#Mystery/Thriller

Police procedurals, cozy mysteries, psychological thrillers, true crime: whatever your mystery flavor, we’ve got recommendations on the best mystery books out there, from diverse authors writing in every mystery sub-genre. Get your whodunit (orwhatdunit, if you like a supernatural mystery) fix with posts from our mystery/thriller-reading contributors. Now go crack those cases!

Book Riot’s Best Books of 2012

Editor’s note: We challenged our contributors to choose their top 2 books of 2012. Some were sassy and only picked one, others ...

Movie to Book Recommendation Engine: The Devil’s Backbone

Ohhh, you guys. You guys. I’m properly excited to talk about today’s film and the books that go with it. ...

Does the Genre You’re Reading Change the Medium You Read In?

I realized recently that I read all my YA books on my phone. YA is usually an impulse buy for ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – November 17-23, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

World Book Night America Selections – A Discussion

Book Riot Contributing Editors Amanda Nelson and Kit Steinkellner talk about the selections for World Book Night US below: Kit ...

“They Reviewed”… Mark Z. Danielewski and John Grisham

We’re back with another round of “They Reviewed,” Book Riot’s version of HeTexted. In HeTexted, the idea is analyzing the ...

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Week’s Most Watched Trailers – November 3-9, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!  

The Best of BookRiot.tv: The Most Watched Trailers – October 27-November 2, 2012

Here are the most popular book trailers from the last week on BookRiot.tv. Click the cover to watch!    

Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps): A Reading List

I heart scary books. This one time, I was home alone, reading From a Buick 8 by Stephen King. (If ...

All Hallow’s Read and the Gift of a Scary Story

In 2010, Neil Gaiman found himself on a plane when he got to thinking that there were not enough excuses ...