(I posted a similar request for "books like And Then There Were None", but realized that I had too narrowly defined what I was looking for.)
Hi folks.
My favourite sub-genre or style of murder mystery is the "the killer is amongst us" set-up, where a group of people are trapped in place with a murder to solve. My favourite novel, Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" (aka "Ten Little Indians"), is a good example of this.
Here are some suggestions others have given me:
- The Body in the Ivy (a clever homage)
- Love Is Murder (has a good setting, being snowed in in a ski cabin)
- Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (set on a train stuck in a snow drift)
- The After House by Mary Roberts Rhinehart (public domain,
http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3820/the-after-house)
I'm not fussy about era, author or setting - even unedited amateur works on smashwords would be welcome. Can you folks recommend any others of this type?
thank you
Andrew