Ten books about actors and acting

Elly Griffiths is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and The Postscript Murders. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.

[The Page 69 Test: The Crossing Places; My Book, The Movie: The House at Sea’s End; The Page 69 Test: A Room Full of Bones; The Page 69 Test: A Dying Fall]

Griffith's newest Ruth Galloway mystery is The Locked Room.

At The Strand Magazine she tagged her "top ten of books about actors and acting," including:

The Appeal by Janice Hallett

Janice Hallett’s first novel was an instant bestseller. Consisting almost entirely of emails, it explores that most deadly of entities, an amateur dramatic society. The murderer hides between the lines. Original, funny and very clever.

Read about the other entries on the list.

Beth Morrey called The Appeal "completely gripping, highly original and slyly funny."

--Marshal Zeringue