We Were Never Here by Andrea Bartz
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An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd.

Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung
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Buoyant, heartbreaking, and unexpectedly funny, Ghost Forest is a slim novel that envelops the reader in joy and sorrow. Fung writes with a poetic and haunting voice, layering detail and abstraction, weaving memory and oral history to paint a moving portrait of a Chinese-Canadian astronaut family.

Just One Look by Lindsay Cameron
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A young woman’s escalating obsession with a seemingly perfect man leads her down a dangerous path in this novel of suspense brimming with envy, desire, and deception.

The Tiger Mom’s Tale by Lyn Liao Butler
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When an American woman inherits the wealth of her Taiwanese family, she travels to confront them about their betrayals of the past in this stunning debut by Lyn Liao Butler.

The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel
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The New York Times bestselling author of the The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis—until a secret from her past threatens everything.

Kill All Your Darlings by David Bell
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When a student disappears and is presumed dead, her professor passes off her manuscript as his own–only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder in this new thriller from the USA Today bestselling author of The Request.

The View Was Exhausting by Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta
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The View Was Exhausting is a funny, wickedly observant modern love story set against the backdrop of exotic locales and the realities of being a woman of colour in a world run by men.

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
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A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers.

Her Last Breath by Hilary Davidson
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From the bestselling author of One Small Sacrifice comes a suspenseful thriller about a dead woman who predicted her own murder—and the sister who won’t let the truth be buried.

Radar Girls by Sara Ackerman
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An extraordinary story inspired by the real Women’s Air Raid Defense, where an unlikely recruit and her sisters-in-arms forge their place in WWII history.

Not a Happy Family by Shari Lapena
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The new domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door and and Someone We Know who has sold more than 7 million copies of her books worldwide.

No More Words by Kerry Lonsdale
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From the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author comes the first book in a trilogy about love, betrayal, and the secrets families keep.

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The locked room mystery has been around for a long time, with a popular example being Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, where ten strangers are lured to an island, and start dying off one by one. The appeal is that the physical limitations of the story means that the person “whodunnit” has to be in the initial group of people. There is an indirect challenge to the reader to solve the crime before the final, satisfying reveal. It makes for a gripping, hair-raising read, requiring little effort other than sitting back and letting events reveal all the clues.

Here are a few modern “locked room” mysteries that will have you reading from cover-to-cover in a single-sitting. These are highly recommended for getting out of a reading rut, and escaping our very own global “locked room”.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Rowan Caine is a live-in nanny whose sole responsibility is the care of two little girls, who live in a “smart” home on the Scottish highlands, while their parents are away for work. Rowan has to contend with the emotional isolation of caring for young children, and the fact that her only adult contact with the outside world is the janitor, Jack. Add the eeriness of physical isolation, compounded by the malfunctioning technology of the house, and you have an eerie tale, told in Rachel’s desperate letters from prison to her lawyer. Something went seriously wrong, and there are only a handful of people who could have been responsible.

The Escape Room by Megan Goldin

Who doesn’t want to be stuck in a small, confined space with their work colleagues? And apparently as small as a Zoom meeting room might be, the confines of an elevator in an isolated construction site with three other people is much more stifling. Told from the alternating perspective of Sara, and one of her colleagues stuck in the elevator, things escalate quickly from what seems to be a team-building exercise, to an all-out struggle for survival. A team shares both it successes and its failures, and also the consequences of its behaviour.

They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall

Seven strangers receive an invitation to a private island under the pretense of a reality TV show competition. Told from the first-person perspective of Miriam, things quickly escalate, and they realise that they have each been brought to the island for a secret they’ve been harbouring, and it’s time for a reckoning. This one is directly inspired by, and is a modern retelling of Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

Liane Moriarty is best known for Big Little Lies and her empathy and insight into people’s motivations, which is reflected in Nine Perfect Strangers. Nine people arrive at a remote wellness resort to work on varying personal goals for ten days that are meant to change their lives. Their lives do change, but not as advertised in the brochures. There’s something not quite right about Tranquilium House, and ultimately the guests have to decide what their true values and priorities are.

An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena

A weekend at a hotel in the snowy mountains sounds like the perfect cozy getaway, even if it means a storm has cut off the hotel staff and eight guests from civilisation. That’s until one guest dies mysteriously, and then another. As the body count rises, paranoia sets in and the accusations fly. By the time the police arrive, the guests and staff have been through a harrowing experience.

