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
23,902 members
685 reviews
4.2
11 Members
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5
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
14,514 members
374 reviews
4
12 Members
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6
The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
7,229 members
221 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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8
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,574 members
470 reviews
4.1
10 Members
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9
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,740 members
335 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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10
The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
10,327 members
302 reviews
3.9
10 Members
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The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
6,562 members
252 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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12
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,797 members
515 reviews
4.1
9 Members
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,332 members
1,630 reviews
3.9
9 Members
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The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,863 members
126 reviews
4.2
9 Members
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15
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
by John le Carré
9,848 members
270 reviews
4
9 Members
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16
The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
75,847 members
1,365 reviews
½ 3.5
9 Members
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17
The Trial
by Franz Kafka
22,836 members
267 reviews
4
6 Members
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18
Still Life
by Louise Penny
7,842 members
472 reviews
3.8
7 Members
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19
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
13,341 members
161 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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20
Mystic River
by Dennis Lehane
6,420 members
150 reviews
4.1
6 Members
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21
Eye of the Needle
by Ken Follett
5,953 members
100 reviews
4
7 Members
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22
Gaudy Night
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,971 members
158 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
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23
The Secret of the Old Clock
by Carolyn Keene
7,345 members
90 reviews
3.8
6 Members
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24
A is for Alibi
by Sue Grafton
7,159 members
193 reviews
½ 3.5
6 Members
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25
The Andromeda Strain
by Michael Crichton
11,365 members
178 reviews
½ 3.7
6 Members
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26
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
14,777 members
364 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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27
The Gold-Bug and Other Tales [Dover Thrift]
by Edgar Allan Poe
1,078 members
5 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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28
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
3,890 members
144 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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The Day of the Jackal
by Frederick Forsyth
6,006 members
108 reviews
4
5 Members
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30
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,105 members
643 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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31
Shōgun
by James Clavell
9,228 members
151 reviews
½ 4.3
5 Members
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32
Post-Mortem
by Patricia Cornwell
7,915 members
119 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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33
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,824 members
88 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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34
A Great Deliverance
by Elizabeth George
4,003 members
121 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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35
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
by P. D. James
2,857 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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36
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,702 members
206 reviews
4
4 Members
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37
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
12,464 members
132 reviews
4
4 Members
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38
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
16,298 members
653 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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39
Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
by Donald J. Sobol
5,030 members
43 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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40
No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
12,691 members
322 reviews
4
4 Members
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41
Misery
by Stephen King
18,208 members
243 reviews
4
3 Members
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42
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
11,359 members
125 reviews
3.8
3 Members
Stav, longway, blackdove07
43
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
by Alexander McCall Smith
15,239 members
426 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
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44
The Tower Treasure
by Franklin W. Dixon
4,970 members
52 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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45
The Poet
by Michael Connelly
5,724 members
128 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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46
The Circular Staircase
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
1,066 members
44 reviews
½ 3.4
3 Members
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47
Killing Floor
by Lee Child
9,998 members
333 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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48
The Bat
by Jo Nesbø
4,498 members
207 reviews
½ 3.3
3 Members
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49
Raise the Titanic!
by Clive Cussler
3,515 members
51 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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50
In the Woods
by Tana French
11,663 members
630 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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51
The Neon Rain
by James Lee Burke
2,037 members
82 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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52
The Alienist
by Caleb Carr
10,421 members
262 reviews
4
3 Members
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53
One for the Money
by Janet Evanovich
12,488 members
403 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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54
Gorky Park
by Martin Cruz Smith
4,186 members
85 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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55
The Bourne Identity
by Robert Ludlum
10,720 members
165 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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56
A Judgement in Stone
by Ruth Rendell
1,161 members
36 reviews
4
3 Members
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57
Fer-de-Lance
by Rex Stout
2,057 members
77 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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58
I Am the Only Running Footman
by Martha Grimes
1,076 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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59
The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
4,834 members
152 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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60
The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
2,638 members
96 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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61
L. A. Confidential
by James Ellroy
3,700 members
41 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Stav, alex68
62
Kiss the Girls
by James Patterson
6,800 members
94 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, TheFineColumbian
63
Blindsighted
by Karin Slaughter
3,833 members
123 reviews
3.8
2 Members
NinieB, TheFineColumbian
64
The Strangers in the House
by Georges Simenon
487 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
65
Clockers
by Richard Price
1,398 members
31 reviews
4
2 Members
fvg, deldevries
66
The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonald
928 members
20 reviews
3.8
2 Members
fvg, NinieB
67
The Eiger Sanction
by Trevanian
917 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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68
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem
5,271 members
113 reviews
4
2 Members
blackdove07, gypsysmom
69
The Bone Collector
by Jeffrey Deaver
4,821 members
115 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
Dance Hall of the Dead
by Tony Hillerman
2,264 members
67 reviews
3.8
2 Members
gypsysmom, NinieB
71
Devil in a Blue Dress + Crimson Stain
by Walter Mosley
1,360 members
49 reviews
3.8
2 Members
gypsysmom, NinieB
72
From Russia with Love
by Ian Fleming
4,251 members
72 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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73
Get Shorty
by Elmore Leonard
2,575 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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74
Into the Darkest Corner
by Elizabeth Haynes
1,527 members
112 reviews
4
Member
kara.shamy
75
Night Soldiers
by Alan Furst
1,695 members
54 reviews
3.9
Member
fvg
76
A Rage in Harlem
by Chester Himes
967 members
36 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
5,822 members
162 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
79
From Hell
by Alan Moore
4,265 members
93 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
80
What the Dead Know
by Laura Lippman
2,712 members
131 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
NinieB
81
A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
2,146 members
62 reviews
3.8
Member
NinieB
82
The Last Good Kiss
by James Crumley
1,094 members
38 reviews
3.9
Member
NinieB
83
Before I Go to Sleep
by S. J. Watson
6,810 members
488 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
84
The Kill Artist
by Daniel Silva
2,835 members
79 reviews
3.8
85
Winter's Bone
by Daniel Woodrell
2,652 members
146 reviews
4
86
Where Are the Children?
by Mary Higgins Clark
2,649 members
38 reviews
½ 3.6
87
Sister
by Rosamund Lupton
2,320 members
147 reviews
½ 3.7
88
Pulp
by Charles Bukowski
2,232 members
36 reviews
½ 3.6
89
A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
2,077 members
61 reviews
3.9
90
March Violets
by Philip Kerr
1,372 members
67 reviews
½ 3.6
91
The Hot Rock
by Donald E. Westlake
1,007 members
36 reviews
3.9
92
I, the Jury
by Mickey Spillane
812 members
30 reviews
½ 3.4
93
Wife of the Gods
by Kwei Quartey
599 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
247 members
2 reviews
3.1
97
Evil and the Mask
by Fuminori Nakamura
194 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
5,358 members
145 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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