1st to Die
Lindsay, Claire, Cindy and Jill hunt a honeymoon killer terrorizing San Francisco.
2,536-word summary · 11 min read
detective + mystery
11 books tagged both “detective” and “mystery”.
Kiss the Girls
Cross hunts Casanova kidnapping women including niece Naomi.
2,397-word summary · 11 min read
Mr. Mercedes
Retired Hodges hunts Mercedes killer Brady Hartsfield concert plot.
2,281-word summary · 10 min read
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
In the Woods
A detective investigates a girl's murder in the woods where his own friends vanished twenty years earlier.
2,773-word summary · 12 min read
A Study in Scarlet
Watson meets Holmes in Baker Street, a Brixton body bears the word Rache, and a Utah revenge tale explains it.
2,208-word summary · 10 min read
Along Came a Spider
Detective Alex Cross hunts Gary Soneji after two children vanish from a Washington school and a Lindbergh echo grows.
2,523-word summary · 11 min read
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Hastings reunites with refugee Poirot at Styles Court after Emily Inglethorp is poisoned in her locked room.
2,856-word summary · 13 min read
The Cuckoo's Calling
Broke detective Strike and temp Robin investigate a supermodel's fatal fall in London.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
The Thursday Murder Club
Four residents of Coopers Chase meet weekly to solve cold cases until developer Tony Curran is murdered and the Thursday Murder Club must work with police…
2,739-word summary · 12 min read
Murder on the Orient Express
Poirot is trapped by snow with thirteen strangers after an American is found stabbed in his berth.
2,004-word summary · 9 min read