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Holly Jackson · 2019 · UK · mystery · young adult
Book 1 of 3 in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
★ 4.28 Goodreads · 1,946,473 ratings

For her final-year school project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi reopens the case of Andie Bell, who vanished from their English town five years ago and was believed to have been killed by her boyfriend Sal, and Pip is sure the police got it wrong.

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12 books for readers of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · 2017 · US 98% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 1,118,990 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in One of Us Is Lying
shares: twisty, adolescent, whodunit, mystery · easy read, plain prose

Five students walk into detention at Bayview High and only four walk out: Simon, creator of the school's notorious gossip app, dies, and the other four, each with a secret Simon was about to post, become suspects.

Not Quite Dead Yet

Holly Jackson · 2025 · UK 98% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 270,827 ratings
shares: investigative, whodunit, small town, mystery · easy read, plain prose

Jet Mason is attacked on Halloween in her Vermont hometown and wakes with a brain injury that will kill her within a week, so she spends the time she has left trying to solve her own murder with the help of an old friend, Billy.

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie · 1926 · UK 96% match ★ 4.26 Goodreads · 377,779 ratings
Book 3 of 33 in Hercule Poirot
shares: whodunit, detective, mystery, small town · intimate, intricate plot

A wealthy widower is stabbed in his study in a quiet English village, and the retired Poirot takes the case with the help of the local doctor who narrates it.

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley · 2024 · UK 96% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 314,391 ratings
shares: twisty, whodunit, mystery · easy read, suspenseful

Guests gather for the opening of The Manor, a luxurious new retreat on the Dorset coast, and by the morning after the party a body has been found, as local legends and a long-buried grudge come to the surface.

The Scold's Bridle

Minette Walters · 1994 · UK 96% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 10,245 ratings
shares: twisty, whodunit, mystery · intimate, suspenseful

Mathilda Gillespie, a wealthy and spiteful old woman, is found dead in her bath, wrists cut, her head locked in a medieval scold's bridle crowned with nettles, and her doctor, Sarah Blakeney, learns she has inherited everything.

Truly Devious

Maureen Johnson · 2018 · US 96% match ★ 3.91 Hardcover · 344 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Truly Devious
shares: investigative, whodunit, young adult, mystery · easy read, plain prose

Stevie Bell, a true-crime obsessive, wins a place at Ellingham Academy in the Vermont mountains, where in 1936 the founder's wife and daughter were kidnapped, and arrives meaning to solve the case.

The Ice Princess

Camilla Läckberg · 2003 · Sweden 96% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 92,804 ratings
Book 1 of 11 in Fjällbacka
shares: whodunit, detective, small town, mystery · easy read, suspenseful

Back in the fishing village of Fjällbacka to settle her late parents' house, writer Erica Falck is among the first to see her childhood friend Alex, found frozen in a bath with her wrists cut, and with local detective Patrik Hedström she starts to doubt it was suicide.

Last Bus to Woodstock

Colin Dexter · 1975 · UK 96% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 19,146 ratings
Book 1 of 13 in Inspector Morse
shares: whodunit, detective, small town, mystery · intimate, easy read

Two young women give up on the bus to Woodstock and decide to hitch a lift. That night one of them is found dead in the yard of a Woodstock pub, and Chief Inspector Morse and Sergeant Lewis go looking for the other.

The Dry

Jane Harper · 2016 · Australia 96% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 278,788 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Aaron Falk
shares: investigative, whodunit, detective, small town · suspenseful, easy read

Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown in rural Australia for the funeral of his childhood friend, accused of killing his family and himself, and stays to look into the case, reopening a death twenty years old.

A Is for Alibi

Sue Grafton · 1982 · US 96% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 195,287 ratings
Book 1 of 25 in Kinsey Millhone
shares: investigative, whodunit, detective, mystery · easy read, suspenseful

Private investigator Kinsey Millhone of Santa Teresa, California, is hired by Nikki Fife, just out of prison after eight years for poisoning her philandering husband, to find out who really killed him.

The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 1930 · UK 95% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 226,768 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in Miss Marple
shares: whodunit, detective, mystery · easy read, intimate

When the widely disliked Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the vicar's study in the village of St Mary Mead, there is no shortage of suspects, and the vicar's elderly neighbour, Miss Jane Marple, has her own ideas.

The Ice House

Minette Walters · 1992 · UK 95% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 10,791 ratings
shares: twisty, small town · intimate, suspenseful

A body is found rotting in the ice house at Streech Grange, where Phoebe Maybury's husband went missing ten years ago, and the village, which never forgave Phoebe or the two women who live with her, waits for the police to finish what they started.