A Better World
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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
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A Talent for Murder
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
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Baby X: A Thriller
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Bear
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Cahokia Jazz
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Creation Lake
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Cuckoo
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Do What Godmother Says
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Flags on the Bayou
Edgar Award for Best Novel
Glass Houses
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Guide Me Home
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Hard by a Great Forest
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Here One Moment
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Horror Movie
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How to Solve Your Own Murder
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
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Lilith
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Listen for the Lie
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Little Rot
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Madwoman
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Nightwatching
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Pony Confidential
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Rednecks
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State of Paradise
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The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
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The Bog Wife
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The Briar Club
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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 5)
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The Bullet Swallower
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The Cliffs
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The Extinction of Irena Rey
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The Fox Wife
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The God of the Woods
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The Hunter
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The Lost Story
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The Midnight Feast
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The Murder of Mr. Ma
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The Phoenix Crown
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The Return of Ellie Black
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The Seventh Veil of Salome
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The Tainted Cup
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We Solve Murders
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Woo Woo
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