There’s just something about a good mystery or thriller that’s hard to resist. And when the story features a bookstore or library, all the better! We’ve rounded up the best mysteries and thrillers that feature sleuthing bibliophiles, secret bookshops, mysterious books — and coldhearted ...
who eventually moves to Three Pines with his wife, Reine-Marie Gamache. While intricately constructed, the mysteries are, at their heart, character studies of flawed but sympathetic people. As Penny once noted, “Writing about murder doesn’t interest me.…I’m interested in what characters do...
As Los Angeles burns around them, Elvis Cole and his buddy, Pike roam the city, looking for proof that, seven years ago, the pair didn’t provide tainted evidence that freed a guilty man on a murder charge, leaving him able to kill and kill again. Crais is among the best of the bes...
In The Word Is Murder, a fictional version of author Anthony Horowitz teams up with disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne to solve a case. As Horowitz told Town & Country last year, murder mysteries are meant to be an escape: "Murder mystery is an opportunity to close the shutters, to...
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We’re Ruth Ware fans here at Five Books so it’s not a huge surprise we’re including her latest, The It Girl, on our mysteries of 2022 list. It’s set in a fictional Oxford college and involves the murder of a student. The story is told through the eyes of her roommate and bes...
DEATH ON THE DOWNS a gripping cozy murder mystery full of twists (The Fethering Mysteries Book 2) By SIMON BRETT Publisher: Joffe Books cozy crime thriller, mystery and suspense Publication date: December 16, 2024 Share this book on Twitter | Facebook THE VANILLA KILLER an absolutely gri...
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Plus murder mysteries in South Africa, France and Georgian London Save October 30 2024 ReviewFiction John Banville’s The Drowned — cold, compelling and seamlessly plotted The latest outing for the Booker winner’s Dublin pathologist again leads readers into a morass of deception and betrayal ...
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