The Darkest Secret by Alex Marwood

Three year old Coco Jackson goes missing at her family’s vacation home after her father’s 50th birthday party, and is never seen again. The mystery goes unsolved until the death of the father, Sean Jackson, many years later. Sean’s family and their friends finally meet for his funeral and attempt to bury the past, only to dig it up and have to face it first. There is no way anyone could see this conclusion coming!

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Set on a private island, the Sinclair cousins meet when their families visit in the summer. The relationships between their parents and their grandparents have an inevitable, lasting effect on their summers and the rest of their lives. It’s a beautiful, quiet, yet suspenseful read, that has you gasping at the conclusion, which again, you will never see coming!

The Last by Hanna Jameson

Set in a world that quickly unraveled after an apocalyptic nuclear event, twenty guests deal with their abrupt disconnection from life as they knew it. They also contend with each other as resources deplete and a body is discovered in the hotel’s water tank. Events are narrated through the eyes of Jon, a historian by occupation who is away from his wife and two kids, and describes how we cope when we are forced to deal with the unthinkable.

The Guest List by Lisa Foley

Set on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, The Guest List is the tale of events that take place at a wedding. It’s told from the first-person perspectives of the wedding planner Aoife, Jules the bride, Hannah the “plus-one”, Johnno the best man, and Olivia the bridesmaid. The varying points of view make for a dizzying read, that digs into each of the characters personalities and motives. It’s a slow burn that will have you wondering who the victim was, who murdered them, and why.

Do you have any other recommendations? Tell us in the comments below!

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While we wait for the much-anticipated limited series to make its appearance, here are a few great books that just might help you deal with the small, blond, detective-shaped void that we all have.

If you miss the camaraderie of Veronica and Wallace back at Neptune High, try Brittany Cavallaro’s series, A Study in Charlotte. This charming series (which can be read as stand-alone’s, as well) imagines the great-great-great grandson of Dr. Watson attends a private school in Connecticut with the great-great-great granddaughter of Sherlock Holmes.

Charlotte Holmes is treated by her classmates very similarly to how Veronica was treated as the series opened, but bonds with Jaime Watson when he is treated much the same way Wallace was originally.

Fans of Sherlock Holmes will recognise various elements from his famous exploits. In the universe Cavallaro has created, the characters were all real, the adventures really happened, Dr. Watson wrote them all own, and Arthur Conan Doyle was their literary agent.

If you miss the chance to sit and solve a great, old-fashioned, Agatha Christie-style mystery, try Shari Lapena’s An Unwanted Guest.  More of a traditional “who-done-it” than a thriller, this mystery sees several guests at a secluded Inn in the Catskill Mountains. The weather turns nasty, isolating them all further as the electricity goes out and outside communication is cut off. One of the guests turns up dead in what could be an accident. But then a second guest dies.

It is easy to picture an episode where Veronica happens to be one of the guests and is the one to start snooping around to solve the mystery.

If you miss the drama involved in working with family AND trying to solve a mystery, try The Undertaker’s Daughter (also published as The Daughter) by Sara Blaedel. In this novel, Ilka Jensen, a school portrait photographer in Copenhagen who works with her mother, is suddenly summoned to Racine, Wisconsin with news that her father has died and left her his funeral home. As her father had left the family decades earlier, Ilka is desperate to find whatever answers she can about this parent she knows so little about. Hoping to go to Wisconsin, wrap up his affairs, get some answers, and return home, Ilka instead stumbles into a local mystery involving murder.

The parents are switched, but there are definite similarities to Veronica’s search for information and details about her mother and Ilka’s need for answers about her father and his secrets. We also get the interplay of working with family, but seeking independence, and how it feels to be pulled in two different directions with loyalty to two very separate parents.

If you miss Veronica’s costume and wig changes, under cover work, and near-misses, try Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart. The “hero” of this book (and boy is it a stretch to call her that) has almost nothing in common with Veronica, except for the ability to think on their toes. With very different motivations for doing so, they each have the gift of coming up with a story, explanation, or scheme on the spot. They both can keep their cool when things start to go bad, and somehow squeak out safely. This character might be who Veronica would have been in a universe without the amazing fatherly love and guidance of Keith.

If you miss the unpredictable dynamics between Veronica and Logan, try Trouble Is A Friend of Mine by Stephanie Tromly. It doesn’t happen right away, but as you get into this story, you almost can’t help but feel the Veronica/Logan vibe with the interaction of Zoe and Digby. He is rude and annoying, but brilliant, and maybe attractive. No matter what he gets involved in, or what story he tells her, she doesn’t know why, but Zoe just can’t say no.

