The most popular crime & mystery books of 2020

Crime and mystery books start with a crime or a puzzle and follow the effort to solve it. You read alongside detectives, amateurs and sometimes the culprits themselves, weighing clues and suspects until the truth comes out. The genre runs from gentle village mysteries to hard-edged police procedurals and noir. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.

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Piranesi
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Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Published 2020

245 pages

His And Hers
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His And Hers

Alice Feeney

Published 2020

384 pages

Dear Edward
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Dear Edward

Ann Napolitano

2020 · 2021 edition

400 pages

Invisible Girl
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Invisible Girl

Lisa Jewell

2020 · 2021 edition

384 pages

The Searcher
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The Searcher

Tana French

2020 · 2021 edition

451 pages

Troubled Blood
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Troubled Blood

J. K. Rowling

2020 · 2021 edition

1073 pages

Girl, Forgotten
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Girl, Forgotten

Karin Slaughter

2020 · 2023 edition

400 pages

The End of Her
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The End of Her

Shari Lapena

2020 · 2022 edition

365 pages

The Night Swim
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The Night Swim

Megan Goldin

2020 · 2023 edition

362 pages