// Murder Mystery Reviews

Every clue.
Every corpse.
Reviewed.

Obsessive, honest reviews of murder mystery and crime fiction — from Golden Age whodunits to Nordic noir, cozy mysteries to hardboiled classics.

142 Reviews
12 Subgenres
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

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Dense, baggy, completely impossible to put down. Larsson writes like a man who has nothing to lose — which, as it turned out, he didn't. The mystery plot almost plays second fiddle to the character study at its centre. Almost.

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

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A 14th-century monastery. Seven days. Several monks, dead. Eco writes a murder mystery the way a master stonemason builds a cathedral — obsessively, structurally, with every detail load-bearing. Demanding and utterly magnificent.

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

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"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again." Eleven words and you're already inside it. Du Maurier wrote the ultimate psychological thriller — a book about jealousy, obsession, and the dead women we build houses around.

In the Woods

Tana French

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Two mysteries woven through each other, only one of which gets solved. That decision — audacious, polarising, correct — is what separates Tana French from every other crime writer working today. Her Dublin Murder Squad series begins here. Don't skip.

"The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds." — Philip Guedalla