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Best and worst murder mysteries / thrillers (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Hstansss@kbin.social to c/books@kbin.social

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I've been on a binge this year of reading some fairly good and some terribly bad thrillers and mystery books. I just finished reading "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, which I greatly enjoyed, particularly after reading the Silent Patient, which I thought was awful.

Any favorites of the genre you'd recommend? Any terrible ones you'd steer away from?

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[–] Pegatron@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is the best Agatha Christie. Go in blind. For non-Poirot books, Crooked House and Murder at the Vicarage are also top shelf.

If you like Christie, I would also recommend Louise Penny. She's very stylistically and thematically similar. Still Life is a great mystery and also a nice window into a cute pastoral Canadian town.

For something off the wall, Leech by Hiron Ennis. A detective is dispatched to a snowbound manor house to investigate the death of his predecessor. However, the detective is a sentient parasitic leech hivemind and the killer he pursues is an alien fungus body snatcher.

[–] Hstansss@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh these all sound great! Haven't read a ton of Christie so am looking forward to checking these out