Books like A Judgement in Stone
The Coverdales, a well-off and well-meaning family in a Suffolk village, hire Eunice Parchman as their housekeeper, not knowing the secret she has kept all her life: she cannot read. The first sentence says she will kill them.
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A Demon in My View
Arthur Johnson, a respectable bachelor in a north London lodging house, has kept his urge to strangle women in check for years with a shop mannequin hidden in the cellar, until a psychology student with almost the same name moves in upstairs.
Live Flesh
Victor Jenner, who shot a young policeman during a siege and left him in a wheelchair, comes out of prison ten years later and finds himself drawn to David Fleetwood, the man he paralysed, and the woman David lives with.
The Scold's Bridle
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.
The Sculptress
Rosalind Leigh, a writer under pressure from her publisher, agrees to write a book about Olive Martin, a huge, silent woman serving life for killing her mother and sister, and begins to doubt she did it.
The Hours Before Dawn
Louise Henderson, worn out by a baby who will not sleep, begins to suspect the schoolteacher who has taken the spare room.
Lullaby
A Parisian couple hire Louise, the perfect nanny, to care for their two small children, and the novel opens with the children dead, then traces how it came to that.
A Dark-Adapted Eye
Decades later, Faith Severn is asked by a writer to remember her aunt Vera Hillyard, hanged in 1950 for murder, and the family secrets of their wartime summers.
A Fatal Inversion
In the hot summer of 1976 a group of young people drifted through months at Wyvis Hall, a Suffolk country house one of them had inherited. Ten years later the bones of a woman and a child are dug up in its pet cemetery.
The Bad Seed
When a boy drowns at a school picnic, Christine Penmark starts to wonder about her eight-year-old daughter Rhoda, a model child who wanted the medal he had won.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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.
Good Girl, Bad Girl
Cyrus Haven, a forensic psychologist in Nottingham, is asked to assess Evie Cormac, a girl found hiding in a secret room six years ago who can tell when people are lying, while he helps the police with the murder of a teenage figure-skating star.
A Place of Execution
In December 1963 thirteen-year-old Alison Carter vanishes from Scardale, a closed-off Derbyshire village, and the young Inspector George Bennett takes on the case. Decades later a journalist writing a book about it asks him to tell the story.