Mystery Book Reviews

The best mystery book reviews. Mysteries are typically crime stories in which readers follows a detective or amateur sleuth attempting to solve a criminal puzzle. Compared with “crime thrillers,” mysteries often feature less graphic violence and shocking subject matter.

The Crossing by Michael Connelly

The Crossing, a new Crime Thriller by Michael Connelly

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Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller’s client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it’s a setup. Bosch doesn’t want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work […]

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Death by Romance book

Book Review: Death by Romance, a Mystery by Anne Kennison

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The Bottom Line: Death by Romance has it all: a deliciously devious criminal enterprise, a loathsome antagonist and a detective that will have you quickly wrapped around his finger. Janet Evanovich fans will find their new obsession in Anne Kennison. Richmond Homicide Detective Ryan Hamlin may be just a few months from the mandatory retirement age, but he’s hardly looking forward to spending his golden

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Jack Reacher - Make Me by Lee Child

Make Me, a new Jack Reacher Thriller by Lee Child

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“Why is this town called Mother’s Rest?” That’s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It’s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have

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Finders Keepers Stephen King

Book Review: Finders Keepers, a Crime Thriller by Stephen King

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The Bottom Line: A more-than worthy follow-up to King’s Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers is an intense, addictive and even touching morality tale. Those who fell in love with Retired Detective Bill Hodges in King’s previous outing will do so all over again. Finders Keepers begins with the tragic story of John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t

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Dry Bones - a Walk Longmire Mystery

Dry Bones, a new Walt Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson

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When Jen, the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found surfaces in Sherriff Walt Longmire’s jurisdiction, it appears to be a windfall for the High Plains Dinosaur Museum—until Danny Lone Elk, the Cheyenne rancher on whose property the remains were discovered, turns up dead, floating face down in a turtle pond. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0525426930″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DCz741LvL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”331″]With

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Queen of the Trailer Park, a new mystery by Alice Quinn

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Rosie Maldonne is outspoken and sexy. She’s also unemployed, and, with three children and a cat, life is a little tough. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B00Q74VXMC” cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61tV6aZjJLL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”333″]The four of them—well, five, if you count the cat—live in the South of France, in a run-down trailer near a vacant lot. They make do, living off her part-time waitressing job

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A Dangerous Place

A Dangerous Place: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear

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Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0062220551″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516Ghaal-9L.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”341″]In Jacqueline Winspear‘s  powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie

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CJ Box Endangered

Endangered, a new Crime Thriller by CJ Box

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She was gone. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”0399160779″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fFM4jFebL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”331″]Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more—Joe’s eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway—alive,

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The One That Got Away

The One That Got Away, a new Mystery by Simon Wood

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Graduate students Zoë and Holli only mean to blow off some steam on their road trip to Las Vegas. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”1612184081″ cloaking=”default” height=”500″ localization=”default” locale=”US” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”//ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ek6blDlmL.jpg” tag=”bestthricom-20″ width=”334″]But something goes terribly wrong on their way home, and the last time Zoë sees her, Holli is in the clutches of a sadistic killer. Zoë flees with her life, changed forever. A year

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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Books like Gone Girl: Five Irresistable Thrillers

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A phenomenon like Gone Girl comes along rarely in the book world. Just two years after becoming a massive literary sensation, the film – which ended up being quite good – was catapulted into theaters with a screenplay penned by original author Gillian Flynn. And the film, in turn, has since reignited interest in the book. If you’re just now getting around to finishing it, then you’re no doubt looking for other

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