Literary Mysteries

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• Well written, literary Mysteries
• Mysteries written in the last 10 years

Finding Nouf
By Zoe Ferraris
MYSTERY FERRARIS
Stumbling upon the drowned body of Nouf, the teenage daughter of a prominent, wealthy Saudi Arabian family, Nayir, a desert guide hired by her family to search for her, feels compelled to discover what really happened to her.

The Shadow of the Wind
By Carlos Ruiz Zafon
MYSTERY RUIZ
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.

Christine Falls
By Benjamin Black
MYSTERY BLACK
Returning to the morgue where he works after an office party, Dublin pathologist Quirke stumbles across a body that should not have been there, a young woman named Christine Falls, as well as his brother-in-law, eminent pediatrician Malachy Griffin, altering a file to cover up the corpse's cause of death.

The Private Patient
By P.D. James
MYSTERY JAMES
When investigative journalist Rhoda Gradwyn turns up dead after seeing renowned plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell for a routine surgical procedure, Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to investigate.

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
By Alan C. Bradley
MYSTERY BRADLEY
Eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is propelled into a mystery when a man is found murdered on the grounds of her family's decaying English mansion and Flavia's father becomes the main suspect.