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Ally Condie · 2025 · US · mystery
★ 3.19 Goodreads · 76,237 ratings

Ellery Wainwright, whose husband has left her for another woman, takes the Big Sur trip they booked for their twentieth anniversary alone, and the morning after a lavish wedding at the resort she finds the groom dead in the pool, just as a storm cuts everyone off.

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12 books for readers of The Unwedding

The Guest List

Lucy Foley · 2020 · UK 98% match ★ 3.79 Goodreads · 1,371,063 ratings
shares: storm, isolated, whodunit, mystery · easy read, intimate

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.

A Is for Alibi

Sue Grafton · 1982 · US 98% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 195,287 ratings
Book 1 of 25 in Kinsey Millhone
shares: California, whodunit, mystery · easy read, intimate

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 Perfect Couple

Elin Hilderbrand · 2018 · US 98% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 281,353 ratings
shares: whodunit, wealth, marriage, mystery · easy read, intimate

On the morning of a lavish Nantucket wedding, the maid of honour is found dead in the harbour, and as the police chief questions the bride, the groom, his wealthy family and their guests, each turns out to be hiding something.

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: whodunit, mystery · easy read, intimate

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 Hunting Party

Lucy Foley · 2019 · UK 97% match ★ 3.59 Goodreads · 385,175 ratings
shares: storm, isolated, whodunit · easy read, intimate

A group of old Oxford friends spends New Year at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands, and when a blizzard cuts them off, one of them is murdered.

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

Nina Simon · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 3.55 Goodreads · 125,266 ratings
shares: California, whodunit, witty · easy read, intimate

Lana Rubicon, a high-powered Los Angeles estate agent recovering from cancer, has to stay with her daughter Beth in a rural cottage on Elkhorn Slough, and when her granddaughter Jack finds a body while kayaking, Lana decides to help solve it.

Blanche on the Lam

Barbara Neely · 1992 · US 97% match ★ 3.76 Goodreads · 5,356 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in Blanche White
shares: whodunit, wealth, mystery · easy read, intimate

Sentenced to thirty days for bouncing cheques, Blanche White, a Black domestic worker, slips out of the courthouse and hides as the new maid for a wealthy white family at their summer house in North Carolina, just before a body turns up.

The Westing Game

Ellen Raskin · 1978 · US 97% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 242,391 ratings
shares: whodunit, wealth, witty, mystery · intimate, intricate plot

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

Holly Jackson · 2025 · UK 97% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 270,827 ratings
shares: whodunit, witty, mystery · easy read, intimate

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.

Her Royal Spyness

Rhys Bowen · 2007 · UK 97% match ★ 3.83 Goodreads · 42,918 ratings
Book 1 of 19 in Her Royal Spyness
shares: whodunit, wealth, witty, mystery · easy read, intimate

In 1932 Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fourth in line to the throne and flat broke, flees her brother's Scottish castle for London, where the Queen asks her to spy on the Prince of Wales and a body turns up in her bath.

One by One

Ruth Ware · 2020 · UK 96% match ★ 3.72 Goodreads · 231,384 ratings
shares: storm, isolated, whodunit · easy read, intimate

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.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2023 · Indonesia 96% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 242,537 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Vera Wong
shares: whodunit, witty, mystery · easy read, intimate

Vera Wong, a lonely sixty-year-old widow who runs a fading tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, finds a dead man on her floor one morning and, unimpressed by the police, decides to catch the killer herself by befriending the suspects.