I asked my friend what kind of gift she would like for Christmas this year and she said it would be nice if I could get her a book, preferably of the mystery thriller kind of genre. Problem is I’m not a big mystery reader. I know she really liked The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides but she’s also a bit of a picky reader. Any recommendations for mystery books you can’t go wrong with?
by Bookish-Banshee
4 Comments
Do you happen to know if she’s already read Murder on the Orient Express? It’s the classic mystery novel everybody knows the answer to… but I actually found it a really compelling read, even knowing the answer, and I don’t think many people have actually read it themselves nowadays.
Anything by Daphne Du Maurier, particularly ‘Rebecca’ and ‘My Cousin Rachel’
**The In Crowd** by Charlotte Vassell won the Edgar Award for the best mystery book of 2025.
Everyone has their favs, whether she will agree is another thing. That isn’t much to go on really.
I liked Don’t Look Now, Daphne De Maurier (Don’t Look Now and Other Stories)
And I would suggest Crimson Lake, Candice Fox. There are 3 books in all, get the first and see what she thinks. It’s a mystery, but there is some humour in it. Not LOL humour, but a quirky PI, the ex-detective partner with issues, 11 cats and 7 geese.
Each book is a different murder.