10 detective thrillers that will keep you guessing until the end

1. Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

(4.2/5 ⭐️)

When the daughter of a Boston man is murdered, he and his childhood friends are drawn together to uncover the killer, but devastating secrets from their past complicate the search for justice. 

2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

(4.2/5 ⭐️)

A disgraced journalist teams up with a brilliant, fiercely independent hacker to solve a decades old disappearance, exposing dark secrets about a wealthy family before a killer can silence them.

3. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

(4.1/5 ⭐️)

When a corpse is found in an abandoned London house with the word "Rache" written in blood, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson combine medical knowledge, powers of deduction, and insight into human nature to track two interweaving stories of love, revenge, and murder.

4. The Dry by Jane Harper

(4.1/5 ⭐️)

A tenacious federal agent returns home to drought-stricken rural Australia to attend a friend's funeral and cannot resist investigating the unsolved murder case that still haunts the dusty farming town.

5. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

(4.0/5 ⭐️)

Through sardonic narration and quick thinking, wisecracking PI Philip Marlowe navigates the wealthy homes and seedy underworld of 1930's Los Angeles while pursuing a case involving blackmail, pornography and murder.

6. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

(4.0/5 ⭐️)

After reading the unfinished manuscript of mystery writer Alan Conway's latest novel, an editor becomes drawn into investigating Conway's suspicious suicide that parallels events in his fictional story.

7. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith

(3.9/5 ⭐️)

A war veteran turned private investigator is skeptical when a supermodel's death is ruled a suicide and takes on the case, uncovering secrets and lies amongst the upper class.

8. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

(3.9/5 ⭐️)

A gritty private eye risks his life and reputation on a case involving a beguiling woman, a priceless antique statuette, and a web of treachery and deception that could lead to murder. 

9. The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

(3.8/5 ⭐️)

A man races against time to solve the murder of a young woman while endlessly reliving the same day in the bodies of different guests at a mansion estate.

10. The Guest List by Lucy Foley

(3.8/5 ⭐️)

On a glamorous, remote island off the Irish coast, the wedding festivities of a celebrity couple turn fatal when one of the guests is found murdered and everyone becomes a suspect.

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