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.

The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
The Lost Story of Eva Fuentes
Hot Wax
Bad Things Happened in This Room
Seven Reasons to Murder Your Dinner Guests
The Killer Question
All This Could Be Yours
Holly (Belladonna, #3.5)
No Rest for the Wicked
House of Hearts
You Are the Detective: The Creeping Hand Murder
The Killing Stones (Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves, #1)
The Librarians
The Vanishing Place
Exiles
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    The Academy
    The Guest List
    The River Is Waiting
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    Rock Paper Scissors
    The Paris Apartment
    A Flicker in the Dark
    Eerie Basin: A Short Story
    The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
    Culpability
    Such Quiet Girls
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    The Maidens
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    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)
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