Mystery

The mystery genre is a genre of fiction that follows a crime (like a murder or a disappearance) from the moment it is committed to the moment it is solved. Mystery novels are often called “whodunnits” because they turn the reader into a detective trying to figure out the who, what, when, and how of a particular crime. Most mysteries feature a detective or private eye solving a case as the central character.

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The Teller of Small Fortunes
The Lake of Lost Girls
The Mirror (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #2)
Deadly Animals
The Author's Guide to Murder
To Die For (The 6:20 Man, #3)
The Estate
The Last Hour Between Worlds (The Echo Archives, #1)
The Undoing of Violet Claybourne
The Housemaid's Wedding (The Housemaid, #2.5)
Heist Royale (Thieves' Gambit, #2)
Guilt and Ginataan (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #5)
Darkly
You Can't Hurt Me
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    Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
    The Guest List
    The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
    The Paris Apartment
    A Flicker in the Dark
    The Silent Watcher (Vegas Shadows, #1)
    Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3)
    The Mirror (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #2)
    The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)
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    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
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    Best Literary Mysteries
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    Best Historical Mystery
    1,907 books — 4,508 voters

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    Murder on the Orient Express
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl on the Train
    The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Silent Patient
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)

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