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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by
Stieg Larsson
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 779,049 ratings
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by
Raymond Chandler
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 38,580 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by
Mark Haddon
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 423,960 ratings
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The Maltese Falcon
by
Dashiell Hammett
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 32,595 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by
Agatha Christie
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 66,157 ratings
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 23,111 ratings
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 58,288 ratings
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Table 21
by
T. Rafael Cimino (Goodreads Author)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by
Caleb Carr
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 53,394 ratings
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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
by
Raymond Chandler
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 11,893 ratings
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Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
by
Martin Cruz Smith
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 20,232 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
by
Umberto Eco
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 102,948 ratings
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A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 67,352 ratings
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Motherless Brooklyn
by
Jonathan Lethem
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 16,260 ratings
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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)
by
Raymond Chandler
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 11,300 ratings
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by
Dan Brown
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 990,172 ratings
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Shutter Island
by
Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 54,762 ratings
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| 18 |
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6)
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 12,127 ratings
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The Thin Man
by
Dashiell Hammett
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 11,185 ratings
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| 20 |
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The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 26,677 ratings
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| 21 |
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by
Michael Chabon
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 32,104 ratings
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| 21 |
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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #1)
by
Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 96,327 ratings
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The Lincoln Lawyer (Mickey Haller, #1)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 64,253 ratings
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| 24 |
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Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)
by
Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 9,636 ratings
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Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins #1)
by
Walter Mosley
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 6,748 ratings
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A is for Alibi (Kinsey Millhone, #1)
by
Sue Grafton
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 56,697 ratings
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| 27 |
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The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 37,745 ratings
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| 28 |
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The Historian
by
Elizabeth Kostova
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 120,719 ratings
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And Then There Were None
by
Agatha Christie
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 133,277 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by
Haruki Murakami
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 71,911 ratings
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A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)
by
Dennis Lehane (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 12,638 ratings
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The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,887 ratings
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The Glass Key
by
Dashiell Hammett
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 4,223 ratings
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Red Harvest
by
Dashiell Hammett
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 8,323 ratings
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| 35 |
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
by
Stieg Larsson
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 319,234 ratings
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Shadow Roll (A Sam Russo Mystery, #1).
by
Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 83 ratings
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| 37 |
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The New York Trilogy
by
Paul Auster
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 20,436 ratings
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| 38 |
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Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)
by
Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 85,225 ratings
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| 39 |
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Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, #1)
by
Dorothy L. Sayers
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 12,260 ratings
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| 40 |
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Confidential Communications
by
J.R. Reardon (Goodreads Author)
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 67 ratings
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| 41 |
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Good Dog, Bad Dog (A Sam Russo Mystery, #2).
by
Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 83 ratings
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| 42 |
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Gun, With Occasional Music
by
Jonathan Lethem
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 4,828 ratings
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| 43 |
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The Drowning Pool
by
Ross Macdonald
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
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| 44 |
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Lost Light (Harry Bosch, #9)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 13,252 ratings
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| 45 |
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The Final Solution
by
Michael Chabon
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 8,525 ratings
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| 46 |
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Midnight Sin
by
Michael Tabman (Goodreads Author)
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 55 ratings
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| 47 |
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The Watchman (Joe Pike, #1)
by
Robert Crais
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 9,932 ratings
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The Brass Verdict (Harry Bosch, #14; Mickey Haller, #2)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 17,287 ratings
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The Godwulf Manuscript (Spenser, #1)
by
Robert B. Parker
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 5,134 ratings
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The Girl in the Next Room (A Sam Russo Mystery, #3.)
