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

The Searcher
The Devil and the Dark Water
Plain Bad Heroines
They Never Learn
Five Total Strangers
Murder on Cold Street (Lady Sherlock, #5)
Snow (St. John Strafford, #1)
Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
I Hope You're Listening
The Nightworkers
We Were Restless Things
You Were Never Here
Eventide
Premeditated Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mysteries, #1)
The Traveller and Other Stories
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    Kudzu
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    The Silent Patient
    Fortune and Glory (Stephanie Plum, #27)
    Every Last Secret
    When We Believed in Mermaids
    Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)
    The Return
    A Broken Bone (Widow's Island #6)
    Deadly Cry (DI Kim Stone #13)
    Pretty Little Wife
    My Sister, the Serial Killer
    Below the Bones (Widow's Island #5)
    The Family Upstairs
    All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)
    Under a Gilded Moon
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonThe Da Vinci Code by Dan BrownAngels & Demons by Dan BrownThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg LarssonThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson
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    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieAngels & Demons by Dan BrownRebecca by Daphne du MaurierIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. LewisThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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    The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
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    1,695 books — 4,109 voters

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    Cut & Run by Madeleine UrbanZero at the Bone by Jane SevilleHot Head by Damon SuedeSticks & Stones by Abigail RouxFaith & Fidelity by Tere Michaels
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    And Then There Were None
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
    Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
    Gone Girl
    The Girl on the Train
    The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
    Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

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    Albert Einstein
    “ The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. —"Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64 ”
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