Genre Mash: RTW x Mystery

Updated April 14, 2026
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My sister, the serial killer
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
"Pulpy, peppery and sinister, served up in a comic deadpan...This scorpion-tailed little thriller leaves a response, and a sting, you will remember."--NEW YORK TIMES "The wittiest and most fun murder party you've ever been invited to."--MARIE CLAIRE WINNER...

RTW Africa (Nigeria)

The fox wife
Choo, Yangsze
Paper Book
Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, but nothing could be further than the truth. We are living creatures, just like you, only usually better looking . . . Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying...

RTW Asia (China)

The devotion of suspect X
Higashino, Keigo
Paper Book
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her...

RTW Asia (Japan)

The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi; Kirkwood, Jesse
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...

RTW Asia (Japan)

Please look after mom
Shin, Kyung-Sook
Paper Book
You will never think of your mother the same way after you read this book. Already an international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's native Korea, Please Look After Mom is a stunning, deeply moving story of a family's search for...

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The silence of bones
Hur, June
Paper Book
June Hur's elegant and haunting debut The Silence of Bones is a bloody YA historical mystery tale perfect for fans of Kerri Maniscalco and Renée Ahdieh. I have a mouth, but I mustn't speak; Ears, but I mustn't hear; Eyes, but I mustn't see.

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The reckoning
Yrsa Sigura̧rdt̤tir.
Paper Book
Yrsa Sigurdardottir, winner of the 2015 Petrona Award for best Scandinavian Crime Novel, delivers another tour de force in her second novel in the Freyja and Huldar series. In 2016 the following people are going to die: K, S, BT, JJ, OV and I. Nobody will miss them....

RTW Europe (Iceland)

The likeness
French, Tana.
Paper Book
Still traumatised by her brush with a psychopath, Detective Cassie Maddox transfers out of the Murder squad and starts a relationship with fellow detective Sam O'Neill. When he calls her to the scene of his new case, she is shocked to find that the murdered girl is her double. What's more, her ID...

RTW Europe (Ireland)

The lost daughter
Ferrante, Elena
Paper Book
NOW A MOTION PICTURE NOMINATED FOR THREE OSCARS--Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay--Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Jesse Buckley, Paul Mescal, and Dakota Johnson Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times best...

RTW Europe (Italy)

The snowman
Nesbo, Jo
Paper Book
Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbø’s antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity. Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find...

RTW Europe (Norway)

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "A brilliant literary murder mystery." --Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing...

RTW Europe (Poland)

The shadow of the wind
Ruiz Zafn̤, Carlos
Paper Book
"Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Wondrous...masterful...The ...

RTW Europe (Spain)

The girl with the dragon tattoo
Larsson, Stieg
Paper Book
A sensation across Europe--millions of copies sold A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue. It's about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

Stolen : A Novel
Laestadius, Ann-Helén
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX FILM "An extraordinary novel. A coming-of-age-story you will get lost in." --Fredrik Backman, internationally bestselling author of The Winners Part coming-of-age novel, part sweeping family saga, and part love song to a disappearing...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

The swimmer
Zander, Joakim.
Paper Book
In the end, you cannot hide who you are. Klara Walldeen was raised by her grandparents on a remote archipelago in the Baltic Sea, learning to fish and hunt and sail a boat through a storm. Now, as an EU Parliament aide in Brussels, she is learning how to navigate the treacherous currents...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

The hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
Paper Book
This special 100th anniversary edition of the only full-length Holmes novel includes a new afterword. The country doctor had come to 221B Baker Street, the famous lodgings of Sherlock Holmes, with an eerie tale -the legend of the devil-beast that haunted the lonely moors around the Baskervilles'...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

The silver bone : a novel
Kurkov, Andrei?; Dralyuk, Boris
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024 "Very intriguing and atmospheric ... a fascinating read in the light of contemporary events." -Alexander McCall Smith, Bestselling Author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency "With its...

RTW Europe (Ukraine)

Homecoming : A Novel
Morton, Kate
Paper Book
The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping work of historical fiction that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve,...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The survivors
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Instant New York Times Bestseller "I love Jane Harper's Australia-based mysteries....and The Survivors is the best yet. There are cave scenes that will freeze your blood." --Stephen King

RTW Oceania (Australia)

Better the blood
Bennett, Michael
Paper Book
Winner of the Ngaio Marsh First Novel Award An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Māori screenwriter and director A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman...

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)

The luminaries
Catton, Eleanor
Paper Book
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General's Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand's Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men...

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)


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