Locked Room Mysteries | Fiction Tropes | THRILLER THURSDAYS

This week's Thriller Thursday is about all about my favourite trope a 'locked-room mystery'.

Ever since I read The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an English class I've been enamored with the concept...  

A body is found. But all the windows & doors were locked from the inside  & it appears that the perpetrator has vanished into thin air, leaving little obvious evidence... 

The physical limitations of the story mean the person 'whodunnit' has to be in the initial group of people. The challenge to the reader to solve the crime with the clues in the story before the big reveal ...what's not to love?

Here are five of my favourites that will have you reading from cover-to-cover in a single sitting...

Murder At The Gran Raj Place | Vaseem Khan 

"Anyone who is anyone stays at the Grand Raj. 

The last thing the venerable old hotel needs is a murder...

So when the body of an American billionaire Burbank is found, the pressure is on to label it a suicide. But then Chopra is called in ...and finds the hotel full of people with a reason to want Burbank dead."

The Women in Cabin 10 | Ruth Ware

''Woken in the night by screams, Lo rushes to her window to see a body thrown overboard from the cabin next door. But the records show that no-one ever checked into that cabin, and there are no passengers missing from the boat.

Lo has to face the fact that she may have made a mistake - either that, or she is now trapped on a boat with a murderer...''

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle | Stuart Turton

"Tonight, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed ...again.

Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself over and over again. Every time ending with the fateful pistol shot.

The only way to break this cycle is to identify the killer..."

And Then There Were None | Agatha Christie

"Ten strangers are invited to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. Cut off from the mainland, with their generous hosts mysteriously absent, they are each accused of a terrible crime.

When one of the party dies suddenly they realise they may be harbouring a murderer among their number.

One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer?"

The Hunting Party | Lucy Foley

"New Year. Old friends. It's a party to die for...

The beautiful one, the golden couple, the volatile one, the new parents, the quiet one, the city boy, the outsider, the victim...

Not an accident - a murder among friends.

Have you read any intriguing locked room mysteries?

If you have any recommendations, do leave a comment!

Don't forget to pop back to see what I have in store for next week's Thriller Thursday!