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Agatha Christie · 1939 · UK · mystery
★ 4.27 Goodreads · 1,724,347 ratings

Ten strangers are lured to an island and killed one by one according to a nursery rhyme, with no way to escape and no one left to trust.

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Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie · 1934 · UK 97% match ★ 4.19 Goodreads · 775,889 ratings
Book 8 of 33 in Hercule Poirot
shares: locked room, whodunit, murder, mystery · easy read, intimate

When an American businessman is stabbed to death on the snowbound Orient Express, Hercule Poirot finds that every passenger in the carriage has an alibi, and a secret.

The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji · 1987 · Japan 96% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 25,597 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The House Murders
shares: claustrophobic, whodunit, island, mystery · suspenseful, intimate

Seven members of a university mystery club, who go by the names of famous crime writers, spend a week on a deserted island where a reclusive architect and his family died in a fire, staying in his ten-sided guest house.

The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths · 2019 · UK 96% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 47,690 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Harbinder Kaur
shares: whodunit, murder, mystery · intimate, suspenseful

Clare Cassidy, an English teacher writing about a Victorian ghost-story writer, finds a colleague murdered with a line from his story beside her body, and someone writing in Clare's own diary.

The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo · 1946 · Japan 95% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 29,143 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Kosuke Kindaichi
shares: locked room, whodunit, mystery · intimate, intricate plot

In the winter of 1937, on the wedding night of the eldest son of an old family in a village in Okayama, the household wakes to a scream and the notes of a koto, and finds the newlyweds dead in a locked annex surrounded by untouched snow.

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, 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 Guest List

Lucy Foley · 2020 · UK 95% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 1,371,063 ratings
shares: whodunit, island, twist, mystery · easy read, suspenseful

On a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, guests gather for the wedding of a television star and a magazine publisher, and as a storm rolls in, old grudges surface and one of them is found dead.

The Moai Island Puzzle

Alice Arisugawa · 1989 · Japan 95% match ★ 3.61 Goodreads · 404 ratings
shares: locked room, whodunit, island · intimate, suspenseful

Alice Arisugawa and his friends from a university mystery club travel to a remote island dotted with moai statues to solve a treasure puzzle left by a dead man, and the killings begin.

The Hollow Man

John Dickson Carr · 1935 · US 95% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 5,669 ratings
shares: locked room, whodunit, mystery · cold, intimate

Professor Grimaud, a lecturer on magic and the occult, is visited at home in London by a masked stranger, and is found shot in his locked study with no one inside and no footprints in the fresh snow.

The Judas Window

Carter Dickson · 1938 · US 94% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,140 ratings
shares: locked room, whodunit, mystery · intimate, suspenseful

James Answell is found unconscious in a locked study beside the body of his prospective father-in-law, shot through with an arrow, and Sir Henry Merrivale has to prove at the Old Bailey that he didn't do it.

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley · 2024 · UK 94% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 314,391 ratings
shares: 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 94% match ★ 3.91 Goodreads · 10,245 ratings
shares: 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.

Death Among the Undead

Masahiro Imamura · 2017 · Japan 94% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,019 ratings
shares: locked room, claustrophobic, whodunit, mystery · intimate, intricate plot

Yuzuru Hamura of his university's Mystery Society and Hiruko Kenzaki, a young woman known for solving cases that baffle the police, join a group of students at an isolated villa just as a zombie outbreak traps them inside.