Detectives and spies, locked-room puzzles and cold cases, courtroom arguments and the domestic thriller where the danger is someone at the table. 599 books so far, across 140 series, plus 305 titles with no series listed. This is page 6 of the shelf.
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Rating coming soonBeka Cooper is sixteen, a rookie with the Provost's Guard, and her first posting is the Lower City. She can hear the voices of the dead riding on the wings of pigeons, which the rest of the Guard finds peculiar and the two worst men in the district should find alarming. With the force busy on another killer, Beka sets her mind on finding the one they call the Shadow Snake.
Rating coming soonKyle McAvoy comes out of Yale Law School with three years of public service ahead of him and a job waiting at the end of it. Then two men who say they are federal agents introduce him to a man called Bennie Wright, who owns a videotape from a party in Kyle's undergraduate apartment and wants something in return for keeping it hidden: a place inside a large New York firm, and information only an insider can reach.
Rating coming soonFlynne Fisher lives in a small town in a near-future America where steady work is scarce and the drug trade is the largest employer. Her brother Burton, a veteran with an implant and a limp, is offered security work that he thinks takes place inside a simulation, and when he cannot take the shift Flynne sits in for him. What she sees through the headset is a murder in a city that is not hers.
Rating coming soonTheodore Decker is thirteen when he and his mother visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a day that ends with a bomb going off inside it. His mother is killed. In the confusion he carries out a small Dutch painting she had pointed out to him, and the painting stays with him through the years that follow, through a friend's family home on Park Avenue and the antiques trade in which he learns his business.
Rating coming soonEco-terrorists are arranging a series of disasters dramatic enough to frighten the world into treating climate change as the emergency they believe it is. Their campaign is managed by a man who moves easily among environmental foundations and their donors, and the lawyer drawn into the trail has to work out who is staging the events and why the intelligence he is given keeps pointing in the wrong direction.
Rating coming soonRobert Langdon wakes in a Florence hospital with a head injury and no memory of the days before it, repeating a phrase in his sleep: seek and find. There is no time to work out what happened to him, because somebody is coming up the corridor with a gun, and the days that follow lead him through Dante's circles of hell and an old map left by a man with a plan.
Rating coming soonIn 1998 a young woman is abducted and killed outside a small East Texas town, and the man who did it watches the police arrest a high school football player for the crime. Nine years later Travis Boyette is ill and decides to clear the innocent man's name. Donté Drumm has days left before his execution, and the lawyer fighting for him is running out of ways to be heard.
Rating coming soonRichard Hannay comes back to London from Rhodesia with a modest fortune and nothing to do, and a neighbour in his building tells him about a plot to throw Europe into war. Days later Hannay finds the man dead in his flat and becomes both the obvious suspect and the next target. He goes on the run across Scotland with the police behind him and the conspirators ahead, knowing only a set of numbers.
Rating coming soonA raid on a Soviet oil refinery leaves the country facing a collapse it cannot hide, and the Politburo decides that the quickest way to recover is to take the oil of the Persian Gulf. NATO and the Warsaw Pact are drawn into a conventional war fought across Europe and the Atlantic, with neither side willing to be the first to reach for nuclear weapons.
Rating coming soonMr Griffin is the English teacher nobody at the high school can please, and a group of his students decide to frighten him into changing. Their plan is to take him away for an evening, and it is meant to be a lesson rather than a crime. It goes wrong, and the five of them are left with something they cannot undo.
Rating coming soonWhen three American officials are killed in Colombia, the President's advisers see a chance to strike at the drug cartels behind the attack without admitting that they are at war. The operation runs through the Caribbean and the Andes, its details hidden even from some of the people carrying it out, until a man at the CIA notices that the reports crossing his desk do not add up.
Rating coming soonThe National Security Agency's code-breaking supercomputer meets a cipher it cannot break, which would be a problem for any bureaucracy in any week. The programme was written by a former employee who objects to the agency reading private messages, and he has arranged for the algorithm to be published if anything happens to him. Then he dies, and the head cryptographer has a day to find out who is holding the key.
Rating coming soonTroy Phelan has spent his life making a fortune and hating his family, and the will he signs shortly before his death leaves eleven billion dollars to a daughter nobody has heard of. His children contest it, and the firm executing the estate sends a lawyer to find the woman named in the paper. She is living in the interior of Brazil with no interest in money.
Rating coming soonJack Forman loses his job in software and takes the only work he can get, which is judging whether a company's new technology is real by trying to defeat it. The technology is a swarm of microscopic machines built to work together like a living thing, and the company's founders are not telling him how much of it has escaped. Then people start disappearing, and the swarm is learning.
Rating coming soonPhilip Ashley was raised on a Cornish estate by his older cousin Ambrose, and the two of them lived contentedly without women until Ambrose travelled to Florence for his health. There he married, and there he died, writing letters home that blamed his wife. Philip inherits the estate and the letters, and then Rachel herself arrives in Cornwall.
