Best Crime Mystery Books

Every Secret Thing

by Laura Lippman

When two little girls find an abandoned baby, good intentions go awry and three families are ruined. Now, seven years later, another child is missing and rookie homicide detective Nancy Porter must uncover the truth in a...

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary modus operandi. Accepting a commission from a wealthy businessman to travel to Italy...

Into the Woods

by Tana French

The Gold Finch

by Donna Tartt

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

by Peter Høeg

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal...

Live Flesh

by Ruth Rendell

After ten years in prison for shooting -- and permanently crippling -- a young policeman, Victor Jenner is released to a strange new world and told to make a new life for himself. It's hard to fill the days, but at least...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

Gaudy Night

by Dorothy L

Harriet Vane attends her Gaudy (reunion) at Oxford to find a mystery brewing. The first part of the book involves Harriet and the dons (professors) at her college. Lord Peter Wimsey also helps with the investigation by...