{"id":49522,"count":17,"description":"Welcome to our running list of the best mystery books of 2024. Our definition of mystery is broad, and can include any novel that has a crime at its heart with (ideally) an unexpected plot twist. Throughout the year, we'll be looking out for new mystery books as they're published and adding them whenever we think they're worth reading. On this list, we also include books that have been nominated for prestigious awards, like the Edgars in the US and the Dagger Awards in the UK. The shortlist for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theedgars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Edgars<\/a>\u00a0was announced back in January, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thecwa.co.uk\/the-daggers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dagger shortlist<\/a>\u00a0in May. Bear in mind that these are the best books of the previous year, rather than the very latest\u2014with the advantage that they're already likely to be in paperback.\r\n\r\n<em>\u00a0See all our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/best-novels-2024\/\">best novels of 2024<\/a> recommendations. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/the-best-mystery-books-of-2025\/\">best mystery books of 2025<\/a> is now up and running.<\/em>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/fiction\/mystery-books\/best-mystery-books-of-2024\/","name":"Best Mystery Books of 2024","slug":"best-mystery-books-of-2024","taxonomy":"category","parent":40169,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/49522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/40169"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=49522"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=49522"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=49522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}