Mysteries & Thrillers: What's included here
Mysteries are works of fiction that invite the reader to solve a puzzle. Thrillers are also usually concerned with crime, but the point is not to solve the puzzle, but to enjoy the suspense as events play out.
Booklists
- Booked for Murder: mysteries set in bookstores
- Canadian mysteries
- Christmas and Crime
- Curl up with a Cozy Mystery
- Da Vinci Code Read-alikes
- Dam Puzzling Mysteries!
- Do you Enjoy Reading Elmore Leonard? If so, try...
- Female Investigators (Evanovich Style)
- Gardening mysteries
- Halloween Mysteries
- Historical Mysteries
- Homage to Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes Lives On
- Humourous Mysteries
- I Spy: Espionage Thrillers
- Intrigue in the Vatican
- Legal Thrillers
- Medical Thrillers
- Military Thrillers
- Mobbed up: fiction about organized crime
- Murder in translation
- Mysteries Go to the Cats and Dogs
- Mysteries to Whet your Appetite
- Order in the Court - Legal Mysteries Written by Lawyers
- Paranormal mysteries
- Sporting Mysteries
- Techno-Thrillers
- Ten Great Thrillers You May Have Missed!
- Unusual Reads
- When Technology Goes Bad: Thrillers based on Science
- Women ahead of their time
- Write What You Know - Authors and characters with shared professions
Looking for other suggestions about what to read? These Windsor Public Resources may help:
These books will also offer suggestions:
- Killer books : A Reader's Guide to
Exploring the Popular World of Mystery and Suspense, by Jean Swanson, 1998
Multiple indexes allow you to identify books you might enjoy. - 1001 Midnights:
The Afficionado's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction, by Bill Pronzini,
1986
Though twenty years old, this book offers brief reviews of a huge number of books, as well as suggestions for further reading.
Still looking for ideas? Try these recommended websites:
- Bookspot
- Overbooked
- Bookspot Mystery
- ClueLass Home Page: A Mystery Lover's Notebook
- Crime fiction Canada
- Euro Crime
- Gumshoe site
- Mystery Guide
- Mystery Net
- Mystery Reader
- Mystery Readers Journal
- Mystery Scene Magazine
- Readers Room
- Sisters in Crime
- Stop, you're killing me! A Site to die for...if you love mystery books
- Crime Thru Time
- Genrefluent
- A Guide to Classic Mystery and Detection
- Mystery Short Fiction
- Mystery Writers of America - Mystery Fiction Links
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