The best thriller & mystery books

Ten strangers lured to a remote island. One by one they begin to die. A perfect, impossible puzzle.

A brilliant mathematician hides the evidence of a murder committed by the woman he secretly loves -- in a cat-and-mouse game where we know the killer from the first page.

Lisbeth Salander lies in a hospital bed, shot in the head -- and the Swedish establishment wants her buried before she can testify.

A disgraced journalist and an unconventional hacker uncover decades of dark secrets within a powerful Swedish dynasty.

A famous painter shoots her husband and never speaks another word. Her therapist is determined to unravel her silence -- but some truths are better left unspoken.

A Victorian pickpocket is hired to help con an heiress -- but no one in this story is quite who they appear to be.

A retired Argentine detective reopens a twenty-five-year-old murder case -- and finds that its long shadow has fallen over every life it touched, including his own.

A murdered woman shares not just Detective Cassie Maddock's alias but her face -- so Cassie goes undercover as the dead woman to find her killer.

A brilliant but anonymous intelligence officer comes out of hiding when a bioterrorist threatens to release a plague that could kill millions.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller works out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car -- until a high-profile murder case turns out to be the most dangerous of his career.

Poirot investigates the murder of a wealthy man in a quiet English village -- and the solution is one of the most audacious reveals in the history of detective fiction.

Three women in a seaside town. A dead body at a school trivia night. Everyone is hiding something.

The brutal 1959 murders of a Kansas farming family -- and the two men who committed them. The book that invented true crime.

Precious Ramotswe opens Botswana's first and only female-run detective agency -- armed with a van, a kettle, and extraordinary common sense.

Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown for a funeral -- and finds himself entangled in a murder that echoes a twenty-year-old secret.

Private detective Holly Gibney investigates a string of disappearances in a quiet college town -- and uncovers a horror hiding behind a respectable facade.

A detective is assigned a murder case in the same woods where his two childhood friends vanished twenty years ago.

A Franciscan friar and his novice investigate a series of mysterious deaths in a medieval Italian abbey.

Four retirees in a luxury retirement village spend their Thursdays going over cold case files -- until a real murder lands on their doorstep.

The first winter snow falls, and Oslo detective Harry Hole finds a severed head placed beside a snowman -- the killer's calling card.

New York, 1896. A psychiatrist and a journalist chase a serial killer preying on boy prostitutes -- using the radical new science of the mind.

A US Marshal arrives at a remote asylum for the criminally insane to investigate an impossible escape -- and begins to question everything he knows.

A woman in white appears on a moonlit road, a sinister baronet controls everyone around him, and two people try to expose a conspiracy that has swallowed someone whole.

A reporter returns to her small hometown to cover the murders of two young girls -- and confronts a past she carved into her own skin.

In 1930s Japan, an artist draws up a plan to murder six women and create from their parts a single perfect figure. Forty years later, no one has solved it.

Jack and Grace Angel have the perfect marriage. But no one has ever seen Grace alone -- and there is one room in their house that is always locked.

Hotel maid Molly Gray finds a dead man in a suite she is cleaning -- and becomes the prime suspect, despite having no idea what happened.

A single mother befriends both her boss and his wife, not realising she is being drawn into something she cannot explain and cannot escape.

After a political defeat, a man retreats to a remote Minnesota lake with his wife -- and then she vanishes. What follows is not a conventional mystery.

On their fifth anniversary, Nick Dunne's wife vanishes. The story he tells doesn't quite add up.

An agoraphobic woman spends her days watching neighbours through the window -- until she witnesses something she shouldn't have.

Every morning Christine wakes with no memory of her past. Every night she forgets again. But her secret journal says: Don't trust Ben.

The Darker family gathers on a tidal island for grandmother Nana's 80th birthday. When the tide cuts them off, family members start dying one by one.

A lucky man survives a brutal assault and retreats to his family's crumbling estate -- where a skull turns up in the old wych elm in the garden.

Two women, years apart, move into an architect's obsessively minimalist house -- and both find that its beautiful rules come at a cost.

A woman who watches the world from a commuter train window becomes entangled in the disappearance of a stranger.

A murder in the Louvre launches Harvard professor Robert Langdon into a desperate race to decode a centuries-old conspiracy hidden in plain sight.