Lightning flashes, you hear a scream, and when the lights come on, someone is dead. Suddenly, everyone is a suspect. Was it the maid, in the library with the revolver?
Full-cast murder mysteries are timeless favorites. From classic books like Murder on the Orient Express and The Mystery of Edwin Drood to movies like Clue, Knives Out, and Bodies Bodies Bodies, the whodunit premise never ceases to be entertaining. From red herrings, to twist endings, to confessions and shocking reveals, these six new mysteries have everything readers or fans of Hulu’s Only Murders in the Building are looking for. Can you figure out who the killer is, before it’s too late?
Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
In an old manor turned hotel, guests are trapped together during an ill-timed snowstorm — but only one of them will be revealed as the murderer at the end of the night. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is back on the scene, investigating a string of unsolved art thefts. Guests, wealthy family members and old friends meet at Burton Makepeace, the magnificent estate where weekend Murder Mystery parties are held — but fantasy soon becomes reality. Kate Atkinson’s sixth installment in the Jackson Brodie series is a brilliant, hilarious, modern and wholly original homage to history’s most beloved mystery writers.
Death On The Lusitania by R. L. Graham
All aboard for this historical locked-room mystery set on a luxury ocean liner. In 1915 New York, the Lusitania sets off for Europe, ravaged by World War I. When a man is found shot to death in his cabin, the door locked, room key inside and no sign of a weapon, the mystery unfolds. Patrick Gallagher, a civil servant for Her Majesty and the escort for a British diplomat, is assigned a new task — to solve the crime. A deadly murderer could be lurking on board, while several passengers’ secrets linger beneath the surface, as ominous as the submarines below the waves.
The Examiner by Janice Hallett
The reader becomes the investigator in this unique mystery that relies on multimedia clues to find a killer. A group of students in an art master’s program are spurred on by a variety of motivations, among them success, money, fame, and relaxation. But an examiner looking into the students’ final grades realizes that one of them is in grave danger — or, they’re already in the grave. Who is the killer, and who is dead? The clues may lie in these artists’ final projects, coursework, correspondence and essays, and only the most clever sleuth will uncover what really happened.
There Should Have Been Eight by Nalini Singh
A reunion brings seven friends back together in the snowy Southern Alps of New Zealand. But a weighty truth hangs over them all — there should have been eight friends. They’ve gathered to grieve Bea, the friend they lost nearly a decade ago, in her family’s crumbling mansion. Whether it’s the location, the company, or the memory of Bea lingering around every corner, the friends, secret enemies, old and new lovers begin to bare all. As history reveals itself, the group soon realizes that Bea’s death wasn’t what it appeared, and among them may be someone responsible.
People Will Talk by Kieran Scott
At the annual Frank family clambake, Peter Frank woos and charms women, making his rounds at the glamorous Cape May home. But when the woman Peter is secretly betrothed to is crushed by a falling chandelier at the impromptu wedding, heads turn towards three women. Peter’s protective legal guardian, his tennis star girlfriend, all simmer with anger at the secret betrothal — making them all suspects when the bride is killed. Can they work together to find the real killer, and can they really trust one another to tell the truth?
The Main Character by Jaclyn Goldis
What first appears as a research trip for a writer turns into a nightmare reality. Bestselling author Ginerva Ex sends Rory on the all-expenses-paid luxury Orient Express to do research for the author’s next novel. She quickly realizes the entire trip has been carefully orchestrated — and Rory is the main character. With figures from her personal life all playing roles, harboring secrets, and with Generva’s machinations, the whole trip could culminate in something terrible. In this gripping locked-room mystery that takes readers from Cinque Terre to Rome to Positano, everything might not be as it appears.