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Best and worst murder mysteries / thrillers (kbin.social)

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I've been on a binge this year of reading some fairly good and some terribly bad thrillers and mystery books. I just finished reading "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, which I greatly enjoyed, particularly after reading the Silent Patient, which I thought was awful.

Any favorites of the genre you'd recommend? Any terrible ones you'd steer away from?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The book that got me back into reading for pleasure after many years of not doing so was a comic called Whiteout by writer Greg Rucka and artist Steve Lieber. It's a murder mystery set on an Antarctic research station.

I would also suggest pretty much anything written by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips published by Image. Some of the best noir (in any format) you will ever read is by them. I particularly enjoyed

The Fade Out - a Holywood scriptwriter in the 1950 wakes up in a bathtub after a party he can't remember in a house he doesn't know, and discovers the starlet of the film he's currently working on dead on the sofa. It's fair to say the ending is a little weak but getting there is quite a ride
Fatale - a Cthulhu/noir about a femme fatale and her trials and tribulations over a century or so
Incognito - a superhero/noir about a supper villain in witness protection who tries to g et back into the world of supers, this time as a hero. But of course no-one trusts him on either side