Crime and Mystery and Magical Beings
Crime and mystery novels are intriguing, but when you throw a little magic in the mix, you open a wide realm of possibilities for strange cases and shocking surprises. If you want a story with truly chilling twists and turns, you’ll want to pick up a crime thriller or mystery suspense novel that isn’t afraid to delve into the world of fantasy. Looking for page-turning mystery books and suspense novels that feature fantasy and magical beings? Check out these books.
Bram Stoker, Anthony, and Locus award-nominated author Gabino Iglesias’ The Devil Takes You Home is a genre-bending thriller that mixes mystery, thriller, fantasy, and horror. After his daughter is diagnosed with leukemia, he’s drowning in debt. Not knowing where else to turn and in desperate need of money, he takes on a job as a hitman. But once he gets into the work, Mario discovers he has a talent for murder. Now Mario is ready to quit the business for good, but he has agreed to one last mission will require him to hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. At the end of this harrowing journey, Mario will either walk away with $200,000 or he’ll end up dead.
Related: Read the Excerpt from The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Lauren Beukes excels at dark fantasy mixed with crime thriller, and Broken Monsters might be her darkest. When Detroit detective Gabriella Versado comes across a dead body that it half-boy, half-deer, somehow fused together, it’s only the beginning of the strange and disturbing bodies found around the city. Is there a logical explanation for the odd things happening in Detroit? Or is something otherworldly at play?
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Emily Martin has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. She’s a contributing editor at Book Riot and blogs/podcasts at Book Squad Goals.