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Not your Average Detective/Mystery Books

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Unusual detective/mystery books that I am obsessed with. All 4-5 star reads! Some have elements of sci-fi but are mysteries
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Horowitz- some of the best

 
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I love all of his detective books. There are none quite like them, they are just so clever and funny
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3) by Anthony Horowitz
 
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I love every book in this series
Close to Death: A Novel
 
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I always with there were more of these
Moonflower Murders: A Novel by Anthony Horowitz
 
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Part of one of my favorite series
The Twist of a Knife (Hawthorne & Horowitz #4)
 
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Some of the best mystery series
A Line to Kill: A Hawthorne & Horowitz Mystery

More Sci-Fi Detective

 
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Has a similar feel to gun with occasional music, great to pair together. Really good.
Two Truths and a Lie by Cory O'Brien
 
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Sci-fi detective story. Dark humor. Very good. I read this around the same time as two truths and a lie and I thought they went well together
Gun, With Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
 
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Really well done. I love a sci-fi mystery
The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Classic Mystery

 
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Feels very Agatha like. Great book
The Eighth Detective by Alex Pavesi
 
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One of my all time favorites of Christie
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Hercule Poirot
 
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My favorite Christie book
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
 
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I love this entire series. It’s fantastic
A Rising Man: Wyndham & Banerjee Mysteries

Unusual but not Sci-Fi

 
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I loved this- so unusual, fairly dark at times. Loved the narrator
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk

Sci-Fi Mystery

 
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Flew threw this one
The Broken Girls by Simone St. James
 
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Very unusual and well told
Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson