My favorites:
- Umberto Eco – Focault’s Pendulum
Great (5/5):
- Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
- Umberto Eco – The Name of the Rose
Good (4/5):
- Agatha Christie – Then There Were None
- Agatha Christie – The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- Caleb Carr – The Alienist
- Gaston Leroux – The Mystery of the Yellow Room
- Haruki Murakami – A Wild Sheep Chase
- Haruki Murakami – The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- James Dickey – Deliverance
- Josephine Tey – Daughter of Time
- Raymond Chandler – The Lady in the Lake
- Wilkie Collins – The Moonstone
Fine (3/5):
- Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- China Miéville – The City and the City
- Dashiel Hammett – The Red Harvest
- Graham Greene – The Quiet American
- Edmund Crispin – The Moving Toyshop
- Ellery Queen – The Tragedy of X
- Lawrence Block – The Sins of the Fathers
- Reginald Hill – The Woodcutter
- Robert Goddard – In Pale Battalions
- Seishi Yokomizo – 獄門島
- Thomas Harris – Red Dragon
- Thomas Pynchon – Inherent Vice
Meh (2/5):
- Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code
- Dean Koontz – Lightning
- Jeffery Deaver – The Bone Collector
- Joe R. Lansdale – Lost Echoes
- John le Carré – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
- John Mortimer – Rumpole’s Return
- Len Deighton – The Ipcress File
- Margery Allingham – The Tiger in the Smoke
- Ray Bradbury – Death is a Lonely Business
Bad (1/5):
- Dean Koontz – Odd Thomas
- Robert Cook – Outbreak
- Stephen Hunter – Point of Impact