Marple Authors Recommend

We asked the authors of Marple: Twelve New Mysteries to recommend some of their favourite books so that we could compile the ultimate reading list for you. With a mix of contemporary and classic novels, crime fiction and romance, there is bound to be a book you simply can't resist adding to your wish list.

Kate Mosse, author of Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries, recommends...

• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

• The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

• Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie

• Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee, recommends...

• I'll be You by Janelle Brown

• Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

• Miss Marple: The Complete Short Storiesby Agatha Christie

• A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

Ruth Ware, author of The It Girl, recommends...

• The Killing Kind by Jane Casey
• A Rising Man by Abir Mukherjee
• Nemesis by Agatha Christie
• Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Alyssa Cole, author of An Extraordinary Union, recommends...

• I Know What You've Done by Dorothy Koomson
• The Duke Who Didn't by Courtney Milan
• Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett
• At Bertram's Hotel by Agatha Christie

Val McDermid, author of 1989, recommends...

• No Night is too Long by Barbara Vine
• To Love and Be Wise by Josephine Tey
• The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
• Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie

Leigh Bardugo, author of Ninth House, recommends...

• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson
• Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie
• Cat Among the Pigeons by Agatha Christie

Dreda Say Mitchell, author of Say Her Name, recommends...

• Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• 4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

Karen M. McManus, author of Nothing More To Tell, recommends....

• Allegedly by Tiffany D. Jackson
• The Secret History by Donna Tart
• And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
• The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie