Mystery

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term that is often used as a synonym of detective fiction — in other words a novel or short story in which a detective (either professional or amateur) solves a crime. The term "mystery fiction" may sometimes be limited to the subset of detective stories in which the emphasis is on the puzzle element and its logical solution (cf. whodunit), as a contrast to hardboiled detective stories which focus on action and gritty realism. However, in more general usage "mystery" may be used to describe any form of crime fiction, even if there is no mystery to be solved ...more

A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)
The Gilded Cage
Arrowood
Vicarious (Vicarious, #1)
By Gaslight
Ghostly Echoes (Jackaby, #3)
Crowned and Dangerous (Her Royal Spyness, #10)
Her Darkest Nightmare (The Evelyn Talbot Chronicles, #1)
The Telling
The American Girl
Wax
Three Truths and a Lie
The Shattered Tree (Bess Crawford, #8)
The Smaller Evil
Beauty and the Clockwork Beast (Steampunk Proper Romance #1)

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    Henry David Thoreau
    We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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