Reading Lists
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