I'm struggling to find a book I want something like thriller or suspicious.

A book that gives a real scare

As someone who has only recently started getting into mystery novels, I think *Strange Pictures* by Uketsu is a pretty good read. However, if you’re an avid mystery reader, it might come across as a little childish or simplistic.

Since the book is translated, I also wonder if that plays a part. The original Japanese might carry a completely different tone, with the choice of words, phrasing, and overall writing style adding something that may not translate quite the same way.

*Strange Houses*, on the other hand, is definitely a level above *Strange Pictures*. I think you’ll really enjoy it, especially if you like getting immersed in the little details. The floor plans in particular make the reading experience so much more interesting.

(Will update this once I’ve read *Strange Buildings* as well!)

Readers of Alex Delaware.

Trying to work out how old he and Milo might be, but there is not much to go on in the books.
In the first book When the Bough Breaks he is 33.
When the house burnt down, I think the next book is 18 set 18mts later.
In Bad Love, they find Spike he is 3.
In Rage, I think Spike dies. If anyone is reading this does it mention Spike's age.
In Obsession they get Blanch
Bones brings in the character MO.

Can anyone add anything.

Looking for psychological thrillers with INSANE twists that keep you hooked and constantly guessing.
I loved The Inmate, The Perfect Son, The Housemaid, and Verity by Freida McFadden . I want that “WHAT THE F 😭” feeling and preferably something fast-paced.
Give me your best recommendations!!

Has anyone discovered her? She wrote in the latter half of the 20th century. Her books are page turning suspense mysteries with some dry humour in places but not too long - the audiobooks are about 8 hours which the ideal length for me - I don't like books which go on and on.

She takes you into her world and you can't leave until you finish the book. I don't know why she isn't better known.

What other authors are like her? Especially authors the 20th century.

My partner and I are looking for an audiobook for an upcoming road trip this October!

I recently have listened to “Everybody in My Family has Killed someone’” and am obsessed so we thought To try and find a new audiobook for us to listen to together.

Not a huge fan of Frieda McFadden’s books, or gimmicky ones that don’t earn their “twist”. I have also enjoyed Lucy Foley and Gillian Flynn in the past.

Hardest murder mystery u have solved?(that's fair play ofc,Atleast a part of murder concealment/method should be deduced. For me it's "Evil Under the Sun".Also I don't mean purely by intention,atleast some part of the murder mechanism should be deduced/guessed

Hi! I’m hosting a one-month only bookclub for October and am looking to read a murder mystery. The people on the book club are women in their late 20s to early 30s.
We all work pretty demanding jobs, so we can’t read anything too long. I’m trying to pick a book that’s ~300 pages and has an audiobook.

I’ve heard great things about the books below, but was wondering if this community would recommend anything else. We’re looking for a real whodunit with a fantastic twist that keeps us on the edge of our seats and would be great for discussion. We aren’t looking to read Agatha Christie as there’s someone in the bookclub that has read many of her books.

Books I’ve heard great things about:

The Decagon House Murders
One by One
The Guest List

Any other recommendations?

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your suggestions! We’ve decided on reading The Decagon House Murders

Disclaimer: There might be spoilers.

I just read third installment of this series and it was soo good for me. I am not here to talk about the murder mystery or writing though. It is about the relationship between Frances and Ford. I love them🫶🏻
Has anyone else found them lovely? And their character building also felt good and smooth. I would love to hear your thoughts about this😇

I love this song of fear, Halloween-themed mystery, like a Death in Venice.
I consider the headless horseman in this genre too. I’ve looked everywhere, I can think, I’m just not found any book that really sounds like, I can sink my teeth into it.

I what you might consider a newbie in mystery novels...

I didnt like most of them, I found them kinda boring (the setup, that is), but I like a lot of the japanese honkaku and shinhonkaku because the setup is not as dry as other books (in my experience).

I am fascinated by impossible crimes, primarily locked rooms, and thats probably because Im a newbie, as authors constantly reiterate that locked rooms are weakly solved problems....

##NOW to the point:

When you find a locked room that you cant solve, but, by all means, you think you *should* be able to solve...

Im not talking about having no idea upfront and then giving up, Im talking about taking an honest effort, getting close, but still falling short from a proper solution.

You get frustrated right?

You want to give up.

But at the same time, I fear progressing the book and finding out that the trick was totally up my alley, and that if I thought about it a bit more, I could have solved it...

I might be overthinking it, and I know that you should read to habe fun and etc etc, but it still makes me anxious...

SPECIALLY with One-Of-a-Kind books that left a mark on mystery novel's history, because you probably will not be able to experience such a thing again...

It's a criminal mystery show I saw on some streaming platform a year or so ago.

A woman is found murdered, in the exact same way as a serial killer who was active in the same region 20 years earlier. It turns out the murder was committed by the serial killer's son, to force the police to find his missing father. The son knew how to commit the perfect replica murder because he used to help his father murder when he was a boy. The father was actually held prisoner by a man as revenge for killing his wife.

I'm hoping someone knows the name of this show/book.

The TV show was in a Nordic language or English, most likely.

I love reading thriller, but i became really good at guessing the plot twist. Like i think of every scenario even if it is impossible, and I can’t stop my self from overthinking while reading. I guessed the plot twist of the silent patient for example. So i need thriller books that will blow my mind. I want them to be so good that it is impossible to guess the plot twist.

