What To Read If You Love 'Only Murders In the Building'

by Freya Sampson

When their apartments in Shelley House face demolition, sworn enemies 25-year-old Kat and 77-year-old Dorothy put their differences aside to save their historic building, but when one of its residents is murdered, the duo seek justice to restore peace in their community. 

by Roz Noonan

When her close confidant Ruby is accused of murdering her cheating husband, 65-year-old librarian Alice Pepper, secretly searching for the truth to exonerate Ruby, uses her unassuming persona to fly under the radar to slim down a massive suspect list and restore peace to West Hazel.

by A.C. Arthur

Venus McGee, Draya Carter, and Jackie Benson are coworkers with a lot in common. They're smart and deserving of recognition—certainly more than they've been handed by a demoralizing boss. He's the topic of conversation at their impromptu get-together after the company holiday party. When morning comes, Venus, Draya, and Jackie are blindsided by murder—a twist of fate that brings a startling new challenge to the table and forces them to navigate a hair-raising detour they never saw coming.

by Olivia Blacke

While adjusting to life in Brooklyn, Louisiana native Odessa Dean investigates when a fellow waitress, an up-and-coming YouTube star, is murdered, in the background of a viral, flash-mob proposal video in the first novel of a new series. 

by Lucy Foley

Arriving in Paris broke and alone after quitting her job to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

by Mia P. Manansala

When the building housing their new laundromat is vandalized and Ninang April’s niece, recently arrived from the Philippines, is found dead, Lila Macapagal and her network must figure out who has hung her aunties out to dry by airing out town of Shady Palms’ dirty laundry.

by Nita Prose

Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and often misreads people's intentions. But she throws herself with gusto—and an obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette—into her work as a hotel maid at the five-star Regency Grand. But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she find the infamous and wealthy Charles Black dead in his bed. Molly’s unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect, but fortunately friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened.

by Katie Siegel

A former child detective still living with her mom, searching for a job and going on endless first dates is pulled back into sleuthing for one more case and discovers that mystery-solving is much more complicated as an adult and the detective skills she was once so eager to never use again are the only things that can stop a killer ready to make sure her next retirement is permanent.

by Mark De Castrique

At 75-years-old, Ethel Fiona Crestwater, petite and a bit frail, is used to being underestimated. She runs a boarding house for government agents, and when someone murders one of her boarders, she springs into action-much to the surprise of her distant cousin Jesse, who has recently come to stay with her while he attends university. With no one to trust but each other, these double-first-cousins-twice-removed form an unlikely bond, and learn that the only thing truly worth risking your life for is family.

by Richard Osman

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

by Kristen Perrin

In 1965 a fortune-teller tells teenager Frances Adams that she will be murdered some day. From that point on she compiles dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. In the present day, her grand niece Annie Adams is summoned to a meeting at Frances' sprawling country estate, but Frances is already dead when Annie arrives. Annie is determined to catch the killer, but thanks to Frances’s lifelong habit of digging up secrets and lies, it seems every endearing and eccentric villager might just have a motive for her murder. 

by Jesse Q. Sutanto

When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.

by Jincey Willett

Amy Gallup, a retired writing instructor, receives a call out of the blue from a former student who has gotten involved in a murder investigation. To help, they get the old writing group back together. But they’ll need all the help they can get, as one murder leads to another, and suspicions of a serial killer mount across San Diego.

by Barbara Ross

The go-to girl for situations that need discreet fixing, Jane Darrowfield, a year into her retirement, is hired by the director of an adult condo community to solve a murder mystery when one of the residents is bludgeoned to death with a golf club. 

by Stuart Douglas

The leading man in a low-budget 1970s sitcom, Edward Lowe, stumbles upon the dead body of a woman and enlists the help of his co-star, John Le Breton, to investigate after becoming convinced it was foul play. Crossing the country and back again during gaps in filming, the two men uncover both a series of murders in the modern day, and links to another unfortunate death during the War.