10 Best Family Mystery Books Unraveling Family Secrets!
Hey there bookworms! Nothing gets your heart pounding and your pages turning faster than a good old-fashioned mystery, right? Particularly, those centered around families and their twisted, unfathomable secrets! In the spirit of recommending the cream of the crop, we've compiled a list of the 10 best family mystery books ever! Now, these aren't just run-of-the-mill whodunits. Oh no, they delve deeper - exploring dark histories, concealed truths, and scandals - all within the complex dynamics of family bonds. These mind-boggling masterpieces offer stunning plot-twists, unforgettable characters, and narratives so tangled, you'll be up all night trying to unravel them. So, while the secrets they contain are as old as time, these books present them in ways that feel fresh, engrossing, and downright tantalizing. Buckle-up folks! You're in for a thrilling literary ride as we countdown the best family mystery books that keep you second guessing till the end! Who knows, you might even pick up a thing or two about dealing with your own family dramas -without the murder, let's hope! Let's jump into the intrigue and suspense, shall we?
『The Good Sister』
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A stunningly clever thriller made doubly suspenseful by not one, but two unreliable narrators." — People Sally Hepworth, the author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters in The Good Sister. There's only been one time that Rose couldn't stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life. Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be...dangerous. When Rose discovers that she cannot get pregnant, Fern sees her chance to pay her sister back for everything Rose has done for her. Fern can have a baby for Rose. She just needs to find a father. Simple. Fern's mission will shake the foundations of the life she has carefully built for herself and stir up dark secrets from the past, in this quirky, rich and shocking story of what families keep hidden.
Author | Sally Hepworth |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | St. Martin's Press |
Release Date | Apr 13, 2021 |
Source | Google Books |
『Home Before Dark』
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020 “A haunted house story—with a twist….[Sager] does not hold back”(Rolling Stone) in this chilling thriller from the author of Final Girls and Survive the Night. Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal her father recounted in a memoir called House of Horrors. His story of supernatural happenings and malevolent spirits became a worldwide phenomenon, rivaling The Amityville Horror in popularity—and skepticism. Maggie was too young to remember any of the horrific events that supposedly took place, and as an adult she doesn’t believe a word of her father’s claims. Ghosts, after all, don’t exist. When she inherits Baneberry Hall after his death and returns to renovate the place and sell it, her homecoming is anything but warm. The locals aren’t thrilled that their small town has been made infamous, and human characters with starring roles in House of Horrors are waiting in the shadows. Even more unnerving is Baneberry Hall itself—a place where unsettling whispers of the past lurk around every corner. And as Maggie starts to experience strange occurrences ripped from the pages of her father’s book, the truth she uncovers about the house’s dark history will challenge everything she believes.
Author | Riley Sager |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin |
Release Date | Aug 31, 2021 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo』
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared off the secluded island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger family. There was no corpse, no witnesses, no evidence. Her uncle is convinced that she was murdered by someone in her own family, the deeply dysfunctional Vanger clan. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is hired to investigate.
Author | Stieg Larsson |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2008 |
Source | Google Books |
『Red Bones: the Shetland Series 3』
Author | Ann Cleeves |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Pan |
Release Date | Mar 18, 2021 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Good Daughter』
“The Good Daughter is like Law and Order meets The Good Wife.” —theSkimm Instant New York Times Bestseller theSkimm Book Club Pick! The stunning new novel from the international #1 bestselling author — a searing, spellbinding blend of cold-case thriller and psychological suspense. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life. One is left behind… Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home. It left their mother dead. It left their father — Pikeville's notorious defense attorney — devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself — the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again — and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized — Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it's a case that unleashes the terrible memories she's spent so long trying to suppress. Because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won't stay buried forever… Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.
