Mystery

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved ...more

A Study in Charlotte (Charlotte Holmes, #1)
The Passenger
Wink Poppy Midnight
Jane Steele
Summerlost
No One Knows
All Things Cease to Appear
The Steep & Thorny Way
The Travelers
A Drop of Night
Map of Fates (The Conspiracy of Us, #2)
Journey to Munich (Maisie Dobbs, #12)
The Madwoman Upstairs
The Visitor (Graveyard Queen, #4)
The Cracked Spine (Scottish Bookshop Mystery #1)

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    The Fourteenth Protocol (Special Agent Jana Baker #1)
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  • Fool Me Once
    Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
    The Widow
    The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4)
    Pretty Girls
    The Lake House
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    The Life We Bury
    Tricky Twenty-Two (Stephanie Plum, #22)
    Private Paris (Private, #11)
    Ghost Gifts
    The Steel Kiss (Lincoln Rhyme, #12)
    The Passenger
    Hidden Bodies (You, #2)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
    Best Literary Mysteries
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    A Shade of Vampire by Bella ForrestThe Wronged Sons by John MarrsIsle of Winds by James FahyTell Me You Want Me by Amelia JamesStarshine by G.S. Jennsen
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    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay 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
    1,280 books — 3,250 voters

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
    Best Crime & Mystery Books
    5,279 books — 11,810 voters

    Gone Girl
    Angels & Demons  (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    Dark Places
    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency  (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)

    Dean Koontz
    Dean Koontz What the Night Knows
    His Favorite Ghost Stories: The craftsman of creepy shares his favorite ghost stories in honor of his new thriller, What the Night Knows, about a rampaging killer who reawakens from the dead.
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    Albert Einstein
    The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
    Albert Einstein, The World As I See It

    Cormac McCarthy
    Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of my ...more
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