avg rating — 25,917 ratings
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4.61 avg rating — 2,471 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 212,988 ratings
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3.92 avg rating — 43,179 ratings
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4.07 avg rating — 214,086 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 9,232 ratings
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4.41 avg rating — 28,076 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 1,019,150 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 10,231 ratings
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3.28 avg rating — 123,512 ratings
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4.04 avg rating — 55,729 ratings
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58

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4.16 avg rating — 392 ratings
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4.13 avg rating — 543,394 ratings
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60

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4.08 avg rating — 32,693 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 42,167 ratings
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63

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3.75 avg rating — 105,716 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 131,982 ratings
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4.48 avg rating — 23,833 ratings
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3.72 avg rating — 49,381 ratings
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4.59 avg rating — 4,328 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 580,709 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 74,767 ratings
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4.12 avg rating — 821,879 ratings
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3.65 avg rating — 75,903 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 177,104 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 5,790 ratings
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4.24 avg rating — 45,660 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 77,066 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 3,381,026 ratings
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4.32 avg rating — 6,722 ratings
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4.23 avg rating — 77,985 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 51,495 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 124,796 ratings
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4.35 avg rating — 27,115 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 41,754 ratings
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3.86 avg rating — 83,240 ratings
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4.21 avg rating — 166,976 ratings
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4.28 avg rating — 5,901 ratings
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3.71 avg rating — 7,201 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 42,052 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 251,846 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 7,024 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 115,537 ratings
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4.23 avg rating — 67,587 ratings
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4.03 avg rating — 15,661 ratings
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3.79 avg rating — 3,633 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 355,705 ratings
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message 1: by Donna (last edited Mar 19, 2013 05:27PM) (new)

Donna Davis Are there more concrete parameters for "modern"? Are we voting on books that came out since 2000? 1990? Is the setting supposed to be present day, or is a crime/mystery novel written recently but set in the past admissible? In Cold Blood was written in the same era as Dame Agatha wrote.


message 2: by Greg (new)

Greg Donna wrote: "Are there more concrete parameters for "modern"? Are we voting on books that came out since 2000? 1990? Is the setting supposed to be present day, or is a crime/mystery novel written recently but s..."
Hi Donna, I have the same question as you. Yes, Christie was writing through the 70s as you note, and I'm not sure how we would delineate "modern" crime from "classic" crime, unless we go with 1975, which is the year Agatha Christie's "Curtain" was published posthumously.


message 3: by Donna (last edited Jul 03, 2018 11:06PM) (new)

Donna Davis What is wrong with people? Removed from the very first page, #98, because it's an Agatha Christie book. Christie fans, read the instructions and if you want to vote for Dame Agatha, go to one of the zillion other mystery lists.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

From #169, Death on the Nile, by Agatha Christie: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The system found and removed 1 duplicate.


message 4: by Vicki (new)

Vicki Am I the only one who feels that #147 Brave New World and #193 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are not really a good fit for this category?


message 5: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis Vicki wrote: "Am I the only one who feels that #147 Brave New World and #193 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man are not really a good fit for this category?"

Certainly. I hadn't looked at this list and it's full of books that need to be yanked. Give me some time and I'll get to it. Meanwhile, the system found and removed 5 duplicates.


message 6: by Donna (last edited Jul 20, 2020 01:16AM) (new)

Donna Davis And here we go. Removed for genre:

The Shining, #49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Farenheit 451 #6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
In Cold Blood #16:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
It, #119:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...
Jaws, #201
#142 Brave New World:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
#187 A Portrait of the Artist etc:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...
The Bell Jar! What gets into people? Trolls much?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
#145 The Stand:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

The system found and eliminated 1 duplicate.

Before you add a title, consider this: if I find any more books have been added that are obviously nonfiction, sci fi, treasured classics that are not mysteries, or horror, I will assign you detention.

I'm by no means done, but I'm done for tonight. If you see a title that needs to come down, please include the item#, or at least the page, where you found it.


message 7: by H (new)

H Donna wrote: "And here we go. Removed for genre:

The Shining, #49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Farenheit 451 #6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
In Cold Blo..."


Hey, I've just added a note in the description to emphasize no one add books from other genres. If you have any specific guidelines I could add, please share. I'll try to go through the list myself later.


message 8: by Donna (new)

Donna Davis H wrote: "Donna wrote: "And here we go. Removed for genre:

The Shining, #49: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
Farenheit 451 #6:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1......"


Sure. But you have to know, there will be some of this silly business no matter what you say in the description. Some people will vote without even reading the description; for quite awhile I have held a gut hunch that listopia is often visited by those that have had too much wine or other mood-altering substances.


message 9: by Donna (last edited Jul 20, 2020 10:38PM) (new)

Donna Davis Picking up where I left off. Removed due to genre:

#94 Sometimes a Great Notion: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
#9 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nesthttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
#92 (I think) Ubik: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

As of this one shining moment, page 1 is clean. I'll be back. There is a lot of ugly in the world about which I can do nothing, but this list? I can fix this list.


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