If what you are really missing is everything about the series, then you are in luck as Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham have written two Veronica Mars novels that will immerse you right back into Neptune, California. The Thousand Dollar Tan Line (which the new series will “very loosely” be based on, according to Rob Thomas’s own twitter comments) and Mr. Kiss and Tell both give us the town, the characters, and the stories that we have all been missing!

Any other suggestions? Are you excited for the reboot? Tell us in the comments below!

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MAY

Black Mountain by Laird Barron

Laird Barron is continuing the story of ex-mob enforcer, now private investigator, Isaiah Coleridge that began in his book Blood Standard, which came out last May.  Laird’s genre-switch to crime fiction was met with positive reviews.  Black Mountain will see Coleridge deal with the local mafia boss when a small-time criminal turns up without a heartbeat…or a head … or his hands.  A case that starts out looking like pure revenge will drag Coleridge deeper than he would ever have imagined into a case that spans decades!

The Paris Diversion by Chris Pavone

Kate Moore is back!  From Pavone’s 2012 best-selling thriller The Expats, Kate Moore is now living in Paris, where a terror attack threatens the city, and involves her family.  With glowing reviews from the likes of Harlan Coben, Shari Lapena, Megan Abbott, and Jeffrey Deaver, this is not to be missed.

The Night Before by Wendy Walker

The author of best sellers All Is Not Forgotten and Emma In The Night is back with a new dark and twisted thriller.  It includes sisters, relationships, blind dates, buried trauma, and so much more.  In advanced reviews, this book has been called fast-paced, addictive, gripping, and a tension-filled wild ride!

Keep You Close by Karen Cleveland

Karen Cleveland, a former CIA analyst herself, is the author of last year’s New York Times best-seller Need To Know, which was her debut novel.  Cleveland is back with her sophomore effort, and it is a fast-paced domestic thriller about a mother (who is also the head of a division within the FBI) and how far she will go to protect her son when he is accused of something unimaginable.

JUNE

The First Mistake by Sandie Jones

Sandie Jones is the author of last year’s best-seller The Other Woman, which was also one of Reese Witherspoon’s Book Club picks.  The First Mistake is her second book, and it has already been called “addictively readable!”  This is a domestic thriller centered around a husband, a wife, and her best friend.  Some advanced readers have stated they liked this even more than her first book!

The Perfect Plan by Bryan Reardon

Bryan Reardon’s The Real Michael Swann certainly proved that he could bring the tension, twists and suspense! The Perfect Plan is about two brothers who could not seem more different from each other.  But these brothers are both locked in a dangerous game when it comes to keeping the family’s dark secrets hidden.

JULY

Never Look Back by Alison Gaylin

Combining a podcast-type format with a series of brutal murders from the 1970’s, Alison Gaylin brings us a book that will make us all ask how well we know our parents, how well we know our partners, and just how well we know ourselves.

Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

In Riley Sager’s newest thriller, we find an apartment sitter at a high-profile building in Manhattan, that is also full of mystery.  But are they really just ghost stories?  With the disappearance of another apartment sitter, we dig deep into the past and the secrets hidden within the building… before time runs out!  Sager’s two previous thrillers, Final Girls and The Last Time I Lied, have been best sellers all over the world.  Lock Every Door sounds like it will do the same!

Layover by David Bell

According to David Bell’s website (davidbellnovels.com), “In this high concept psychological suspense novel…a chance meeting with a woman in an airport sends a man on a pulse-pounding quest for the truth.”  Full of lies and deceit, this is a high-speed thriller where every time one mystery is solved, another one begins.

Knife by Jo Nesbo

Harry Hole is back again!  We find the brilliant police officer in a low point in both his professional and personal life.  He is stuck in the cold case office when he wants and NEEDS to be out hunting the murderer who has haunted Harry’s entire career.  If you are reading the Harry Hole books in order, this book directly follows the events of The Thirst.

A Stranger on the Beach by Michele Campbell

Best-selling author Michele Campbell’s newest thriller is full of passion, intrigue, and nail-biting drama.  It sounds like this is going to be a full-on gender swapped version of Fatal Attraction, but maybe with even more at stake!

