15 Mystery Book Club Recommendations for Your Group

At the start of this family drama, Lucy and her husband have just learned that her mother-in-law Diana has been found dead. The death appears to be a suicide, but questions linger. Weaving in between the past and present, and Lucy and Diana’s points of view, Hepworth exposes a family with secrets, resentments, and plenty of contention over a large fortune, culminating in one final question: Who killed Diana?

Chloe and Nicky are opposites. Chloe went away from home on a scholarship and got a plum publishing job. Nicky stayed in Cleveland, married Adam, and gave birth to a baby boy. Fifteen years later, the sisters are strangers, Chloe is married to Adam, and Adam has just been murdered. As Nicky returns to Chloe’s life, the sisters will face long-simmering resentments and concealed truths when Nicky and Adam’s son is accused of his murder.

When Dr. Emma Sweeney finds a victim of a hit-and-run in the parking lot of the lab where she works, her first phone call is to her boyfriend, Detective Sergeant Cormac Reilly. Cormac spearheads the investigation, which quickly turns into a murder inquiry, shielding his partner. But the victim had ties to Emma’s lab, and the more Cormac digs, the more he doubts that Emma is simply a bystander in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Paula works as a ride share driver to bolster her income and pay for her husband’s mounting medical bills. While working one night, she realizes that one of her passengers is a famous musician, and he’s meeting a woman who is not his wife. Sensing an opportunity, she asks for money in exchange for silence. But when a woman is murdered days later, Paula’s deal becomes much more complicated — and deadly.

Alicia is a painter, married to a fashion photographer. From the outside, their life seems glamorous and perfect, until the day that she goes home and shoots her husband five times, and refuses to speak a single word. Theo is a psychotherapist fascinated by Alicia and her case, and becomes determined to get her to speak — even at the cost of his own safety and sanity.

Miriam is surprised to receive an invitation to a private island off the coast of Mexico, and thrilled by the extravagance. But not long into her visit she discovers that she and the six others strangers on the trip have been invited for a very specific reason, and when strange accidents begin to befall the others, it’s apparent that someone is harboring murderous intent.

When Ailsa inherits her mother’s half of a house in the Scottish countryside, she is left with a dilemma: She can’t sell it without the other owner’s consent, but that would be her father, who disappeared years earlier. Instead, she temporarily moves in with her younger half-sister. But strange break-ins and odd accidents immediately unsettle Ailsa, leaving her to wonder if the house is haunted, or if her father didn’t disappear after all…