Genre Mash: RTW x Mystery

Updated April 14, 2026
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My sister, the serial killer
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
Winner Of The Los Angeles Times Book Prize For Mystery/Thriller Shortlisted For The 2019 Women's PrizeKorede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's...

RTW Africa (Nigeria)

When the ground is hard
Nunn, Malla
Paper Book
Edgar Award nominee stuns in this heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school where two girls of different castes bond over a shared copy of Jane Eyre. A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Century Adele Joubert loves being one of the...

RTW Africa (Swaziland)

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 Bangalore Detectives Club
Nagendra, Harini
Paper Book

RTW Asia (India)

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)

Queen of the tiles
Hanna Alkaf
Paper Book
They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen's Gambit in this "stunning...unforgettable" (Publishers Weekly) thriller set in the world of competitive Scrabble, where a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend when her Instagram comes back to life...

RTW Asia (Malaysia)

Please look after mom
Shin, Ky?ng-suk.
Paper Book
A million-plus-copy best seller in Korea—a magnificent English-language debut poised to become an international sensation—this is the stunning, deeply moving story of a family’s search for their mother, who goes missing one afternoon amid the crowds of the Seoul Station subway.

RTW Asia (South Korea)

The likeness
French, Tana
Paper Book
The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. She's transferred out of the murder squad and started a relationship with Detective Sam O'Neill,...

RTW Europe (Ireland)

The snowman
Nesbø, 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)

The shadow of the wind
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos 1964-2020
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 1954-2004
Paper Book
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME * #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: "Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

The night raven
Rundberg, Johan; Prime, A. A.
Paper Book
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Global Literature in Libraries YA Translated Book Prize A USBBY Outstanding International Book Mika is not your average twelve-year-old--and she's about to prove it. It's 1880, and in...

RTW Europe (Sweden)

A castle in the clouds
Gier, Kerstin; Fursland, Romy
Paper Book
Witty and charming, New York Times-bestselling author Kerstin Gier's contemporary young adult novel A Castle in the Clouds follows a girl as she navigates secrets, romance, and danger in an aging grand hotel. Way up in the Swiss mountains, there's an old grand...

RTW Europe (Switzerland)

Gaudy Night : a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery with Harriet Vane
Sayers, Dorothy L. (Dorothy Leigh) 1893-1957
Paper Book
"Gaudy Night stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels. And Miss Sayers has long stood in a class by herself." --Times Literary Supplement The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

Hound of the Baskervilles
Doyle, Arthur Conan 1859-1930
Paper Book
Introduction by Laurie R. King The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles features the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies...

RTW Europe (U.K.)

Turtles of the midnight moon
Fitzgerald, Mari?a Jose?
Paper Book
When poachers threaten the island they love, two girls team up to save the turtles-and each other. An eco-mystery with an unforgettable friendship story at its heart from a fresh new voice in middle grade. Twelve-year-old Barana lives in a coastal village in...

RTW North America (Honduras)

Homecoming
Morton, Kate
Paper Book
The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a...

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)

The things she's seen
Kwaymullina, Ambelin
Paper Book
This brilliantly written thriller explores the lives--and deaths--of two girls, and what they will do to win justice. Sure to be one of the most talked-about books of the year! Nothing's been the same for Beth Teller since the day she died. Her dad is drowning in...

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 : a novel
Catton, Eleanor
Paper Book
The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."-New York Times Book Review It is 1866, and Walter Moody has...

RTW Oceania (New Zealand)


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