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

Miracle Creek
I Know Who You Are
The Invited
Little Darlings
The Missing Years
The Strangers (Greystone Secrets, #1)
Stone Mothers
The Department of Sensitive Crimes (Detective Varg, #1)
The Confessions of Frannie Langton
The Lost History of Dreams
Willing to Die (To Die #8)
Who Slays the Wicked (Sebastian St. Cyr, #14)
The Tale Teller
Dreaming Darkly
An Artless Demise (Lady Darby Mystery #7)
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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.
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