For those who love a good mystery where characters are isolated in sealed locations, rooms and/or buildings! Also known as shin-honkaku mystery fiction in Japan 🇯🇵
My intro into shin-honkaku mysteries and I haven’t looked back since!
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, Paperback
Probably the best book Ayatsuji has written for the shin-honkaku genre!
The Clock House Murders - Yukito Ayatsuji - Barnes & Noble
Written by one of the original pioneers of the shin-honkaku genre in Japan :)
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders - Soji Shimada - Barnes & Noble
Not a traditional locked room mystery but contains multiple crimes in isolated locations that will keep you up all night and questioning the layout of your own house 😬
Strange Houses: A Novel by Uketsu, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
One of the OG of the original locked room mystery books that were written :)
The Three Coffins (Dr. Gideon Fell) - John Dickson Carr
Although it’s not technically a locked room mystery, it still involves a closed circle of characters stuck on an island and who slowly get taken out one by one…
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, Paperback
A good one to pick up if you enjoy how magic tricks are integrated into murder mysteries!
Death from a Top Hat (The Great Merlini #1) - Goodreads
