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Five

بقلم Ilona Bannister • 2026

Five strangers converge on a station platform. Before the train arrives, one will be dead.

3.80

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🎭 Ensemble Drama 😈 Difficult Child 💔 Reluctant Mother 🚉 Strangers Collide 🧬 Generational Trauma

Five

Five strangers converge on a station platform. Before the train arrives, one will be dead.

بقلم Ilona Bannister 2026 240 صفحة

3.80

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🎭 Ensemble Drama 😈 Difficult Child 💔 Reluctant Mother 🚉 Strangers Collide 🧬 Generational Trauma

Curtain

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1975

Poirot, dying at Styles, hunts a killer who has never wielded a weapon: only words.

4.10

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🏠 Country House Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle 🎭 Master Manipulator 🕯️ Murder By Proxy 👁️ Naive Narrator

Curtain

Poirot, dying at Styles, hunts a killer who has never wielded a weapon: only words.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1975 215 صفحة

4.10

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🏠 Country House Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle 🎭 Master Manipulator 🕯️ Murder By Proxy 👁️ Naive Narrator

Royal Witches

بقلم Gemma Hollman • 2019

When England's kings needed money or crown legitimacy, they accused a royal woman of witchcraft.

3.78

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🏰 Medieval England 👑 English Royalty 🔥 Political Witch Hunts 👸 Medieval Queens ⚔️ Dynastic Politics

Royal Witches

When England's kings needed money or crown legitimacy, they accused a royal woman of witchcraft.

بقلم Gemma Hollman 2019 320 صفحة

3.78

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🏰 Medieval England 👑 English Royalty 🔥 Political Witch Hunts 👸 Medieval Queens ⚔️ Dynastic Politics

Silas Marner

بقلم George Eliot • 1861

A lonely weaver hoards gold until a child in the snow shows him what truly matters.

3.70

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🐑 Pastoral Fiction 🏠 Found Family 🕊️ Redemption Arc 🤫 Secret Parentage ⚖️ False Accusation

Silas Marner

A lonely weaver hoards gold until a child in the snow shows him what truly matters.

بقلم George Eliot 1861 262 صفحة

3.70

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🐑 Pastoral Fiction 🏠 Found Family 🕊️ Redemption Arc 🤫 Secret Parentage ⚖️ False Accusation

Hide and Seek

بقلم M.J. Arlidge • 2016

Wrongfully imprisoned, a detective races to unmask the serial killer stalking her fellow inmates.

4.27

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🚺 Women's Prison ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 👼 Angel Of Death Killer 🕯️ Ritualistic Murders 🏛️ Institutional Corruption

Hide and Seek

Wrongfully imprisoned, a detective races to unmask the serial killer stalking her fellow inmates.

بقلم M.J. Arlidge 2016 368 صفحة

4.27

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🚺 Women's Prison ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 👼 Angel Of Death Killer 🕯️ Ritualistic Murders 🏛️ Institutional Corruption

The Children of Men

بقلم P.D. James • 1992

A generation without children. Then one pregnancy forces a grieving scholar to defy a tyrant cousin.

3.67

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🏚️ Crumbling Civilization 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🤰 Miraculous Pregnancy ✊ Dissident Underground

The Children of Men

A generation without children. Then one pregnancy forces a grieving scholar to defy a tyrant cousin.

بقلم P.D. James 1992 241 صفحة

3.67

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📚 Literary Dystopia 🏚️ Crumbling Civilization 🛡️ Reluctant Protector 🤰 Miraculous Pregnancy ✊ Dissident Underground

Mariana

بقلم Monica Dickens • 1940

Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.

3.90

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🌿 English Countryside 🎭 Artistic Ambition 💔 Unrequited Love

Mariana

Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.

بقلم Monica Dickens 1940 377 صفحة

3.90

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🌿 English Countryside 🎭 Artistic Ambition 💔 Unrequited Love

Five Little Pigs

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1942

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

4.03

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🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 🗣️ Conflicting Testimonies 🎨 Artist And Muse

Five Little Pigs

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1942 216 صفحة

4.03

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🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 🗣️ Conflicting Testimonies 🎨 Artist And Muse

Crooked House

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1949

When a patriarch is poisoned, his granddaughter's suitor must unmask the killer living among them.

4.08

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🔎 Golden Age Mystery 🏚️ Country House Mystery 🔪 Family Murder Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 👧 Child Villain

Crooked House

When a patriarch is poisoned, his granddaughter's suitor must unmask the killer living among them.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1949 276 صفحة

4.08

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🔎 Golden Age Mystery 🏚️ Country House Mystery 🔪 Family Murder Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 👧 Child Villain

Evil Under the Sun

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1941

Poirot's island holiday is shattered by a strangled beauty and a circle of unbreakable alibis.

3.98

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏝️ Island Mystery 🖤 Scheming Couple ✨ Glamorous Victim

Evil Under the Sun

Poirot's island holiday is shattered by a strangled beauty and a circle of unbreakable alibis.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1941 220 صفحة

3.98

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🏝️ Island Mystery 🖤 Scheming Couple ✨ Glamorous Victim

The Lying Room

بقلم Nicci French • 2019

A married mother scrubs a crime scene to hide her affair. The killer saw everything.

3.62

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🏠 Domestic Noir 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets 👥 Friend Group Secrets 🧹 Evidence Tampering 😰 Creeping Dread

The Lying Room

A married mother scrubs a crime scene to hide her affair. The killer saw everything.

بقلم Nicci French 2019 432 صفحة

3.62

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🏠 Domestic Noir 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Secrets 👥 Friend Group Secrets 🧹 Evidence Tampering 😰 Creeping Dread

Bournville

بقلم Jonathan Coe • 2022

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

3.78

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🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

Bournville

In a chocolate-maker's utopian village, one family mirrors Britain's long argument with itself.

بقلم Jonathan Coe 2022 354 صفحة

3.78

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🏡 Multi-Generational Saga 🕰️ Postwar Britain 🏛️ State Of The Nation 🔑 Family Secrets 🇬🇧 English Identity

Between Us

بقلم Mhairi McFarlane • 2023

Her boyfriend's show exposes her trauma. She investigates, finding a betrayal darker than fiction.

3.70

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Infidelity 🎭 Blurred Boundaries 🚩 Unreliable Partner

Between Us

Her boyfriend's show exposes her trauma. She investigates, finding a betrayal darker than fiction.

بقلم Mhairi McFarlane 2023 448 صفحة

3.70

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👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Friends To Lovers 💔 Infidelity 🎭 Blurred Boundaries 🚩 Unreliable Partner

That Woman

بقلم Anne Sebba • 2011

History cast her as the villain. The real story: a king who wouldn't let her leave.

3.44

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👑 Royal Biography 📖 Revisionist Biography 🪜 Social Climbing 🔥 Royal Scandal 🫖 British High Society

That Woman

History cast her as the villain. The real story: a king who wouldn't let her leave.

بقلم Anne Sebba 2011 344 صفحة

3.44

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👑 Royal Biography 📖 Revisionist Biography 🪜 Social Climbing 🔥 Royal Scandal 🫖 British High Society

The 39 Steps

بقلم John Buchan • 1915

When a spy dies in his flat, a Londoner runs for Scotland carrying secrets that could start a war.

3.59

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🕵️ Early Spy Thriller 🏃 Man On The Run ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🎭 Disguise And Deception 🦸 Reluctant Hero

The 39 Steps

When a spy dies in his flat, a Londoner runs for Scotland carrying secrets that could start a war.

بقلم John Buchan 1915 100 صفحة

3.59

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🕵️ Early Spy Thriller 🏃 Man On The Run ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🎭 Disguise And Deception 🦸 Reluctant Hero

Lord Edgware Dies

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1933

An actress wishes her husband dead. He is murdered that night, and her alibi is unbreakable.

