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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 795 times as murder)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,786,642 ratings — published 2019
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 398 times as murder)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,625,271 ratings — published 1939
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 390 times as murder)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,297,170 ratings — published 2019
One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
by (shelved 368 times as murder)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,066,660 ratings — published 2017
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 348 times as murder)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,465,188 ratings — published 2002
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 320 times as murder)
avg rating 4.25 — 785,107 ratings — published 2020
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 309 times as murder)
avg rating 3.86 — 786,292 ratings — published 2020
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as murder)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,300,782 ratings — published 2015
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 304 times as murder)
avg rating 4.20 — 736,049 ratings — published 1934
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as murder)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,037,828 ratings — published 1992
As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
by (shelved 271 times as murder)
avg rating 4.19 — 573,399 ratings — published 2021
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 219 times as murder)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,646,981 ratings — published 2018
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 218 times as murder)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,291,094 ratings — published 2020
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as murder)
avg rating 3.94 — 841,959 ratings — published 2009
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as murder)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,459,256 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as murder)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,161 ratings — published 1966
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 201 times as murder)
avg rating 4.26 — 349,141 ratings — published 1926
Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
by (shelved 200 times as murder)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,706 ratings — published 2024
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as murder)
avg rating 3.78 — 484,663 ratings — published 2018
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,374 ratings — published 2003
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 510,299 ratings — published 1920
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as murder)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,229,423 ratings — published 2006
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as murder)
avg rating 4.04 — 556,781 ratings — published 1985
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as murder)
avg rating 3.78 — 440,763 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 172 times as murder)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,456,633 ratings — published 2005
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as murder)
avg rating 3.64 — 355,043 ratings — published 2018
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 168 times as murder)
avg rating 4.01 — 624,533 ratings — published 2023
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 167 times as murder)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,843,907 ratings — published 2018
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 156 times as murder)
avg rating 4.12 — 308,046 ratings — published 1937
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 154 times as murder)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,461,864 ratings — published 2022
Five Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 148 times as murder)
avg rating 4.08 — 277,760 ratings — published 2022
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 148 times as murder)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,951,880 ratings — published 2008
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as murder)
avg rating 4.09 — 415,167 ratings — published 2017
The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
by (shelved 142 times as murder)
avg rating 3.75 — 711,461 ratings — published 2022
One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
by (shelved 142 times as murder)
avg rating 3.90 — 288,109 ratings — published 2020
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 142 times as murder)
avg rating 4.22 — 348,495 ratings — published 2013
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as murder)
avg rating 4.01 — 721,355 ratings — published 2015
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 140 times as murder)
avg rating 4.13 — 619,496 ratings — published 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as murder)
avg rating 4.14 — 448,915 ratings — published 2017
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as murder)
avg rating 3.89 — 627,976 ratings — published 2013
The Erkeley Shadows (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 130 times as murder)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,073 ratings — published 2023
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 130 times as murder)
avg rating 3.88 — 182,281 ratings — published 2018
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 130 times as murder)
avg rating 4.26 — 988,538 ratings — published 2006
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 128 times as murder)
avg rating 4.03 — 201,975 ratings — published 1936
Never Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 125 times as murder)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,495,524 ratings — published 2022
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as murder)
avg rating 3.76 — 229,938 ratings — published 2022
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as murder)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,420 ratings — published 1866
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
by (shelved 119 times as murder)
avg rating 4.35 — 353,308 ratings — published 2021
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 119 times as murder)
avg rating 4.11 — 264,901 ratings — published 2018
Two Can Keep a Secret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as murder)
avg rating 3.91 — 172,875 ratings — published 2019
“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Please," he says. "I'm begging you to stop."
I still.
"I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please," he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong."
"I'm sorry-"
"Don't be sorry, either," he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more.”
― Ignite Me
I still.
"I can't stomach your pain," he says. "I can feel it so strongly and it's making me crazy- please," he says to me. "Don't be sad. Or hurt. Or guilty. You've done nothing wrong."
"I'm sorry-"
"Don't be sorry, either," he says. "God, the only reason I'm not going to kill Kent for this is because I know it would only upset you more.”
― Ignite Me












