Collider highlights influential mystery novels it says became templates for major strands of the genre.

– ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1988): Thomas Harris’s psychological thriller cemented Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling as genre icons, shaping serial-killer fiction through its FBI behavioural-science detail and imprisoned-genius criminal dynamic.
– ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ (1955): Patricia Highsmith subverted expectations by making its criminal protagonist sympathetic, helping establish the morally ambiguous antihero in modern mystery writing.
– ‘The Name of the Rose’ (1980): Umberto Eco’s novel is included as another influential mystery work, though the supplied article text provides no further description.