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Best Murder Mysteries Of All-Time
1.
And Then There Were None
by:
Agatha Christie
4.28 avg rating — 1,544,400 ratings
2.
Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker #3)
by:
Susan Rowland
4.30 avg rating — 17,262 ratings
3.
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
by:
Agatha Christie
4.20 avg rating — 702,597 ratings
4.
Twenty Years Later
by:
Charlie Donlea
4.19 avg rating — 159,410 ratings
5.
Deeper Than the Dead (Vera Boyett, #1)
by:
Debra Webb
4.05 avg rating — 20,812 ratings
6.
The Reaping (Steinbeck and Reed, #2)
by:
Jess Lourey
4.11 avg rating — 10,723 ratings
7.
Listen for the Lie
by:
Amy Tintera
4.08 avg rating — 411,824 ratings
8.
The Last Thing She Ever Did
by:
Gregg Olsen
4.04 avg rating — 49,566 ratings
9.
On Her Watch (Bree Taggert, #8)
by:
Melinda Leigh
4.50 avg rating — 17,967 ratings
10.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
by:
Agatha Christie
4.26 avg rating — 327,576 ratings
11.
The Swimmer
by:
Loreth Anne White
4.13 avg rating — 22,306 ratings
12.
Journey's Paradox (Journey Russo FBI Mystery #6)
by:
Mary Stone
4.55 avg rating — 2,229 ratings
13.
Passions in Death (In Death, #59)
by:
J.D. Robb
4.28 avg rating — 20,226 ratings
14.
The Somerset Slayings (DI Haig Crime Thrillers, #1)
by:
David J. Gatward
4.34 avg rating — 3,117 ratings
15.
What Lies in the Woods
by:
Kate Alice Marshall
3.95 avg rating — 184,470 ratings
16.
Hart's Ridge (Hart's Ridge #1)
by:
Kay Bratt
4.36 avg rating — 12,380 ratings
17.
Echo Road (Mercy Kilpatrick, #9; Bree Taggert, #9)
by:
Kendra Elliot
4.54 avg rating — 17,186 ratings
18.
The Patient's Secret
by:
Loreth Anne White
4.26 avg rating — 60,209 ratings
19.
Stripped Bare (Kate Fox, #1)
by:
Shannon Baker
4.04 avg rating — 7,606 ratings
20.
Dangerous Play (Kate Green, #2)
by:
Elise Hart Kipness
4.26 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
21.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.51 avg rating — 214,398 ratings
22.
The da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
by:
Dan Brown
3.93 avg rating — 2,475,490 ratings
23.
Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
by:
Agatha Christie
4.12 avg rating — 294,137 ratings
24.
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
by:
Agatha Christie
4.03 avg rating — 190,649 ratings
25.
Those Empty Eyes
by:
Charlie Donlea
4.16 avg rating — 76,530 ratings
26.
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
by:
Caleb Carr
4.06 avg rating — 179,486 ratings
27.
Pretty Girls
by:
Karin Slaughter
4.01 avg rating — 631,926 ratings
28.
The Wrong Daughter
by:
Dandy Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 55,906 ratings
29.
Evil Under the Sun (Hercule Poirot, #24)
by:
Agatha Christie
3.98 avg rating — 84,941 ratings
30.
Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
by:
Agatha Christie
4.05 avg rating — 205,299 ratings
30.
The Name of the Rose
by:
Umberto Eco
4.14 avg rating — 387,297 ratings
32.
Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
by:
Patricia Cornwell
4.03 avg rating — 252,310 ratings
33.
The Only One Left
by:
Riley Sager
4.13 avg rating — 519,075 ratings
34.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by:
Agatha Christie
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 484,807 ratings
35.
None of This Is True
by:
Lisa Jewell
4.09 avg rating — 979,822 ratings
36.
Never Lie
by:
Freida McFadden
4.08 avg rating — 1,238,801 ratings
37.
The Maid's Diary
by:
Loreth Anne White
4.22 avg rating — 107,026 ratings
38.
Shadow's Siege (Shadow Island #15)
by:
Mary Stone
4.61 avg rating — 3,996 ratings
39.
Murder in the Family
by:
Cara Hunter
3.72 avg rating — 48,284 ratings
40.
In Cold Blood
by:
Truman Capote
4.09 avg rating — 710,420 ratings
41.
The Daughter of Time (Inspector Alan Grant, #5)
by:
Josephine Tey
3.89 avg rating — 37,201 ratings
42.
The Locked Door
by:
Freida McFadden
3.99 avg rating — 539,360 ratings
43.
Her Name Is Knight (Nena Knight, #1)
by:
Yasmin Angoe
4.32 avg rating — 13,229 ratings
44.
Hidden Pictures
by:
Jason Rekulak
4.16 avg rating — 505,427 ratings
45.
Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)
by:
John Sandford
4.35 avg rating — 26,763 ratings
46.
Sidewinder (Rachel Hatch #11)
by:
L.T. Ryan
4.51 avg rating — 6,597 ratings
47.
The Frozen River
by:
Ariel Lawhon
4.39 avg rating — 410,531 ratings
47.
Winter's Mourn (Winter Black #1)
by:
Mary Stone
4.30 avg rating — 30,900 ratings
49.
The Wife in the Photo
by:
Emily Shiner
3.63 avg rating — 6,295 ratings
50.
