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
I'm Not the Only Murderer in My Retirement Home
The Jills
The Fourth Princess
Out of the Loop
The Midnight Taxi
The Found Object Society
The Iron Garden Sutra (The Cosmic Wheel, #1)
The Fall of Iris Henley
They Call Her Regret
Dead First
Murder Will Out
Away to Me
Worse than a Lie (Beau Lee Cooper #1)
Enola Holmes and the Clanging Coffin (Enola Holmes #10)
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    Rock Paper Scissors
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    As Far as She Knew
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    The Reappearance of Rachel Price
    A Flicker in the Dark
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    Berwick (DCI Ryan Mysteries #24)
    The Lost Apothecary
    The Maidens
    The Bayou Never Tells
    Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
    Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
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    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 Silent Patient
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    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)
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