This is just a post in appreciation of a type of plot I always seem to like. Figured I'd stimulate discussion.

Basically there is an alleged curse, or other unexplained phenomena. Usually the main characters is a true believer while their sidekick is a skeptic (or the other way around). Since this is a MYSTERY story and NOT horror or fantasy, the author keeps the existence of the supernatural ambiguous. Instead, what's firmly true is the "curse" is made real due to a chain of cause and effect that nobody has any control over. This could be something like an incredibly long-running feud in a small isolated community, or a cycle of violence or abuse. Or it could be a "haunted" house designed to intentionally create conflict or facilitate murders.

Bonus points if superstition is a motivator/driver. Don't forget the cults, everyone loves a good cult murder story.

Stories like this are often fun because they can cross genre boundaries but still be "fair" mysteries. The curse or ghost is at best an abstract concept, so that it had to be human X who used Y to kill Z.

And there's just something intriguing about people who aren't rational, who behave erratically, who are unpredictable. As a reader you want to psycho-analyze them, like what the hell is wrong with this person? Also another thing, conspiracy plots are usually fun, and conspiracies definitely work better when the participants are crazy. Real-life conspiracy theories can often be dismissed by pointing out that big groups can't keep a secret and require a motive. This can impact suspension of disbelief in fiction too. But if the conspirators in the story are nuts because they believe in the curse, well anything's possible.

I'm also kind of looking for books that have plots like this, so suggestions are welcome...

looking beyond "the canon", is there a good wiki or dictionary to find microgenres or tropes?

id like something where the reader has enough pieces to figure it out, where we're not locked into a single setting, n the MC does not come across as mean or narcissistic. i also dont like constant suspense.

mysteries ive liked so far:

noir stuff, like in "The Expanse" show, "Altered Carbon", or "Sugar". i really loved "Diarra from Detroit" (although it's more comedy). So far my only noir book has been "A Man of Shadows" by Jeff Noon. i think what i like about this genre is the unreliable narrator who may not know theyre going crazy or we follow him as he spirals for a girl? you know those stories where the girl *seems* helpless and he becomes broken? maybe it's a combo of my darker sense of humor meets the limited self-awareness of the author? again, it could just be like on the edge of being a normal psychological thriller though

more non-books i liked: Knives Out series, Guy Ritchie, Welcome to Night Vale (i hv read the books n hv The Nudge on my tbr), Nick Valentine, Only Murders in the Building, A24, The Residence, Honey Don't!, Poker Face, Dirk Gently (also on my tbr), Mike Flanagan (but not Poe), the Nolans (but having a definitive ending), Pushing Daisies (but not cozy), Life is Strange (but older mcs), Argylle (unironically i like it n knew exactly what i was getting myself into), iZombie is an all time fav

books i hated: Annihilation (minimal plot iirc), Things We Do in the Dark (trauma for the sake of trauma), The Bangalore Detectives Club (made for kids), The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (more atmosphere than anything), Legends & Lattes (repetative), Who Is Maud Dixon? (boring mc), Ninth House (dark academia), The Bone Clocks, Storm Front

i also dont want anything terrible happening to children or animals

tl;dr: darkly funny noir or something a step above cozy as long as it's weird. it could be super dumb or "annoyingly" brilliant

I just finished Margery Allingham's "The Tiger in The Smoke" which I liked, but its really a thriller, with little mystery in it. Her famous detective character, Albert Campion, is only a minor supporting player in it. Has she written any real mysteries? If so, what do you recommend I read next?

So I'm working my way through the 87th Precinct series for the first time and I've noticed something odd. On Audible/Goodreads it goes Killer's Wedge and then Lady Killer, but on Wikipedia it shows it as Lady Killer and then Killer's Wedge. I can't find an official Evan Hunter approved order. Can anyone confirm what order I should put these books on the shelf?

Also feel free if you like these books to bring up anything, I've read through the first 6 and I don't like cop novels but these are wonderful.

Basically title. What’s “the best” most gripping, exciting, plot twisty mystery book you’ve read? I want to get hooked on the genre!

For reference, I read a lot of fiction/fantasy. Love a good dark academia or medieval vibe, secret societies and secret passageways, castles and manors, and Pretty Little Liars is my favorite show of all time. Open to anything, though!

Hey, i wanna like to read novel on suspense crime thriller, your suggestions will be helpful

Sto finendo di leggere Poirot e la salma e stato già pensando al mio prossimo romanzo di Agatha Christie da leggere. Sono convinto che mi piacerà Alla deriva, dal momento che ho visto il film di Suchet del 2006, tuttavia non ricordo molto bene la storia, tantomeno l'assassino, ancora non ero un esperto quindi non ci avevo capito molto. Quindi ora voglio riscoprilo, una trama molto interessante non credete?! Poi è ancora più perfetto visto che preferisco leggere libri che si ambientano nello stesso periodo che sto vivendo dell' anno e su un articolo qui su Reddit ho visto che Taken at the Flood è stato collocato verso inizio ottobre, perfetto per quando più o meno lo inizierò!!

P. S.

Mi entusiasma particolarmente il fatto che ci sia un titolo in inglese così affascinante! Le citazioni di Shakespeare azzeccano sempre in alcuni romanzi di Agatha Christie, quindi complimenti a lei!!