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

Every Last Fear
Firekeeper's Daughter
Lost in the Never Woods
Her Dark Lies
The Vines
She's Too Pretty to Burn
The Last House on Needless Street
The Ladies of the Secret Circus
The Lamplighters
The Consequences of Fear (Maisie Dobbs #16)
The Conductors
An Unexpected Peril (Veronica Speedwell, #6)
The Poet (Samantha Jazz, #1)
Our Last Echoes
The Castle School (for Troubled Girls)
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    The Rumour Club
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    Release date: Oct 26, 2020
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  • Whole Latte Murder by Lena Gregory
    Whole Latte Murder (All-Day Breakfast Cafe Mystery Book 5)
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    "Lena Gregory never misses a beat." —Socrates Book Review
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  • The Devil's Pawn by Oliver Pötzsch
    The Devil's Pawn (Faust, #2)
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    Release date: Apr 13, 2021
    A showman’s fate is in the hands of the devil in an enthralling novel inspired by the Faust legend from the bestselling author of the Hangman’s Daught ...more
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    The Lost Apothecary
    The Guest List
    Where the Crawdads Sing
    The Silent Patient
    The Other Emily
    The Sanatorium
    The Watcher Girl
    One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
    Dark Sky (Joe Pickett, #21)
    The Family Upstairs
    The Survivors
    Too Good to Be True
    Breach of Peace (The Lawful Times, #0.5)
    The Searcher
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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)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot #1)
    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
    A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
    The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)

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