Books About Murder

1
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
47,932 members
1,396 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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2
The Green Mile
by Stephen King
14,284 members
176 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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3
The Daughter of Time
by Josephine Tey
6,680 members
250 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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4
The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins
76,850 members
3,643 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
10,014 members
213 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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6
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
14,173 members
162 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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7
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,368 members
504 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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8
In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
26,903 members
518 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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9
A Time to Kill
by John Grisham
13,389 members
161 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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10
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
48,001 members
1,819 reviews
4
3 Members
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11
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,267 members
648 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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12
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
14,842 members
366 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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13
The Mirror Crack'd
by Agatha Christie
4,421 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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14
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
83,024 members
1,304 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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15
The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins
21,867 members
1,190 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
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16
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
49,915 members
1,202 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
12,129 members
384 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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18
Mr. Mercedes
by Stephen King
8,112 members
377 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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19
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
17,913 members
341 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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20
Watchmen
by Alan Moore
21,075 members
519 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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21
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
29,944 members
261 reviews
4
3 Members
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22
The Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson
33,709 members
977 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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23
The Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
7,318 members
218 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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24
Bitter Harvest
by Ann Rule
864 members
19 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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25
Farewell, My Lovely
by Raymond Chandler
5,070 members
113 reviews
4
3 Members
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26
Feet of Clay
by Terry Pratchett
11,190 members
134 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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27
The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
38,622 members
974 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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28
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
by Patrick Süskind
20,331 members
497 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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29
Busman's Honeymoon
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,285 members
100 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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30
Presumed Innocent
by Scott Turow
4,990 members
88 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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31
Julius Caesar (New Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
2,830 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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32
The Long Goodbye
by Raymond Chandler
5,868 members
126 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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33
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
15,375 members
273 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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34
Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
44,663 members
724 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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35
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins
14,573 members
374 reviews
4
3 Members
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36
Snow Falling on Cedars
by David Guterson
13,904 members
198 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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37
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
51,167 members
811 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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38
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco
21,770 members
334 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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39
Murder Must Advertise
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,127 members
112 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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40
The Shining
by Stephen King
27,406 members
530 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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41
The Graveyard Book
by Neil Gaiman
24,941 members
1,314 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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42
Murder on the Orient Express
by Agatha Christie
20,705 members
472 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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43
Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
23,974 members
687 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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44
The Brutal Telling
by Louise Penny
3,655 members
301 reviews
4
2 Members
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45
The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
11,537 members
315 reviews
4
2 Members
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46
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
25,547 members
615 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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47
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,603 members
447 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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48
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,390 members
336 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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49
Everything She Ever Wanted
by Ann Rule
712 members
8 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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50
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
3,679 members
178 reviews
4
2 Members
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51
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by Erik Larson
25,242 members
758 reviews
4
2 Members
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52
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
7,300 members
164 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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53
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
by Agatha Christie
5,398 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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54
The Dark Half
by Stephen King
10,410 members
81 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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55
Bury Your Dead
by Louise Penny
3,555 members
239 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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56
Whose Body?
by Dorothy L. Sayers
5,558 members
221 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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57
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
by Vincent Bugliosi
5,769 members
100 reviews
4
2 Members
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58
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
40,902 members
581 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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59
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,851 members
124 reviews
4
3 Members
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60
The Postman Always Rings Twice
by James M. Cain
3,910 members
144 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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61
The Cruelest Month
by Louise Penny
3,846 members
205 reviews
4
2 Members
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62
Nemesis
by Agatha Christie
4,184 members
92 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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63
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
9,297 members
356 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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64
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
11,008 members
351 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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65
Finders Keepers
by Stephen King
5,738 members
220 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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66
Post-Mortem
by Patricia Cornwell
7,950 members
120 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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67
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
18,486 members
275 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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68
At Bertram's Hotel
by Agatha Christie
4,413 members
95 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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69
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
11,938 members
377 reviews
4
2 Members
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70
Déjà Dead
by Kathy Reichs
7,076 members
171 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
71
The Sign of the Four
by Arthur Conan Doyle
5,880 members
195 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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72
A Painted House
by John Grisham
10,361 members
123 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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73
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
by Stieg Larsson
28,152 members
776 reviews
4.1
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
74
Body of Evidence
by Patricia Cornwell
5,979 members
65 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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75
Clouds of Witness
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,048 members
113 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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76
The Body in the Library
by Agatha Christie
6,730 members
172 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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77
Sleeping Murder
by Agatha Christie
5,049 members
87 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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78
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
10,640 members
446 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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79
Dead to the World
by Charlaine Harris
11,277 members
251 reviews
4
2 Members
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80
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
8,549 members
412 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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81
Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
4,186 members
305 reviews
4
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
82
Police
by Jo Nesbø
2,286 members
92 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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83
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
10,591 members
193 reviews
4
2 Members
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84
The Husband's Secret
by Liane Moriarty
7,268 members
419 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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85
Dead by Sunset
by Ann Rule
821 members
10 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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86
Killing Mr. Griffin
by Lois Duncan
1,317 members
41 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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87
Murder on the Links
by Agatha Christie
5,542 members
147 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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88
A Murder Is Announced
by Agatha Christie
5,490 members
113 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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89
Phantom
by Jo Nesbø
2,623 members
86 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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90
The Pelican Brief
by John Grisham
12,121 members
100 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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91
Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal
by Ann Rule
845 members
26 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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92
Death in Holy Orders
by P. D. James
3,988 members
58 reviews
3.8
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
93
–And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano, the Deadly Seducer
by Ann Rule
734 members
13 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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94
Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
8,747 members
448 reviews
4.1
2 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963
95
Strong Poison
by Dorothy L. Sayers
4,873 members
140 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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96
A is for Alibi
by Sue Grafton
7,181 members
193 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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97
The Surgeon
by Tess Gerritsen
4,863 members
153 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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98
Cover Her Face
by P. D. James
3,695 members
97 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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99
The Pact
by Jodi Picoult
9,290 members
191 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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100
Death du Jour
by Kathy Reichs
5,149 members
95 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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