2025 Decolonize Your Shelf Reading Challenge - hosted by blackwalnutbooks

a mystery or thriller
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Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

376 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction crime historical thriller challenging dark tense medium-paced
Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

Age of Vice

Deepti Kapoor

548 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction crime literary thriller challenging dark tense medium-paced
Detective Aunty by Uzma Jalaluddin

Detective Aunty

Kausar Khan Investigates #1

Uzma Jalaluddin

327 pages • paperback • 2025

fiction mystery mysterious medium-paced
Blood Sisters by Vanessa Lillie

Blood Sisters

Vanessa Lillie

9 hours, 49 minutes • audio • 2023

fiction mystery dark mysterious tense medium-paced
You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

You Will Never Be Me

Jesse Q. Sutanto

325 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

Threads That Bind

Threads that Bind #1

Kika Hatzopoulou

341 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction fantasy mystery young adult adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
Before We Were Innocent by Ella Berman

Before We Were Innocent

Ella Berman

368 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction contemporary mystery dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li

Portrait of a Thief

Grace D. Li

384 pages • hardcover • 2022

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ thriller adventurous reflective medium-paced
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton

480 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction mystery thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

Moon of the Crusted Snow

The Whitesky Saga #1

Waubgeshig Rice

218 pages • paperback • 2018

fiction dystopian thriller dark tense medium-paced