Mystery

I’ve always loved mysteries, suspense, thrillers and just a tiny bit of horror. Okay, so my horror is pretty much confined to Stephen King’s Christine and The Shining (loved it so much that I wrote an article on its inspiration, The Stanley Hotel, for New Mexico Journey). Other horror books have a tendency to give me nightmares, but I digress. I love mysteries and read them constantly. Here are just a few, and I really do mean just a few, of my favorite mystery books from over the years:

The Famous Five books by Enid Blyton
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
Jamaica Inn by Daphne DuMaurier
The entire Alphabet Series by Sue Grafton (A is for Alibi, etc)
The Tuesday Club Murders by Agatha Christie
The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware