7 Mystery Books You Can Finish Before Monday Morning

Collider rounds up seven mystery novels that clock in under 250 pages and can be read in a weekend.

These books range from Stephen King's "The Colorado Kid" (under 200 pages) to Leïla Slimani's "The Perfect Nanny" (240 pages). Here is the list:

**"The Perfect Nanny"** by Leïla Slimani opens with the crime, a nanny who killed two young children in a Paris apartment, then spends the remaining pages showing how a seemingly perfect caregiver unravels.
**"The Colorado Kid"** by Stephen King follows two veteran newspapermen recounting a decades-old unsolved case of a dead man found on a Maine beach.
**"Elena Knows"** by Claudia Piñeiro sends a mother with Parkinson's disease across Buenos Aires trying to prove her daughter's death was not suicide.
**"We Have Always Lived in the Castle"** by Shirley Jackson (roughly 160 pages) sets sisters and their uncle in a reclusive estate years after a family poisoning, with a cousin's arrival stirring up trouble.
**"The Postman Always Rings Twice"** by James M. Cain (120 pages) tells the classic noir story of a drifter, a married woman and a murder plan that keeps going wrong.
**"The Driver's Seat"** by Muriel Spark (barely 100 pages) begins by telling readers the main character will die, then follows her strange journey of shopping and lying as she searches for a man who is her "type."
**"A Study in Scarlet"** by Arthur Conan Doyle (roughly 100 pages) introduces Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, with the pair investigating a blood-spattered room and a mysterious wedding ring.

Collider reports all seven titles are available in print and ebook formats.