Books like Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Ernest Cunningham, who writes guides to writing crime novels, narrates a family reunion at a snowed-in mountain resort where a body turns up on the first morning, and promises to play fair with the reader about who did it.
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The Word Is Murder
Diana Cowper, a wealthy widow, arranges her own funeral and is strangled six hours later, and Daniel Hawthorne, a sacked detective now consulting for the police, asks Anthony Horowitz to write a book about him solving it.
Magpie Murders
Editor Susan Ryeland settles down with the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest mystery, in which detective Atticus Pünd investigates a death in a 1950s English village, and discovers the final chapters are missing just as news comes of the author's own death.
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.
Truly Devious
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.
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
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.
One of Us Is Lying
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.
The Midnight Feast
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 Westing Game
Sixteen heirs of the eccentric millionaire Samuel W. Westing are paired off and handed clues, and whoever solves the puzzle of his death will inherit his fortune.
Not Quite Dead Yet
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 Paris Apartment
Jess, broke and running from trouble in London, turns up at her half-brother Ben's apartment in a grand Paris building, but Ben is not there, and none of his neighbours seems surprised that he has vanished.
One by One
Eight employees of a London tech start-up go on a retreat at a ski chalet in the French Alps, an avalanche cuts them off, and then one of them goes missing.
Old Bones
Gideon Oliver, the American forensic anthropologist known as the skeleton detective, is in Brittany when an old Breton patriarch drowns and bones turn up in his cellar.