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17 Mystery Novels That Explore Enigmatic Puzzles
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items Grab this collection of captivating novels that weave fiction with the allure of unsolved mysteries and enigmatic tales.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo masterfully weaves together a murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into a richly complex and captivatingly atmospheric novel.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Fast-paced and gripping, with a historian's precision, The Alienist vividly portrays the Gilded Age, revealing its stark contrasts: squalid tenements and lavish mansions, corrupt police and colorful gangsters, grand opera houses and seedy gin mills. ...
The Alienist by Caleb Carr
Thus begins the tale of Susie Salmon, as she adapts to her new home in heaven, a place far different from what she anticipated. From there, she observes life on earth moving on without her—her friends spreading rumors about her disappearance, her kil...
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
The ancient and beautiful Manderley, nestled between the rose garden and the sea, is the pride of the county. This was Rebecca's doing—her presence still looms over the estate even a year after her death. How can Maxim de Winter's timid new bride eve...
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The Da Vinci Code introduces a new era of fast-paced, intelligent thrillers, remaining utterly unpredictable until its breathtaking conclusion.
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
As Truman Capote meticulously reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he creates both gripping suspense and profound empathy. In Cold Blood transcends its time, offering poignant ins...
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne finds himself grappling with his wife Amy's sudden disappearance. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him and kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true....
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Erik Larson's "The Devil in the White City" masterfully intertwines the dramatic events of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with the chilling exploits of serial killer H.H. Holmes. Through alternating chapters, Larson vividly portrays architect Daniel H...
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
In "The Silence of the Lambs," a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill is stalking women with a mysterious purpose, leaving their bodies in different states. FBI trainee Clarice Starling is tasked by Jack Crawford, chief of the Behavioral Science secti...
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
We Have Always Lived in the Castle draws readers into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, offering a hauntingly unsettling narrative about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family. The tension escalates when a cousin arrives at their estate. Thi...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
This summary provides a look at The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The story follows young Daniel, who discovers a mysterious novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. He gets caught up in the old mystery of the book's author, Julián Carax,...
The Shadow of the Wind
Guided by their charismatic classics professor, a group of smart, eccentric students at an elite New England college embrace a way of thinking and living far removed from the mundane lives of their peers. However, as they push beyond the limits of co...
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Woman in White begins with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a mysterious woman dressed in white on a moonlit London road. As he takes a position as a drawing master for Laura Fairlie, he becomes entangled in the dark schemes of Sir Perciva...
The Woman in White
It begins with a death that could be a murder, a tragic accident, or just parents behaving badly. The story centers on Madeline, a sharp and passionate woman; Celeste, a stunning beauty hiding a painful secret; and Jane, a young single mother with a ...
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
In June 1933, sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth, but by midnight, a tragic loss forces the family to abandon the house forever. Seventy years later, Detective Sadie Sparr...
The Lake House by Kate Morton
In "The Thirteenth Tale," reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her mysterious missing thirteenth tale, finally decides to reveal her true, tragic past after six decades of creating fictional life histories. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, wh...
The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel by Diane Setterfield
In "Room," five-year-old Jack knows nothing beyond the small space where he and his Ma live, as she has been held captive there for seven years by Old Nick. For Jack, Room is home; for Ma, it is a prison. Through her love and resourcefulness, Ma crea...
Room by Emma Donoghue