family + mystery

16 books tagged both “family” and “mystery”.

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Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty · 2021

A retired tennis coach vanishes, and her four children rethink their family story.

2,315-word summary · 10 min read

The Locked Door

Freida McFadden · 2021

Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.

2,465-word summary · 11 min read

Wrong Place Wrong Time

Gillian McAllister · 2022

Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.

2,522-word summary · 11 min read

A Flicker in the Dark

Stacy Willingham · 2022

Psychologist Chloe Davis faces copycat disappearances in Baton Rouge twenty years after her father confessed to murders.

3,074-word summary · 14 min read

Nine Perfect Strangers

Liane Moriarty · 2018

Nine guests enter Tranquillum House for ten days while director Masha hides smoothies and motives.

2,313-word summary · 10 min read

The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 2019

Libby Jones inherits a Chelsea mansion and a past tied to a cult house, two runaways, and a baby left waiting.

3,300-word summary · 15 min read

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng · 2014

In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race, school and duty that…

2,711-word summary · 12 min read

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn · 2009

Libby Day, sole survivor of family murders, is paid to rethink her testimony.

1,910-word summary · 8 min read

The Husband's Secret

Liane Moriarty · 2013

Cecilia finds a letter meant to be opened after her husband's death, and reads it while he lives.

1,985-word summary · 9 min read

Then She Was Gone

Lisa Jewell · 2017

Ten years after Ellie vanished, her mother finds a link in a new family.

1,956-word summary · 9 min read

Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 2014

In Pirriwee three mothers collide over school, marriage, and secrets until a trivia night death forces the truth about Perry abuse, Celeste fear, and Jane past.

2,582-word summary · 11 min read

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn · 2006

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to Wind Gap to cover two murdered girls, facing her cold mother Adora, wild sister Amma, and scars that spell her past. Full…

2,434-word summary · 11 min read