3.95

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🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🧐 Witty Whodunit 👸 Beautiful Sociopath 🔄 Identity Swap Murder 🪤 Frame Job

Lord Edgware Dies

An actress wishes her husband dead. He is murdered that night, and her alibi is unbreakable.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1933 219 صفحة

3.95

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🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🧐 Witty Whodunit 👸 Beautiful Sociopath 🔄 Identity Swap Murder 🪤 Frame Job

Three Act Tragedy

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1935

A vicar dies mid-toast at a party. Poirot finds no poison until a second guest dies identically.

3.84

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🧩 Serial Killer 🎭 Theatrical Setting 💔 Love Triangle

Three Act Tragedy

A vicar dies mid-toast at a party. Poirot finds no poison until a second guest dies identically.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1935 336 صفحة

3.84

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🧩 Serial Killer 🎭 Theatrical Setting 💔 Love Triangle

The Damned Utd

بقلم David Peace • 2006

You are Brian Clough, football's brightest mind, walking into the job that will destroy you.

4.14

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⚽ British Football 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎭 Tragic Hubris ⚔️ Rivalry And Obsession 🗣️ Second Person Narration

The Damned Utd

You are Brian Clough, football's brightest mind, walking into the job that will destroy you.

بقلم David Peace 2006 346 صفحة

4.14

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⚽ British Football 📖 Biographical Fiction 🎭 Tragic Hubris ⚔️ Rivalry And Obsession 🗣️ Second Person Narration

Appointment with Death

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1938

When a cruel matriarch dies in Petra's desert, her captive family are all suspects.

3.87

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🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 👑 Tyrannical Matriarch ⛓️ Emotional Captivity ⏳ Slow-Burn Suspense

Appointment with Death

When a cruel matriarch dies in Petra's desert, her captive family are all suspects.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1938 303 صفحة

3.87

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🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 👑 Tyrannical Matriarch ⛓️ Emotional Captivity ⏳ Slow-Burn Suspense

Lucky Jim

بقلم Kingsley Amis • 1954

A reluctant lecturer loathes his boss's madrigals and clingy girlfriend, praying for a lucky break.

3.74

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📚 Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Love Triangle 🤡 Farcical Comedy

Lucky Jim

A reluctant lecturer loathes his boss's madrigals and clingy girlfriend, praying for a lucky break.

بقلم Kingsley Amis 1954 296 صفحة

3.74

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📚 Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 🐟 Fish Out Of Water 💔 Love Triangle 🤡 Farcical Comedy

The Wish List

بقلم Sophia Money-Coutts • 2020

An anxious bookseller's wish list conjures the perfect man, but a photographer knows her better.

3.67

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🏙️ London Romcom 📚 Bookshop Setting 💔 Love Triangle 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Blended Family 👥 Found Family

The Wish List

An anxious bookseller's wish list conjures the perfect man, but a photographer knows her better.

بقلم Sophia Money-Coutts 2020 439 صفحة

3.67

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🏙️ London Romcom 📚 Bookshop Setting 💔 Love Triangle 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Blended Family 👥 Found Family

A Line to Kill

بقلم Anthony Horowitz • 2021

An island literary festival, a murdered sponsor, and every writer had a reason to kill him.

3.94

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🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🕵️ Detective Duo 📖 Meta Mystery 🏝️ Remote Island Setting 🔍 Small Town Secrets

A Line to Kill

An island literary festival, a murdered sponsor, and every writer had a reason to kill him.

بقلم Anthony Horowitz 2021 375 صفحة

3.94

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🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🕵️ Detective Duo 📖 Meta Mystery 🏝️ Remote Island Setting 🔍 Small Town Secrets

Hickory Dickory Dock

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1955

A student hostel's strange thefts conceal a killer. Only Hercule Poirot sees the pattern.

