3 hand-picked mystery/thriller and puzzle-solving books curated by NextBookAfter.
For fans of The Da Vinci Code's intellectual puzzles and secret societies, The Club Dumas offers a thrilling dive into literary mysteries and occult conspiracies, blending rare book hunting with devilish enigmas that challenge perceptions of history and fiction.
A gripping modern Gothic thriller where a young woman inherits a mysterious fortune, uncovering dark family secrets in a crumbling Cornish estate, delivering the same atmospheric chills and shocking twists that fans of The Only One Left crave.
If you fell for the country-house whodunit elegance of A Man Lay Dead, you need Crispin's vanishing toyshop mystery—where every clue is a fair-play challenge, every character is delightfully absurd, and Gervase Fen brings the same suave detective brilliance as Inspector Alleyn but with twice the speed and literary mischief. Golden Age puzzles have never felt this alive.