Listen for the Lie
Lucy Chase cannot remember the night her best friend Savvy died in Plumpton, Texas, until a true crime podcast pulls her back.
2,160-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: mystery
545 books with this tag.
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Leaving Time
Thirteen-year-old Jenna searches for her mother who vanished from an elephant sanctuary ten years earlier.
3,001-word summary · 13 min read
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
Cammie Morgan trains at a secret spy school and falls for a town boy she can never tell the truth.
2,179-word summary · 10 min read
From Dead to Worse
Sookie mediates a Were war and vampire takeover while learning about her fairy blood.
2,533-word summary · 11 min read
Fool Moon
Wizard Harry Dresden hunts a full moon killer through Chicago werewolf packs.
2,855-word summary · 13 min read
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
A broke single mom novelist is mistaken for a hitwoman over lunch and takes the job. Funny crime caper, first in the series.
2,538-word summary · 11 min read
Dead and Gone
Weres reveal themselves as Sookie faces a murder, a Fellowship trap, and a brutal fairy war.
2,798-word summary · 12 min read
All Together Dead
Sookie serves as human lie detector at a vampire summit where murder and trial threaten her weakened queen.
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A Is for Alibi
Out of prison after eight years, Nikki Fife hires PI Kinsey Millhone to re-investigate her husband's poisoning, and a second death cracks the case open.
2,118-word summary · 9 min read
Wool Omnibus
In a buried silo, a sheriff asks to go outside, and a mechanic learns why no one returns from cleaning.
2,095-word summary · 9 min read
Where the Forest Meets the Stars
A grieving bird researcher hosts a strange child who claims to be alien in an Illinois cabin.
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The Wives
A woman who sees her husband only on Thursdays tracks down his other wives and learns her marriage is not what she believed.
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The Westing Game
Sixteen strangers in Sunset Towers inherit a puzzle from the dead Samuel W. Westing. Thirteen-year-old Turtle Wexler outthinks them all to reach the answer.
2,908-word summary · 13 min read
The Starless Sea
A graduate student finds a book that retells his childhood and follows its clues to an underground Harbor of stories.
2,582-word summary · 11 min read
The Kind Worth Killing
A plane seat chat about murder becomes a pact, then a game where no one tells the full truth.
2,080-word summary · 9 min read
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
In a 1930s company town, Black and Jewish neighbors hide a deaf boy from the state and pay for it for years.
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The Golden Couple
A cheating wife, a watchful husband, and a rule-breaking therapist collide in a marriage repair that hides stalking, a vanished woman, and a murder plot.
2,677-word summary · 12 min read
The Forgotten Garden
A Brisbane woman traces a century old abandonment from an English country house to a Cornish cove and a hidden author.
2,056-word summary · 9 min read
The Book of Lost Names
A young forger in occupied France helps Jewish children flee with new names while keeping a secret book of the truth.
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Something in the Water
Honeymoon divers find a bag of cash and diamonds at sea, then lie until lies cost more.
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Pretty Little Liars
Four girls get texts from dead Alison a year after she vanished, and secrets start leaking.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
A laid off designer clerks nights in a strange bookstore and cracks a centuries old code with friends.
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Moon Called
A coyote mechanic in wolf country gets pulled into pack fights and fae bargains when a lost teen shows up.
1,943-word summary · 9 min read
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Claudia and Jamie run away to the Met, chase whether a 225 dollar Angel is a Michelangelo, and trade secrets with Mrs. Frankweiler.
2,774-word summary · 12 min read