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 Twilight Wife
Take the Key and Lock Her Up (Embassy Row, #3)
The Marriage Lie
Expecting to Die (To Die, #7)
Mind Games (Lock & Mori, #2)
Prose and Cons (Magical Bookshop, #2)
Stalked (The Profiler #4)
Dead, Bath, and Beyond (Victoria Square, #4)
Forever, Again
Custom Baked Murder (A Pawsitively Organic Mystery #5)
Cover Me in Darkness
Something Foul at Sweetwater (Missy DuBois, #2)
The Gentleman from Japan (Inspector O, #6)
A Darker Shore (Lady Evelyn Mystery #2)
Legend of Love (Muse Chronicles #2)

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    Big Little Lies
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    Hope's Peak (Harper and Lane, #1)
    When I'm Gone
    We Were Liars
    Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
    The Missing
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    A Quiet Life in the Country (Lady Hardcastle Mysteries #1)
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    The Girl on the Train
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    Angels & Demons  (Robert Langdon, #1)
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    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)
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    Author of The Kind Worth Killing

    Peter Swanson is the author of three novels: The Girl With a Clock For a Heart, an LA Times Book Award finalist; The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; and his most recent, Her Every Fear. His books have been translated into 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.

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    My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
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