Calling all crime fiction fans! We challenge you to work out which murder mysteries and thrillers we are describing below - all you have to do is name the book! Not sure? The answers are at the bottom.

  1. A woman vanishes on her fifth wedding anniversary, and all suspicion falls on her husband.
  2. A housemaid starts to suspect the wealthy family she works for is hiding something sinister.
  3. Ten strangers are trapped on an island and picked off one by one.
  4. A man relives the same day in different bodies as he tries to solve a killing at a country house.
  5. A family tragedy and a long-buried crime resurface when a woman is forced to confront the truth about her unsettling aunt.
  6. Four residents of a retirement village meet to discuss old murder cases — until they face a real one of their own.
    amanda seyfried as nina winchester in the housemaid. photo credit: daniel mcfadden/lionsgate
    Daniel McFadden/Lionsgate
  7. A commuter becomes fixated on a couple she sees from the train, then becomes caught up in a missing person case.
  8. A legendary detective investigates whether a terrifying death on the moors has a supernatural cause.
  9. In a remote medieval abbey, a monk investigates a string of sinister deaths linked to forbidden books.
  10. A young bride arrives at her husband’s grand house only to find herself overshadowed by his dead first wife.
  11. A woman shoots her husband and then never speaks another word.
  12. An editor realises that the mystery novel she is working on may contain clues to a real crime.
  13. A murder aboard a luxury train leaves a famous detective with a carriage full of suspects.
  14. A podcaster becomes drawn into the life of a woman whose story is far darker than it first appears.


Answers

  1. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
  2. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
  3. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
  4. The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
  5. A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine
  6. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
  7. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
  8. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  9. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  10. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
  11. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
  12. Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
  13. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  14. None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell