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Recommended by Emma Donelly

I’ve read all Ruth Ware books. I love them all but I absolutely loved One by One. I look for Ruth Wa

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Recommended by Vicky Chardone

Ruth Ware has been dubbed ‘the modern day Agatha Christie’ and I completely agree. She really knows

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Recommended by Quinn Rogers

Ruth Ware is an excellent mystery writer. Some of her books have been really good while others not s

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Books By Ruth Ware

In a Dark
The Woman in Cabin 10
The Lying Game
The Death of Mrs. Westaway
The Turn of the Key
One by One
The It Girl
Zero Days
One Perfect Couple
Snowflakes

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From a cruise ship murder-mystery to a woman accused of a crime in a smart house in the Scottish Highlands, to a bachelorette party gone disastrously wrong, Ruth Ware expertly “turns the screws” on readers with suspense and twists that enthral (and scare) them. Each of Ware’s novels takes a conventional mystery setting and turns it on its head. Her mastery of the genre has critics likening her to Agatha Christie. Which of her books have you enjoyed the most? Is it the chilly (literally) locked room mystery of a corporate retreat gone wrong in One by One? Or perhaps the “cat and mouse” thriller Zero Days, with a security expert accused of murdering her husband is more your “cup of tea”? And how did you react to that twist in Turn of the Key?

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Lucy Foley

Recommended by Giselle Roberts

The Guest List is a great whodunnit along the lines of Agatha Christie. It’s set on a remote island

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Gillian Flynn

Recommended by Vicky Chardone

I read Dark Places by Gillian Flynn a few years ago and it was truly mind blowing to me. Amazing plo

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Nita Prose

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I very much liked Nita Prose’s The Maid. It’s a unique and enchanting book. The Maid character is ne

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“There’s a reason why we keep thoughts inside our heads for the most part—they’re not safe to be let out in public.”

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Gabriele M.
“Many people dub Ruth Ware as like Agatha Christie. But she doesn’t have detectives like Miss Marple or Poirot. Instead, you get in the heads of her protagonists and there are lots of fun unexpected twists along the way as a result. Ware does sometimes have similar setups as Christie. For instance a murder in the Alps and the suspects all locked together in a chalet. But she brings her own flavour to the mystery.”

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