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2017 Staff Picks: Mystery and Suspense

Our readers advisory staff recommend some of their favorite mysteries that they've read in the past year. You'll find them on the first floor, separate from the general fiction, on the specially-labeled shelves.

  • Magpie Murders

    2017 by Horowitz, Anthony

    "You get two great mysteries for the price of one in this tour de force of fair play detection. The 'book within this book' reads like the best detective story Agatha Christie never wrote while the frame story is an almost equally confounding puzzler. This is a mystery for those who love the classics of the genre."

    Recommended by Steven.

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  • The Lying Game

    2017 by Ware, Ruth

    "A thriller that kept me on my toes to the very end. Great characters and fantastic atmosphere. Ware is really proving herself to be a top-notch thriller writer."

    Recommended by Cecilia.

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  • The Nowhere Man

    2017 by Hurwitz, Gregg Andrew

    "Evan Smoak is a man with skills, resources, and a personal mission to help those with nowhere else to turn. He is back in this sequel that is action packed; and is back to using his old tricks."

    Recommended by Dan.

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  • The Girl Who Takes An Eye for An Eye

    2017 by Lagercrantz, David

    "The fifth installment of the Steif Larsson series will not disappoint. Lisbeth Salander, hacker supreme, continues her quest to right current social/political/criminal wrongs as well as explore her past. As with the previous books, I couldn't put this down and marvel at Larsson's vision for his spectacular character and story."

    Recommended by Mary.

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  • The White Devil

    2016 by Stansberry, Domenic

    "Take a plot (and title) from the lurid seventeenth-century tragedian John Webster, add a touch of Alfred Hitchcock and Frederico Fellini, and filter it all through the sensibilities of Vanity Fair magazine and you might get this perfectly polished noir gem. This is one of those rare books where not a single word is wasted as the author tells his dark and decadent tale."

    Recommended by Steven.

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  • I See You

    2017 by Mackintosh, Clare

    "Great thriller set in London about a woman who becomes involved in a murder mystery after she stumbles on some clues. Macintosh sets the perfect stage for a tense and riveting thriller."

    Recommended by Cecilia.

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  • A Fever of the Blood

    2017 by De Muriel, Oscar

    "De Muriel proves his first McGray and Frey mystery was no fluke in this equally skillful follow-up. Once again, he blends humor and horror, history and mystery, as his pair of mismatched investigators take on a sinister coven of witches in late Victorian Scotland." R

    Recommended by Steven.

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