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

Disappearing Earth
Into the Jungle
Westside
The Missing Season
The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Keep This to Yourself
The Clockwork Ghost (York, #2)
Conviction
Missing, Presumed Dead
Bright Burning Stars
The Lovely and the Lost
Living Lies (Harbored Secrets #1)
The Body in the Wake: A Faith Fairchild Mystery
Odd Partners: An Anthology
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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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    “ The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ”
    ― Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

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    “ Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark. ”
    ― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

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