3.77

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🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Master Detective 🇬🇧 Postwar London 🤥 Unreliable Confessions 📚 Golden Age Detective

Hickory Dickory Dock

A student hostel's strange thefts conceal a killer. Only Hercule Poirot sees the pattern.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1955

3.77

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🔒 Closed Circle Mystery 🔍 Master Detective 🇬🇧 Postwar London 🤥 Unreliable Confessions 📚 Golden Age Detective

The Duke Undone

بقلم Joanna Lowell • 2021

A struggling artist paints a naked duke; scandal binds them in a bargain neither can afford.

3.62

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🎨 Artist Heroine 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏛️ Class Difference 🎭 Secret Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Duke Undone

A struggling artist paints a naked duke; scandal binds them in a bargain neither can afford.

بقلم Joanna Lowell 2021 363 صفحة

3.62

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🎨 Artist Heroine 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🏛️ Class Difference 🎭 Secret Identity 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

Dumb Witness

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1937

A matriarch's fatal fall and a long-lost letter send Poirot hunting a killer among her heirs.

3.92

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 📜 Contested Will 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🔍 Slow Burn Mystery

Dumb Witness

A matriarch's fatal fall and a long-lost letter send Poirot hunting a killer among her heirs.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1937 317 صفحة

3.92

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 📜 Contested Will 💔 Dysfunctional Family 🔍 Slow Burn Mystery

The Cruel Sea

بقلم Nicholas Monsarrat • 1951

On Atlantic convoy duty, a British corvette crew finds the sea more lethal than the war.

4.23

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🚢 Naval Warfare 🌊 Battle Of The Atlantic 🫡 Stoic Leadership 🤝 Comrades In Arms 😔 Survivor's Guilt

The Cruel Sea

On Atlantic convoy duty, a British corvette crew finds the sea more lethal than the war.

بقلم Nicholas Monsarrat 1951 520 صفحة

4.23

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🚢 Naval Warfare 🌊 Battle Of The Atlantic 🫡 Stoic Leadership 🤝 Comrades In Arms 😔 Survivor's Guilt

Boudicca's Daughter

بقلم Elodie Harper • 2025

Boudicca's revolt is crushed. Her daughter lives now as a captive in the Roman general's house.

4.18

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🏛️ Roman Britain 📖 Mythic Retelling 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🩹 Generational Trauma ⚔️ Warrior Women

Boudicca's Daughter

Boudicca's revolt is crushed. Her daughter lives now as a captive in the Roman general's house.

بقلم Elodie Harper 2025 440 صفحة

4.18

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🏛️ Roman Britain 📖 Mythic Retelling 💔 Enemies To Lovers 🩹 Generational Trauma ⚔️ Warrior Women

Frankenstein

بقلم Mary Shelley • 2025

A scientist creates life, then recoils. Abandoned, his creature demands a companion or revenge.

4.19

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🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🧬 Playing God ❄️ Arctic Isolation 💔 Tragic Villain 👁️ Monster Perspective

Frankenstein

A scientist creates life, then recoils. Abandoned, his creature demands a companion or revenge.

بقلم Mary Shelley 2025 189 صفحة

4.19

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🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 🧬 Playing God ❄️ Arctic Isolation 💔 Tragic Villain 👁️ Monster Perspective

A Month in the Country

بقلم J.L. Carr • 1980

In a Yorkshire village, a war-scarred restorer unearths a medieval painting and a summer of healing.

4.07

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🌾 Pastoral Elegy 🎖️ Shell-Shocked Veteran 💬 Unspoken Love 🏡 Outsider Finds Home 🌿 Yorkshire Dales

A Month in the Country

In a Yorkshire village, a war-scarred restorer unearths a medieval painting and a summer of healing.

بقلم J.L. Carr 1980 160 صفحة

4.07

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🌾 Pastoral Elegy 🎖️ Shell-Shocked Veteran 💬 Unspoken Love 🏡 Outsider Finds Home 🌿 Yorkshire Dales

The Buddha of Suburbia

بقلم Hanif Kureishi • 1990

A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.

