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 ...more

This Is Our Story
Dead Girls Society
When All The Girls Have Gone
Bad Blood (The Naturals, #4)
The Amateurs (The Amateurs, #1)
Unnatural Deeds
The Bone Collection: Four Novellas (Temperance Brennan, #0.5, 15.5, 16.5, & 17.5)
The Murder Game
The Lost Property Office (Section 13, #1)
Better Late Than Never (Library Lover's Mystery, #7)
Trouble Makes a Comeback (Trouble, #2)
Dial Em for Murder
The Girl in the Picture
Deck the Hallways (A Fixer-Upper Mystery, #4)
Cat Got Your Diamonds (Kitty Couture Mystery #1)

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    Peter Swanson is the author of three novels: The Girl With a Clock For a Heart, an LA Times Book Award finalist; The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; and his most recent, Her Every Fear. His books have been translated into 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.

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