Mystery

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved ...more

A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)
The Gilded Cage
Arrowood
Vicarious (Vicarious, #1)
By Gaslight
Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby, #3)
Crowned and Dangerous (Her Royal Spyness, #10)
Her Darkest Nightmare (The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, #1)
The Telling
The American Girl
Wax
Three Truths and a Lie
The Shattered Tree (Bess Crawford, #8)
The Smaller Evil
Beauty and the Clockwork Beast (Steampunk Proper Romance #1)

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    We Were Liars
    Nutshell
    Big Little Lies
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    Sting
    Interference
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    The Traitor's Story
    In the Clearing (Tracy Crosswhite, #3)
    Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
    The Black Widow (Gabriel Allon, #16)
    The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike, #1)
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieMurder on the Orient Express by Agatha ChristieOne for the Money by Janet EvanovichDeath on the Nile by Agatha Christie
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    And Then There Were None
    Gone Girl
    The Girl on the Train
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    In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad, #1)
    The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
    The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
    The Silkworm (Cormoran Strike, #2)
    Dark Places


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    Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of my ...more
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    Richard Feynman
    I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is .. ...more
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