3.75

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🏙️ 1970s Britain 🎭 Suburban Satire 💜 Bisexual Awakening 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌏 Second Generation

The Buddha of Suburbia

A mixed-race teenager in 1970s London flees his father's guru act for the bohemian theatre world.

بقلم Hanif Kureishi 1990 288 صفحة

3.75

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🏙️ 1970s Britain 🎭 Suburban Satire 💜 Bisexual Awakening 💍 Arranged Marriage 🌏 Second Generation

The Perfect Life

بقلم Susanna Beard • 2020

Heather Jessop wins £29 million and her life unravels into threats, envy, and suspicion.

3.88

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🏠 Domestic Suspense 💰 Sudden Wealth 🍽️ Eating Disorder 👯 Female Friendship 🔍 Missing Child

The Perfect Life

Heather Jessop wins £29 million and her life unravels into threats, envy, and suspicion.

بقلم Susanna Beard 2020 304 صفحة

3.88

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🏠 Domestic Suspense 💰 Sudden Wealth 🍽️ Eating Disorder 👯 Female Friendship 🔍 Missing Child

The Rotters' Club

بقلم Jonathan Coe • 2001

Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.

3.96

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🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age 🇬🇧 1970s England 💔 Unrequited First Love 🔐 Family Secrets 🎸 Music Obsession

The Rotters' Club

Birmingham, 1973: four school friends, their rock band, and the IRA bomb that ends a world.

بقلم Jonathan Coe 2001 415 صفحة

3.96

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🎭 Ensemble Coming-Of-Age 🇬🇧 1970s England 💔 Unrequited First Love 🔐 Family Secrets 🎸 Music Obsession

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1940

His dentist dead and patients poisoned, Poirot hunts a killer who calls murder a public service.

3.78

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 👤 Double Life 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🤔 Philosophical Mystery

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe

His dentist dead and patients poisoned, Poirot hunts a killer who calls murder a public service.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1940

3.78

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🎭 Identity Swap 👤 Double Life 🏛️ Political Conspiracy 🤔 Philosophical Mystery

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1952

Poirot comes out of retirement when a policeman's doubt has an awkward lodger facing the gallows.

3.86

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🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏘️ English Village 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔒 Family Secrets

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

Poirot comes out of retirement when a policeman's doubt has an awkward lodger facing the gallows.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1952 244 صفحة

3.86

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🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏘️ English Village 🎭 Hidden Identity ⚖️ Wrongly Accused 🔒 Family Secrets

The Twist of a Knife

بقلم Anthony Horowitz • 2022

A mystery writer, framed for his critic's murder, turns to the detective he just fired.

4.09

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🪞 Metafictional Mystery 🔪 Framed For Murder 🕵️ Reluctant Detective Duo 🎭 London Theatre Scene ⏳ Past Crimes Resurface

The Twist of a Knife

A mystery writer, framed for his critic's murder, turns to the detective he just fired.

بقلم Anthony Horowitz 2022 373 صفحة

4.09

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🪞 Metafictional Mystery 🔪 Framed For Murder 🕵️ Reluctant Detective Duo 🎭 London Theatre Scene ⏳ Past Crimes Resurface

Hallowe'en Party

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1969

A drowned girl, a Halloween party, a boast about murder: Poirot uncovers a village's buried crimes.

3.56

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🏘️ Village Mystery 🐺 Girl Who Cried Wolf 👁️ Child Witness 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎃 Halloween Mystery

Hallowe'en Party

A drowned girl, a Halloween party, a boast about murder: Poirot uncovers a village's buried crimes.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1969 336 صفحة

3.56

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🏘️ Village Mystery 🐺 Girl Who Cried Wolf 👁️ Child Witness 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🎃 Halloween Mystery

Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop

بقلم Jenny Colgan • 2013

A village sweetshop, a wounded teacher she loves, a snowy Christmas: one crash threatens them all.

