6 Gripping Clean Mystery Books You Can Read Tonight

The Crime Writers' Association has voted The Murder of Rocker Ackroyd to be the best crime novel ever written.

And since Agatha Christie penned the novel during a time with more delicate sensibilities, it's guaranteed to be explicit language, sexuality, and violence free.

Hercule Poirot, a renowned Belgian detective, has lost an old friend, Roger Ackroyd, to a murder. Despite having squirreled away in the English village for retirement, it seems he must now return to investigating to bring his friend justice.

As Poirot probes, it seems that Ackroyd's stabbing may be connected to some dark secrets linked to the mans fiancée, who died just the day before.

Alice and Leo move into a gated community known as The Circle. At first, it seems their newly renovated home is what dreams are made of.

But appearances can be deceiving.

As Alice mingles with the neighbors, she learns a devastating truth about her new house. In light of this, she feels a sudden and strong connection to the woman who lived there prior, a therapist named Nina.

While Alice spirals into obsession trying to piece together what happened two years ago, her neighbors are tight lipped.

It seems there are some secrets in this not-so-perfect community that would rather stay buried.

When a murder victim is found on the floor at the popular Olivier's Bistro, Chief Inspector Gamache is called in to investigate. To his great dismay, Olivier's story is full of holes.

The man's fingerprints are strewn all over a cabin deep in the woods—a cabin filled with valuable antiques and the dead man's blood.

But what other secrets are buried in this picturesque village?

Gamache follows an interesting trail of clues, including literary first editions and a spiderweb with a word woven through.

The case takes him across the continent before he delivers answers back at the village of Three Pines.

Four friends at a peaceful retirement village meet once a week to discuss unsolved crimes. They refer to themselves as the Thursday Murder Club.

But now these senior sleuths have a hot new case. They set out to solve the murder of a property developer—and find themselves in the thick of trouble.

In this classic World War II spy novel, sees famous mountaineer and saboteur Keith Mallory sent on a dangerous mission.

The guns of Navarone are hulking weapons built into a foreboding fortress in the Mediterranean Sea. They fire with devastating accuracy, and 1,200 British soldiers are trapped on an island nearby.

Mallory and his small team of misfits are tasked with silencing the guns forever.

But while it's hard enough scaling sheer cliffs, fighting German forces, and destroying massive artillery, getting out alive is near impossible when there may be a traitor on the team.

The peaceful, tight-knit community of Braxton, Tennessee is smaller than you can imagine. 

And when the town's most prominent citizen, Peter Lanham, is found dead at the bottom of the water tower by apparent suicide, shock bowls over the community.

Lanham was the handsome and well-liked CEO of Lanham's Fine Foods. He grew a small, family-owned grovery store into a thriving national chain.

Most of the residents of Braxton worked for Lanham, so his death left them baffled. What would a man like that kill himself over?

Receptionist Julie Parker is convinced her boss didn't kill himself at all. As an aspiring actress, Julie sets out to use her skills of observation an charm to find the truth about what happened at the top of the water tower.

But rookie Special Agent at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Matt Bryson, isn't going to let the pretty receptionist interfere with his first case.