Veteran book nerds will be familiar with this dilemma: You’re in the mood for a certain kind of book, but traditional genre and subgenre labels just don’t cut it. You need a more specific kind of sorting technique.
 
Well, we’re here to help, and we submit that the operative term is mood. The collection below takes a kind of hybrid approach to sorting, mixing subgenre and cross-genre strategies to generate four broad categories for your next mystery novel.
 
Perhaps you’re in the mood for immersion in a different time and place. Paris, circa 1953, say. Or maybe you’re hankering for a light kind of rom-com mystery with an appreciation for puns. How about a weird fiction murder mystery set in the liminal psychic spaces between Raymond Chandler and Franz Kafka?
 
Click around below to explore all of these, plus some cozier options. For more details about any individual title, click on the cover art image. You can also use the Want to Read button to add to your digital shelf.