Someone We Know by Shari Lapena

In a quiet suburb, there is some teenage mischief going on, houses are being broken into, as well as computers.  So who is it that is learning all the secrets of the neighborhood?  Suspicion begins to mount, and the tension boils over when a woman down the street is murdered.  Has someone gone this far to protect their family’s secrets?  I have recommended Shari Lapena’s An Unwanted Guest and The Couple Next Door more times that I can count, so I am very excited about this new thriller!

AUGUST

Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Ware, the #1 New York Times Best-Selling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway is back with a new thriller and I could not be more excited!  In this un-put-down-able thriller, our main character takes a position as a live in nanny with a generous salary, but she doesn’t realize taking this job has resulted in her stepping into a nightmare that will soon end in tragedy.

The Last Widow by Karin Slaughter

There is not a lot of information out yet on Slaughter’s upcoming novel, but it will be a continuation of her Will Trent series.  Will and Sara are going to find themselves pitted against a mysterious group with plans to cause a deadly epidemic!

Mark your calendar and get ready to spend the summer making trips to the bookstore!  Anyone that enjoys thrillers or crime fiction at all should be able to find something to get lost in!

Which thriller do you think will be the book everyone is talking about this summer? Tell us in the comments below!

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Who doesn’t love reading a book that has the author’s hand snaking into their body with a knife and twisting it into their organs? If you do, then here are a list of few mystery/thriller books with plot twists that will make your jaw drop with shock!

Before I Go To Sleep by SJ Watson

Memories define us.
So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep?
Your name, your identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight.
And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.
Welcome to Christine’s life.

When Christine wakes up, she wakes up with the memory of her younger self and realises she had a one-night stand with a much older married man. And she is even more shocked when he –Ben, reveals that she cannot remember him and their life because almost twenty years ago, she had an accident that left her with hopeless brain damage. But a call from Dr. Nash, who claims she’s been seeing him for a few weeks and informs her about her journal that she’s been writing –and reading- each day makes her wonder about whether or not her husband is being completely truthful. With a very compelling writing style, Watson has the reader completely engulfed in the book and makes one wonder, who is Ben?

The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz

When Cooper McQueen wakes up from a night with a beautiful stranger, it’s to discover he’s been robbed. The only item stolen—a million-dollar bottle of bourbon. The thief, a mysterious woman named Paris, claims the bottle is rightfully hers. After all, the label itself says it’s property of the Maddox family who owned and operated Red Thread Bourbon distillery since the last days of the Civil War until the company went out of business for reasons no one knows… No one except Paris. 

In the small hours of a Louisville morning, Paris unspools the lurid tale of Tamara Maddox, heiress to the distillery that became an empire. But the family tree is rooted in tainted soil and has borne rotten fruit. Theirs is a legacy of wealth and power, but also of lies, secrets and sins of omission. The Maddoxes have bourbon in their blood—and blood in their bourbon. Why Paris wants the bottle of Red Thread remains a secret until the truth of her identity is at last revealed, and the century-old vengeance Tamara vowed against her family can finally be completed.

On her sixteenth birthday, Tamara Maddox, heir to the Red Thread asks Levi Shelby for a kiss. When her mother catches the stable boy and her daughter kissing, she is horrified and sends Levi away. Then, Tamara’s grandfather trying to force himself on her leads her to kill him and discover a letter from her late father stating that she is not a Maddox, but Levi is. With this shocking revelation, Tamara makes a plan. She was going to take revenge on the Maddoxes. Tiffany Reisz has produced an amazing tale revolving around racism, powerful family scandals and the deadliest secrets. The twists in this book are many and unexpected, that you will not see coming.

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

A beautiful and distinguished family.
A private island.
A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.
A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.
A revolution. An accident. A secret.
Lies upon lies.
True love.
The truth.

Cadence Sinclair goes to Beachwood, an island owned by her grandfather, each summer, along with two cousins and Gat, a family friend. These vacations usually involve family troubles among parents of these ‘Liars’ as they are called, which makes them unhappy. During summer fifteen, an accident happens rendering a fifteen-year-old Cady mentally unstable. Summer sixteen comes by and she doesn’t go to Beachwood because her mother wanted her to spend time with her father, and during this summer, she emails the three other ‘liars’ but is ignored. The next summer, Cady goes to Beachwood determined to find why her closest friends ignored her and what exactly happened there two years ago. We Were Liars has the most unexpected twist by the end of the novel that you will not see coming.

My Sister’s Secret by Tracy Buchanan

Willow’s memories of her parents are sun-drenched and full of smiles, love and laughter. But a mysterious invitation to a photographic exhibition exposes a secret that’s been buried since a tragic accident years ago. Willow is forced to question everything she knew about Charity, her late mother, and Hope, the aunt she’s lived with since she was a child.

