Mystery genre books (697)


71.

Becoming Bindy Mackenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty EN

0 Ratings
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
Bindy Mackenzie is the smartest and kindest girl at Ashbury High. She likes to share her knowledge of common teen anxieties and offers lunchtime advisory sessions in the locker room. But when Bindy discovers that, despite all her hard work, nobody likes her, benevolent Bindy is banished - ruthless Bindy is about to be unleashed.

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Beloved by Toni Morrison EN

Rating: 4 (33 votes)
Description:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past. One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Meanwhile Sethe’s house has long been troubled by the angry, destructive ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engrave... continue

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Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
A novel from the author of Giving Up the Ghost and A Place of Greater Safety.

74.

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty EN

Rating: 4 (34 votes)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
DON’T MISS SEASON 2 OF THE GOLDEN GLOBE AND EMMY AWARD-WINNING HBO® SERIES STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON, NICOLE KIDMAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, LAURA DERN, ZOË KRAVITZ, AND MERYL STREEP From the author of Nine Perfect Strangers, Apples Never Fall, and The Husband’s Secret comes the #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. A murder...A tragic accident...Or just parents behaving badly? What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny, biting, and passionate; she remembers everything and forgive... continue

75.

Birnam Wood : A Novel by Eleanor Catton EN

Rating: 4 (6 votes)
Description:
A gripping psychological thriller from Eleanor Catton, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama, and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions, actions, and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival. Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever n... continue

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Blessed Are the Dead : An Emmanuel Cooper Mystery by Malla Nunn EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Eswatini flag Eswatini
Description:
Detective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in this rich and complex novel by Malla Nunn, author of Let the Dead Lie and A Beautiful Place to Die. Detective Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper returns in this powerful, atmospheric novel about two communities forced to confront each other after a murder that exposes their secret ties and forbidden desires in apartheid South Africa, by award-winning author Malla Nunn. The body of a beautiful seventeen-year-old Zulu girl, Amahle, is found covered in wildflowers on a hillside in the Drakensberg Mountains, halfway between her father’s... continue

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Blind Goddess by Anne Holt EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
Small-time drug dealer is found battered to death on the outskirts of Oslo. A young Dutchman, walking aimlessly in Oslo, covered in blood, is taken into custody but refuses to talk.

78.

Blind Sight by Tanya R. Taylor EN

Rating: 2 (3 votes)
Description:
Lucille Pfiffer sees, but not with her eyes. She lives with her beloved dog Vanilla ("Nilla" for short) in a cozy neighborhood that is quite "active" due to what occurred in the distant past. Though totally blind, she plays an integral role in helping to solve pressing and puzzling mysteries, one right after the other, which, without her, might remain unsolved. The question is: How can she do any of that with such a handicap?

79.

Blood on Snow by Jo Nesbø EN

Rating: 3 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
"Two women--a police detective and a psychotherapist--are faced with the question: how much suffering can one human being inflict upon another before he ceases to be human and becomes a monster?" --

80.

Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
When Bill and Nora Ashby died Aunt Bee stayed on to bring up their five children. Soon afterwards one of the children, Patrick, disappears and leaves a suicide note at the top of a cliff. Years later a man turns up called Brat Farrar.