Curated category · 2006—2025

Best mystery & crime

Award-winning and editorially recommended mystery & crime across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

Selections: 386
Authors: 306
Lists & prizes: 2

Showing 289–336 of 386

2017Mystery & crime

Two Kinds Of Truth

Michael Connelly

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2017Mystery & crime

Universal Harvester: A Novel

John Darnielle

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2017Mystery & crime

White Tears: A Novel

Hari Kunzru

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2016Mystery & crime

A Great Reckoning: A Novel

Louise Penny

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2016Mystery & crime

A Study In Scarlet Women

Sherry Thomas

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2016Mystery & crime

Before The Fall

Noah Hawley

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2016Mystery & crime

By Gaslight: A Novel

Steven Price

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2016Mystery & crime

Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery

Walter Mosley

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2016Mystery & crime

Disappearance At Devil's Rock

Paul Tremblay

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2016Mystery & crime

Girls On Fire: A Novel

Robin Wasserman

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2016Mystery & crime

I Am No One: A Novel

Patrick Flanery

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2016Mystery & crime

I'm Thinking Of Ending Things

Iain Reid

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2016Mystery & crime

Innocents And Others

Dana Spiotta

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2016Mystery & crime

Jane Steele

Lyndsay Faye

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2016Mystery & crime

Let Me Die in His Footsteps

Lori Roy

Edgar Award for Best Novel

2016Mystery & crime

Missing, Presumed: A Novel

Susie Steiner

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2016Mystery & crime

The Ballad Of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

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2016Mystery & crime

The Mirror Thief

Martin Seay

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2016Mystery & crime

The Regional Office Is Under Attack!: A Novel

Manuel Gonzales

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2016Mystery & crime

The Second Life Of Nick Mason

Steve Hamilton

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2016Mystery & crime

The Trespasser: A Novel

Tana French

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2016Mystery & crime

The Widow: A Novel

Fiona Barton

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2016Mystery & crime

This Census-Taker

China Miéville

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2016Mystery & crime

Underground Airlines

Ben H. Winters

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2016Mystery & crime

Where It Hurts

Reed Farrel Coleman

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2016Mystery & crime

You Will Know Me

Megan Abbott

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2015Mystery & crime

All The Old Knives: A Novel

Olen Steinhauer

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2015Mystery & crime

Black Chalk

Christopher J. Yates

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2015Mystery & crime

Descent: A Novel

Tim Johnston

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2015Mystery & crime

Freedom's Child: A Novel

Jax Miller

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2015Mystery & crime

In A Dark, Dark Wood

Ruth Ware

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2015Mystery & crime

Innocence; Or, Murder On Steep Street

Heda Margolius Kovály, translated by Alex Zucker

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2015Mystery & crime

Leaving Berlin: A Novel

Joseph Kanon

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2015Mystery & crime

Mr. Mercedes

Stephen King

Edgar Award for Best Novel

2015Mystery & crime

My Sunshine Away

M.O. Walsh

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2015Mystery & crime

Orient: A Novel

Christopher Bollen

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2015Mystery & crime

Palace Of Treason: A Novel

Jason Matthews

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2015Mystery & crime

Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham

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2015Mystery & crime

Secrets Of State

Matthew Palmer

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2015Mystery & crime

Spy Games

Adam Brookes

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2015Mystery & crime

The Blondes: A Novel

Emily Schultz

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2015Mystery & crime

The Crossing (Bosch)

Michael Connelly

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2015Mystery & crime

The Dead Mountaineer's Inn: One More Last Rite For The Detective Genre

Boris Strugatsky, Arkady Strugatsky, translated by Josh Billings

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2015Mystery & crime

The Ghost Network: A Novel

Catie Disabato

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2015Mystery & crime

The Girl In The Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel

David Lagercrantz

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2015Mystery & crime

The Girl On The Train

Paula Hawkins

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2015Mystery & crime

The Last Taxi Ride: A Ranjit Singh Novel

A.X. Ahmad

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2015Mystery & crime

The Water Knife: A Novel

Paolo Bacigalupi

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