Closed Circle Mystery Reads for Fans of 'Glass Onion'

by Agatha Christie

Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Without a shred of doubt, one of his fellow passengers is the murderer. Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man's enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again.

by Dorothy L. Sayers

When Sandy Campbell's body is found at the foot of a cliff near the small town of Kirkcudbright, the local constabularies are convinced that the argumentative painter is a victim of a tragic accident. But when Lord Peter Wimsey turns up, the hunt begins for an ingenious killer. Faced with six men, all of whom have a motive for murder, the aristocratic amateur sleuth must deduce which are the five red herrings and which has blood on his hands.

by Liane Moriarty

Gathering at a remote health resort for a 10-day fitness program, nine strangers and their enigmatic host become subjects of interest to a brokenhearted novelist who develops uncomfortable doubts about the resort's real agenda.

by Rachel Howzell Hall

After accepting a surprise invitation to a luxurious private island, Miriam discovers that she and her companions, each keeping a secret, were brought there under false pretenses and become increasingly suspicious of each other as accidents start happening.

by Alice Feeney

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party on a tiny tidal island. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. When the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. But at the stroke of midnight Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family member follows… Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide goes out and all is revealed. 

by Chris George

With the whole royal family gathered at their Scottish retreat, King Eric is poisoned while making a toast to announce his successor, leaving his beloved head chef, Jonathan, playing detective in order to expose the truth. 

by Tess Little

When Elspeth Bell attends the fiftieth birthday party of her ex-husband, Richard Bryant, the Hollywood director who launched her acting career, all she wants is to pass unnoticed through the glamorous crowd in his sprawling LA mansion. Instead, there are only seven other guests as the intimate party grows more surreal (and rowdy) by the hour. Come morning, Richard is dead—and all of the guests are suspects.

by Yukito Ayatsuji; translated by Ho-Ling Wong

The members of a university detective-fiction club spend a week on remote Tsunojima Island, attracted to the place, and its eerie 10-sided house, because of a spate of murders that transpired the year before. As fresh round of violent deaths begins and the students are picked off one by one, they must use their skills to catch a killer.

by David S. Pederson

Private Detective Mason Adler’s angst at turning fifty is forgotten when his “birthday present,” the handsome, young Henry Bowtrickle, turns up dead, and it’s up to Mason to figure out who did it, and why.

by Jody Gehrman

Old grudges between high school classmates resurface at a baby shower on an estate in the San Juan islands where the mother-to-be goes missing and no one has any memory of what transpired the night before.

by Lucy Foley

A group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. For this vacation, they've chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands. They arrive on December 30th, just before a historic blizzard seals the lodge off from the outside world. Two days later, on New Year's Day, one of them is dead and another of them did it.

by Jilly Gagnon

On a weekend getaway at a murder-mystery-themed manor hotel, Becca and the other guests try to solve the campy 1920s “murder” of a speakeasy songstress but discover the game’s organizer has gone missing for real. 

by Melissa de la Cruz

When all of her secrets come to light on the night of her fabulous 40th birthday party, Ellie de Florent-Stinson, a woman greatly envied by all who know her, watches as the beautiful façade of her life crumbles in one eventful night. (suspense). 

by Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it?Let’s get started.