3.89

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🏘️ Small Town Romance 🏡 English Village 💔 Wounded Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

Christmas at Rosie Hopkins’ Sweetshop

A village sweetshop, a wounded teacher she loves, a snowy Christmas: one crash threatens them all.

بقلم Jenny Colgan 2013 389 صفحة

3.89

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🏘️ Small Town Romance 🏡 English Village 💔 Wounded Hero 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family 💕 Second Chance Love

The Hollow

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1946

When a doctor is shot by the pool, his wife holds the gun and Poirot holds his doubts.

3.80

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🏠 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🤫 Collective Cover-Up 🎨 Artist Protagonist 💔 Illicit Affair

The Hollow

When a doctor is shot by the pool, his wife holds the gun and Poirot holds his doubts.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1946 384 صفحة

3.80

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🏠 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🤫 Collective Cover-Up 🎨 Artist Protagonist 💔 Illicit Affair

Dandelion Is Dead

بقلم Rosie Storey • 2026

A grieving woman steals her dead sister's dating app and falls for the divorced father who answers.

3.48

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🪦 Grief Lit 📖 Book Club Fiction 👯 Sibling Loss 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💞 Dual Pov Romance

Dandelion Is Dead

A grieving woman steals her dead sister's dating app and falls for the divorced father who answers.

بقلم Rosie Storey 2026 368 صفحة

3.48

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🪦 Grief Lit 📖 Book Club Fiction 👯 Sibling Loss 🎭 Mistaken Identity 💞 Dual Pov Romance

Mad About You

بقلم Mhairi McFarlane • 2022

A wedding photographer starts over with a runaway groom, then her abusive ex smears her online.

3.82

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🖤 Coercive Control 🏠 Forced Proximity 👭 Female Solidarity 💬 Witty Banter 🫂 Found Family

Mad About You

A wedding photographer starts over with a runaway groom, then her abusive ex smears her online.

بقلم Mhairi McFarlane 2022 432 صفحة

3.82

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🖤 Coercive Control 🏠 Forced Proximity 👭 Female Solidarity 💬 Witty Banter 🫂 Found Family

Cuts Both Ways

بقلم Candice Brathwaite • 2022

After her brother's murder, a London teen falls for a boy who might know the killer.

3.74

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🖤 Black British 🏫 Elite Private School 💔 Sibling Grief ☠️ Forbidden Love 🔺 Love Triangle

Cuts Both Ways

After her brother's murder, a London teen falls for a boy who might know the killer.

بقلم Candice Brathwaite 2022 320 صفحة

3.74

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🖤 Black British 🏫 Elite Private School 💔 Sibling Grief ☠️ Forbidden Love 🔺 Love Triangle

The House Beneath the Cliffs

بقلم Sharon Gosling • 2021

Heartbroken, a chef buys a cliffside cottage in remote Scotland and cooks her way to belonging.

4.00

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🍳 Culinary Romance 🌊 Remote Scottish Coast 🌿 Starting Over 🫂 Found Family 💝 Second Chance Love

The House Beneath the Cliffs

Heartbroken, a chef buys a cliffside cottage in remote Scotland and cooks her way to belonging.

بقلم Sharon Gosling 2021 400 صفحة

4.00

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🍳 Culinary Romance 🌊 Remote Scottish Coast 🌿 Starting Over 🫂 Found Family 💝 Second Chance Love

The Pact

بقلم Sharon J. Bolton • 2021

Six Oxford friends cover up a fatal crash. Two decades on, the debt comes due.

3.92

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🧠 Psychological Thriller ⚔️ Revenge Thriller 🤫 Fatal Cover-Up 👑 Privilege And Guilt 🐍 Toxic Friendship

The Pact

Six Oxford friends cover up a fatal crash. Two decades on, the debt comes due.

بقلم Sharon J. Bolton 2021 384 صفحة

3.92

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🧠 Psychological Thriller ⚔️ Revenge Thriller 🤫 Fatal Cover-Up 👑 Privilege And Guilt 🐍 Toxic Friendship

What a Carve Up!

