Sunday, January 11, 2026

The 15 best locked room murder mysteries

Emily Burack is the Senior News Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, culture, the royals, and a range of other subjects. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site.

At Town & Country she tagged fifteen of the best locked room murder mysteries, including:
One By One by Ruth Ware

The cofounder of a trendy London-based tech start-up organizes a weeklong trip for the team in the French Alps, but soon they’re snowed in the rustic ski chalet—sans one coworker, who hadn’t returned from the slopes. One by one, the group dwindles further.
Read about the other entries on the list.

One by One is among Alexa Donne's six chilly And Then There Were None inspired thrillers, Carolyne Topdjian's five top hotel thrillers and mysteries, Bonnie Kistler's six best office thrillers, Sandie Jones's six mysteries with large casts of characters, Allie Reynolds's seven chilling winter thrillers, and Louise Candlish's ten hardest characters in literature to love.

--Marshal Zeringue