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The mystery and thriller is powered by one of the most elemental human drives: the need to know what happened. The best crime writing is morally serious, tightly plotted and impossible to put down.

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Rebecca Daphne du Maurier · 1938 Editor's Choice Get it on Amazon →
Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie · 1934 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
And Then There Were None Agatha Christie · 1939 Essential Read See details →
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892 Essential Read See details →
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn · 2012 Essential Read See details →
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson · 2005 Essential Read See details →
The Silence of the Lambs Thomas Harris · 1988 Essential Read See details →
The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler · 1939 Essential Read See details →
The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Housemaid Freida McFadden · 2022 Essential Read See details →
The Name of the Rose Umberto Eco · 1980 Essential Read See details →
Still Life Louise Penny · 2005 Essential Read See details →
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carre · 1963 Essential Read See details →
The Sign of Four Arthur Conan Doyle · 1890 Essential Read See details →
We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker · 2020 Essential Read See details →
Good Girl, Bad Girl Michael Robotham · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Tainted Cup Robert Jackson Bennett · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Down the River unto the Sea Walter Mosley · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Five Decembers James Kestrel · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka · 2022 Essential Read See details →

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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Agatha Christie · 1926 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle · 1902 Recommended Get it on Amazon →
The Talented Mr. Ripley Patricia Highsmith · 1955 Recommended See details →
The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett · 1930 Recommended See details →
In the Woods Tana French · 2007 Recommended See details →
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins · 2015 Recommended See details →
Mystic River Dennis Lehane · 2001 Recommended See details →
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins · 1859 Recommended See details →
Magpie Murders Anthony Horowitz · 2016 Recommended See details →
4:50 from Paddington Agatha Christie · 1957 Recommended See details →
A Murder Is Announced Agatha Christie · 1950 Recommended See details →
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle · 1887 Recommended See details →
A strange disappearance Anna Katharine Green · 1879 Recommended See details →
Angels & Demons Dan Brown · 2000 Recommended See details →
Casino Royale Ian Fleming · 1953 Recommended See details →
Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 Recommended See details →
From Russia, with love Ian Fleming · 1957 Recommended See details →
Hide and seek, or, The mystery of Mary Grice Wilkie Collins · 1854 Recommended See details →
His Last Bow [8 stories] Arthur Conan Doyle · 1917 Recommended See details →
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886 Recommended See details →
Live and let die Ian Fleming · 1954 Recommended See details →
Murder on the Links Agatha Christie · 1923 Recommended See details →
Room 13 Edgar Wallace · 1920 Recommended See details →
Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle · 1963 Recommended See details →
The A.B.C. Murders Agatha Christie · 1936 Recommended See details →
The After House Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1914 Recommended See details →
The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1926 Recommended See details →
The Body in the Library Agatha Christie · 1942 Recommended See details →
The Case of Jennie Brice Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Circular Staircase Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown · 2003 Recommended See details →
The Eye of Osiris R. Austin Freeman · 1911 Recommended See details →
The Four Just Men Edgar Wallace · 1905 Recommended See details →
The Hand of Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer · 1917 Recommended See details →
The Law and the Lady Wilkie Collins · 1875 Recommended See details →
The Lodger Marie Belloc Lowndes · 1913 Recommended See details →
The Man in Lower Ten Mary Roberts Rinehart · 1909 Recommended See details →
The Middle Temple Murder Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1919 Recommended See details →
The Middle of Things Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1922 Recommended See details →
The Murder at the Vicarage Agatha Christie · 1930 Recommended See details →
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allan Poe · 1841 Recommended See details →
The Mysterious Key And What It Opened Louisa May Alcott · 2004 Recommended See details →
The Old Man in the Corner Emma Orczy · 1908 Recommended See details →
The Paradise Mystery Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 Recommended See details →
The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers · 1903 Recommended See details →
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold John le Carré · 1962 Recommended See details →
The Technique of the Mystery Story Carolyn Wells · 1913 Recommended See details →
The Thirty-Nine Steps John Buchan · 1915 Recommended See details →
The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle · 1914 Recommended See details →
The daffodil murder Edgar Wallace · 1921 Recommended See details →
The mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens · 1870 Recommended See details →
Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain · 1897 Recommended See details →
Trent's Last Case E. C. Bentley · 1900 Recommended See details →

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We Begin at the End Chris Whitaker · 2020 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Good Girl, Bad Girl Michael Robotham · 2019 Essential Read See details →
The Tainted Cup Robert Jackson Bennett · 2024 Essential Read See details →
Down the River unto the Sea Walter Mosley · 2018 Essential Read See details →
Five Decembers James Kestrel · 2021 Essential Read See details →
Notes on an Execution Danya Kukafka · 2022 Essential Read See details →

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