Eight top genre-blending mystery titles

Rachel Brittain is a writer, Day Dreamer, and Amateur Aerialist. Her short fiction has appeared in Luna Station Quarterly, Andromeda Spaceways, and others. She is a contributing editor for Book Riot, where she screams into the void about her love of books. Brittain lives in Northwest Arkansas with a rambunctious rescue pup, a snake, and a houseful of plants (most of which aren’t carnivorous).

At Book Riot she tagged eight top genre-blending mystery books. One entry on the list:

Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall

A true-crime podcaster and her wife head to the Scottish highlands for a weekend getaway intended to rekindle their romance. Instead, they land in the middle of an actual locked-room murder mystery when a fellow guest winds up dead. Liza’s podcast may only be up-and-coming, but she knows a thing or two about murders and mysteries, and she’s determined to get to the bottom of this case—even if her wife Hanna would prefer for them to just wait outside. Will cracking this case bring them closer or become the final nail in their failing marriage?

Read about the other books on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue