Mystery

The mystery genre is a genre of fiction that follows a crime (like a murder or a disappearance) from the moment it is committed to the moment it is solved. Mystery novels are often called “whodunnits” because they turn the reader into a detective trying to figure out the who, what, when, and how of a particular crime. Most mysteries feature a detective or private eye solving a case as the central character.

How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)
The Last Murder at the End of the World
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
The Mystery Writer
Floating Hotel
Off the Air
A Grave Robbery (Veronica Speedwell, #9)
The Extinction of Irena Rey
The Summer She Went Missing
The Other Lola
The Love Remedy (The Damsels of Discovery, #1)
Rainbow Black
To Slip the Bonds of Earth (Katharine Wright, #1)
Sleeping Giants
One Last Breath
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