Best Mystery Books

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.

The first of Alexander McCall Smith's beloved series. In Botswana, the warm and wise Precious Ramotswe opens the country's first female-run detective agency, solving small mysteries and large human problems with common sense, kindness, and a deep love of her homeland.

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.

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.

On a delayed flight, an ordinary woman walks the aisle and calmly tells each passenger their age and cause of death. When the predictions start coming true, a planeload of strangers must reckon with fate, free will, and fear.

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 disbarred lawyer brings a complaint to Florida's Judicial Conduct Commission: a sitting judge is on the take, protected by the mob, and a Native American casino is at the centre of a corruption scandal with lethal reach.

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.