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A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)
by (shelved 845 times as murder)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,928,626 ratings — published 2019
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 422 times as murder)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,713,549 ratings — published 1939
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 411 times as murder)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,621,646 ratings — published 2019
One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
by (shelved 377 times as murder)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,112,916 ratings — published 2017
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 352 times as murder)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,489,724 ratings — published 2002
The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
by (shelved 340 times as murder)
avg rating 3.85 — 864,615 ratings — published 2020
Good Girl, Bad Blood (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #2)
by (shelved 340 times as murder)
avg rating 4.25 — 848,476 ratings — published 2020
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by (shelved 317 times as murder)
avg rating 4.20 — 770,466 ratings — published 1934
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 314 times as murder)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,392,108 ratings — published 2015
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as murder)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,126,284 ratings — published 1992
As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #3)
by (shelved 284 times as murder)
avg rating 4.19 — 624,032 ratings — published 2021
The Guest List (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 227 times as murder)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,362,273 ratings — published 2020
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 227 times as murder)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,797,530 ratings — published 2018
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 220 times as murder)
avg rating 3.94 — 869,098 ratings — published 2009
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as murder)
avg rating 4.09 — 756,410 ratings — published 1966
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as murder)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,559,744 ratings — published 2012
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by (shelved 206 times as murder)
avg rating 4.26 — 374,544 ratings — published 1926
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 200 times as murder)
avg rating 3.77 — 513,697 ratings — published 2018
Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
by (shelved 198 times as murder)
avg rating 4.29 — 16,687 ratings — published 2024
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 783,320 ratings — published 2003
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 185 times as murder)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,983,332 ratings — published 2022
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,282,573 ratings — published 2006
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 183 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 536,746 ratings — published 1920
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as murder)
avg rating 3.63 — 380,801 ratings — published 2018
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
by (shelved 183 times as murder)
avg rating 3.78 — 454,886 ratings — published 2007
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 180 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 696,433 ratings — published 2023
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as murder)
avg rating 4.04 — 586,275 ratings — published 1985
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 175 times as murder)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,183,247 ratings — published 2018
Five Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 171 times as murder)
avg rating 4.07 — 317,051 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as murder)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,529,382 ratings — published 2005
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by (shelved 161 times as murder)
avg rating 4.12 — 323,977 ratings — published 1937
The Naturals (The Naturals, #1)
by (shelved 158 times as murder)
avg rating 4.23 — 413,063 ratings — published 2013
The Only One Left (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as murder)
avg rating 4.12 — 739,053 ratings — published 2023
The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1)
by (shelved 152 times as murder)
avg rating 3.74 — 740,781 ratings — published 2022
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 151 times as murder)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,285,358 ratings — published 2008
One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
by (shelved 149 times as murder)
avg rating 3.89 — 302,185 ratings — published 2020
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as murder)
avg rating 4.07 — 443,378 ratings — published 2017
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as murder)
avg rating 4.00 — 796,418 ratings — published 2015
The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)
by (shelved 141 times as murder)
avg rating 4.34 — 386,717 ratings — published 2021
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as murder)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,252 ratings — published 2017
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)
by (shelved 139 times as murder)
avg rating 3.74 — 258,348 ratings — published 2023
Never Lie (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 136 times as murder)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,765,512 ratings — published 2022
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as murder)
avg rating 3.89 — 640,756 ratings — published 2013
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 132 times as murder)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,006,206 ratings — published 2006
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by (shelved 131 times as murder)
avg rating 4.03 — 214,834 ratings — published 1936
Truly, Devious (Truly Devious, #1)
by (shelved 131 times as murder)
avg rating 3.87 — 190,365 ratings — published 2018
The Erkeley Shadows (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 128 times as murder)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,035 ratings — published 2023
Two Can Keep a Secret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as murder)
avg rating 3.91 — 179,384 ratings — published 2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 121 times as murder)
avg rating 4.11 — 272,221 ratings — published 2018
The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock #1)
by (shelved 120 times as murder)
avg rating 3.71 — 817,890 ratings — published 2016
“Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
“Scott could feel the contents of his stomach flip over and over on themselves. He turned to the side and retched, frothy yellow bile spilled out onto the newspaper covered floor, filling the room with the putrid stench of previously ingested alcohol.
'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.
Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
― The Elephant Tree
'Look's like someone can't hold their drink,' McBlane said, and Dominic and Shugg laughed.
Scott was still staring at the steam rising from his evacuated stomach contents as he heard the hammer fall. The dull crack of bone splintering under its weight.”
― The Elephant Tree
