In 2024, our mystery fans were charmed by Richard Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” books. Carlene O’ Connor’s Murder in an Irish Village, Benjamin Stevenson’s Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone and Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murder also delighted EPL readers in notable numbers. If you loved or are waiting for any of these books, don’t worry! We’ve selected some similar titles.
This witty and intricately plotted thriller introduces four veteran women assassins who have been made redundant by their shadowy organization – The Museu...Show more
This witty and intricately plotted thriller introduces four veteran women assassins who have been made redundant by their shadowy organization – The Museum – for technological reasons. Sent on a farewell retirement cruise, they soon uncover deadly evidence of an inside plot to ‘retire’ the team permanently! Recommended for fans of Richard Osbourne and Helen Tursten.
Show less
This witty and intricately plotted thriller introduces four veteran women assassins who have been made redundant by their shadowy organization – The Museu...Show more
This witty and intricately plotted thriller introduces four veteran women assassins who have been made redundant by their shadowy organization – The Museum – for technological reasons. Sent on a farewell retirement cruise, they soon uncover deadly evidence of an inside plot to ‘retire’ the team permanently! Recommended for fans of Richard Osbourne and Helen Tursten.
Show less
On Thursdays, three retired school teachers meet for their coffee o’clock ritual at a favourite café. When an ex-colleague turns up dead, the trio suspect...Show more
On Thursdays, three retired school teachers meet for their coffee o’clock ritual at a favourite café. When an ex-colleague turns up dead, the trio suspects there’s more to the death than authorities suppose. Recommended for those who enjoy the power of friendship and gentle / cozy mysteries.
Show less
On Thursdays, three retired school teachers meet for their coffee o’clock ritual at a favourite café. When an ex-colleague turns up dead, the trio suspect...Show more
On Thursdays, three retired school teachers meet for their coffee o’clock ritual at a favourite café. When an ex-colleague turns up dead, the trio suspects there’s more to the death than authorities suppose. Recommended for those who enjoy the power of friendship and gentle / cozy mysteries.
Show less
Of interest for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, this witty, dark and intricately plotted mystery begins when writer Freddie and three ot...Show more
Of interest for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, this witty, dark and intricately plotted mystery begins when writer Freddie and three others at her reading table at the Boston Public Library witness a murder. The four become fast friends and Freddie seizes on the premise for a story, but something seems off about subsequent events and Freddie’s account of them...
Show less
Of interest for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, this witty, dark and intricately plotted mystery begins when writer Freddie and three ot...Show more
Of interest for fans of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, this witty, dark and intricately plotted mystery begins when writer Freddie and three others at her reading table at the Boston Public Library witness a murder. The four become fast friends and Freddie seizes on the premise for a story, but something seems off about subsequent events and Freddie’s account of them...
Show less
One of our top circulating titles of 2024, this gentle and amusing but fast-paced mystery is set in a family-run bistro in Kilbane, County Cork. Siobhán a...Show more
One of our top circulating titles of 2024, this gentle and amusing but fast-paced mystery is set in a family-run bistro in Kilbane, County Cork. Siobhán and her five siblings (the O’Sullivan Six) discover a dead body in the bistro with a complicated connection to the family’s past. Recommended for Janet Evanovich, Dicey Deere, and M.C. Beaton fans.
Show less
One of our top circulating titles of 2024, this gentle and amusing but fast-paced mystery is set in a family-run bistro in Kilbane, County Cork. Siobhán a...Show more
One of our top circulating titles of 2024, this gentle and amusing but fast-paced mystery is set in a family-run bistro in Kilbane, County Cork. Siobhán and her five siblings (the O’Sullivan Six) discover a dead body in the bistro with a complicated connection to the family’s past. Recommended for Janet Evanovich, Dicey Deere, and M.C. Beaton fans.
Show less
Witty and fast-paced, this mystery follows wealthy widow Loretta Plansky as she tries to recover her fortune. After being scammed one night by someone pos...Show more
Witty and fast-paced, this mystery follows wealthy widow Loretta Plansky as she tries to recover her fortune. After being scammed one night by someone posing as her grandson, Plansky refuses to be victimized. The clues lead her on a whirlwind adventure to rural Romania.
Show less
Witty and fast-paced, this mystery follows wealthy widow Loretta Plansky as she tries to recover her fortune. After being scammed one night by someone pos...Show more
Witty and fast-paced, this mystery follows wealthy widow Loretta Plansky as she tries to recover her fortune. After being scammed one night by someone posing as her grandson, Plansky refuses to be victimized. The clues lead her on a whirlwind adventure to rural Romania.
Show less
Once a spy and now a ‘Martini Club’ book club member, Maggie Bird becomes a suspect when a woman’s body is found in her Maine driveway. It doesn't look gr...Show more
Once a spy and now a ‘Martini Club’ book club member, Maggie Bird becomes a suspect when a woman’s body is found in her Maine driveway. It doesn't look great for Maggie that the woman was killed with two bullets, execution style. The clues suggest that the Martini Club’s ex-spy membership might be in peril. This thriller is wry and fast-paced.
Show less
Once a spy and now a ‘Martini Club’ book club member, Maggie Bird becomes a suspect when a woman’s body is found in her Maine driveway. It doesn't look gr...Show more
Once a spy and now a ‘Martini Club’ book club member, Maggie Bird becomes a suspect when a woman’s body is found in her Maine driveway. It doesn't look great for Maggie that the woman was killed with two bullets, execution style. The clues suggest that the Martini Club’s ex-spy membership might be in peril. This thriller is wry and fast-paced.
