Best Mystery Books

A welder stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert and takes the money, setting off a chain of pursuit involving a psychopathic killer and an aging sheriff who can no longer understand the world he patrols.

The Thursday Murder Club investigates a decade-old unsolved murder of a television journalist — while navigating a threat from a dangerous hitman who has targeted the Club itself.

The conclusion of the Inheritance Games trilogy finds Avery Grambs confronting the final deadly game of the Hawthorne brothers as she races to solve the mystery of Tobias Hawthorne's true intentions before time runs out.

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.

Alex Cross races to catch two serial killers simultaneously — one targeting children in his own Washington DC neighbourhood, another assassinating celebrities in an escalating pattern. Patterson's dual-threat plot is the Alex Cross series at its most propulsive.

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.

San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer, recently diagnosed with a blood disease, teams up with a journalist, an assistant DA, and a medical examiner to catch a serial killer targeting newlywed couples. The first Women's Murder Club novel launched a beloved second Patterson series.

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.