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Mystery, Thrillers, & Crime Books
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items The best mystery, thrillers and crime books so far.
This is a fast-paced thriller that will have readers asking whether the end justifies the means if there is no end in sight.
King of Ashes: A Novel
Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history—and imperialism—with gusto.—Time
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
A propulsive nonfiction thriller, Murderland transcends true-crime voyeurism and noir mythology, taking readers on a profound quest into the dark heart of the real American berserk.
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
When dark money and twisted motives bring their worlds crashing together, Viva and Twilly become unlikely allies. Together, they uncover a tangle of corruption and conspiracy led by a plastic-surgery-loving billionaire couple and a clueless congressm...
Fever Beach: A Novel
A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial Intelligence.
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
The most heartwarming action-packed literally explosive space opera I've enjoyed in a long time. Martha Wells is the best writer of loveable snarky gender-subversive killing machines out there!
The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 1: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition
The Things We Cannot Say is such an emotional and powerful read that I found it almost impossible to put down. I was riveted, and will be recommending this book to everyone I know.
The Things We Cannot Say: A WWII Historical Fiction Novel
A book of tantalizing tales that stretch from the eerie to the delightfully absurd. Some sound like they were plucked from David Lynch’s own brain and others are so steeped in reality that one feels like evil doesn’t have to follow one home because i...
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Energetically entertaining…. Lippman manages to combine a light amateur sleuth story with a harder-edged thriller, combining both types of mysteries, which seldom intersect, into a cohesive, solid plot.
Murder Takes a Vacation: A Novel
Henry Wise's striking debut Holy City is a haunting story of crime and the myriad ways that one can be punished. Set deep in the rural expanse of southern Virginia, it's both a thriller and a dark fairy tale, filled with danger and menace, loss and l...
Holy City
The Keeper of Lost Causes is dark, atmospheric, and compelling. Those who loved The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will devour this book.
The Keeper of Lost Causes: The First Department Q Novel
Connelly's compulsively readable, best-selling crime fiction is propelled by justice-seekers committed to their calling, no matter the risks...With an intriguingly low-key but skilled and principled hero, his significant other, a pesky if useful repo...
Nightshade
The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined.
Marble Hall Murders: A Novel
Fans of Broadchurch are going to LOVE Death at the White Hart! With its compelling pair of detectives and tense, creepy atmosphere, once you start reading, I defy you to stop.
Death at the White Hart: A Novel
In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by a shocking murder, pouring fresh fuel on old grievances in this dazzling novel, an instant New York Times bestseller and A WORK OF ART
The River We Remember: A Novel
The “Wild West” gunfighter is such a stock figure in our popular culture that some dismiss it all as a corny myth, more a product of dime novels and B movies than a genuinely important American history
The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild