Mad Mabel
“It’s interesting to note that there are two groups of people who are rarely, if ever, suspected of murder. These groups are elderly women and little girls.”
The Briars
“‘Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.’— André Malraux”
The Bookshop of 99 Doors
“‘There can be good amid evil, but the good will always be tainted— haunted, if you will— until the truth sets us free.’”
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief
“There’s more you can steal from a bank than just money.”
The Queens of Crime
“I had no idea that the despicable behavior by certain male Detection Club members would spur us into solving actual crimes.”
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
“‘I can’t help feeling that the manner of my father-in-law’s death was somehow significant. It—it was so very unEnglish.’”
A Study in Charlotte
“What if Holmes was so unnerved by someone calling her a murderer because she was, in fact, a murderer?”
How to Solve Your Own Murder
“‘My favorite chess saying is very simple: you can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’”
The Last Murder at the End of the World
“Sometimes the only way to win the game is to let the pieces think they’re the ones playing it.”
Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
“Seven writers board a train. At the end of the line, five will leave it alive. One will be in cuffs.”
A Chain of Pearls
What kind of corruption can you find on Martha’s Vineyard?
Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret
“A woman covered in blood who doesn’t remember how it got on her. And a man decapitated… by a piece of paper.”
The Fury
7 friends on an isolated Greek island and one of them ends up dead! The narrator tells us this is a whydunit, not a whodunit…
Moonflower Murders
A classic whodunnit with the same book within a book style of Horowitz’s previous book, Magpie Murders.
The Mystery Guest
“It underscored just how hazardous a maid’s work can be. It’s not the backbreaking labor, the demanding guests, or the cleaning chemicals that present the greatest danger. It’s the assumption that maids are delinquents, murderers, and thieves: the maid is always to blame.”
Night Falls on Predicament Avenue
"It was as if the sun had gone down at 322 Predicament Avenue the night Naomi’s murdered body had been found, and it had never risen again.”
The Night We Lost Him
“If you are looking for answers you can’t find, you need to change the question.”
Fragile Designs
Carly finds a Fabrege egg in her great-grandmother's things and suddenly her husband's unsolved murder makes a little more sense.
A Lovely Lie
“I reconciled that night long ago, when the choice I had was college or jail for accessory to murder.”
The Day He Never Came Home
What if your husband is not who he says he is?