10 Best Mysteries with a Twist

Using her signature style of shifting narratives, Foley’s latest focuses on the people living in a very expensive apartment in Paris. Jess has fled England to her half-brother Ben’s apartment, but when she arrives he’s not there. Without many resources to draw on in a strange city, Jess tries to find out where Ben is and why everyone in the apartment building doesn’t want her there.

Winner of the Lefty Award for Best Debut Novel this year, All Her Little Secrets focuses on successful corporate attorney, Ellice Littlejohn, working at Houghton Transportation Company. She’s got a great job, beautiful apartment, and her troubled past is behind her. But when she finds her boss and lover murdered in his office at work, things begin to spiral out of control. She finds herself offered her boss’s old position before the body gets cold. Things go bad to worse when a family member may be caught up in her boss’s murder. Can she save herself, solve the murderer and keep her family safe? Will her past stay behind her? Bonus: her next book Anywhere You Run comes out on October 25, 2022.

Told as a series of voice memos and emails, the Twyford Code focuses on Steven Smith, who was formerly incarcerated and is now trying to live a life without crime. He remembers that as a kid he became fascinated with this book he found and his teacher’s fascination with it. But he recalls that she went missing and he decides that he has to figure out what happened. The book, he learns, may be more than just a book.

Ruth Ware’s books are famous for their twists, and her forthcoming book does not disappoint. Hannah Jones is trying to live her life after the murder of her college roommate, the dazzling April Coutts-Cliveden, in her first year. But when she finds out that the man convicted of April’s murder has died, the memories of the events leading up to her death won’t leave Hannah. Plus there’s a journalist who gives her troubling information that Hannah fears that she may have fingered the wrong man. The story alternates between the past and the present where Hannah is happily married and pregnant with her first kid with one of her friends/classmates in college. Did she testify against the wrong person? If so, who really killed April?

While the book was published in 1987, it has recently been translated into English. Taking a new page out of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, seven college friends in a mystery club decide to camp out in the infamous 10-sided house on Tsunojima Island, the site of nasty murders. But when one by one the friends start showing up dead, they now have to turn their efforts into figuring out who is killing them and why.

Gentill is at the top of her game once again. In this standalone mystery, an author is writing a story about four strangers who become friends in the Boston Library when they hear a woman scream. Later that day, they learn that a young woman was in fact murdered at the library. They all have to be innocent of the crime, right? But with Gentill, nothing is straightforward. You discover that this story is a draft sent to a Boston-based aspiring writer who is keen to help the writer with her work. It’s a fantastic mystery coupled with a great look into the writing process.