Mystery

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved ...more

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)
Someone Like Me
Little White Lies (Debutantes, #1)
The Shadows We Hide
The Best Bad Things
The Feral Detective
This Splintered Silence
The Whispered Word
The Stranger Diaries
Henry & Eva and the Castle on the Cliff (Henry & Eva, #1)
City of Secrets (Counterfeit Lady, #2)
The Lying Woods
The Coloring Crook (Pen & Ink Mysteries, #2)
A Midwinter's Tail
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    A Curve in the Road
    The Christmas Scorpion (Jack Reacher, #22.5)
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    Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
    What Have You Done
    Hillary's Final Case (DI Hillary Greene, #17)
    The Wish Collector
    The Body Reader (Detective Jude Fontaine Mysteries, #1)
    The River Widow
    The Wronged Sons
    What I've Done (Morgan Dane #4)
    Heads You Win
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    And Then There Were None
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Gone Girl
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    Angels & Demons  (Robert Langdon, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
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    Linwood Barclay

    Author of No Time for Goodbye

    Linwood Barclay is the #1 internationally bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Trust Your Eyes, A Tap on the Window, No Time for Goodbye and that novel's followup, No Safe House.
    This summer, his thriller Broken Promise, the first of three linked novels about his fictional upstate New York town Promise Falls, will be released. Book two will come nine months later, and another nine months after that, the conclusion will be released.
    Over the years, several of Barclay's novels have been optioned for film and television. Most recently, No Time for Goodbye has been optioned for television in France, and in 2012, Trust Your Eyes was the object of a film rights bidding war between Universal and Warner Bros.

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