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Best Mystery Books

Here's a hand-picked roundup of best mystery books. Every entry below is a mystery title worth your time, chosen for lasting impact and reader ratings.

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The Second Death of Goodluck Tinubu

by Michael Stanley

2009

“The African Columbo….Like the first book to feature Kubu, A Carrion Death, this is a smart, satisfyingly complex mystery. [Grade] A.” —Entertainment Weekly The second book in the Inspector Kubu series—penned by a pair of Crime Writers’ Ass…

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Cause to Save (An Avery Black Mystery—Book 5)

by Blake Pierce

2017

“A dynamic story line that grips from the first chapter and doesn't let go.” --Midwest Book Review, Diane Donovan (regarding Once Gone) From #1 bestselling author Blake Pierce comes a new masterpiece of psychological suspense—the AVERY …

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Pop's Advice

by Chris Thurman Ph.D.

2022

Grandchildren are a wonderful blessing, and they need the best advice possible for their lives to turn out well. As a proud granddad, Dr. Chris Thurman passes along advice he has gleaned from his many years as a person of faith and psycholo…

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Blood Sport

by Dick Francis

1967

Gene Hawkins decides to spend his three weeks vacation from the secret security agency in helping Dave Teller, an old friend of his boss, find the vanished Chrysalis, a stallion Dave and his colleagues had paid over a million dollars for, a…

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More Teens' Favorite Books

by International Reading Association

1996

Making the job of encouraging adolescents to read for pleasure less of a challenge, this book presents an annotated list of 95 books chosen by adolescents themselves as part of an annual program sponsored by the International Reading Associ…

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