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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 337–384 of 386

2014Mystery & crime

Night Heron

Adam Brookes

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2014Mystery & crime

The Farm

Tom Rob Smith

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2014Mystery & crime

The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith

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2013Mystery & crime

Dream Eyes

Jayne Ann Krentz

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2013Mystery & crime

Nexus

Ramez Naam

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2013Mystery & crime

Red Moon

Benjamin Percy

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2013Mystery & crime

The Circle

Dave Eggers

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2013Mystery & crime

The Infatuations

Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

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