Final Girls
A survivor of a cabin massacre tries to live normally until another Final Girl dies and a second one shows up at her door.
2,176-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: mystery
545 books with this tag.
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Definitely Dead
Sookie heads to New Orleans for her dead cousin estate and finds witches, vamps, and family curses.
2,027-word summary · 9 min read
Dead as a Doornail
Sookie tracks a sniper hunting shifters as Jason faces his first panther change and pack justice looms.
2,440-word summary · 11 min read
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Miami blood spatter analyst Dexter kills killers by code until a killer without code finds him.
1,927-word summary · 9 min read
Daisy Darker
A family gathers on a tidal island for an 80th birthday and someone starts killing to a nursery rhyme.
1,917-word summary · 9 min read
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
A town knows brothers will kill Santiago and no one stops it, retold to find why.
1,950-word summary · 9 min read
Career of Evil
A severed leg delivered to Robin forces Strike to face four men from his past as a London killer stalks, testing the agency and her wedding plans ahead.
2,887-word summary · 13 min read
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
A young reporter loses her mind to a rare brain illness and must rebuild from notes and video she hates to watch.
2,080-word summary · 9 min read
All the Missing Girls
Told backwards over fifteen days, a woman probes two disappearances ten years apart in her hometown.
2,064-word summary · 9 min read
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Merricat guards sister Constance after arsenic deaths, until cousin Charles invades and fire frees them.
3,011-word summary · 13 min read
The Ritual
Blakely chosen for lord game seeks mother truth with Ryat breaking her.
2,030-word summary · 9 min read
The Reptile Room
Baudelaires find kind Uncle Monty until Olaf returns as assistant Stephano.
2,005-word summary · 9 min read
The Phantom of the Opera
A masked Erik haunts the Paris Opera, coaching Christine Daae while rivaling Raoul for her. Chandelier crash, cellar lake, and unmasking follow.
2,307-word summary · 10 min read
The Lincoln Lawyer
Mickey Haller defends a rich assault suspect from his Lincoln while doubting his innocence.
2,317-word summary · 10 min read
The Dry
Falk returns to drought-hit Kiewarra for Luke's murder-suicide, and an old secret about Ellie's drowning resurfaces to change the case.
2,100-word summary · 9 min read
The Alloy of Law
Wax and Wayne chase Vanishers by rail in a gunpowder Mistborn city 300 years later.
2,535-word summary · 11 min read
Sometimes I Lie
Radio host Amber wakes in a coma, able to hear but not move. Her husband may not love her, and three timelines close in.
2,399-word summary · 11 min read
Postmortem
Four Richmond stranglings pull chief examiner Scarpetta into forensics, leaks, and sabotage from inside.
2,422-word summary · 11 min read
One of Us Is Next
A year after Simon's death, a copycat texter drags Maeve, Knox and Phoebe into a cruel Truth or Dare game in Bayview.
2,348-word summary · 10 min read
Luckiest Girl Alive
Ani FaNelli reinvents herself as a glossy New Yorker, but a documentary about her Bradley past threatens to expose everything.
2,222-word summary · 10 min read
Lock Every Door
Broke Jules apartment sits at the Bartholomew where another sitter vanished.
2,224-word summary · 10 min read
Lady Midnight
Emma and Julian hunt killer echoing old murders while parabatai love grows.
1,982-word summary · 9 min read
I'll Be Gone in the Dark
Michelle McNamara hunted the Golden State Killer for years; she died in 2016, and her team finished this book before his 2018 arrest.
2,155-word summary · 10 min read
Home Before Dark
Maggie renovates haunted Baneberry Hall her father made famous.
2,017-word summary · 9 min read