Rating coming soonIn 1941 the Lecter family's castle in Lithuania is overrun and the boy Hannibal, eight years old, loses the people he loves in the winter that follows. He grows up after the war in France, in the care of his uncle's widow, Lady Murasaki, and decides that he will find the men who took his family and deal with them himself.
Rating coming soonFrannie O'Neill is a veterinarian in a small Colorado town where her husband was murdered three years ago, and she is still working through what that did to her when an FBI agent rents the cabin behind her house. Then she sees a child running through the woods, a girl with wings, and the search for the girl leads to a laboratory and to the children who were made in it.
Rating coming soonMaud Ruthyn is seventeen and an orphan, and her father's will leaves her in the care of her uncle Silas, a man the family has spent years not talking about. His house at Bartram-Haugh is run down, his household is unsettling, and the fortune Maud brings with her is the only thing standing between her guardian and ruin.
Rating coming soonRosamond Treverton believes she is the daughter of the mistress of Porthgenna Tower, and twenty years after that woman's death the truth about her parentage is still hidden, written down by a servant and left in an unused room. A blind girl, a lost letter and a house with one door that is never opened carry the secret until somebody finds it.
Rating coming soonThomas Small is thirteen when his family moves from North Carolina to Ohio to live in the house of a long-dead abolitionist, a building full of hidden passages that once sheltered people escaping slavery. His father has taken the lease in order to study the house, and somebody in the town wants them gone.
Rating coming soonOdd Thomas has gone to a monastery in the mountains to live quietly and decide what to do with his life. Then a presence he dreads appears in its halls, a monk goes missing, and something with a taste for violence arrives with the winter storm. Odd has to work out what is inside the abbey before the thing he has seen comes true.
Rating coming soonA routine arrest ends in a shooting in which a young girl is killed, and Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer becomes the defendant in a wrongful death case. While she waits for the trial and for the city to decide what it thinks of her, she takes a break in a quiet coastal town and reads about murders there that resemble a case that has haunted her for years.
Rating coming soonA former First Lady dies, and the funeral at St Patrick's Cathedral brings the country's most famous people into one building. During the service armed men seal the doors and take them hostage, demanding a ransom from each captive personally and killing one to show that the terms are serious. The detective sent in as negotiator is Michael Bennett, a widower with ten children at home.
Rating coming soonTwo joggers are found in a San Francisco park, killed in a way that looks less like an attack than an animal's work, and the local police ask Washington for help. Detective Alex Cross arrives to find a case that runs across the country, witnesses who belong to a carefully organised group, and a killer who has been doing this for years.
Rating coming soonGiordano Bruno has left the monastery and the Inquisition behind and reached Elizabethan England, where his ideas about astronomy and other worlds attract the attention of the queen's spymaster. Sent to Oxford to look into a matter for Francis Walsingham, he finds the university full of old arguments, a killer at work among the fellows, and the deaths treated as accidents.
Rating coming soonIn the 1950s Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate killed a series of people across Nebraska and Wyoming, and the case has been told over and over since. This novel comes at it from three directions: Caril Ann looking back on the beginning of the relationship, a collector in Manhattan haunted by the crimes, and the man's wife.
Rating coming soonJackson Brodie is a former police inspector making a living as a private investigator in Cambridge, and three old family tragedies come to him at once: a little girl who vanished from a garden thirty years ago, a woman who killed her husband with an axe, and a solicitor's daughter murdered for no reason anybody can find.
Rating coming soonRee Dolly is sixteen and lives in the Ozarks, where her father has put the family house up as bail and then disappeared on a charge of running a meth lab. If he fails to appear in court the house is lost, and she has two younger brothers to keep. To keep them she has to find a man the neighbours would rather she left alone.
Rating coming soonLucinda Bromley is a botanist whose talent is an unusual one: she can detect almost any poison, which is useful to the investigators who consult her and ruinous to her reputation. When a lord is murdered with a poison made from a rare fern stolen from her own conservatory, she needs help to keep her name out of it.
Rating coming soonJulia Ransom is the widow of August Ransom, a well-known psychic whose murder six months ago left her with a media circus to survive. She is only beginning to be all right again when she spends an evening with friends and walks along the San Francisco waterfront, where her ordinary happiness is interrupted by the case that the novel is built around.
Rating coming soonA platoon of soldiers empties a small town in Nevada in broad daylight and then a bomb destroys it, and the Russian criminal known as the Wolf claims the attack. Alex Cross is on holiday in San Francisco when he is called back, and the plan the Wolf has in mind is larger than one town and runs through several countries.
Rating coming soonEthan Burke arrives in the small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, to find two federal agents who disappeared there a month ago. Within minutes of arriving he is in a violent accident, and he wakes in the local hospital with no identification, no telephone and no explanation of what happened to him, in a town where the welcome is not quite right.
Rating coming soonDavid and Adele appear to be the ideal couple: he is a successful psychiatrist and she is the wife who adores him, and neither of them explains why he is so controlling or what she is keeping back. Louise is David's new secretary, and as she is drawn into their orbit she finds more questions than answers.
