I've read lots of "actual" mystery novels and they can be fun, but that's not really what I'm looking for. I'm more so looking for books that are just mysterious and intriguing. Where you spend a lot of the book trying to figure out what's really going on. A few examples are the Silo series, Gather the Daughters, House of Leaves, or Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (my favorite example). Basically where it's not a whodunnit so much as it is characters slowly unraveling parts of a very big mystery.
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by OdettesKnife
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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
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The Housemaid Series by Freida McFadden
The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
So the writing style can feel a bit juvenile (not YA, just far from literary genius lol), but if you can get past that, *Rabbits* by Terry Miles hit this button perfectly for me. It’s one of those books where every chapter kind of leaves you with more questions than answers. The sequel *The Quiet Room* maintains that feeling while managing to solidify a lot of the strange/questionable plotlines from the first book.
It’s definitely an eccentric read, but I found it to be outrageously fun. I like to refer to it as the lovechild of a scavenger hunter and a conspiracy theorist, with a hallucinogenic flair lol (no drug use involved, just kinda gives that vibe).
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