100 Mysteries and Thrillers to Read in a Lifetime

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The Editors at Amazon put together a list of 100 Mysteries & Thrillers Add titles below, and vote on the titles added by fellow readers.
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Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,974 members
687 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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5
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
14,573 members
374 reviews
4
12 Members
merrystar, alex68, rretzler, cej1027, gypsysmom, ahef1963, NinieB, Alguien, TheFineColumbian, jenniferw88, ManWithAnAgenda, steller0707
6
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,252 members
223 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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7
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
19,684 members
365 reviews
½ 3.7
10 Members
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8
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,705 members
472 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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9
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,770 members
334 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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10
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,370 members
302 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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11
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
6,680 members
250 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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12
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,903 members
518 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,254 members
1,637 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,868 members
126 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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15
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
by John le Carré
9,880 members
270 reviews
4
9 Members
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16
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
76,042 members
1,367 reviews
½ 3.5
9 Members
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,887 members
269 reviews
4
6 Members
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18
Still Life
by Louise Penny
7,888 members
473 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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19
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
13,389 members
161 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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20
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
6,447 members
150 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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21
Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
5,951 members
101 reviews
4
7 Members
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22
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,993 members
159 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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23
The Secret of the Old Clock
by Carolyn Keene
7,395 members
90 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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24
A is for Alibi
by Sue Grafton
7,181 members
193 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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25
The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
11,420 members
180 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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26
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
14,842 members
366 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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27
The Gold-Bug and Other Tales [Dover Thrift]
by Edgar Allan Poe
1,080 members
5 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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28
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
3,910 members
144 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
6,022 members
108 reviews
4
5 Members
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30
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,266 members
648 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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31
Shōgun
by James Clavell
9,257 members
151 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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32
Post-Mortem
by Patricia Cornwell
7,950 members
120 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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33
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,990 members
88 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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34
A Great Deliverance
by Elizabeth George
4,009 members
122 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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35
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
by P. D. James
2,865 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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36
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,731 members
206 reviews
4
4 Members
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37
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
12,530 members
133 reviews
4
4 Members
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38
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
16,392 members
657 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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39
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
by Donald J. Sobol
5,046 members
43 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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40
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
12,749 members
322 reviews
4
4 Members
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41
Misery
by Stephen King
18,341 members
242 reviews
4
3 Members
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42
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,398 members
125 reviews
3.8
3 Members
Stav, longway, blackdove07
43
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
15,279 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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44
The Tower Treasure
by Franklin W. Dixon
5,008 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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45
The Poet
by Michael Connelly
5,746 members
128 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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46
The Circular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1,069 members
44 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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47
Killing Floor
by Lee Child
10,013 members
333 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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48
The Bat
by Jo Nesbo
4,439 members
206 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
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49
Raise the Titanic!
by Clive Cussler
3,521 members
51 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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50
In the Woods
by Tana French
11,740 members
632 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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51
The Neon Rain
by James Lee Burke
2,041 members
81 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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52
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
10,471 members
262 reviews
4
3 Members
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53
One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich
12,513 members
403 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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54
Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
4,205 members
85 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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55
The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
10,750 members
165 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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56
A Judgement in Stone
by Ruth Rendell
1,165 members
36 reviews
4
3 Members
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57
Fer-de-Lance
by Rex Stout
2,166 members
78 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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58
I Am the Only Running Footman
by Martha Grimes
1,085 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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59
The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
4,863 members
153 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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60
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,648 members
97 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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61
L. A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
3,711 members
42 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Stav, alex68
62
Kiss the Girls
by James Patterson
6,828 members
94 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, TheFineColumbian
63
Blindsighted
by Karin Slaughter
3,804 members
124 reviews
3.8
2 Members
NinieB, TheFineColumbian
64
The Strangers in the House
by Georges Simenon
488 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
65
Clockers
by Richard Price
1,399 members
31 reviews
4
2 Members
fvg, deldevries
66
The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald
929 members
21 reviews
3.8
2 Members
fvg, NinieB
67
The Eiger Sanction
by Trevanian
920 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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68
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
5,286 members
113 reviews
4
2 Members
blackdove07, gypsysmom
69
The Bone Collector
by Jeffrey Deaver
4,842 members
116 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
2,263 members
67 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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71
Devil in a Blue Dress + Crimson Stain
by Walter Mosley
1,363 members
49 reviews
3.8
2 Members
gypsysmom, NinieB
72
From Russia with Love
by Ian Fleming
4,271 members
71 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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73
Get Shorty
by Elmore Leonard
2,584 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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74
Into the Darkest Corner
by Elizabeth Haynes
1,530 members
113 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
75
Night Soldiers
by Alan Furst
1,697 members
54 reviews
3.9
Member
fvg
76
A Rage in Harlem
by Chester Himes
973 members
37 reviews
3.8
Member
blackdove07
77
Cape Fear
by John D. MacDonald
760 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
fvg
78
Relic
by Douglas Preston
5,840 members
163 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
79
From Hell
by Alan Moore
4,275 members
92 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
80
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
2,729 members
131 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
NinieB
81
A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
2,152 members
61 reviews
3.8
Member
NinieB
82
The Last Good Kiss
by James Crumley
1,101 members
38 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
83
Before I Go to Sleep
by S. J. Watson
6,838 members
489 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
84
The Kill Artist
by Daniel Silva
2,844 members
79 reviews
3.8
85
Where Are the Children?
by Mary Higgins Clark
2,663 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
86
Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell
2,658 members
144 reviews
4
87
Sister
by Rosamund Lupton
2,334 members
147 reviews
½ 3.7
88
Pulp
by Charles Bukowski
2,234 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
89
A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
2,085 members
62 reviews
3.9
90
March Violets
by Philip Kerr
1,381 members
67 reviews
½ 3.6
91
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
1,009 members
36 reviews
3.9
92
I, the Jury
by Mickey Spillane
815 members
31 reviews
½ 3.4
93
Wife of the Gods
by Kwei Quartey
602 members
83 reviews
3.8
94
Nick's Trip
by George P. Pelecanos
336 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
95
True Confessions
by John Gregory Dunne
302 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
96
Brothers
by William Goldman
248 members
2 reviews
3.1
97
Evil and the Mask
by Fuminori Nakamura
196 members
10 reviews
½ 3.6
98
The Hot Spot [1990 film]
by Dennis Hopper
29 members
1 review
4
99
The Eight
by Katherine Neville
5,267 members
147 reviews
½ 3.7
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