Locked Room

Murder on the Orient Express

AGATHA CHRISTIE · Mystery & Thriller

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the famous Orient Express in its tracks as it travels through the mountainous Balkans.

closed circle · locked room · twist ending

The Escape Game

Marissa Meyer · Mystery & Thriller

**It’s all fun and games until someone ends up dead.** Six months ago, season four of The Escape Game ended in horror when contestant Alicia…

twist ending · locked room · cat and mouse · coming of age

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie · Mystery & Thriller

First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon.

psychological thriller · closed circle · locked room · cat and mouse · twist ending

Never Lie

Freida McFadden · Mystery & Thriller

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams.

psychological thriller · closed circle · locked room · survival · twist ending

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year

Ally Carter · Romance

The bridge is out. The phones are down. And the most famous mystery writer in the world just disappeared out of a locked room two days before…

enemies to lovers · slow burn · romantic comedy · locked room · holiday romance

Gideon the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir · Fantasy

"The Emperor needs necromancers.

dark academia · gothic atmosphere · locked room · found family

Rest Stop

Nat Cassidy · Horror

A young musician finds himself locked inside a gas station bathroom in the middle of the night by an unseen assailant, caught between the horrors on…

psychological thriller · high stakes survival · locked room · gothic atmosphere

The Murder at World's End

Ross Montgomery · Mystery & Thriller

Knives Out meets Downton Abbey! Secrets, murder, and mayhem collide as this unlikely sleuthing duo—an under-butler and a foul-mouthed…

locked room · closed circle

Hunted

Alex Knight · Mystery & Thriller

You're woken early by the doorbell.

psychological thriller · locked room · twist ending · high stakes survival

The Silent Companions

Laura Purcell · Horror

**When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from…

gothic atmosphere · haunted setting · ghosts · locked room · psychological thriller

Halloween Party

Agatha Christie · Mystery & Thriller

Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe’en party at Woodleigh Common.

closed circle · locked room · twist ending

The Library After Dark

Ande Pliego · Mystery & Thriller

A bookseller must escape the infamously haunted library that holds her darkest secrets, but with a murderer in her tour group, escaping alive is not…

locked room · psychological thriller · haunted setting · gothic atmosphere · twist ending

Nightwatching

Tracy Sierra · Horror

A footstep on the stairs. A second to react. What happens next will determine everything. Home alone with her young children during a blizzard, a…

psychological thriller · locked room · haunted setting · survival

Daisy Darker

Alice Feeney · Mystery & Thriller

Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart.

locked room · psychological thriller · twist ending · closed circle

The Midnight Knock

John Fram · Mystery & Thriller

"In the frigid west Texas desert, seven weary travelers converge on a lonely motel at the foot of a massive mountain.

psychological thriller · closed circle · high stakes survival · locked room

Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife

Martin Edwards · Mystery & Thriller

Six down-on-their-luck people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter…

locked room · closed circle · twist ending

Death to Valentine's Day

· Mystery & Thriller

Maia's Valentine's Day goes from bad to worse when she kisses a masked stranger at a mountain lodge party—only to discover he's her cheating ex's…

closed circle · locked room · high stakes survival · forced proximity

The Christmas Clue

Nicola Upson · Mystery & Thriller

In this festive whodunit, set in a cozy snowed-in country-house, an innocent mystery game goes horribly wrong, leaving the real-life couple who…

historical fiction · closed circle · locked room · cozy vibes · twist ending

The Woman in the Window

A. J. Finn · Mystery & Thriller

Anna Fox spends her day drinking wine, watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors.

psychological thriller · unreliable narrator · twist ending · locked room

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Agatha Christie · Mystery & Thriller

Set in the summer of 1917 in an Essex country estate, the story follows the war-wounded Captain Arthur Hastings to the Styles St.

closed circle · locked room · cat and mouse · twist ending · cozy vibes

How Bad Things Can Get

Darcy Coates · Horror

It was supposed to be the party of the century: miles of idyllic white sand beaches, lush jungle foliage...and a dark legend nobody dreamed might be…

survival · high stakes survival · closed circle · locked room

Dead Silence

S.A. Barnes · Sci-Fi

Titanic meets The Shining in S.A.

cosmic horror · locked room · survival · psychological thriller