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 1–17 of 17

2013Mystery & crime

Claire DeWitt And The Bohemian Highway

Sara Gran

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2013Mystery & crime

Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II

Ben H. Winters

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2013Mystery & crime

Doctor Sleep: A Novel

Stephen King

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2013Mystery & crime

Dream Eyes

Jayne Ann Krentz

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2013Mystery & crime

How The Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny

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2013Mystery & crime

Little Elvises: A Junior Bender Mystery

Timothy Hallinan

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2013Mystery & crime

Live by Night

Dennis Lehane

Edgar Award for Best Novel

2013Mystery & crime

Nexus

Ramez Naam

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2013Mystery & crime

Night Film: A Novel

Marisha Pessl

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2013Mystery & crime

Odds Against Tomorrow

Nathaniel Rich

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2013Mystery & crime

Red Moon

Benjamin Percy

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2013Mystery & crime

Submergence: A Novel

J.M. Ledgard

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2013Mystery & crime

The Circle

Dave Eggers

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2013Mystery & crime

The Cuckoo's Calling

Robert Galbraith

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2013Mystery & crime

The Infatuations

Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

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2013Mystery & crime

The Panopticon: A Novel

Jenni Fagan

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2013Mystery & crime

The Shining Girls

Lauren Beukes

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