Hello, I'm a huge murder mystery reader (the golden age ofc, but I love reading all kind of all times, from the moonstone by Wilkie Collins to the Shin honkaku era of Japan that has so many new great murder mystery these days.
I'd love it if other murder mystery enjoyers would recommend me something, maybe even chat ?
I have a thing for locked room murders, so if anyone knows any good locked rooms I take the recommendation:DD
Tysm !
by RainySonia
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A Place of Execution by Val McDermid is very atmospheric. You know you’re being lead down the garden path from the first page, but the ending still surprised me and I’m not often surprised. The author also has a couple of series.
I’m not as well-read in the genre (though it was what got me reading when I was a little kid) but currently I’m reading Pantheon Books’ “Great Detectives” anthology, compiled by David Willis McCullough. The stories are all from the English-speaking world but they range in time of origin from the Victorian era to the 1970s. The first one, *The Big Bow Mystery*, written in 1891 by Israel Zangwill, was one of the first popular locked-room mysteries. It has a *lot* of humor in it, in a rhythmically fun but slightly digressive Victorian style, and I’m smiling a lot while reading it, but I haven’t finished it yet so I can’t say if the plot will resolve satisfyingly. I will say I haven’t been able to figure anything out yet lol.
You might also want to join r/mysterybooks. There can be good discussions, reviews, and recommendations there.