BEST MYSTERY NOVELS NEVER READ SERIALImage: Publishers Weekly The 20 top detective novels reviewed here A Conspiracy of Faith (Department Q #3) by Jussi Adler-Olsen (2013) 508 pages ★★★★★ - A captivating tale of religious fanaticism, blackmail, and serial murder The logo hovering above them recalls Edgar Allen Poe, whose eponymous award these people have all won. But, chances are, you’ve read some of their books. If you’re a mystery fan, you may not recognize any of the faces in this picture. Keep in mind that every one of these 200+ suspenseful detective novels is linked to the review I posted on this site. In both lists, books are listed alphabetically by the authors’ last names. When I find a series of novels that I like, I usually try to read them all from the first book to the latest. As you can see, many authors appear numerous times. I’ve assigned nearly all of them either a rating of ★★★★☆ or ★★★★★. In other words, you’ll find here only the best of those I’ve read and reviewed here to date. Below, I’ve listed more than 200 other excellent detective novels reviewed here. In this list of the top 20, I’ve arbitrarily limited myself to one book per author, which is significant because several of the authors might easily appear here multiple times. This post was updated on October 4, 2022. And they’re the best of the more than 250 detective novels I’ve read over the past decade. But, for what it’s worth, I gave every one of these 20 books a rating of ★★★★★. I’d read a lot of work in the genre even before I began writing these reviews in January 2010-and there are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of detective novels I’ve never read. The 20 detective novels listed below may not be the 20 “best” detective novels, even by my uniquely idiosyncratic criteria.
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