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. UK readers can now buy this collection in paperback. Stay tuned for more information on international publication dates.

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