Curated category · 2006—2025
Award-winning and editorially recommended mystery & crime across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
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All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, love & romance, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Audition by Katie Kitamura appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Clown Town by Mick Herron appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse, translated by Charlotte Collins appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, tales from around the world, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, staff picks, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Elita by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fair Play by Louise Hegarty appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, seriously great writing, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Heartwood by Amity Gaige appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Julie Chan Is Dead by Liann Zhang appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, family matters, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, the dark side, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Lay Your Armor Down by Michael Farris Smith appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, rather long, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Old Soul by Susan Barker appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, it’s all geek to me, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Saint of the Narrows Street by William Boyle appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Secret Lives of the Dead by Tim Lebbon appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Compound by Aisling Rawle appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Detective Caius Beauchamp investigates a death connected to a wealthy London social circle and a gathering at an elegant riverside home. The inquiry reveals intersecting disappearances, political influence, and the protections afforded by class.
The Inheritance by Trisha Sakhlecha appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Librarians by Sherry Thomas appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Manor of Dreams by Christina Li appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Naming of the Birds by Paraic O'Donnell appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, the dark side, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Night Birds by Christopher Golden appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Note by Alafair Burke appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Payback by Kashana Cauley appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Possession of Alba Díaz by Isabel Cañas appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Princess and the P.I. by Nikki Payne appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Secret Room by Jane Casey appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, tales from around the world, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Stalker by Paula Bomer appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Three Lives of Cate Kay by Kate Fagan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, staff picks, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Tokyo Suite by Giovana Madalosso, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Trouble Up North by Travis Mulhauser appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, fiction, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Vantage Point by Sara Sligar appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Your Steps on the Stairs by Antonio Muñoz Molina, translated by Curtis Bauer appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Better World by Sarah Langan appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, mysteries & thrillers, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