Rating coming soonHammond Cross is a special assistant county solicitor in Charleston, from a wealthy family he has spent his career keeping at a distance. A murder case puts him in the middle of a moral problem: the woman he has become involved with is connected to the investigation he is supposed to be conducting.
Rating coming soonDetective Lindsay Boxer is out running in San Francisco when a house belonging to an internet millionaire explodes, and she goes in to look for survivors. The attack is the first of a series, carried out by a group calling themselves August Spies, and they have promised to kill every three days.
Rating coming soonReece Gilmore is the only survivor of a violent crime back east, and she has come to a small town in Wyoming to work in a diner and be somewhere nobody knows her. While hiking she sees a couple arguing on the bank of a river, and through her binoculars she watches the man put his hands around the woman's throat. By the time she brings help, there is nothing there.
Rating coming soonJames Bond is sent to Jamaica to find out what happened to the head of the British intelligence station there, and he arrives expecting something close to a holiday. The centipede left in his hotel room disposes of that idea, and everything he looks into on the island leads him towards a recluse with steel pincers for hands.
Rating coming soonAmber wakes up in a hospital. She cannot move, she cannot speak and she cannot open her eyes, but she can hear everyone around her, and none of them know it. She does not remember what happened, and she suspects her husband had something to do with it. The book moves between her paralysis, the week before the accident and a diary written twenty years ago.
Rating coming soonTwo Secret Service agents whose careers ended in disgrace are the people the investigation falls to, and neither of them has any reason to trust the other. A series of assassinations and abductions appears to have nothing in common, and the answer is somewhere in the work that ruined both of them.
Rating coming soonAfter her encounter with a copycat of Jack the Ripper, Rory Deveaux has been living in Bristol under her parents' supervision, and when her therapist suggests she go back to her London school she takes the chance. What she has brought back with her is a new and dangerous ability, and the people who deal with the city's ghosts know about it.
Rating coming soonJohn Wade has just lost a campaign for the United States Senate, and he and his wife Kathy have gone to a lake in the Minnesota north woods to put themselves back together. One morning he wakes up and she is gone, and the novel sets out to establish what happened to her without ever settling the question.
Rating coming soonTommy and Tuppence Beresford visit Tommy's aunt in her nursing home, and Tuppence meets one of the other residents, an old woman who keeps talking about something hidden behind a fireplace and a poor child. She makes nothing of it until the aunt dies and the woman disappears, and then she starts asking questions.
Rating coming soonCynthia Bigge is fourteen and has just had a fight with her parents when she goes to bed, and in the morning her mother, her father and her brother are gone. Twenty-five years later the disappearance is still unexplained, and Cynthia agrees to appear on a television programme that re-enacts the case, hoping that it might produce an answer.
Rating coming soonTrixie Stone is a freshman at a small college when she accuses her former boyfriend of raping her at a party, and the town decides that it does not believe her. Her father is a comic book artist with a violent childhood behind him, her mother is having an affair with one of her students, and neither of them is in a position to give her what she needs.
Rating coming soonSomebody tries to assassinate the American president, and the attempt fails before the trigger is pulled. Sean Dillon and Blake Johnson, the covert intelligence team that handles the jobs nobody wants to sign, are sent to find out who was behind it and what they were trying to achieve, and the answer is a game with different rules.
Rating coming soonCharlotte and her family are going to France, and Stacey has agreed to look after their house and their dog while they are away. It should be simple work. Then Carrot starts growling at nothing, glasses of water appear that she did not pour, and she finds orange hair in a hairbrush that is not hers.
Rating coming soonWhen the entire Christopher Columbus exhibit disappears from the local museum, a fourth-grade sleuth-in-training named Alec Flint takes the case. He is joined by Gina, a new classmate who wants help with a disappearance of her own, since one of the teachers at their school has gone missing and nobody else seems to be looking for her.
Rating coming soonShe wakes in a ransacked cabin with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. Two men are arguing about whether to kill her, and one of them says to take her out back and finish her off. She runs, and the rest of the story is her attempt to find out who she is.
Mystery and thriller covers a wide set of shelves in one place here: golden-age puzzle plots and hard-boiled noir, police procedurals and amateur sleuths, historical mystery, crime fiction from many countries, and the contemporary psychological and domestic suspense novels where the question is who in the room is lying.
Espionage and legal thrillers sit here too, because the engine is the same one: something hidden, someone working out what it is, and a clock. A book qualifies when the plot turns on an investigation, a deception or a pursuit rather than on a speculative idea, which is why books with a science-fiction or fantasy premise live on those shelves instead.
Tags are cross-cutting markers, not genres. They have their own landing pages.
The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.
676 booksPrimary genreEpic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.
685 booksPrimary genreGeneration ships, dying empires, robots with opinions and one very unlucky astronaut.
536 booksPrimary genreHaunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.
381 booksPrimary genreCathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.
580 booksPrimary genreNovels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.
575 booksPrimary genreShipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.
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