5 Detective Books That Are Page-Turners From Start to Finish

A fast-paced detective story is often the antidote to a tiring day.

The short version

• Everybody loves a good detective story .
• They satisfy our natural curiosity for solvable mysteries, allowing us to slip into the shoes of competent detectives like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot .
• There’s a sense of satisfaction to following a trail of clues, identifying red herrings, and theorizing before the answers are revealed.

What happened

Good detective stories use grounded settings to heighten anxiety and embrace some amount of chaos before bringing about a neat resolution. Detective stories can take many forms, but here are five genre books that are engrossing page-turners from start to finish.

Why it matters

Horowitz’s novel is a page-turner for many reasons.

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