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1

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,971 members

190 reviews

3.9

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2

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

by Stieg Larsson

42,094 members

1,718 reviews

4

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3

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

42,628 members

477 reviews

4.2

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4

The Thirteenth Tale

by Diane Setterfield

16,787 members

902 reviews

4

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5

by Daphne Du Maurier

19,893 members

585 reviews

4.2

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6

by Gillian Flynn

21,262 members

1,516 reviews

3.9

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7

by Wilkie Collins

10,485 members

246 reviews

4

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8

by Raymond Chandler

9,980 members

277 reviews

4

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9

by Patricia Cornwell

7,047 members

104 reviews

½ 3.7

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10

The Daughter of Time

by Josephine Tey

5,727 members

225 reviews

4

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11

by Dorothy L. Sayers

5,320 members

144 reviews

½ 4.3

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12

True History of the Kelly Gang

4,141 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

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13

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

by Agatha Christie

4,255 members

53 reviews

3.8

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14

Death in Holy Orders

3,597 members

51 reviews

3.8

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15

Knots and Crosses

3,530 members

130 reviews

½ 3.5

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16

Before the Frost

by Henning Mankell

2,555 members

58 reviews

½ 3.7

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17

by Mark Billingham

1,265 members

48 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, jenniferw88

18

The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

12,174 members

91 reviews

½ 4.4

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19

The Long Goodbye

by Raymond Chandler

5,098 members

113 reviews

4.2

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20

by Kate Atkinson

4,267 members

211 reviews

3.8

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21

Presumed Innocent

4,255 members

73 reviews

3.9

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22

4,333 members

155 reviews

3.8

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23

Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,856 members

92 reviews

4.2

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24

by Agatha Christie

3,496 members

77 reviews

½ 3.7

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25

The Keeper of Lost Causes

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

3,547 members

209 reviews

3.9

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26

The Postman Always Rings Twice

by James M. Cain

3,375 members

125 reviews

½ 3.7

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27

The Man from Beijing

by Henning Mankell

2,410 members

116 reviews

½ 3.4

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28

by Agatha Christie

2,805 members

64 reviews

½ 3.6

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29

Shroud for a Nightingale

2,130 members

41 reviews

3.8

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30

The Troubled Man

by Henning Mankell

2,192 members

86 reviews

3.9

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31

2,411 members

145 reviews

½ 3.4

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32

The Virgin in the Ice

by Ellis Peters

2,016 members

45 reviews

4

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33

The Leper of Saint Giles

by Ellis Peters

1,913 members

43 reviews

3.9

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34

by Josephine Tey

1,842 members

74 reviews

4

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35

by Dick Francis

1,500 members

30 reviews

3.9

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36

by Arnaldur Indriðason

1,438 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

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37

The Remorseful Day

by Colin Dexter

1,435 members

17 reviews

4

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38

by Dick Francis

1,314 members

21 reviews

3.8

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39

A Conspiracy of Faith

by Jussi Adler-Olsen

1,655 members

101 reviews

4

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40

1,908 members

87 reviews

4

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41

by Arnaldur Indridason

1,287 members

68 reviews

3.8

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42

The Devotion of Suspect X

by Keigo Higashino

1,752 members

235 reviews

3.8

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43

The Broken Shore

by Peter Temple

1,165 members

52 reviews

½ 3.7

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44

1,029 members

35 reviews

3.8

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45

A Judgement in Stone

by Ruth Rendell

1,019 members

30 reviews

4

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46

Forty Words for Sorrow

897 members

56 reviews

½ 3.7

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47

1,257 members

81 reviews

½ 3.7

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48

by Mark Billingham

749 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

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Started: ahef1963
May 2017
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