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

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Between Two Strangers
Lying in the Deep
Warrior Girl Unearthed
No One Needs to Know
The New Mother
The Chateau
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Threads That Bind
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This Is the Way the World Ends
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Killing Me
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    Murder on a School Night

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    The Shadow Girls (Natalie Lockhart, #4)
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    Release date: Jul 25, 2023
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    The Silent Patient
    A Flicker in the Dark
    The Maid
    The Summer House
    The Paris Apartment
    The Forgetting
    The Surgeon
    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    The Guest List
    Fortune Teller (Miss Fortune Mysteries, #25)
    The One That Got Away (DI Heather Filson #1)
    Do Not Disturb
    The House at the End of the World
    Don't Let Her Stay
    Throne of Glass by Sarah J. MaasGraceling by Kristin CashorePoison Study by Maria V. SnyderCrown of Midnight by Sarah J. MaasThe Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks
    Books With Heroes/Heroines Who Are Assassins
    1,137 books — 4,683 voters
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    2,154 books — 2,275 voters
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    Una Historia de Ayer by Sergio CoboA Shade of Vampire by Bella ForrestThe Wronged Sons by John MarrsIsle of Winds by James FahyDrowned Tomb by James Fahy
    Best of Little-Known Authors
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    New Series (2013)
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    And Then There Were None
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl on the Train
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    The Silent Patient
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

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