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Mystery
64 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Authors Like Agatha Christie: 6 Mystery Writers to Read
Authors like Agatha Christie for fans of Poirot and Marple — Arthur Conan Doyle, Josephine Tey, Louise Penny, Richard Osman, and more, with where to start for each.
Authors Like Dan Brown: 7 Thriller Writers to Read Next
Authors like Dan Brown for fans of puzzle-driven conspiracy thrillers — Robert Harris, Umberto Eco, Michael Crichton, Ken Follett, and more, with where to start for each.
Authors Like Gillian Flynn: 7 Thriller Writers to Read
Authors like Gillian Flynn for fans of Gone Girl and Sharp Objects — Tana French, Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and more, with where to start for each.
Authors Like Lisa Jewell: 6 Thriller Writers to Read Next
Authors like Lisa Jewell for fans of twisty domestic and psychological thrillers — Gillian Flynn, Ruth Ware, Liane Moriarty, Paula Hawkins, and more, with where to start.
Authors Like Tana French: 6 Literary Crime Writers
Authors like Tana French for fans of the Dublin Murder Squad — Liz Nugent, Kate Atkinson, Ian Rankin, Gillian Flynn, John Banville, and Ruth Ware, with where to start.
Books Like Dark Places: 11 Dark Psychological Thrillers
Books like Dark Places by Gillian Flynn — 11 dark psychological thrillers with cold cases, buried family secrets, and unreliable narrators, with where to start for each.
Sue Grafton Books in Order: The Complete Kinsey Millhone Guide (2026)
Every Sue Grafton Kinsey Millhone novel in order, from A Is for Alibi to Y Is for Yesterday — with the best starting point, the standout entries, and why the alphabet ends at Y.
Books Like The Silent Patient: 10 Twisty Thrillers
If Michaelides's shocking twist and silent narrator hooked you, these psychological thrillers deliver the same unreliable narration and jaw-dropping reveals.
Where to Start with A.J. Finn: A Reading Guide
Where to start with A.J. Finn — how to approach The Woman in the Window, the Hitchcockian psychological thriller featuring an agoraphobic narrator. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Dashiell Hammett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Dashiell Hammett — how to approach The Maltese Falcon, his essential novel and the founding text of hardboiled crime fiction. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Delia Owens: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Delia Owens — how to approach Where the Crawdads Sing, her essential debut novel set in the North Carolina marshes. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Eleanor Catton: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Eleanor Catton — whether to begin with The Luminaries or Birnam Wood. A complete reading guide to the Booker Prize-winning New Zealand novelist.
Where to Start with Ian Rankin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ian Rankin — whether to begin with Knots and Crosses or Black and Blue. A complete reading guide to the Scottish crime novelist.
Where to Start with Mary Kubica: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Mary Kubica — whether to begin with The Good Girl or Local Woman Missing. A complete reading guide to the psychological thriller author.
Where to Start with Raymond Chandler: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Raymond Chandler — how to approach The Big Sleep, his essential hardboiled crime novel and Philip Marlowe's debut. A complete reading guide.
Arthur Conan Doyle Books in Order: Complete Sherlock Holmes Guide
Arthur Conan Doyle's complete Sherlock Holmes bibliography in order — from A Study in Scarlet to The Case-Book. Reading order, best stories, and where to start.
Best Books with Plot Twists: Novels That Will Shock You
The best books with plot twists — from Gone Girl to The Secret History, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Shutter Island, and Atonement. Novels whose endings redefine everything.
Best Books with Unreliable Narrators: Fiction That Keeps You Guessing
The best books with unreliable narrators — from Gone Girl and Lolita to The Remains of the Day and We Need to Talk About Kevin. Fiction that keeps you guessing.
Best Dark Academia Books: Essential Reading for the Genre
The best dark academia books — from The Secret History and If We Were Villains to The Name of the Rose and The Historian. Essential dark academia reading.
Best Detective Fiction: From Golden Age to Hardboiled to Modern Noir
The best detective fiction — from Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler to Tana French and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The complete guide to crime fiction.
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