Any "mystery solving" books you can recommend me?

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Like "The Da Vinci Code"... Although I don't agree with the book I couldn't put it down once I started reading.

So I'm after something similar, thriller or some kind of mystery solving. I've read rest of Dan Browns books and none kept me intrigued the way Da Vinci Code did. So anything remotely similar goes :)
 
The Janissary Tree by Jason Godwin. One of the best 'detective'/mystery books i have ever read, set in 1830's Istanbul with an eunuch as the protagonist. I loved it and will get the next part of Yashim Togalu's adventures, The Snake Stone soon.

Jason Goodwin is an English historian who has written, among other things, a history of the Ottoman Empire. The Janissary Tree is his first novel, and to the surprise of some it has just won the Mystery Writers of America award for Best Novel.
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Anything by Mary Monica Pulver. They're not in print, so you'd have to check the library. She writes murder mysteries, and the protagonist is a detective named Otto Peter Brichter (aka Obie, to his friends). He's a hard-bitten, no-nonsense kind of guy... who happens to also belong to the Society for Creative Anachronism. The first book in this series is in fact a murder mystery set at Pennsic War (Murder at the War in hardback; Knightfall in paperback). There are several excellent books in this series, but Murder at the War and Original Sin are the best. They will keep you guessing until the very last page or two, while still providing you with enough clues to let you figure it out yourself if you're observant enough. I can't recommend these highly enough! :)
 
Sorry I should've mentioned that I've read most of the Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie :)
 
The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear by Jasper Fforde offer a novel look at your classic children's stories.
 
I believe the other Dan Harris Brown books are mysteries. Or in other words, if you like Da Vinci Code, you will like his other stuff.
 
The Bible solves the mystery of creation.
 
Amen to that.
 
Death on the nile by Ahatha Christie.
 
Catch 22

When exactly do you know what the roomate will do; further and previously, when do you know he will leave (on purpose, it's not merely pessimisim).

The hints are so obvious, I felt dumb when it happened... and joyous and smart to recall the signs I ignored because I was so enthralled with the main character.
 
Melhisedek said:
Sorry I should've mentioned that I've read most of the Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie :)
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If you like those, then you might like Isac Asimov's mysteries. He's of course most famous for his science fiction, but he wrote some interesting stories that were in the style of Christie and Doyle. I have a book with selections from the Black Widowers, the Union Club, and several miscellaneous stories, and I remember them all as pretty good. So if you like that style (Kind of intellectual, almost like logic puzzles instead of nitty gritty blood and guts) I'd recommend those.
 
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