Unputdownable Mysteries
Get ready for thrills, chills and not-your-typical whodunits.
O, The Oprah Magazine | November 06, 2010
Laura Lippman
352 pages
You may not want to go home again, but sometimes you have no choice.
Deborah Lawrenson
400 pages
A bookish young woman + a mysterious older man + a crumbling farmhouse = a luscious mix of romance and gothic ghost story.
Monika Fagerholm
528 pages
Nothing is obvious in The American Girl, a deliciously complex novel by award-winning Scandinavian writer Monika Fagerholm, which is part literary mystery and part sexual coming-of-age story.
Sophie Hannah
432 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah, an irresistibly convoluted new thriller about lust, loyalty, and the violent emotions of motherhood.
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Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she's flying back to New Jersey solo, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her seatmate never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he's dead, in a garbage can, waiting for curbside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.

Only one other person has seen the missing photograph-Stephanie Plum. Now she's the target, and she doesn't intend to end up in a garbage can. With the help of an FBI sketch artist Stephanie re-creates the person in the photo. Unfortunately the first sketch turns out to look like Tom Cruise, and the second sketch like Ashton Kutcher. Until Stephanie can improve her descriptive skills, she'll need to watch her back.

Over at the Bail Bonds Agency it's business as usual-until the bonds bus serving as Vinnie's temporary HQ goes up in smoke, Stephanie's wheelman, Lula, falls in love with their "largest" FTA yet, lifetime arch nemesis Joyce Barnhardt moves into Stephanie's apartment, and everyone wants to know what happened in Hawaii?!

Morelli, Trenton's hottest cop, isn't talking about Hawaii. Ranger, the man of mystery, isn't talking about Hawaii. And all Stephanie is willing to say about her Hawaiian vacation is... It's complicated.
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Bernhard Schlink
334 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews Self's Deception by Bernhard Schlink for O, The Oprah Magazine
Kate Atkinson
384 pages
Mixing wry wit and gritty realism, Atkinson deftly smudges the border between literary and detective fiction—with complex, compelling characters negotiating a maze of grisly violence, dark secrets, and shadowy dangers.
Edward Conlon
464 pages
Fans of Edward Conlon's Blue Blood, a memoir about his career in the New York City Police Department, have waited seven long years for his debut novel, Red on Red (Spiegel & Grau). And it was so worth the wait.
Patricia Highsmith
1520 pages
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Walter Mosley
320 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews The Long Fall by Walter Mosley, a novel following a private investigator and former boxer beset by midlife regrets and terrors.
Denis Johnson
208 pages
Vince Passaro reviews Nobody Move by Denis Johnson , a gritty, witty, shoot-'em-up tale.
Debra Ginsberg
352 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews The Grift by Debra Ginsberg for O, The Oprah Magazine
Ruth Rendell
320 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell for O, The Oprah Magazine
Catherine O'Flynn
256 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn for O, The Oprah Magazine
Patrick McGrath
224 pages
Francine Prose reviews Trauma by Patrick McGrath for O, The Oprah Magazine
Castle Freeman Jr.
176 pages
Cathleen Medwick reviews Go With Me by Castle Freeman Jr. for O, The Oprah Magazine
Alice LaPlante
320 pages
A literary thriller narrated by a surgeon suspected of killing her best friend. The twist: She has dementia and doesn't know if she did it.
T.C. Boyle
340 pages
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Diane Johnson
320 pages
Pam Houston reviews Lulu in Marrakech by Diane Johnson.
Margaret Leroy
352 pages
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Julia Stuart
336 pages
This mystery is a delicate yet kooky romp. At the book's heart is Mink, formally known as Her Highness Princess Alexandrina, daughter of the Maharaja of Prindur. Raised by her exiled father in England, the princess finds herself destitute upon his death thanks to his taste for luxury.
Tabish Khair
256 pages
Amir Ali has changed his identity to escape from a family feud in India. He claims to be an ex-Thug, a former member of the (made-up) Thuggee cult, which murders people for the sake of killing. As such, he allows himself to be "studied" by a phrenologist—a man who researches the so-called science of skulls and how their shape determines character.
Mark Pryor
280 pages
Much like a baguette, this fabulous story is crusty on the outside, sweet on the inside, and once you've had a bit, you can't wait for more.
Susan Elia MacNeal
384 pages
Whether you read Mr. Churchill's Secretary, the first installment in this series, or you're just making Miss Hope's acquaintance, she'll draw you in from the first page. By the end, you'll be her loyal subject, ready to follow her wherever she goes—especially through the pages of a third installment.
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