best murder mystery novel

Robert Bellamy, an agent of the ONI receives a mission on behalf of NSA: to locate the witnesses of the crash of an experimental meteorological balloon in Switzerland, for which he is only given the date, the place where it happened, and the fact that the witnesses were passengers of a bus tour. He is given an unlimited budget but is told he must work strictly under cover. After he finds the first witness, he discovers that the meteorological balloon was actually an alien spaceship. He tracks the witnesses one by one and reports their names to NSA. Without his knowledge, the names of the witnesses are then communicated to the intelligence organizations of their respective countries, and each of them is assassinated shortly after. These actions are coordinated under the name "Operation Doomsday", under the leadership of a figure known only as Janus.

DEAD GIRLS TELL NO TALES. Rosewood Hall is an image of tradition and perfection. A school built upon a cliff where children go to excel at life in the most perfect ways possible. Until Grace Covey's lifeless body is found on the shore. For new girl Violet running from her own secrets in California, Grace's death was just another twisted feature of her new home. That along with vicious classmates and the dead people prowling around the halls. And Grace's demise is proven to be an act of violence when a single sentence is stuck all around school for everyone to see. I KNOW WHO KILLED GRACE AND ONE OF YOU IS NEXT.

Five strangers rush to the last subway train. One is in a hurry to leave the country. The second is running from the police. The third is trying to push off the bottom. The fourth is running away from the past. And the fifth - from itself. A sudden stop in the tunnel crosses out their plans ... And somewhere on the surface, the captain of the investigatory committee, plunging into manic schizophrenia, receives a strange task - to find the daughter of an influential general who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The footprints lead him to the subway.

With no one except his mother, Leonard has to take full advantage of his scholarship at an elite school. However, when he crosses the path of one of the wealthy heirs, he becomes an object of bullying. Beaten up to a plop, Leonard thinks his life is going to end there up until a mechanical voice rings out in his mind. “World Domination system awakened, initiating link with the host.”

A young worker sees his end on the tracks of a train. He prays to an entity to have a second chance and it grants his wish. And he is reborn in a fantasy world of magic and mechas called Armor. But to his misfortune he is living in a game world where he is the VILLAIN. Can the young man named Rudel survive in a world where the world wants him dead for the sake of the protagonist?

Blackjack has made his name known across the internet by giving away paid content for free. But in reality, 18-year-old Arata Kazuto is a master thief who steals for his own agenda; to provide for his ailing younger sister, Kirameki Kazuto, who has been battling with her sarcoma all her life. In a series of unfortunate events involving a failed mugging attempt from the wrong people, Arata finds both he and his sister taking their last breaths, only to find themselves waking up aboard a pirate ship as slaves under the pirate Israel Hands. With his newfound system and powers, he embarks on a journey to find the ultimate cure for all ailments. But little did he know that his journey was destined to intertwine with another of a similar fate.

Antonio, a once-privileged billionaire, experienced a startling turn of events when he was falsely accused and robbed of all his wealth by the government. As if that weren't enough, he was thrown into prison. Sadly, his closest friends became his enemies. Because he was determined to reclaim what was rightfully his, he accepted his criminal background as the heir to a powerful mafia dynasty. It was time for vengeance!

"Making girls fall for me like this... who the hell would want that?!" - Tenko Sawaru Inspired by the Parallel Paradise manga series by Lynn Okamoto.

Allison walked along the port side of the flush deck toward the bow. When they saw their captain walking by in the dim light, several hands raised their foreheads in salute. Standing just above the bowsprit, he came to a stop and gazed out into the night.It was comforting to hear the steady, even sound of the ship's hull piercing the Atlantic wavelets as it surged forward.

Rebeca was 17 years old when she saw in the window of her school the arrival of the apocalypse. Living becomes a deadly hell and society goes to collapse in a valley all over survival. She will need to cross a city infested with revived aberrations to protect her colleagues and return home. As she rethinks her all values to escape a cruel destination, she can find that surviving the dead is just the beginning.