Best Mystery Books

Twelve-year-old Harriet Cleve Dufresnes sets out to solve the murder of her brother Robin, who was hanged from a tree in the family's backyard when she was a baby. Tartt's second novel is a Mississippi Gothic that explores childhood, violence, and the limits of the stories we tell ourselves.

Sophie Honeywell inherits a house on Scribbly Gum Island from her great-aunt Connie — an island famous for the unsolved Munro Baby Mystery of 1932 — and finds herself drawn into a community of women keeping secrets that have lasted for generations.

The long-awaited sequel to Shantaram, returning to Lin and the Bombay underworld for another epic of crime, philosophy, love, and the city that never lets its inhabitants go.