How was the enigmatic photographer connected to Willow’s parents? Why will Hope not break her silence? Willow cannot move forward in her life without answers. But who can she really trust? Because no one has been telling the truth for a very long time.

My sister’s secret is narrated by two point of views, Willow and her late mother, Charity some decades ago. When Willow discovers Niall Lane, twenty years after her parents’ death, she is determined to find out why her mother was carrying a necklace with his and her initials carved on it at the time of her death. This story is a gripping and emotional one and along with suffering the most unexpected plot twists, the reader is engulfed into the lives of the characters.

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?

Flynn did an amazing job in producing a masterful psychological thriller with great depth into each of the two main characters, Nick and his wife, Amy. When nick finds his wife missing, he does not know what went wrong in their relationship. Amy’s diary shows the story of her meeting nick and how his actions became detestable as their relationship progressed. Nick swears that it isn’t true, but the increasing evidence arising against him says otherwise. Maybe the perfect wife isn’t so perfect and the hated husband isn’t so lurid!

The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all–a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately focuses on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story.

Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they’ve kept for years. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family–a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.

One mistake. One mistake from Anne and Marco’s stead has their six-month-old daughter, Cora missing. To attend their neighbors’ party, they leave her at home. Sometime after midnight, Cora is taken. Detective Rasbach suspects the parents but what loving parents would kidnap or murder their own child? That leaves them wondering, who would take their lovely Cora? Don’t try to guess. You’ll be wrong!

Any other mystery or thrillers books you would add? Tell us in the comments below!

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If you enjoyed And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie or The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware, this is the next book for you!

A quiet hotel in the midst of winter, contrasting personalities put together, and murderous events happening over the course of a weekend makes up this chilling and suspenseful murder mystery by Shari Lapena. Lapena is known for her novels, The Couple Next Door and A Stranger in the House—a mixture of dialogue with strange, unique characters, and mysteries that keep you guessing until the very end of the book. But, An Unwanted Guest is most definitely her best novel yet.

This book would be the perfect winter read when cozying up by the fire, while it’s storming outside, or trying to figure out a puzzling mystery within this book. I loved the Agatha Christie vibe throughout this entire book. When I say that though, it’s got a more And Then There Were None type of feel. A bunch of strangers are together during a certain amount days, and slowly, one by one, a guest gets murdered.

When I first heard of Shari Lapena, it was November 2016, and I got her first book, The Couple of Next Door as an early Christmas gift. I devoured that book so quickly. And by quickly I mean I literally finished it in about seven hours because I was just dying to know how this baby went missing. The Couple Next Door had a lot of dialogue—more of “he said” then “she said” type of dialogue, which at times, began to get hard to read and a bit repetitive with no proper flow to the story, or the characters.

But this book has shown how much her writing has grown and flourished since her first one. Shying away from the “he said, she said” type of dialogue, Lapena carefully crafted together the dialogue between characters that made the book flow together perfectly! Page by page, chapter by chapter, I was eager to find out who was behind the murders, and by the end, Lapena did deliver and surprise with the big murder reveal.

The one thing I do wish this novel had was a bit more character background. I loved how each chapter had a different character telling their perspective and feelings, and some of those characters were so interesting, that I just wanted to read more about them! An Unwanted Guest had themes of human survival and instinct, complex characters, and an incredible mystery!

An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena is available from Amazon, Book Depository, and other good book retailers.

Have you read An Unwanted Guest? Will you be checking it out? Tell us in the comments below!

Synopsis | Goodreads

A weekend retreat at a cozy mountain lodge is supposed to be the perfect getaway . . . but when the storm hits, no one is getting away

It’s winter in the Catskills and Mitchell’s Inn, nestled deep in the woods, is the perfect setting for a relaxing–maybe even romantic–weekend away. It boasts spacious old rooms with huge woodburning fireplaces, a well-stocked wine cellar, and opportunities for cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, or just curling up with a good murder mystery.

So when the weather takes a turn for the worse, and a blizzard cuts off the electricity–and all contact with the outside world–the guests settle in for the long haul.

Soon, though, one of the guests turns up dead–it looks like an accident. But when a second guest dies, they start to panic.

Within the snowed-in paradise, something–or someone–is picking off the guests one by one. And there’s nothing they can do but hunker down and hope they can survive the storm.

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