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72 Mysteries by Mood: From Historical to Deep Space

Veteran book nerds will be familiar with this dilemma: You're in the mood for a certain kind of book, but traditional genre and subgenre labels just don't cut it. You need a more specific kind of sorting technique.

Well, Goodreads editorial team is here to help, and they submit that the operative term is mood. The collection below takes a kind of hybrid approach to sorting, mixing subgenre and cross-genre strategies to generate four broad categories for your next mystery novel.

Perhaps you're in the mood for immersion in a different time and place. Paris, circa 1953, say. Or maybe you're hankering for a light kind of rom-com mystery with an appreciation for puns. How about a weird fiction murder mystery set in the liminal psychic spaces between Raymond Chandler and Franz Kafka?
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The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau (Kristen Harmel)
The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau
1
Kristen Harmel
All the Colors of the Dark (Chris Whitaker)
All the Colors of the Dark
2
Chris Whitaker
The Frozen River (Ariel Lawhon)
The Frozen River
3
Ariel Lawhon
The Queens of Crime (Marie Benedict)
The Queens of Crime
4
Marie Benedict
Bright Young Women (Jessica Knoll)
Bright Young Women
5
Jessica Knoll
The Briar Club (Kate Quinn)
The Briar Club
6
Kate Quinn
With a Vengeance (Riley Sager)
With a Vengeance
7
Riley Sager
What Kind of Paradise (Janelle Brown)
What Kind of Paradise
8
Janelle Brown
The Lost Apothecary (Sarah Penner)
The Lost Apothecary
9
Sarah Penner
Homecoming (Kate Morton)
Homecoming
10
Kate Morton
The Rose Code (Kate Quinn)
The Rose Code
11
Kate Quinn
A Calamity of Souls (David Baldacci)
A Calamity of Souls
12
David Baldacci
Unspeakable Things (Jess Lourey)
Unspeakable Things
13
Jess Lourey
Salt Water (Katy Hays)
Salt Water
14
Katy Hays
The God of the Woods (Liz Moore)
The God of the Woods
15
Liz Moore
The River We Remember (William Kent Krueger)
The River We Remember
16
William Kent Krueger
The Heir (Darcie Wilde)
The Heir
17
Darcie Wilde
Last Twilight in Paris (Pam Jenoff)
Last Twilight in Paris
18
Pam Jenoff
The Stolen Queen (Fiona Davis)
The Stolen Queen
19
Fiona Davis
Under the Stars (Beatriz Williams)
Under the Stars
20
Beatriz Williams
A Memory Called Empire (Arkady Martine)
A Memory Called Empire
21
Arkady Martine
Gideon the Ninth (Tamsyn Muir)
Gideon the Ninth
22
Tamsyn Muir
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (Malka Ann Older)
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses
23
Malka Ann Older
Murder by Memory (Olivia Waite)
Murder by Memory
24
Olivia Waite
Hammajang Luck (Makana Yamamoto)
Hammajang Luck
25
Makana Yamamoto
The Spare Man (Mary Robinette Kowal)
The Spare Man
26
Mary Robinette Kowal
The Stardust Grail (Yume Kitasei)
The Stardust Grail
27
Yume Kitasei
Infinite Archive (Mur Lafferty)
Infinite Archive
28
Mur Lafferty
Station Eternity (Mur Lafferty)
Station Eternity
29
Mur Lafferty
The Mimicking of Known Successes (Malka Ann Older)
The Mimicking of Known Successes
30
Malka Ann Older
Translation State (Ann Leckie)
Translation State
31
Ann Leckie
The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton)
The Andromeda Strain
32
Michael Crichton
Cold Storage (David Koepp)
Cold Storage
33
David Koepp
Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)
Project Hail Mary
34
Andy Weir
The Space Between Worlds (Micaiah Johnson)
The Space Between Worlds
35
Micaiah Johnson
The City & the City (China Miéville)
The City & the City
36
China Miéville
Lock in (John Scalzi)
Lock In
37
John Scalzi
The Last Murder at the End of the World (Stuart Turton)
The Last Murder at the End of the World
38
Stuart Turton
The Paradox Hotel (Rob Hart)
The Paradox Hotel
39
Rob Hart
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
40
Douglas Adams
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