Murder mystery books
Books built around a killing and the question of who did it and why. Alan Moore's Watchmen opens with the murder of a masked hero, From Hell revisits the Jack the Ripper case, and Stephen King's The Green Mile turns on a man condemned for a crime he did not commit. Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Nothing traces a real killing during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
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- 1Watchmen
8.98.9 / 10 - 2Say Nothing
8.88.8 / 10 - 3A Drop of Corruption
8.78.7 / 10 - 4The Green Mile
8.68.6 / 10 - 5Men at Arms
8.68.6 / 10 - 6From Hell
8.58.5 / 10 - 7The Rithmatist
8.48.4 / 10 - 8And Then There Were None
8.48.4 / 10 - 9The Sandman
8.48.4 / 10 - 10The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
8.48.4 / 10 - 11House of Earth and Blood
8.48.4 / 10 - 12Fugitive Telemetry
8.38.3 / 10 - 13A Memory Called Empire
8.38.3 / 10 - 14The Raven Scholar
8.38.3 / 10 - 15A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
8.38.3 / 10 - 16Killers of the Flower Moon
8.38.3 / 10 - 17Cemetery Boys
8.38.3 / 10 - 18Firekeeper's Daughter
8.28.2 / 10 - 19The Brothers Karamazov
8.28.2 / 10 - 20Identity Crisis
8.28.2 / 10 - 21Big Little Lies
8.28.2 / 10 - 22Rebecca
8.28.2 / 10 - 23City of Stairs
8.28.2 / 10 - 24The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
8.28.2 / 10 - 25Lady Midnight
8.28.2 / 10 - 26Gideon the Ninth
8.28.2 / 10 - 27Red Dragon
7.97.9 / 10 - 28The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
7.97.9 / 10 - 29The Thursday Murder Club
7.77.7 / 10 - 30Storm Front
7.57.5 / 10