by
Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 68 ratings
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| 51 |
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The Narrows (Harry Bosch, #10)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 12,631 ratings
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| 52 |
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Six Easy Pieces (Easy Rawlins #8)
by
Walter Mosley
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 772 ratings
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| 53 |
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Booked To Die (Cliff Janeway, #1)
by
John Dunning
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,962 ratings
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The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
by
James Lee Burke
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 5,982 ratings
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When the Sacred Ginmill Closes (Matthew Scudder, #6)
by
Lawrence Block (Goodreads Author)
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,852 ratings
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| 56 |
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BAD INTENT Volume 1
by
Michael Tabman (Goodreads Author)
4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 57 |
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Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar, #1)
by
Harlan Coben
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 12,642 ratings
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| 57 |
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Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, #3)
by
Harlan Coben
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 7,489 ratings
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
by
Kate Summerscale
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 7,280 ratings
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L.A. Requiem (Elvis Cole, #8)
by
Robert Crais
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5,630 ratings
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| 61 |
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The Monkey's Raincoat (Elvis Cole, #1)
by
Robert Crais
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 6,704 ratings
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| 62 |
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Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by
Jacqueline Winspear (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 19,181 ratings
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case (Hercule Poirot #39)
by
Agatha Christie
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 10,639 ratings
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| 64 |
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The Dain Curse
by
Dashiell Hammett
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
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| 65 |
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Men at Arms (Discworld, #15)
by
Terry Pratchett
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 27,391 ratings
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| 66 |
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Black Money
by
Ross Macdonald
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 558 ratings
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| 66 |
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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1)
by
Douglas Adams
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 50,038 ratings
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| 68 |
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Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
by
John Connolly (Goodreads Author)
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 6,570 ratings
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| 69 |
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Kafka on the Shore
by
Haruki Murakami
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 71,843 ratings
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| 70 |
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The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell, #6)
by
John Dickson Carr
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 558 ratings
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A Pocket Full of Rye (Miss Marple, #7)
by
Agatha Christie
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 9,333 ratings
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| 72 |
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
by
Edgar Allan Poe
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,795 ratings
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| 73 |
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The Dark Before Dawn
by
Laurie Stevens (Goodreads Author)
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings
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| 74 |
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The Goodbye Look
by
Ross Macdonald
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 493 ratings
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| 75 |
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The Continental Op
by
Dashiell Hammett
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
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| 76 |
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Trio for Blunt Instruments (Nero Wolfe, #39)
by
Rex Stout
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 616 ratings
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| 77 |
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Polar Star (Arkady Renko, #2)
by
Martin Cruz Smith
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
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| 78 |
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Voodoo River (Elvis Cole, #5)
by
Robert Crais
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,278 ratings
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| 78 |
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
by
James Ellroy
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 27,301 ratings
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| 80 |
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Death on the Nile
by
Agatha Christie
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 33,268 ratings
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| 81 |
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The Two Minute Rule
by
Robert Crais
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,227 ratings
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| 82 |
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Baltimore Blues
by
Laura Lippman (Goodreads Author)
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 3,319 ratings
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| 83 |
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4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #8)
by
Agatha Christie
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 12,315 ratings
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| 84 |
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The Moving Target
by
Ross Macdonald
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 807 ratings
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| 85 |
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The Chill
by
Ross Macdonald
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 976 ratings
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| 85 |
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The Sculptress
by
Minette Walters
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 3,932 ratings
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| 87 |
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The Underground Man
by
Ross Macdonald
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 602 ratings
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| 88 |
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The Way Some People Die
by
Ross Macdonald
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 579 ratings
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| 89 |
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by
Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 49,140 ratings
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| 90 |
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The Zebra-Striped Hearse
by
Ross Macdonald
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 486 ratings
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| 91 |
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Blood Rites (The Dresden Files, #6)
by
Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 36,496 ratings
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| 91 |
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Child 44 (Leo Demidov, #1)
by
Tom Rob Smith
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18,659 ratings
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| 93 |
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In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by
Tana French
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 65,863 ratings
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| 94 |
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The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes (37 Short Stories and 1 Novel)
by
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
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| 95 |
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Master of the Moor
by
Ruth Rendell
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 379 ratings
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| 96 |
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The Ivory Grin
by
Ross Macdonald
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 466 ratings
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| 96 |
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Little Scarlet (Easy Rawlins #9)
by
Walter Mosley
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
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| 98 |
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by
Thomas Harris
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 225,009 ratings
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| 99 |
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Full Story Inside
by
Steve Horsfall (Goodreads Author)
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Last Exit In New Jersey
by
C.E. Grundler (Goodreads Author)
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 169 ratings
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