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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.

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Spider's Web

by Charles Osborne, Agatha Christie

2000

Clarissa's efforts to dispose of the corpse in her drawing room before her husband arrives with an important foreign dignitary are threatened by the arrival of a police officer who has come in response to an anonymous tip about a murder…

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The Rule of Four

by Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason

2005

Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the book may finally reveal its secrets - to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with it, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it - when an ancient diary surfaces. Armed with th…

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All the Missing Girls

by Megan Miranda

2017

"Ten years after leaving Cooley Ridge, Nicolette Farrell returns to care for her ailing father. A decade ago, she, her brother Daniel, her boyfriend Tyler, and Corinne's boyfriend Jackson were suspects when Corinne-- Nic's best…

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A Case of Need

by Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Hudson

1969

A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare-and explode-…

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Miss Silver's Past

by Josef Škvorecký

1995

Karel Leden works in the State publishing house in Prague, where you publish what the Party likes, or risk life and liberty. Then the beautiful, mysterious Lenka Silver arrives. Passions rise--and suddenly there is a murder. There are plent…

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4.50 from Paddington

by Agatha Christie

1987

Elspeth looked out the train window into the train drawing alongside, and was horrified to see a man strangling a woman. The body crumpled, and then the other train drew away. But no one believed Elspeth's story--except her friend Miss …

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Fractured

by Karin Slaughter

2009

Discover second book in the gripping Will Trent series, from the Sunday Times bestselling crime and thriller author. 'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY 'One of the boldest thriller writers working…

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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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The Art Thief

by Noah Charney

2007

Rome: In the small Baroque church of Santa Giuliana, a magnificent Caravaggio altarpiece disappears without a trace in the middle of the night. Paris: In the basement vault of the Malevich Society, curator Genevieve Delacloche is shocked to…

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