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What are some really good mystery novels?

I’m looking for some good mystery novels that would make me think. It should allow the reader to solve the case before the end, but make it difficult so you don’t know who it is right off the bat (it would be good if it doesn’t flat out tell you any important clues, but should instead do it in a more subtle way that you have to be smart to pick up on). The cases should be really clever and original, and of course the book should be well written.

I haven’t read a lot of mystery novels, but from the few that I have, “The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is certainly the best. It mixes mystery, romance, fear… Everything. The story starts with ten year-old Daniel Sempere, whose widowed father takes him to the Cemetery of Lost books (or something along those lines. I read it in French and it was called le Cimitière des livres oubliés, so I translated directly) where Daniel has to “adopt” a novel. He chooses The Shadow of the Wind, by Julian Carax, and after he has finished it he wants to learn more about the mysterious author, but few have heard of him. He basically goes on a quest to trace Carax’s story. There are a lot of original, colorful characters in the story, and it mixes humor and nostalgia, love and violence… An amazing read which I highly recommend.

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