[jojocookie Posts: 368 Status: Offline WWW]

Why did you like them?

What were they about?

MG or YA or Adult.

I'm currently reading them faster than my library can keep up.

Thanks so much.

 

[mrh Posts: 4,759 Status: Offline www.marciahoehne.com WWW]

WHEN YOU REACH ME by Rebecca Stead. This is also time travel.

SHAKESPEARE'S SECRET and MASTERPIECE, both by Elise Broach. I was really blown away by MASTERPIECE.

Another recent one is THREE TIMES LUCKY by Sheila Turnage.

[217mom Posts: 1,290 Status: Offline "Keep the child in view"- Charles Dickens WWW]

All the ones Marcia mentioned above, and add THE WIG IN THE WINDOW by Kristen Kittscher. Fabulous. "Rear Window" for the younger set, beautifully done.

P.S. I didn't even consider you may be asking for adults...   
P.D. James is queen in my heart 

[olmue Posts: 3,531 Status: Offline WWW]

The Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers. (adult) I love them because they're intelligent but also feeling (well, the ones with Harriet Vane in them, anyhow!) And since in real life I'm married to someone who works with incunables, it's an extra perk to read about someone who collects them.

[Liz Straw Posts: 981 Status: Offline That was a yummy book!]

Too many to list.  I have a books read list on my blog which includes both children's and adult books.  Majority of adult books are mysteries. 

Many of the kid's and YA books are mystery or adventure books. 

If you are on facebook, There is a group you can join for adult mysteries called Cozy Mysteries.  Authors and readers are in the group and they talk about new releases all the time. 

I am also one of those people that read books faster than my library can keep them in... Most of the new books I have already read. (I read a book a day - at least)

[KateMessner Posts: 270 Status: Offline WWW]

Erin Dionne's first mystery just came out - MOXIE AND THE ART OF RULE BREAKING. I loved it & think it's a great example of using setting brilliantly as well as a first-rate mystery/treasure hunt story.

[ChristineSarmel Posts: 228 Status: Offline WWW]

For adult mysteries Tana French is one of my favorite authors.

[Whizbee Posts: 265 Status: Offline WWW]

One of my favorite books of all time is The Westing Game. Great mystery--very puzzling and tricky. I like that the reader is provided with all the clues and can (theoretically) solve the mystery alongside the characters. I also love the characters; it's great to see how they change throughout the course of the novel.

Probably the most surprising mystery I've ever read is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

[mrh Posts: 4,759 Status: Offline www.marciahoehne.com WWW]

I also loved THE WESTING GAME.

I have a great soft spot for Agatha Christie's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. As a young teen I was in an English class that had to read it with the ending cut out. (I did wonder, later, how the teacher was able to do that.) I figured out whodunit. 

[Whizbee Posts: 265 Status: Offline WWW]

I figured out whodunit. 

Wow, you're smart!! I was totally baffled by that one. Well, by all of her novels.

[jojocookie Posts: 368 Status: Offline WWW]

Thank you everyone for the rich supply.   

I also can read a book a day. 

[KeithM Posts: 55 Status: Offline WWW]

That's funny I was just looking up Moxie and the art of Rule Breaking that Kate mentions the other day thinking the author looked really interesting. Elise Broach's books, already mentioned, are really cool too and she has a three-book adventure mystery series out too now.

I'll just throw in the Sammy Keyes mysteries since they haven't been mentioned here, I've only read the first but it's got a really nice first person voice and a not-too-big kid sized mystery.