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Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Mystery"

Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
Joyland
Dark Places
Six Years
12th of Never (Women's Murder Club, #12)
Before I Go To Sleep
Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)
Crushed (Pretty Little Liars, #13)
The Art Forger
Perfect Scoundrels (Heist Society, #3)
Dead Silence (The Body Finder, #4)
The Firebird
Heist Society (Heist Society, #1)
The Black Box (Harry Bosch, #18)
The Rook (The Checquy Files, #1)
Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)
The Kill Room
Unraveling (Unraveling, #1)
Taken (Taken, #1)
The Bookman's Tale: A Novel of Obsession
Still Missing
The Keeper of Lost Causes (Department Q, #1)
Murder as a Fine Art
Game (Jasper Dent, #2)
Mila 2.0 (MILA 2.0, #1)
Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17)
The One I Left Behind
Persuader (Jack Reacher, #7)
And When She Was Good
The Mystery Woman (Ladies of Lantern Street, #2)
A Spear of Summer Grass
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Gameboard of the Gods (Age of X, #1)
Whiskey Beach
The Shining Girls
The Other Typist
The Program (The Program, #1)
Alex Cross, Run (Alex Cross, #20)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
First Grave on the Right (Charley Davidson, #1)
Doll Bones
Leaving Everything Most Loved (Maisie Dobbs #10)
He's Gone
Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)
Third Grave Dead Ahead (Charley Davidson, #3)
11th Hour (Women's Murder Club, #11)
Stay Close
Red Moon
Two Graves (Pendergast, #12)
Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet (Charley Davidson, #4)
The Rules for Disappearing (The Rules for Disappearing #1)
Guilt (Alex Delaware, #28)
Silken Prey (Lucas Davenport, #23)
Golden
The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
School Spirits
Death Comes to Pemberley
A Delicate Truth
Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)
Ordinary Grace
If You Find Me
Pros and Cons (O'Hare and Fox, #0.5)
Reconstructing Amelia
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
Out of the Easy
Touch & Go
The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)
Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5 )
The Hangman's Daughter (The Hangman's Daughter #1)
The Last Camellia
The Madness Underneath (Shades of London, #2)
Second Grave on the Left (Charley Davidson, #2)
Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)
A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
I Hunt Killers (Jasper Dent, #1)
Altered (Altered, #1)
A Serpent's Tooth (Walt Longmire, #9)
Crown of Midnight (Throne of Glass, #2)
Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)
The Archived (The Archived, #1)
Burned (Pretty Little Liars, #12)
The Madman's Daughter (The Madman's Daughter, #1)
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
Mind Games (Mind Games, #1)
When You Reach Me
Icons (Icons, #1)
Calculated in Death (In Death, #36)
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story
Sister
Unbreakable (Unraveling, #2)
Live by Night
Suspect
Private Berlin (Other Private Offices)
Unbelievable (Pretty Little Liars, #4)
The Expats
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Who Could That Be At This Hour? (All The Wrong Questions, #1)
The Affair (Jack Reacher, #16)
The Body Finder (The Body Finder, #1)

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Arthur Conan Doyle
As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Henry David Thoreau
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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