An eighteen-year-old narrator lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle in an isolated family home long shunned by their village after a past tragedy. The novel records how the household maintains rituals and defenses while outside hostility and the characters’ secrets exert pressure on daily life.

A woman linked to an academic community returns to a college where puzzling acts and a climate of fear have erupted; an investigator connected to her seeks to discover who is behind the incidents and why.

A scholarly novice and his mentor arrive at an isolated medieval monastery where a string of mysterious deaths presents a locked-circle investigation.

Set in late-19th-century London, the novel follows an agent involved in espionage for an unnamed foreign power amid a small circle touched by anarchist agitation. The book traces the effects of political plotting and covert operations on ordinary lives, especially relationships marked by dependency and vulnerability.

A group of university students visits a remote island that was the scene of a gruesome mass killing months earlier; once there, ominous events begin and a sequence of murders unfolds within the isolated setting.

An academic family in the American Midwest navigates everyday routines, consumer culture, and family dynamics while an external technological/industrial threat forces questions about death, risk, and how people manage fear.

Told from the viewpoint of a returning World War II veteran, the novel follows his arrival in Los Angeles and the tense relationships he forms there while an external string of murders and police investigation encircle him.

Set against the political tensions of the early 1960s, an American intelligence officer, Paul Christopher, investigates the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

An intimate retelling of the Cupid-and-Psyche myth presented as a long first-person accusation by Psyche’s elder sister, Orual. The narrator addresses her perceived wrongs and the gods while reconstructing family rivalries, love, and spiritual puzzlement within a primitive, Hellenistic-adjacent kingdom.

A baffling murder in 1920s London brings together an informal club of six armchair detectives who each propose different solutions to the same facts. The novel turns the detective parlor game into its subject, testing how many plausible—but ultimately flawed—explanations can arise from identical evidence.

A country solicitor is drawn into defending a mother and daughter accused of abducting and assaulting a visiting young woman. The plot hinges on assembling testimony, scrutinizing inconsistent claims, and testing how community suspicion and newspaper pressure shape culpability.

Set in a Caribbean social world, the novel tracks characters whose private histories and public roles intersect with race, class, and the island’s social customs. Tensions arise as personal ambitions and generational expectations collide with broader questions about who belongs and who speaks for the community.