🏷️ Mystery
28 entries tagged with this trope
Verity
Colleen Hoover · 2018
Lowen finds a manuscript in Verity's office. It's horrifying. It's also impossible to stop reading. The ending will make you scream. This is CoHo at her darkest.
Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn · 2012
On their fifth wedding anniversary, Amy disappears. Nick says he's innocent. Amy's diary says otherwise. Who's lying? Both of them.
The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides · 2019
Alicia shot her husband five times. Then she never spoke again. Theo wants to know why. The twist at the end? You won't see it coming.
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir · 2021
Man wakes up on a spaceship. No memory. Earth is dying. And he's not alone. The friendship in this book will make a sci-fi lover out of anyone.
House of Salt and Sorrows
Erin A. Craig · 2019
Twelve sisters. One by one, they're dying. A retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses but make it gothic horror. The atmosphere is suffocating and the mystery is genuine.
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss · 2007
Kvothe tells his own legend from a quiet inn. Music, magic, and the most beautiful prose in fantasy. Warning: book 3 still isn't out. It's been 14 years. Read it anyway.
Ninth House
Leigh Bardugo · 2019
Yale's secret societies practice real magic. Alex Stern — a dropout with a dark past — is sent to monitor them. Then someone dies. Bardugo's adult debut is brutal, weird, and impossible to put down.
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke · 2020
A man lives in a house of infinite halls, filled with statues and tides. He's the only person there — except the Other. Figuring out what's really happening is one of the most satisfying reading experiences you'll ever have.
The Martian
Andy Weir · 2014
Mark Watney is stuck on Mars. Everyone thinks he's dead. He's not. He's going to science the s*** out of this. The most fun you'll have reading about someone almost dying, repeatedly.
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch · 2016
Jason is kidnapped, drugged, and wakes up in a world where his life went differently. Who took him? Why? The multiverse premise is used to ask the deepest question: are you happy with the life you chose?
Recursion
Blake Crouch · 2019
People are dying from 'false memory syndrome' — vivid memories of lives they never lived. A neuroscientist's memory technology has gone wrong. The timeline keeps resetting and each loop is worse. Devastating sci-fi thriller.
The Maidens
Alex Michaelides · 2021
A group therapy therapist becomes obsessed with a secret society of female students at Cambridge and their charismatic professor. From the author of The Silent Patient. Greek tragedy meets academic thriller.
The Whisper Man
Alex North · 2019
Tom moves to a new town with his son after his wife dies. Children start disappearing again — just like 20 years ago when the Whisper Man was active. Genuinely creepy thriller with a devastating father-son story at its core.
Mexican Gothic
Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 2020
Noemí is a glamorous socialite who goes to a creepy English-style mansion in rural Mexico to rescue her cousin. The house is wrong. The family is wrong. Everything is wrong. Gothic horror with a Mexican twist.
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena · 2016
Anne and Marco go to a dinner party next door. They leave their baby at home with a monitor. They come back. The baby is gone. Every chapter ends with a twist. Trust no one.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens · 2018
Kya is the 'Marsh Girl' — abandoned by her family, raised by the North Carolina marshlands. When a local boy turns up dead, she's the prime suspect. Part coming-of-age, part murder mystery, all heartbreak.
House of Earth and Blood
Sarah J. Maas · 2020
Half-fae Bryce Quinlan's best friend is murdered. She teams up with a fallen angel named Hunt Athalar to find the killer. Urban fantasy meets murder mystery in a world where humans live alongside Fae, angels, and demons.
The Maid
Nita Prose · 2022
Molly is a hotel maid with a unique way of seeing the world. When she discovers a dead body in a guest's room, she becomes the prime suspect. Cozy mystery meets character study. Molly is unforgettable.
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015
Rachel watches the same couple from the train every day. Then the woman disappears. Rachel thinks she saw something. But Rachel drinks. A lot. Unreliable narrator done right.
Running on Air
eleventy7 · 2015
Draco has disappeared. Harry finds his journal. Each entry is a bread crumb. The writing in this fic is genuinely literary — atmospheric, haunting, and achingly beautiful. THE Drarry fic.
November 9
Colleen Hoover · 2015
Ben and Fallon meet on November 9th and agree to meet on the same date every year. No contact in between. Each chapter is a year. The twist at the end will make you flip back to page one.
Confess
Colleen Hoover · 2015
Auburn walks into Owen's art studio and their connection is instant. But they're both hiding things. The anonymous confessions Owen paints drive the mystery. Art + secrets + romance.
Leviathan Wakes
James S.A. Corey · 2011
A missing girl and a derelict ship kick off a conspiracy that spans the solar system. Hard sci-fi meets space noir. The TV show is great but the books go further. Nine-book series that sticks the landing.
The Woman in the Window
A.J. Finn · 2018
Anna Fox is agoraphobic. She spends her days watching her neighbors through the window. Then she sees something she shouldn't. Rear Window for the anxiety generation.
The Guest List
Lucy Foley · 2020
A wedding on a remote Irish island. Every guest has a motive. Someone ends up dead. Multiple POVs, escalating tension, and an atmosphere so thick you can taste the salt air. Perfect locked-room mystery.
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Detective Rob Ryan investigates a murder in the same woods where his childhood friends vanished twenty years ago. Tana French writes mysteries where the atmosphere IS the story. Prepare to be unsettled for days.
Hell Bent
Leigh Bardugo · 2023
Alex Stern is going to Hell. Literally. To rescue someone she lost. The second Alex Stern book goes deeper into the magic system and the consequences of what happened at Lethe. Bardugo's prose cuts like glass.
Layla
Colleen Hoover · 2020
Leeds and Layla's relationship is struggling after a traumatic event. At a bed and breakfast, Leeds meets Willow — a mysterious woman who might be a ghost. CoHo's most genre-bending book. The twist is wild.