Best Mystery Books

Lisbeth Salander, recovering from near-fatal wounds, faces a murder trial while Mikael Blomkvist races to expose the secret government faction that has controlled and abused her since childhood.

Avery Kylie Grambs continues navigating the Hawthorne brothers' games and the mystery of why billionaire Tobias Hawthorne left her his entire fortune.

The Thursday Murder Club investigates again when Elizabeth's long-lost ex-husband arrives at Coopers Chase with stolen diamonds and a death threat.

A seemingly airtight case against a beloved teacher accused of murder begins to unravel when impossible evidence suggests someone — or something — else was responsible.

DC homicide detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross is called to investigate when a brilliant, media-obsessed killer kidnaps two children from a prestigious private school — drawing Cross into the most complex and personal case of his career.

On their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne's wife Amy disappears, and the investigation reveals two people who may be nothing like who they claimed to be.

Dublin Murder Squad detective Rob Ryan investigates a child murder in the woods where, as a boy, he survived a mysterious incident that left his two friends vanished and his memory blank.

Lisbeth Salander becomes the prime suspect in a double murder as journalist Mikael Blomkvist desperately works to expose a sex trafficking ring and prove her innocence.

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the decades-old disappearance of a wealthy family's niece, partnering with the brilliant and deeply damaged Lisbeth Salander.

When a stranger leaves his entire fortune to seventeen-year-old Avery Grambs, she must move into his mansion and solve a series of puzzles to uncover why.

A medieval monk and his novice investigate a series of mysterious deaths in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey, where the labyrinthine library may hold the answer — and a secret someone will kill to protect.

A young mother and her boyfriend vanish after a night out, a note is found with a cryptic clue, and the rural English countryside hides more than a missing persons case.

A man awakens with no memory in the body of a different person each morning, forced to relive the same day at a country house party until he can identify the killer of Evelyn Hardcastle — or be trapped forever.

A criminal psychotherapist becomes obsessed with uncovering why a famous painter shot her husband five times in the face and has not spoken a single word since.

Four retirement village residents — including a former spy and a retired psychiatrist — meet weekly to solve cold cases, and find themselves entangled in a very live one.

Grace and Jack Angel appear to have the perfect marriage, but behind their elegant facade lies a nightmare of control, captivity, and carefully maintained appearances.

A woman inherits a Chelsea townhouse on her twenty-fifth birthday and discovers a mystery inside: three dead bodies were found there when she was a baby, and the house holds secrets about the cult that destroyed two families.

A glamorous wedding on a remote Irish island turns deadly, and the assembled guests all have reason to wish the groom harm.

Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon watches from her personal heaven as her family grieves her murder and her killer walks free among them.

Molly Gray, a socially awkward hotel maid who finds order in cleanliness and routine, discovers a dead man in a suite she is cleaning and becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation.

A woman with a hidden past takes a housemaid position with a wealthy family and discovers that the picture-perfect household conceals something deeply sinister.

A group of Oxford friends gather for their annual New Year's holiday in a remote Scottish hunting lodge, and one of them doesn't survive.

A woman arrives in Paris to visit her journalist brother and finds he has mysteriously disappeared, drawing her into the secrets of his glamorous but sinister apartment building.

A novel that appears to be about two women competing for one man reveals itself, in stages, to be about something entirely different from what the reader initially believes.