Best Mystery Books

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 young woman discovers her father's cache of documents — a mysterious old book stamped with a dragon and letters from a professor — and begins uncovering a multigenerational quest to find the actual tomb of Vlad the Impaler, who may still be alive.

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.

Cecilia Fitzpatrick discovers a sealed letter from her husband marked 'To be opened only in the event of my death.' When she opens it while he is still alive, the secret inside unravels her marriage and draws in two other women — each carrying their own grief and betrayal — across a tightly-knit Sydney suburb.

Hannah Hall's husband Owen vanishes the same day a massive fraud investigation erupts at his company, leaving behind only a note reading 'Protect her' — a directive aimed at his teenage daughter Bailey, a stepdaughter who has never warmed to Hannah and who may know more about Owen's secrets than she has let on.

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.

A travel journalist on a luxury cruise witnesses what she believes is a woman being thrown overboard — but there is no record of any missing passenger.

An agoraphobic child psychologist who has not left her Manhattan brownstone in ten months witnesses what she believes is a murder through her window — and no one believes her.

A thriller writer is invited to a bachelorette party in a remote glass house in the English woods, and the weekend turns violent in ways she didn't see coming.

An alcoholic woman who commutes daily past her ex-husband's house becomes entangled in the disappearance of a woman she had been secretly watching from the train.

A Harvard symbologist and a French cryptologist race through Paris and London decoding clues that lead to a secret that could shake the foundations of Christianity.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with no memory of the past few days and must decode a mystery rooted in Dante's Inferno before a bioterrorist threat kills millions.

In a suburban neighborhood, two women have disappeared: doula Shelby Tebow and Kate Lemmon. Eleven years later, Kate's daughter Delilah, who also vanished, appears — but she cannot remember where she has been.

A successful New York woman's carefully constructed life begins to unravel as dark secrets from her teenage years resurface.

Marco and Anne Conti leave their infant daughter Cora home alone while attending a dinner party next door — checking on her every 30 minutes. When they return at midnight, Cora is gone.

Mia Dennett, daughter of a prominent Chicago judge, is kidnapped by Colin Thatcher — a man hired to deliver her to someone else. Instead, Colin takes her to a remote Minnesota cabin, and over weeks in isolation, something neither of them expected begins to develop.

Surgeon Nora Sinclair has buried a terrible secret from her childhood, but when a series of murders begins to mirror that hidden past, she is forced to confront whether she is the hunter or the hunted.

Six people at a backyard barbecue. Something happened. The novel spends its first half not telling you what, building the mundane detail of three couples' intertwined friendships, then reveals the event and its aftermath.

The novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to the world. A locked-room murder in London, a flashback to Mormon Utah, and the birth of the world's only consulting detective make this the essential origin of the greatest figure in detective fiction.

Poirot and Hastings return to Styles Court for the last time. Poirot is elderly and gravely ill, but he has identified a murderer who has never been convicted — and he intends to act. Written during World War II, published posthumously in 1975.

Sixteen years after artist Amyas Crale was poisoned, his daughter asks Poirot to clear her mother's name. Poirot interviews the five witnesses who were present that summer, and each gives a different account of the same events.

On November 15, 1959, Herbert Clutter, his wife, and two of their children were murdered in their farmhouse in Holcomb, Kansas — and Truman Capote's six-year investigation into the crime, the investigators, and the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock produced the work that invented the literary nonfiction genre.