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If you want more Lucy Foley
The Hunting Party
Lucy Foley
Why Matchbook recommends it: Old university friends snowed in at a Scottish hunting lodge for New Year's — the same rotating narrators and hidden victim structure.
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Books Like The Guest List
The Guest List gathers a glamorous wedding party on a remote island off the Irish coast, rotating between guests who all have reasons to want someone dead — and doesn't reveal who the victim is until late in the book. Readers searching for books like The Guest List want closed-circle mysteries, isolated settings cut off by weather, shifting narrators with hidden grudges and a twist you only half see coming.
Our picks
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If you loved a group trapped by the weather
One by One
Ruth Ware
Why Matchbook recommends it: A tech company retreat at a French Alps chalet is cut off by an avalanche as colleagues start to disappear.
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If you loved the island and the guest list
And Then There Were None
Agatha Christie
Why Matchbook recommends it: Ten strangers lured to an island are killed one by one — the original that every closed-circle mystery owes a debt to.
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If you loved a group of strangers with hidden motives
Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty
Why Matchbook recommends it: Nine guests at an exclusive wellness retreat discover their host has an unsettling agenda — multiple perspectives and plenty of dark humour.
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If you loved being cut off from the outside world
An Unwanted Guest
Shari Lapena
Why Matchbook recommends it: A snowstorm traps guests at a remote Catskills inn, and one of them is a killer.
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If you loved a family gathering gone murderous
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson
Why Matchbook recommends it: A family reunion at a snowbound ski resort turns deadly — a clever, funny, fair-play puzzle.
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If you loved a celebration ending in a body
The Last Party
Clare Mackintosh
Why Matchbook recommends it: A New Year's Eve party at a Welsh lakeside resort ends with a man dead in the water, and every neighbour is a suspect.
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