Author | Karin Slaughter |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | William Morrow Paperbacks |
Release Date | Jan 22, 2019 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Distant Hours』
A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
Author | Kate Morton |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Release Date | Jul 12, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Paper Girl of Paris』
"A quick read that history lovers will easily devour."—Teen Vogue "Get ready to be transported to Paris in Taylor's incredible debut novel."—Seventeen, Editor's Choice Code Name Verity meets Jennifer Donnelly’s Revolution in this gripping debut novel. NOW: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and walks along the Seine. When her grandmother passed away two months ago, she left Alice an apartment in France that no one knew existed. An apartment that has been locked for more than seventy years. Alice is determined to find out why the apartment was abandoned and why her grandmother never once mentioned the family she left behind when she moved to America after World War II. With the help of Paul, a charming Parisian student, she sets out to uncover the truth. However, the more time she spends digging through the mysteries of the past, the more she realizes there are secrets in the present that her family is still refusing to talk about. THEN: Sixteen-year-old Adalyn doesn’t recognize Paris anymore. Everywhere she looks, there are Nazis, and every day brings a new horror of life under the Occupation. When she meets Luc, the dashing and enigmatic leader of a resistance group, Adalyn feels she finally has a chance to fight back. But keeping up the appearance of being a much-admired socialite while working to undermine the Nazis is more complicated than she could have imagined. As the war goes on, Adalyn finds herself having to make more and more compromises—to her safety, to her reputation, and to her relationships with the people she loves the most.
Author | Jordyn Taylor |
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Price | $13.99 |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Release Date | May 26, 2020 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Husband's Secret』
Discovering a tattered letter that says she is to open it only in the event of her husband's death, Cecelia, a successful family woman, is unable to resist reading the letter and discovers a secret that shatters her life and the lives of two other women.
Author | Liane Moriarty |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin |
Release Date | Jun 27, 2017 |
Source | Google Books |
『Look What You Made Me Do』
A gripping thriller about a woman who must help cover the tracks of her serial killer sister -- only to discover her sibling isn't the only serial killer in town. Carrie wants a normal life. Carrie Lawrence doesn’t need a happily ever after. She’ll just settle for “after.” After a decade of helping her sister hide her victims. After a lifetime of lies. She just wants to be safe, boring, and not trekking through the woods at night with a dead body wrapped in a carpet. Becca wants to get away with murder. Becca Lawrence doesn’t believe in happily ever after because she’s already happy. She’s gotten away with murder for a decade and has blackmailed her sister into helping her hide the evidence—what more could a girl want? But first they have to stop a serial killer. When thirteen bodies are discovered in their small town, people are shocked. But not as shocked as Carrie, who thought she knew all the details of Becca’s sordid pastime. When Becca swears she’s not behind the grisly new crimes, they realize the town has a second serial killer who has the sisters in his sights, and what he wants is . . . Carrie.
Author | Elaine Murphy |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
Release Date | Jul 13, 2021 |
Source | Google Books |
『Ghost Wood Song』
Sawkill Girls meets The Hazel Wood in this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddy’s bones, I’d play it. I’d learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her father’s ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle’s tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can’t let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she’s going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and just the right amount of creepiness make this young adult debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark.
Author | Erica Waters |
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Price | $10.99 |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Release Date | Jul 14, 2020 |
Source | Google Books |
Alright folks, there you have it! Ten of the most engrossing, heart-pounding, and hair-raising family mystery novels that will definitely keep you on your toes. Each of these masterpieces delves into the fascinating realm of family secrets, scandals, and ties. You will find yourself getting lost within the complex web of relationships and suspense, eager to unravel every hidden truth and every shocking revelation. You’ll laugh, you’ll gasp, your pulse will quicken – we guarantee it. You might think you’ve encountered every twist and turn that the mystery genre has to offer, but these books are another kettle of fish altogether. This list serves as an open invitation to dive in, explore the mysteries, and discover the secrets buried deep within these fictional families. Remember, every family has secrets, but not every family has a daring detective or a brave protagonist willing to unearth them. Now, what could be better than a good mystery that starts right at home? Get your detective hats on and happy reading!
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