Mystery & Suspense Starter Kit

Questions that keep you reading past midnight. A guided first step into mystery & suspense: where to begin, how to read it, and what to try next. About 60 hours of reading.

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Books: 5
Reading time: About 60 hours
Formats: PDF, web guide, content pack

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Why Read Mystery & Suspense
How to Read Mystery & Suspense
Your Reading Path
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Welcome

Why Read Mystery & Suspense

A mystery is a promise: the world will make sense again by the last page. The craft lies in how that promise is kept, through clues laid fairly, atmosphere, and the slow pleasure of being outwitted by someone who loves you.

Questions that keep you reading past midnight.
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Practical

How to Read Mystery & Suspense

Read in generous stretches to keep the threads fresh in your mind.
Make a guess early and hold it loosely; revising it is half the fun.
Resist reading the last page first. It spoils the very thing you came for.

Pairs with: A rainy night and a dim, comfortable lamp.

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Mystery & Suspense

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

A young bride arrives at the great house Manderley and finds it still ruled by the memory of her husband's first wife.

Mystery & Suspense

The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

Four unlikely friends in a comfortable retirement village meet weekly to investigate cold cases, until a real murder lands on their doorstep.

Historical Fiction

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

In 1327, a Franciscan friar and his young novice investigate a string of deaths in a secretive Italian abbey with a labyrinthine library.

Literary Fiction

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

At a small New England college, a clique of classics students is drawn into a crime that slowly unravels them. The reader knows the ending from page one and cannot look away.

Classics