Genre Mash: RTW x Mystery

Updated April 14, 2026
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My sister, the serial killer
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...

RTW Africa (Nigeria)

The fox wife
Choo, Yangsze
Paper Book
Longlisted for the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award 'Vivid, enigmatic, enchanting' M. L. Rio 'Irresistible' Sunday Times Some people think foxes go around collecting qi, or life force, but nothing could be...

RTW Asia (China)

The Bangalore Detectives Club
Nagendra, Harini
Paper Book
''The first in an effervescent new mystery series. . . a treat for historical mystery lovers looking for a new series to savour (or devour)'' NEW YORK TIMES ''A gorgeous debut mystery with a charming and fearless sleuth . . . spellbinding'...

RTW Asia (India)

The devotion of suspect X
Higashino, Keigo
Paper Book
One of Time's 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. ...

RTW Asia (Japan)

The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Kashiwai, Hisashi; Kirkwood, Jesse
Paper Book
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing 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 exists a...

RTW Asia (Japan)

Lemon
Kwo?n, Yo?-so?n
Paper Book
This is not a murder story. It is the story of those left behind. Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime.In the summer of 2002, nineteen-year-old Kim Hae-on was murdered in what became known as the...

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The old woman with the knife
Ku, Pyo?ng-mo
Paper Book

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The reckoning
Yrsa Sigur
Paper Book
'Yrsa is a magnificent writer' Karin Slaughter 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. A chilling note predicting the deaths...

RTW Europe (Iceland)

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead
Tokarczuk, Olga
Ebook

RTW Europe (Poland)

The shadow of the wind
Ruiz Zafon, Carlos
Paper Book
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from...

RTW Europe (Spain)

The girl with the dragon tattoo
Larsson, Stieg
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The thrilling first book in the Millenium series featuring Lisbeth Salander: "Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

Stolen
Laestadius, Ann-Hele?n
Paper Book
**SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM** **THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE-BESTSELLER** 'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of A MAN CALLED OVE ___________________________________________ ...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

The hound of the Baskervilles : another adventure of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Paper Book
The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body- this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

The silver bone : a novel
Kurkov, Andrei?; Dralyuk, Boris
Paper Book
**A Summer 2024 pick in the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times** "Andrey Kurkov is often called Ukraine's greatest living writer, and it is a gift for crime fiction fans that he writes in this genre" New York Times "A...

RTW Europe (Ukraine)

Homecoming
Morton, Kate
Paper Book
'Lush, rich, beautiful . . . Homecoming is Kate Morton at her very best' - Kristin Hannah Discover this breathtaking mystery of love, lies and a cold case come back to life, from the multi-million-copy bestseller, Kate Morton. Adelaide Hills, 1959....

RTW Oceania (Australia)

The survivors
Harper, Jane
Paper Book
'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 'With The Survivors, Jane Harper proves she's unquestionably the real deal' Val McDermid ...

RTW Oceania (Australia)

Better the blood
Bennett, Michael
Paper Book
'A compelling, atmospheric page turner with an authentic insight into Māori culture' Val McDermid A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION. A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY. THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED. WELCOME TO...

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)

The luminaries : a novel
Catton, Eleanor
Paper Book
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2013 - The astonishing and epic second novel from the prize-winning author of The Rehearsal.

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)


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