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.

How to Get Away with Murder
Ours Is a Tale of Murder
I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
The Jills
Trust No One
The Fourth Princess
Out of the Loop
The Midnight Taxi
Murder at 30,000 Feet
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
The Fall of Iris Henley
The Found Object Society
They Call Her Regret
The Heir of Whitestone
Dead First
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    Three Bags Full (Sheep Detective Story, #1)
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  • A Fashionably French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
    A Fashionably French Murder (An American In Paris Mystery)
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    An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder (A Bainbridge Island Mystery)
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  • The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
    The Price of Honey
    Rock Paper Scissors
    The Paris Apartment
    Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
    A Flicker in the Dark
    The Lost Apothecary
    Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
    The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
    No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    In Her Defense
    The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #20)
    All Good People Here
    The Maidens
    To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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    And Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
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    And Then There Were None
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
    The Girl on the Train
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Silent Patient
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
    The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games, #1)
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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