Over on our Facebook page we often ask you for your recommendations in various genres. Our latest poll had over 150 plus replies with a wide range of suggestions made from the classics to new blood authors.
These are the books you think are the best of the Whodunnit genre.
Agatha Christie made several appearances in our poll with And Then There Were None topping your suggestions.
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Second in our Poll was a character rather than a single novel; Sherlock Holmes is the nemesis of all literary baddies.
Third place and Agatha is back with her second entry in our list Murder on the Orient Express.
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Fourth place goes to another of Agatha Christie’s creations, character Hercule Poirot.
A break from the classics next; Gillian Flynn slots in at a very respectable fifth place with Gone Girl.
Sherlock is back! Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s indomitable detective is facing those Hounds of the Baskervilles in sixth spot
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For our seventh spot we hop over to Sweden and Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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Eighth was an author, James Patterson; I’ve chosen his first Alex Cross novel to represent just how good he really is
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A tie for ninth with Jo Nesbo’s Harry Hole and Jack Reacher by Lee Childs both receiving 5 votes.
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The next five results, in the order of nomination are:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ~ Agatha Christie
Career of Evil ~ Robert Galbraith
Anna Pigeon Mysteries ~ Nevada Barr
The Finishing Stroke ~ Ellery Queen
The Bone Collector ~ Jeffery Deaver
Have we given you something or someone new to contemplate? We hope so.