Mysteries and Puzzles for Adults

Updated February 18, 2025
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The Kamogawa food detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto...
The puzzle box : a novel
Trussoni, Danielle
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . "A fun, DaVinci Code-style blend of puzzles, mysticism and high-octane action" (People, Best Books of the Month), from the author of The Puzzle Master "This rip-roaring adventure thriller is an escapist puzzle box of delights- a...
The motion paradox : the 2,500-year-old puzzle behind all the mysteries of time and space
Mazur, Joseph.
Paper Book
The epic tale of an ancient, unsolved puzzle and how it relates to all scientific attempts to explain the basic structure of the universe At the dawn of science the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno formulated his paradox of motion, and amazingly, it is still on the cutting edge of all...
The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America's enemies
Fagone, Jason
Paper Book
National Bestseller  NPR Best Book of the Year "Not all superheroes wear capes, and Elizebeth Smith Friedman should be the subject of a future Wonder Woman movie." --The New York Times Joining the ranks of Hidden Figures and In the Garden of Beasts, the incredible true...
The puzzler : one man's quest to solve the most baffling puzzles ever, from crosswords to jigsaws to the meaning of life
Jacobs, A. J.
Paper Book
The New York Timesbestselling author of The Year of Living Biblicallygoes on a rollicking journey to understand the enduring power of puzzles- why we love them, what they do to our brains, and how they can improve our world. "Even though I've never attempted the...
Crimebits: 100 Opening Gambits for Great Thrillers & Linked Mystery Puzzles
Child, Lee
Paper Book
Crimebits - 100 opening gambits for great thrillers, selected by and with an introduction from Lee Child. Murdle meets Lee Child in this unique, interactive puzzle book of best first page thrillers, including Lee Child's judge's notes, and an eye-opening exclusive...
Cryptonomicon
Stephenson, Neal.
Paper Book
With this extraordinary first volume in an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century. In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse--mathematical...
The antiquity affair : a novel
Kelly, Lee
Paper Book
An archaeologist's estranged daughters. 1907: The dawn of Egyptology is a time of imperialism and plunder, opulence and unrest, and Dr. Warren Ford, esteemed archaeologist, is the man of the hour. His daughters--intellectual Lila, on the eve of her debut as a Manhattan socialite, and...
A bend in the stars
Barenbaum, Rachel
Paper Book
All the Light We Cannot See meets The Nightingale in this literary WWI-era novel and epic love story of a brilliant young doctor who races against Einstein to solve one of the universe's great mysteries. In Russia, in the summer of 1914,...
Promise not to tell
Krentz, Jayne Ann
CD
A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through...
Midnight at the Bright Ideas bookstore : a novel
Sullivan, Matthew
Paper Book
Goodreads Debut Author of the Month and an Indie Next Pick! "Sullivan's debut is a page-turner featuring a heroine bookseller who solves a cold case with clues from books--what is not to love?" --Nina George, author of The Little French Bistro, and the New York Times...
Lights! Camera! Puzzles!
Hall, Parnell
Paper Book
The new novel in the ever-popular mystery series finds the Puzzle Lady on the set of a movie about her own life--and when the first dead body shows up on set, it comes with a crossword puzzle. It's murder on the movie set! It was no surprise when Cora Felton's ex...
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers : a novel
Burr, Samuel
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties that bind us * "The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers takes readers along on Clayton [Stumper]'s quest to discover his roots, treating us to a literary mood boost...

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