Mystery

Looking for mystery? This curated list brings together the standout mystery titles readers keep returning to, so you can skip the noise and find your next read faster.

Seeking Whom He May Devour

by Fred Vargas

2006

"A small mountain community in the French Alps is roused to terror when they awaken each morning to find yet another of their sheep with its throat torn out. One of the villagers thinks it might be a werewolf, and when she's found …

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The House at Riverton

by Kate Morton

2009

Ninety-eight-year-old Grace Bradley is visited by a young director who takes her back to Riverton House where she reveals the secret behind the death of a young poet in the summer of 1924.…

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The Redeemer

by Jo Nesbø

2009

As Christmas approaches, Detective Harry Hole investigates the murder of a Salvation Army singer, who turns out to have been shot by mistake.…

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The Quarry

by Damon Galgut

2004

America hurrah. Drama about "a world of fragmented experience so speeded up past human endurance that a man must either die laughing or go mad".--back cover.…

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The Athenian Murders

by José Carlos Somoza, Sonia Soto

2002

In a dual story set in ancient Greece and modern times, the idealistic Diagoras teams up with Heracles Pontor to solve the murders of young Pluto's Academy students, and the present-day translator of the ancient text pursues what he bel…

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The Black Tower

by P.D. James

2001

Adam Dalgliesh responds to an invitation to visit an old family friend, the chaplain at a private home for the disabled in Dorset. On arrival he discovers that his host has died suddenly.…

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The Dogs of Riga

by Henning Mankell

2001

February, 1991. A life raft washes ashore in Skne carrying two dead men in expensive suits, shot gangland-style. Inspector Kurt Wallander and his team determine that the men were Eastern European criminals. But what appears in Sweden to be …

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Dead Souls

by Ian Rankin

2000

Vigilantes appear in a housing complex in Edinburgh after police reveal a convicted child molester is living among them. Inspector Rebus, already up to his ears with a released serial killer, is put on the case.…

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The ABC Murders

by Agatha Christie

1993

When Alice Ascher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already onto the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one down, 25 to go. This classic mystery is now repackaged in a digest-sized edition for young adults. Reissue.…

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The A.B.C. Murders

by Agatha Christie

1936

A is for Ascher, cudgeled in Andover. B is for Barnard, strangled in Bexhill. C is for Clarke, struck down in Churston. Beside each body is an A.B.C. Railway guide; before each murder Hercule Poirot is notified. In one of Christie's mos…

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The Shape of Water

by Andrea Camilleri

2002

Follows Sicilian detective Inspector Montalbano as he investigates the suspicious death of an engineer who had made a name for himself in a small town.…

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Ten Second Staircase

by Christopher Fowler

2007

It's a crime tailor-made for the Peculiar Crimes Unit: a controversial artist is murdered and displayed as part of her own outrageous installation. No suspects, no motive, no evidence-it's business as usual for the Unit's cantan…

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