“One by One” by Ruth Ware
After getting snowed in at a scenic
mountain chalet, employees of a music app company begin to go missing or turn
up dead. Alternating between the perspectives of one of the employees and a
chalet staff member, the reader learns about the relationships between staff
members and the secrets that begin to surface. Ruth Ware has been marketed as a
“modern Agatha Christie” for her work in the genre, and the similarities are
even more apparent in this book.
“The Westing Game” by Emily Raskin
This is a book you’ll find in our
Middle Grade section, but it carries just as much intrigue as an Agatha
Christie novel. Sixteen seemingly unrelated people are invited to the reading
of Samuel Westing’s will. Those 16 people were selected to be sold apartments
in the area, but after they turn up and the wealthy, game-loving Westing dies,
they learn they’re potential heirs to his will. They’re all given $10,000,
paired off and given a set of baffling clues that lead to the solving of
Westing’s death and the entirety of his $200 million fortune and company.
