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Whodunit Books

A mystery where the question is who committed the crime.

17 books
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
YA Mystery

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

by Holly Jackson

For her senior project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reinvestigates the closed case of a local girl's murder — and the more she digs, the more the official verdict begins to fall apart.

And Then There Were None
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And Then There Were None

by Agatha Christie

Ten strangers are lured to a remote island and picked off one by one according to an ancient nursery rhyme. Christie's masterpiece — the bestselling mystery of all time for very good reason.

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Murder on the Orient Express
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Murder on the Orient Express

by Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot boards the Orient Express — and finds a businessman dead in his compartment with twelve stab wounds. But every passenger has an alibi. One of the most famous twists in fiction.

🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?
The Guest List
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The Guest List

by Lucy Foley

A wedding on a remote Irish island. A body found during the festivities. The guests are all suspects — and everyone has secrets. Modern Agatha Christie with serious bite.

🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?
One of Us Is Lying
YA Mystery

One of Us Is Lying

by McManus

Five high school students. One detention room. One dead body. The four survivors are all suspects, and every one of them has something they''d rather not share. McArthur ''Simon'' fights back from the…

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Sadie
young-adult

Sadie

by Courtney Summers

Sadie is a teenage girl who turns up on a podcast host's doorstep with a story about her brother's murder and her own investigation. The podcast host follows her trail — but who is really hunting whom…

🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?💔 Ugly Cry
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle

A spectral hound terrorizes a family on the moors — and Sherlock Holmes must separate legend from lethal reality. The definitive detective novel, atmospheric and genuinely terrifying.

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The Inheritance Games
YA Mystery

The Inheritance Games

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

When a billionaire dies and leaves his entire fortune to a girl he's never met, she must move into the family mansion and solve the puzzle he left behind — while his heirs try to figure out who she is…

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The Thursday Murder Club
Cozy Mystery

The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

Four retirees meet weekly to solve cold cases — until a real murder lands on their doorstep.

Big Little Lies
Domestic Thriller

Big Little Lies

by Liane Moriarty

Three women at a kindergarten trivia night — and by the end of the evening, someone is dead. But who killed whom, and why, unfolds across a year of secrets and small betrayals.

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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

by Stuart Turton

Aiden is trapped in a time loop — every day he wakes up as a different guest at a party, and must solve a murder before midnight or start over. Groundhog Day meets Agatha Christie. Utterly original.

🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?
The Silent Patient
Psychological Thriller

The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

A famous painter shoots her husband five times and never speaks again. Psychotherapist Theo Faber becomes obsessed with unlocking her silence — and uncovers a truth that upends everything.

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Where the Crawdads Sing
Literary Fiction

Where the Crawdads Sing

by Delia Owens

Kya Clark is raised alone in the marshes of North Carolina after her family abandons her one by one — growing up wild, learning to read late, and falling under suspicion when a local man is found dead…

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In the Woods
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In the Woods

by Tana French

Detective Rob Ryan investigates a murder in the same woods where three children vanished decades ago — and his own traumatic history threatens to resurface. Dublin's murder squad at its darkest and fi…

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Remarkably Bright Creatures
Literary Fiction

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Tova Sullivan volunteers at the Sowell Bay Aquarium and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus. Together they untangle the mystery of what happened to her son.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

A journalist's investigation into a 40-year-old disappearance intersects with a brilliant but troubled hacker — and the dark secrets of an influential Swedish family. Dark, sprawling, and devastating.

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The Hazel Wood
young-adult

The Hazel Wood

by Melissa Albert

A girl's grandmother — the reclusive author of a cult fairy tale collection — dies, and the book's dark stories start bleeding into reality. The girl must go into the Hazel Wood to save her mother fro…

🌀 Plot Twist Incoming⏰ Sleep? What Sleep?💔 Ugly Cry