If you like mysteries…

Check out this list.

Disclaimer: I am very picky with my mysteries. I like a good detective novel, but don’t often enjoy domestic thrillers. Due to yuck factor, I don’t typically like books with killer POV thrown in that dives into their psyche. I don’t really want to see the crime itself; I want to see how it is solved and the bad guy caught! If you’re like me, check these out…

I highly recommend Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad books. The point of view of each book is a different detective in the crime department and each mystery is fantastic. I don’t usually reread mysteries, but I am considering reading this series again. (Note: I enjoyed her standalone novel The Searcher but did not like The Witch Elm.)

I am addicted to Ann Cleeves. I have read the Shetland Island and the Vera Stanhope series. I also really liked the first two books in her new series Two Rivers and can’t wait to read more. (Note: I read two Inspector Ramsay books and quit. Couldn’t get into that series.)

I am pining for another Maeve Kerrigan novel by Jane Casey. I adore this fierce female detective and her superior/partner Josh Derwent snuck up on me and I fell in love with him. I can’t wait to see more of these two. I also enjoyed Casey’s young adult Jess Tennant trilogy.

This year I started reading Linda Castillo’s Kate Burkholder series. It focuses on crimes affecting the Amish community in the small town that Chief Burkholder is responsible for. She was raised Amish before breaking away to this path and a romance develops slowly throughout the series.

Charlaine Harris has written several mystery series and while some books in series are better than others, they are all fun. Aurora Teagarden books are nice cozy mysteries. Lily Bard is a strong woman with a dark and violent past. Harper Connelly is supernatural; she finds dead people to help bring closure to the families left behind. Harris’s Midnight Texas and Sookie Stackhouse books are heavily supernatural, almost more like fantasy books at times than traditional mysteries.

Jane Harper’s Aaron Falk books were enjoyable but I did not like standalone The Lost Man because I felt it focused more on the family drama than the mystery itself.

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala was a delightful cozy mystery and I look forward to the newest book.

If you want your mind blown, read The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton. I have no idea how he kept all the details straight and the ending was nuts.

I enjoyed several of the Hamish MacBeth cozy mysteries by M.C. Beaton and a few of Deborah Crombie’s Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James series.

If you like historical fiction too, check out Anne Perry’s William Monk or Charlotte & Thomas Pitt series.

The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child gives you some great action alongside a mystery.

Two good young adult series are the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder trilogy by Holly Jackson and the Truly Devious series by Maureen Johnson. A good young adult thriller is Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé.

Have a young reader? A great middle grade mystery series is Lockwood & Co. by Jonathan Stroud.

Despite the disclaimer at the top, here are a few Adult Thrillers I enjoyed:

• A.J. Finn – The Woman in the Window
• Paula Hawkins – The Girl on the Train
• Ruth Ware – In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Lying Game, The Woman in Cabin 10

Fingers crossed I find another great detective series in future!