Best Final Novel
Curtain: Poirot's Last Case is an Agatha Christie detective novel featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Arthur Hastings. Christie wrote it during the Second World War and arranged for its publication near the end of her career; it appeared in 1975, before her death in 1976. Returning to Styles, the s...
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is the debut novel by American author Dawnie Walton, published in 2021 by 37 INK/Simon & Schuster. Written in the form of an oral history assembled by a fictional music journalist, the novel reconstructs the rise and fracture of a fictional 1970s interracial rock duo...
The Remorseful Day is a 1999 detective novel by Colin Dexter and the final book in the Inspector Morse series. Set in Oxford, it follows the physically declining Morse as he returns to the unsolved murder of nurse Yvonne Harrison, despite uncertainty among his colleagues about his motives and health...
Sleeping Murder is a Miss Marple detective novel by Agatha Christie, published posthumously in 1976. Christie wrote it decades earlier and retained it for later publication; the story follows Gwenda Reed, whose unsettling recognition of details in a newly purchased house revives memories of a killin...
The Troubled Man is a 2009 crime novel by Swedish author Henning Mankell and the final full-length novel centered on police detective Kurt Wallander. The disappearance of a retired naval officer, who is the father of Wallander's daughter's partner, draws the aging detective into an investigation con...
Y Is for Yesterday is a 2017 detective novel by Sue Grafton and the twenty-fifth published entry in her alphabet series featuring California private investigator Kinsey Millhone. Its investigation begins when the parents of a recently released prisoner hire Kinsey over a blackmail demand connected t...
The Final Deduction is a 1961 detective novel by Rex Stout featuring private investigator Nero Wolfe and his assistant and narrator, Archie Goodwin. Wolfe is hired after the wife of a wealthy man receives a kidnapping demand accompanied by unusual instructions concerning the ransom. The case develop...
Final Girls is a 2017 psychological thriller novel by Riley Sager examining a traumatized massacre survivor, notable for winning the International Thriller Award.
The Hydrogen Sonata is a 2012 science fiction novel by Scottish author Iain M. Banks, and it is the tenth and final book published in his Culture series. The plot centers on the Gzilt civilization as they prepare to Sublime, a transition to a higher dimension of existence, which is disrupted by an a...
The Final Girl Support Group is a 2021 meta-horror novel by Grady Hendrix that deconstructs the slasher film genre. The plot follows a therapy group of six women who survived infamous mass-murder sprees and inspired popular horror film franchises. When one of the members goes missing, the others rea...
Riley Sager's 2017 debut psychological thriller explores a group of massacre survivors targeted by a killer, notable for being a massive bestseller inspired by classic slasher films.
Geoffrey Wolff's 1990 novel set at Princeton University, exploring class anxiety and moral compromise within the university's exclusive eating-club system.
