Puzzling plots, devilish twists, atmospheric noir and more from a year’s worth of mystery and crime fiction.

This year was a boon for whodunit readers, with great books by Donna Leon, Richard Osman, Louise Penny and more.

About the book: “‘The Mystery Guest’ by Nita Prose follows ... leading to a dangerous game of manipulation, deception, and murder. As one of the best five-star books we’ve read, this ...

By Sarah Weinman Advertisement Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best ... s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged ...

By Sarah Weinman Advertisement Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best ... s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged ...

Over the years, I’ve read plenty of ingenious mystery novels twice, but John Dickson ... study of revenge for a past injustice. All the murder methods are suitably ingenious, even dizzyingly ...

Instead of ticking off a single one, I took the evening off to dive into what I anticipated would be a great book ... simply presents a nice, tidy murder mystery, unencumbered by unnecessary ...

Oline Cogdill’s favorite mystery novels of 2024, a year marked by rich plots, diverse and fully realized characters and vivid settings.

While CBS had produced the first eight Jesse Stone movies, based on the detective novels by author ... 2017’s Framed for Murder: A Fixer Upper Mystery, is the best of the bunch, with Shannon ...