Tag: mystery
545 books with this tag.
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Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Blue searches for her missing mother while the Raven Boys wake a sleeper in the caves who is not the king they sought.
2,983-word summary · 13 min read
Billy Summers
A hitman takes one last job in Red Bluff, poses as a writer, and runs when the setup turns on him.
2,882-word summary · 13 min read
Watching You
A new wife in Bristol fixates on a charismatic neighbor while a teen boy logs every move before a murder.
2,363-word summary · 11 min read
This Tender Land
Four orphans flee a harsh Minnesota boarding school in 1932 and canoe toward St. Louis, meeting farmers, healers, and drifters along the way.
2,972-word summary · 13 min read
The Wide Window
The Baudelaires brave Aunt Josephine, Captain Sham and leech-filled Lake Lachrymose.
2,459-word summary · 11 min read
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Sole survivor of a collapse that killed her friends, Mara Dyer moves to Miami, where visions that come true suggest her grief hides something darker.
2,152-word summary · 10 min read
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
A blocked writer tries to clear his mentor Harry Quebert after a girl missing since 1975 is found buried with his famous manuscript.
2,192-word summary · 10 min read
The Perfect Couple
A Nantucket wedding turns into a murder case when the maid of honor is found dead hours before the ceremony.
2,659-word summary · 12 min read
The Naturals
Teen profiler Cassie Hobbes joins an FBI program for gifted teens and hunts a killer tied to her past.
2,401-word summary · 11 min read
The Murder at the Vicarage
Vicar Leonard Clement narrates the shooting of Colonel Protheroe while Miss Marple watches St Mary Mead.
2,926-word summary · 13 min read
The Lying Game
Isa returns to Salten with her baby when bones surface in the marsh and force four school friends to face what they buried.
2,277-word summary · 10 min read
The Invention of Hugo Cabret
A Paris station orphan tends clocks, steals parts, and wakes a drawing machine that points to filmmaker Georges Melies.
2,946-word summary · 13 min read
The Good Sister
Twin sisters share a careful arrangement until a plan to have a baby pulls old family secrets into view.
3,255-word summary · 14 min read
The Good Daughter
Twenty eight years after a home invasion shattered her family, a lawyer witnesses a school shooting that reopens old wounds.
2,505-word summary · 11 min read
The Bullet That Missed
The Thursday club reopens a ten year old missing journalist case while Elizabeth faces a kill or be killed threat.
3,022-word summary · 13 min read
The Black Echo
Harry Bosch links a fellow veteran's death to a tunnel bank robbery and a dangerous FBI investigation in Los Angeles.
2,133-word summary · 9 min read
Sphere
A Navy team finds a centuries-old spacecraft on the Pacific floor, and psychologist Norman Johnson faces what its sphere wakes in minds.
2,275-word summary · 10 min read
Snow Falling on Cedars
A Japanese American fisherman stands trial for murder on a snowy island, while a reporter faces lost love and wartime prejudice.
2,224-word summary · 10 min read
Shutter Island
A U.S. marshal hunts a missing patient on a locked asylum island in 1954, where every clue turns back on him.
2,761-word summary · 12 min read
Plain Truth
An Amish teenager denies a hidden pregnancy after a newborn is found dead, and a city lawyer moves to the farm to defend her.
2,669-word summary · 12 min read
One by One
Shareholders snowed into a French chalet for a buyout vote start dying, and two outsiders piece together the truth.
2,173-word summary · 10 min read
Not a Happy Family
After a bitter Easter dinner, Fred and Sheila Merton are found dead and their three adult children each hold a motive.
3,764-word summary · 17 min read
Naked in Death
In 2058 New York, Lt. Eve Dallas hunts the killer of a senator's granddaughter and collides with suspect Roarke.
2,470-word summary · 11 min read