The best mystery novels don’t simply dazzle readers with byzantine plots or throw them off track with unreliable narrators or Macguffins. Here, works from Attica Locke, Megan Abbott, and more.

Tana French, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Sujata Massey—TIME presents the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books, in chronological order beginning in the ...

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Our columnist on new books from T.J. Newman, Andrea Mara and A.E. Gauntlett. By Sarah Lyall Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far.

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