بقلم Jonathan Coe • 1994

A lonely biographer uncovers how one family's greed poisoned Britain, then the murders start.

4.11

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🎭 Political Satire 🏚️ Country House Mystery 😈 Family Of Villains 📖 Metafiction ⚖️ Karmic Retribution

What a Carve Up!

A lonely biographer uncovers how one family's greed poisoned Britain, then the murders start.

بقلم Jonathan Coe 1994 501 صفحة

4.11

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🎭 Political Satire 🏚️ Country House Mystery 😈 Family Of Villains 📖 Metafiction ⚖️ Karmic Retribution

Bringing Down the Duke

بقلم Evie Dunmore • 2019

England's coldest duke. Her scholarship depends on changing his mind. He wants more than politics.

3.92

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🥀 Enemies To Lovers ❄️ Ice Cold Duke 🕯️ Victorian Romance 📚 Bluestocking Heroine ⚖️ Class Difference

Bringing Down the Duke

England's coldest duke. Her scholarship depends on changing his mind. He wants more than politics.

بقلم Evie Dunmore 2019 335 صفحة

3.92

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🥀 Enemies To Lovers ❄️ Ice Cold Duke 🕯️ Victorian Romance 📚 Bluestocking Heroine ⚖️ Class Difference

Peril at End House

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1932

A bullet through an heiress's hat lures Poirot from retirement into a web of staged accidents.

4.02

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🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 📜 Inheritance Plot 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🤝 Detective Duo

Peril at End House

A bullet through an heiress's hat lures Poirot from retirement into a web of staged accidents.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1932 287 صفحة

4.02

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🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 📜 Inheritance Plot 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 🤝 Detective Duo

The Sittaford Mystery

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1931

A snowbound séance predicts murder. The suspect's fiancée knows the police have the wrong man.

3.77

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Detective 👻 SéAnce ❄️ Snowbound Isolation

The Sittaford Mystery

A snowbound séance predicts murder. The suspect's fiancée knows the police have the wrong man.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1931 248 صفحة

3.77

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🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Detective 👻 SéAnce ❄️ Snowbound Isolation

Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams

بقلم Jenny Colgan • 2012

A London nurse must sell her great-aunt's crumbling sweetshop. The village has other ideas.

3.92

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🏘️ Small Town Romance 🌱 Starting Over ⏳ Dual Timeline 🌿 English Countryside 💔 Wartime Love Story

Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweet Shop of Dreams

A London nurse must sell her great-aunt's crumbling sweetshop. The village has other ideas.

بقلم Jenny Colgan 2012 465 صفحة

3.92

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🏘️ Small Town Romance 🌱 Starting Over ⏳ Dual Timeline 🌿 English Countryside 💔 Wartime Love Story

بقلم Agatha Christie • 1957

From a passing train, a friend sees murder. No corpse appears. Miss Marple must prove it.

3.97

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🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💰 Inheritance Plot 🎭 False Identity 👁️ Witnessed Murder

From a passing train, a friend sees murder. No corpse appears. Miss Marple must prove it.

بقلم Agatha Christie 1957 286 صفحة

3.97

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🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💰 Inheritance Plot 🎭 False Identity 👁️ Witnessed Murder

The End of the Affair

بقلم Graham Greene • 1951

A jealous novelist in postwar London hires a detective to learn why his lover walked away.

3.90

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🕯️ Catholic Novel 💔 Literary Love Triangle 🔥 Obsessive Jealousy 💋 Adulterous Affair ✨ Spiritual Awakening

The End of the Affair

A jealous novelist in postwar London hires a detective to learn why his lover walked away.

بقلم Graham Greene 1951 160 صفحة

3.90

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🕯️ Catholic Novel 💔 Literary Love Triangle 🔥 Obsessive Jealousy 💋 Adulterous Affair ✨ Spiritual Awakening

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