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Essential Mystery Books for Your Fall Reading List

If you'd rather cuddle up with a murder show over a rom-com, then you may find your next criminally fascinating page-turner in this list from Penguin Random House's The ReadDown.

Blacktop Wasteland

Blacktop Wasteland
ByS. A. Cosby

2020 • 182 Readers • 304 pages 4.3

City of Margins

City of Margins
ByWilliam Boyle

2020 • 6 Readers • 309 pages

Coyotes of Carthage

Coyotes of Carthage
BySteven Wright

2020 • 9 Readers • 416 pages

Devoted

Devoted
ByDean Koontz

2020 • 48 Readers • 369 pages 3.7

Fair Warning

#3 of 3 in Jack McEvoy

Fair Warning
ByMichael Connelly

2020 • 40 Readers • 321 pages 3.9

First Cut

#1 of 2 in A Dr. Jessie Teska Mystery

First Cut
ByJudy Melinek,T.J. Mitchell

2020 • 11 Readers • 361 pages 4.2

Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark
ByRiley Sager

2020 • 555 Readers • 413 pages 3.9

Law of Lines

Law of Lines
ByHye-young Pyun,Sora Kim-Russell

2020 • 6 Readers • 288 pages 3

The Body Double

The Body Double
ByEmily Beyda

2020 • 13 Readers • 293 pages

The Missing American

#1 of 3 in Emma Djan Investigation

The Missing American
ByKwei Quartey

2020 • 23 Readers • 432 pages 3.3

The Other People

The Other People
ByC.J. Tudor

2020 • 100 Readers • 10h 21m 3.4

The Searcher

#1 of 2 in Cal Hooper

The Searcher
ByTana French

2020 • 237 Readers • 466 pages 3.8

The Sun Down Motel

The Sun Down Motel
BySimone St. James

2020 • 436 Readers • 328 pages 3.8

Thrash

Thrash
ByJason Palmer

2020 • 2 Readers • 272 pages

Trouble Is What I Do

#6 of 3 in Leonid McGill

Trouble Is What I Do
ByWalter Mosley

8 Readers 3.3