Best Mystery Web Novels

Mystery in a serial format has an advantage no novel has: readers spend weeks between chapters theorising, and a well-planted clue can sit unnoticed for months before it pays off.

These are the stories where the questions are worth chasing and the answers hold up — ranked by our blended rating rather than by how loudly they were talked about.

  1. 1
    Lord of Mysteries
    4.88 1,432 chapters Completed by Cuttlefish That Loves Diving
  2. 2
    The Unexpected Engagement of the Marvelous Mr. Penn
    4.81 50 chapters Completed by rkgoff
  3. 3
    Pale Lights
    4.80 195 chapters Ongoing by ErraticErrata
  4. 4
    The Perfect Run
    4.80 131 chapters Completed by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)
  5. 5
    Clara Casewell, Attorney to the Villainess
    4.79 78 chapters Ongoing by cocopi
  6. 6
    The Game at Carousel: A Horror Movie LitRPG
    4.79 375 chapters Stub by lost_rambler
  7. 7
    Throne of Time
    4.78 34 chapters Ongoing by Cognosticon
  8. 8
    Just Deserts: Revised Edition (MHA, OC)
    4.77 17 chapters Completed by Elbowsnapper
  9. 9
    Wander West, In Shadow
    4.75 29 chapters Completed by CloverCloverClover
  10. 10
    Mother of Learning
    4.75 109 chapters Completed by nobody103
  11. 11
    Saving the school would have been easier as a cafeteria worker
    4.75 116 chapters Ongoing by CluelessRR
  12. 12
    The Lost Deaths
    4.73 6 chapters Completed by Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)
  13. 13
    This Magical Girl is Mine
    4.73 84 chapters Ongoing by VoraVora
  14. 14
    Orochimama
    4.71 58 chapters Hiatus by WhoaMama
  15. 15
    The Call of the Hollow Men
    4.71 37 chapters Ongoing by LostInTranscription
  16. 16
    Periapt
    4.71 28 chapters Ongoing by lost_rambler
  17. 17
    Noble Arcana
    4.70 52 chapters Ongoing by Seersucker
  18. 18
    Foxfire, Esq.
    4.70 66 chapters Ongoing by Noa (October)
  19. 19
    Myth//OS
    4.70 71 chapters Hiatus by Lost Rain
  20. 20
    Amelia Thornheart
    4.69 159 chapters Ongoing by Keene
  21. 21
    Fox’s Tongue and Kirin’s Bone
    4.69 122 chapters Ongoing by MuffinLance
  22. 22
    Eldritch Exorcist
    4.69 212 chapters Ongoing by Hastum
  23. 23
    Dead Eyes Open (Noctis book 1)
    4.68 50 chapters Completed by rkgoff
  24. 24
    The Looping MoronMagus (Mage Academy/Time Loop)
    4.68 36 chapters Ongoing by bor902
  25. 25
    The Wardens of Eternity: Alice Rising
    4.68 35 chapters by Everseas

Ranked by our blended rating, which combines reviews here with the source site's own score. Updated automatically as the catalog changes. Browse everything in this genre on /browse.