The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve Strand cases from Irene Adler to the Copper Beeches, with Holmes at his sharpest and strangest.
3,579-word summary · 16 min read
Tag: mystery
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Silence
Nora wakes in a cemetery with five months missing and a stranger called Jev who feels familiar.
3,615-word summary · 16 min read
Piranesi
Piranesi lives alone in an endless House of statues and tides until chalk messages hint at another visitor and a buried past.
2,992-word summary · 13 min read
Odd Thomas
A twenty year old fry cook who sees the dead tries to stop a mass shooting in his desert town.
3,797-word summary · 17 min read
Leviathan Wakes
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
3,653-word summary · 16 min read
Killing Floor
Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is arrested for murder in Margrave, Georgia, then learns the victim was his brother.
2,872-word summary · 13 min read
If We Were Villains
Seven Shakespeare students at a cutthroat conservatory close ranks after a death by the lake, and one serves ten years for it.
2,715-word summary · 12 min read
Defending Jacob
A Newton prosecutor defends his fourteen year old son after a classmate is stabbed in the park.
2,994-word summary · 13 min read
Death on the Nile
Poirot takes a Nile cruise where a young heiress is shot dead in her cabin.
4,077-word summary · 18 min read
Death Note, Vol. 1: Boredom
Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills with a written name, and the hidden detective L sets a trap to expose him.
2,989-word summary · 13 min read
Crescendo
Nora and Patch survived book one, but distance, Marcie Millar, and a letter about her father's killer pull them apart.
2,980-word summary · 13 min read
Wrong Place Wrong Time
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
2,522-word summary · 11 min read
The Virgin Suicides
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
2,559-word summary · 11 min read
The Raven Boys
Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.
2,537-word summary · 11 min read
The Outsider
Coach Terry Maitland's DNA and witnesses point to an impossible murder, until Ralph Anderson and Holly Gibney trace it to El Cuco.
2,586-word summary · 11 min read
The Only One Left
Caregiver Kit tends mute Lenora Hope accused of 1929 family murders.
2,592-word summary · 12 min read
The Name of the Rose
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
2,580-word summary · 11 min read
The Maidens
Therapist Mariana hunts Cambridge professor Edward Fosca after a Maidens murder.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
The Locked Door
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
The Last Mrs. Parrish
A con artist targets a rich wife, then the marriage game turns with a hidden past.
2,018-word summary · 9 min read
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Holmes Watson probe spectral hound killing Baskervilles on Dartmoor.
2,596-word summary · 12 min read
The Green Mile
Guard Paul Edgecombe watches John Coffey show healing miracles on death row in 1932 Louisiana.
2,549-word summary · 11 min read
The Final Gambit
Avery, Jameson and Grayson face Toby's past, Eve's claim and Blake's trap to solve Tobias's last game and keep the fortune.
2,464-word summary · 11 min read
The Coworker
When odd accountant Dawn vanishes, star salesperson Natalie becomes the prime suspect in a tense office thriller with turtles, lies and revenge.
2,511-word summary · 11 min read