The Coworker
by:
Freida McFadden
3.75 avg rating — 496,459 ratings
51.
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by:
Alexander McCall Smith
3.81 avg rating — 273,173 ratings
52.
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by:
Dan Brown
3.95 avg rating — 3,344,025 ratings
53.
Blackbird (Hart's Ridge #9)
by:
Kay Bratt
4.59 avg rating — 4,168 ratings
54.
The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
by:
Raymond Chandler
3.94 avg rating — 165,243 ratings
55.
Strong Poison (Lord Peter Wimsey, #6)
by:
Dorothy L. Sayers
4.14 avg rating — 32,861 ratings
56.
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
by:
Alan Bradley
3.82 avg rating — 176,381 ratings
57.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #3)
by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.30 avg rating — 320,294 ratings
58.
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
4.13 avg rating — 482,381 ratings
59.
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by:
James M. Cain
3.76 avg rating — 47,121 ratings
60.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
by:
Edgar Allan Poe
3.81 avg rating — 41,564 ratings
61.
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #2)
by:
Agatha Christie
3.82 avg rating — 122,131 ratings
62.
The Thin Man
by:
Dashiell Hammett
3.90 avg rating — 37,395 ratings
63.
Nemesis (Miss Marple, #11)
by:
Agatha Christie
3.87 avg rating — 43,239 ratings
64.
The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)
by:
Michael Connelly
4.14 avg rating — 211,604 ratings
65.
A Morbid Taste for Bones (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #1)
by:
Ellis Peters
3.96 avg rating — 43,631 ratings
66.
The Erkeley Shadows
by:
Michael Wyndham Thomas
4.30 avg rating — 8,406 ratings
67.
Burned Out
by:
Dean Mafako
4.30 avg rating — 5,525 ratings
68.
Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody #1)
by:
Elizabeth Peters
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77,760 ratings
69.
The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
by:
Arthur Conan Doyle
3.89 avg rating — 172,338 ratings
70.
The Surgeon
by:
Leslie Wolfe
3.86 avg rating — 58,435 ratings
71.
The Maltese Falcon
by:
Dashiell Hammett
3.87 avg rating — 113,196 ratings
71.
Rebecca
by:
Daphne du Maurier
4.25 avg rating — 697,872 ratings
73.
The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #1)
by:
Laurie R. King
4.04 avg rating — 86,564 ratings
73.
The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)
by:
Dorothy L. Sayers
4.03 avg rating — 21,055 ratings
75.
Lost Identity (Remmich/Miller, #1)
by:
Karl Braungart
4.28 avg rating — 5,904 ratings
76.
4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)
by:
Agatha Christie
3.97 avg rating — 73,605 ratings
77.
A Great Deliverance (Inspector Lynley, #1)
by:
Elizabeth George
4.03 avg rating — 50,910 ratings
78.
Found
by:
Erin Kinsley
4.10 avg rating — 26,573 ratings
79.
Mystic River
by:
Dennis Lehane
4.17 avg rating — 159,020 ratings
80.
You Shouldn't Be Here
by:
Lauren Thoman
3.70 avg rating — 10,071 ratings
81.
Blood Work (Harry Bosch Universe, #7)
by:
Michael Connelly
4.16 avg rating — 60,429 ratings
82.
Double Indemnity
by:
James M. Cain
4.06 avg rating — 27,755 ratings
83.
Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6)
by:
Louise Penny
4.36 avg rating — 94,548 ratings
84.
City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
by:
Don Winslow
4.03 avg rating — 15,361 ratings
85.
Listen To Me (Rizzoli & Isles, #13)
by:
Tess Gerritsen
4.15 avg rating — 21,170 ratings
85.
Last Vote (Emma Last FBI Mystery #10)
by:
Mary Stone
4.61 avg rating — 2,385 ratings
87.
Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)
by:
Martin Cruz Smith
4.04 avg rating — 69,063 ratings
88.
For the Sake of Elena (Inspector Lynley, #5)
by:
Elizabeth George
4.03 avg rating — 17,641 ratings
89.
Cat Among the Pigeons (Hercule Poirot, #36)
by:
Agatha Christie
3.86 avg rating — 48,537 ratings
90.
1st to Die (Women's Murder Club, #1)
by:
James Patterson
4.10 avg rating — 354,537 ratings
91.
Busman's Honeymoon (Lord Peter Wimsey, #13)
by:
Dorothy L. Sayers
4.24 avg rating — 21,667 ratings
92.
The Horror at Murden Cove (A Thomas Austin Crime Thriller #4)
by:
D.D. Black
4.37 avg rating — 5,621 ratings
93.
Hello Little Girl (Hart's Ridge #10)
by:
Kay Bratt
4.59 avg rating — 4,131 ratings
94.
Drawpoint (Blake Brier #4)
by:
L.T. Ryan
4.48 avg rating — 5,432 ratings
95.
The Firm
by:
Robin Waterfield
4.06 avg rating — 634,767 ratings
96.
Not What She Seems
by:
Yasmin Angoe
3.74 avg rating — 18,271 ratings
97.
Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
by:
Dorothy L. Sayers
4.17 avg rating — 24,405 ratings
98.
In the Woods
by:
Tana French
3.78 avg rating — 429,644 ratings
99.
Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs, #1)
by:
Jacqueline Winspear
3.93 avg rating — 120,566 ratings
100.
The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)
by:
Tony Hillerman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30,735 ratings
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