BookRiot's Whodunits Abroad

BookRiot put together a great list of mysteries set in distant countries! Find them all in our catalog!

Updated March 15, 2024
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American spy : a novel
Wilkinson, Lauren
Paper Book
"American Spy updates the espionage thriller with blazing originality."--Entertainment Weekly "There has never been anything like it."--Marlon James, GQ "So much fun . . . Like the best of John le Carré, it's extremely tough to put down."--NPR
A curious beginning
Raybourn, Deanna
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey mysteries returns once more to Victorian England and introduces intrepid adventuress Veronica Speedwell....  London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to...
Velvet was the night
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia
Paper Book
1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite seeks escape from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger filling the latest issue of Secret Romance. She is deeply envious of her neighbour, a beautiful art student apparently living the life...
A murder at Malabar Hill
Massey, Sujata
Paper Book
A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.

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