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

The Female of the Species
The Vanishing Year
Stalking Jack the Ripper (Stalking Jack the Ripper, #1)
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd (Flavia de Luce, #8)
And the Trees Crept In
Only Daughter
Lady Cop Makes Trouble (Kopp Sisters, #2)
The Women in the Walls
The Secret Keepers
Darktown
A Taste for Monsters
An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire #12)
Closed Casket
Afterward
Precious and Grace (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #17)

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  • Evelyn, After
    Truly Madly Guilty
    Everything We Keep
    The Dispatcher
    Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
    Nutshell
    We Were Liars
    Big Little Lies
    The Traitor's Story
    Woman of God
    Girl on a Train
    When I'm Gone
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    And Then There Were None
    Gone Girl
    Angels & Demons  (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
    One for the Money (Stephanie Plum, #1)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    Dark Places
    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency  (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)

    James Patterson
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    Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize we were alone? I had always known the sky was full of mysteries—but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.
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    The more this guy talked, the more he sounded like a fortune cookie.
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