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Stuart Turton · 2018 · UK · mystery
★ 3.77 Goodreads · 517,581 ratings

At a masked party at Blackheath House, Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at eleven o'clock, and Aiden Bishop must relive the day in the bodies of different guests until he can name her killer and earn his way out.

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12 books for readers of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Magpie Murders

Anthony Horowitz · 2016 · UK 96% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 181,552 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Susan Ryeland
shares: Christie, puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, suspenseful

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 Labyrinth House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji · 1988 · Japan 94% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 4,858 ratings
Book 3 of 3 in The House Murders
shares: labyrinthine, mansion, puzzle · low-key, cold

Four mystery novelists are invited to a reclusive author's birthday at his underground house built as a labyrinth, and he announces a contest whose prize is his fortune.

The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Sōji Shimada · 1981 · Japan 93% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 14,360 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Detective Mitarai
shares: puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, suspenseful

In 1979 the astrologer and amateur sleuth Kiyoshi Mitarai takes up a crime that has baffled Japan for forty years: an artist murdered in his locked studio in 1936, and the six young women of his family later found dismembered as his notebooks described.

The ABC Murders

Agatha Christie · 1936 · UK 92% match ★ 3.92 Hardcover · 487 ratings
Book 11 of 33 in Hercule Poirot
shares: puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, story-driven

Poirot receives letters signed ABC announcing murders in alphabetical order, starting with Alice Ascher in Andover, and races to understand the killer's pattern before the next letter arrives.

The Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie · 1930 · UK 92% match ★ 4.03 Goodreads · 226,768 ratings
Book 1 of 12 in Miss Marple
shares: puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, 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 Word Is Murder

Anthony Horowitz · 2017 · UK 91% match ★ 3.92 Goodreads · 109,336 ratings
shares: puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, intimate

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.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Gaston Leroux · 1907 · France 91% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 14,991 ratings
shares: mansion, puzzle, whodunit, mystery · cold, intimate

Mathilde Stangerson is attacked in a room locked from the inside at her father's chateau outside Paris, and the young reporter Joseph Rouletabille sets out to explain how.

The Red House Mystery

A. A. Milne · 1922 · UK 91% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 15,991 ratings
shares: mansion, puzzle, whodunit, mystery · low-key, intimate

Antony Gillingham, a gentleman of leisure, arrives at the Red House to visit a friend just as a shot is fired behind a locked office door, and the host's black-sheep brother is found dead inside.

The Honjin Murders

Seishi Yokomizo · 1946 · Japan 90% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 29,143 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Kosuke Kindaichi
shares: puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, intimate

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.

Death in the House of Rain

Szu-Yen Lin · 2006 · Taiwan 90% match
shares: mansion, puzzle, whodunit, mystery · low-key, cold

Three people are killed in one night at Rain House, a mansion in the Taiwanese mountains, each in a locked room.

Death Among the Undead

Masahiro Imamura · 2017 · Japan 89% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 1,019 ratings
shares: puzzle, whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, intimate

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.

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley · 2024 · UK 88% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 314,391 ratings
shares: whodunit, mystery · intricate plot, story-driven

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.