Please, Tell Me More: 8 Books Where The Mystery Is Revealed First

This is the type of book in which the explanation of the crime is really what keeps the reader going, especially because the murder is rather intricate to start with, even after its complete revelation.

The story is told by one of six college students who met each other years before at Hampden college. One of them ended up dead, which changed the life of the whole group. Richard, our narrator, reflects on the events that led to the murder, and the consequences of their individual and group actions.

If you enjoy books with characters who seem to be separated from each other, but are connected in some way, this is the mystery for you.

Brooklyn, 1969: an old deacon walks into a housing project and shoots the project’s drug dealer. Across the rest of the book, we get a glimpse into the lives of those involved in the incident: the victim, those who witnessed the crime, the officers investigating it, and even the members of the deacon’s church. Bit by bit, the whole truth is known, bringing with it more than just one lesson to be learned.

This is the first book in a trilogy, and it takes place in 1911. The main character, Fabian Vas, is an artist who draws and paints birds. He starts by explaining the murder he committed, the killing of the village’s lighthouse keeper. As the story proceeds, Vas reveals what took him to commit the crime, taking the reader along a story that is much more interesting than the mere crime itself.

The main character, Remy, seems to be sure of what the future will bring to her. But when her best friend, Elise, shoots Remy’s boyfriend, Jack, her entire world gets turned upside down.

As the police investigate the case, so does Remy, in an effort to put together the pieces she is missing to understand the motivations of her best friend and the secrets she and Jack had kept from her. This is a story about obsessive friendships.

This book gives a lot of We Have Always Lived In The Castle vibes, except that you are not thrown off by a reveal at the end, since it is granted to you first: two Chinese-Indonesian sisters struggle with the past after one of them has poisoned their entire family.

But do not be fooled by knowing this much about the crime, because there is in this book plenty of room for surprises that throw you off your feet all the way to the end.

This book starts off with a high school murder and the person who committed it. From then on we get to see the story of how it all came to be, from the perspective of four different women: the murderer, their mother, the victim, and the murderer’s younger sister. It is a story about women, and about love, and the things women do for love.

Alicia seems to have a perfect life: a great career, a desirable husband, and a big house in one of the best areas of London. One day, Alicia’s husband returns home from work, and she shoots him in the chest. She doesn’t say a word from then on.

Theo, a criminal psychotherapist, wants to get to the core of the crime, but with Alice refusing to speak, he gets more intrigued and more set on discovering the why of it all — obsessively so.

It’s amazing how characters who seem to lead a perfect life so often end up involved in gruesome crimes, and this book is another example of that.

Alice and Oliver are married, and they seem to have it all. They even write and illustrate award-winning children’s books together. Then one day, Oliver attacks Alice and puts her in a coma. As the book progresses, we get to see their lives unravel, as well as the motivations that led Oliver to commit such a violent crime.