Show less
Another title popular with our readers in 2024, Homecoming is an intricately plotted family mystery that puts the events of a wealthy family’s mysterious ...Show more
Another title popular with our readers in 2024, Homecoming is an intricately plotted family mystery that puts the events of a wealthy family’s mysterious deaths in 1959 into a parallel telling with modern day journalist Jess and her investigation into the story.
Show less
Another title popular with our readers in 2024, Homecoming is an intricately plotted family mystery that puts the events of a wealthy family’s mysterious ...Show more
Another title popular with our readers in 2024, Homecoming is an intricately plotted family mystery that puts the events of a wealthy family’s mysterious deaths in 1959 into a parallel telling with modern day journalist Jess and her investigation into the story.
Show less
Set in 1920s Bombay, India and following up from the story that started in The Widows of Malabar Hill, Perveen is drawn into investigating the mistaken ar...Show more
Set in 1920s Bombay, India and following up from the story that started in The Widows of Malabar Hill, Perveen is drawn into investigating the mistaken arrest of Sunanda, a servant who rushes to intervene in an attack her successful Gujarati patron. This mystery combines a rich setting and a strong-willed protagonist with domestic drama.
Show less
Set in 1920s Bombay, India and following up from the story that started in The Widows of Malabar Hill, Perveen is drawn into investigating the mistaken ar...Show more
Set in 1920s Bombay, India and following up from the story that started in The Widows of Malabar Hill, Perveen is drawn into investigating the mistaken arrest of Sunanda, a servant who rushes to intervene in an attack her successful Gujarati patron. This mystery combines a rich setting and a strong-willed protagonist with domestic drama.
Show less
Set in 1930s Singapore, amateur detective Su Lin worries she has summoned a violent tree demon when her awful, blackmailing relative Mimi is found dead al...Show more
Set in 1930s Singapore, amateur detective Su Lin worries she has summoned a violent tree demon when her awful, blackmailing relative Mimi is found dead alongside photographic equipment under Su Lin's cannonball tree. Her neighbours and friends become fearful and suspicious as more of Su Lin's enemies disappear - will Su Lin find the truth?
Show less
Set in 1930s Singapore, amateur detective Su Lin worries she has summoned a violent tree demon when her awful, blackmailing relative Mimi is found dead al...Show more
Set in 1930s Singapore, amateur detective Su Lin worries she has summoned a violent tree demon when her awful, blackmailing relative Mimi is found dead alongside photographic equipment under Su Lin's cannonball tree. Her neighbours and friends become fearful and suspicious as more of Su Lin's enemies disappear - will Su Lin find the truth?
Show less
Told from the perspective of a scandalized nephew, this witty and atmospheric mystery transports the reader to the world of larger-than-life Bavarian ex-p...Show more
Told from the perspective of a scandalized nephew, this witty and atmospheric mystery transports the reader to the world of larger-than-life Bavarian ex-pat Isolde “Poldi” Oberreiter. Poldi is a widow who planned a quiet, wine-soaked retirement in an unsuspecting Sicilian village - plans change when she finds the deceased victim of a shotgun blast on a nearby beach.
Show less
Told from the perspective of a scandalized nephew, this witty and atmospheric mystery transports the reader to the world of larger-than-life Bavarian ex-p...Show more
Told from the perspective of a scandalized nephew, this witty and atmospheric mystery transports the reader to the world of larger-than-life Bavarian ex-pat Isolde “Poldi” Oberreiter. Poldi is a widow who planned a quiet, wine-soaked retirement in an unsuspecting Sicilian village - plans change when she finds the deceased victim of a shotgun blast on a nearby beach.
Show less
When a fellow regular at her local bingo turns up dead and outside her country home, Anita has an inkling that the situation is no simple accident. She enlists the help of her friends before another player’s number can be “called.”
When a fellow regular at her local bingo turns up dead and outside her country home, Anita has an inkling that the situation is no simple accident. She enlists the help of her friends before another player’s number can be “called.”
Show less
When a fellow regular at her local bingo turns up dead and outside her country home, Anita has an inkling that the situation is no simple accident. She enlists the help of her friends before another player’s number can be “called.”
When a fellow regular at her local bingo turns up dead and outside her country home, Anita has an inkling that the situation is no simple accident. She enlists the help of her friends before another player’s number can be “called.”
Show less
In this locked room style meta-mystery, mystery writer Ernest Cunningham is struggling with his second book during Australian Mystery Writer’s Society – held aboard a luxury train traversing the Australian desert.
In this locked room style meta-mystery, mystery writer Ernest Cunningham is struggling with his second book during Australian Mystery Writer’s Society – held aboard a luxury train traversing the Australian desert.
Show less
In this locked room style meta-mystery, mystery writer Ernest Cunningham is struggling with his second book during Australian Mystery Writer’s Society – held aboard a luxury train traversing the Australian desert.
In this locked room style meta-mystery, mystery writer Ernest Cunningham is struggling with his second book during Australian Mystery Writer’s Society – held aboard a luxury train traversing the Australian desert.
Show less
EPLPicks
EPLPicks
