Club Dead
Sookie hunts missing Bill in Jackson, posing with a werewolf at vampire Club Dead.
2,324-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: mystery
545 books with this tag.
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Annihilation
Four women enter Area X on the twelfth expedition to map a breathing tower that writes on its walls and a lighthouse full of lost journals.
2,265-word summary · 10 min read
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Precious Ramotswe opens a detective agency in Gaborone and solves small cases with tea, patience, and kindness.
2,029-word summary · 9 min read
The Night She Disappeared
Two teen moms vanish one night, and two years later a writer finds notes in the woods.
1,993-word summary · 9 min read
The Man Who Died Twice
The Thursday club chases missing diamonds as an old spy friend dies and professionals close in.
2,027-word summary · 9 min read
The It Girl
Ten years after April murder at Oxford, new claims of innocence force pregnant Hannah to rethink friends.
2,015-word summary · 9 min read
The Good Girl
Taken from a bar, Mia vanishes into a snowy cabin winter while police read absences.
2,017-word summary · 9 min read
Still Life
A beloved teacher found with an arrow in Three Pines looks like hunting accident until Gamache looks closer.
1,996-word summary · 9 min read
Sophie's World
Sophie gets philosophy lessons by mail, then finds she is fiction in a father birthday book for Hilde.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
Recursion
False pasts feel truer than true ones as a memory chair lets the grieving rewrite deaths.
1,995-word summary · 9 min read
Living Dead in Dallas
Sookie screens minds in Dallas for a missing vampire while a hate church sings nearby.
2,059-word summary · 9 min read
Dead to the World
Sookie hides a blank Eric for Christmas while hunting the witch who cursed him and finding Jason.
1,997-word summary · 9 min read
All Good People Here
A journalist returns home to care for her uncle and reopens a 20 year old child murder tied to a new abduction.
2,006-word summary · 9 min read
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
3,344-word summary · 15 min read
The Wife Upstairs
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
3,255-word summary · 14 min read
The Turn of the Key
A nanny writes from prison about a smart Highland house, four girls, and the night one child died.
3,207-word summary · 14 min read
The Thirteenth Tale
A dying novelist tells her true story at last to a bookseller's daughter, and the mystery of the Angelfield twins comes into the open.
2,928-word summary · 13 min read
The Silkworm
A missing novelist and a cruel manuscript pull Strike and Robin into London publishing.
3,583-word summary · 16 min read
The Rose Code
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
3,219-word summary · 14 min read
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Retired Poirot probes a locked study murder in King's Abbot, told by the village doctor.
3,582-word summary · 16 min read
The Hunting Party
Nine Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish lodge for New Year, where old rivalries and secrets end in murder.
2,424-word summary · 11 min read
The House Across the Lake
A widowed actress watching the couple across Lake Greene sees a disappearance that drags her own drowned husband back up.
3,217-word summary · 14 min read
The Historian
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
3,237-word summary · 14 min read
The City of Ember
Two twelve-year-olds trade jobs and chase a chewed-up note to save their fading underground city before its lights fail.
2,998-word summary · 13 min read