Ten top mysteries featuring original murders

Lucy Connelly travels around the world, usually with her bossy dog in tow. Her favorite pastime is sipping tea in a quaint cafe as she turns each passerby into a murder victim, witness, or suspect. If she stares at you strangely, don’t worry. She only murdered you in her book.

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Connelly's new novel is Death at a Scottish Christmas.

At CrimeReads the author tagged ten of "the most ingenious and novel killings in a long tradition of (fictional) killings." One title on the list:

I love an Agatha Christie book. One of my favorite novels of hers is And Then There Were None. A series of murders takes place on a remote island, and each of those murders is based on a nursery rhymes. She varies the ways in which her victims die, and some of those are quite clever. And with each murder, something goes missing in the house. If you haven’t read Christie, this is a good gateway into her books.

Read about the other entries on the list at CrimeReads.

And Then There Were None is among Nicola Upson's top ten golden age detective novels, Jane Robins's ten favorite creepy psychological thrillers, Molly Schoemann-McCann's nine great books for people who love Downton Abbey, Sjón's top ten island stories, and Pascal Bruckner's five best books on guilt.

--Marshal Zeringue