The Thursday Murder Club

Slow Horses Mick Herron

Slough House is where MI5 sends its failures -- the agents who made career-ending mistakes and are now given pointless administrative work until they quit. When a young man is kidnapped and set to be executed online, the slow horses somehow end up involved.

The Eyre Affair Jasper Fforde

In an alternate 1985, literary detective Thursday Next must stop a villain who has kidnapped Jane Eyre out of the original manuscript.

In a Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware

A writer is invited to an isolated hen party in the English countryside by a friend she has not spoken to in years -- and it ends in death.

Mystic River Dennis Lehane

Three childhood friends from a Boston neighborhood -- one of whom was abducted and damaged at eleven years old -- are reunited by a murder that forces each of them to navigate incomplete information and old loyalties.

Still Life Louise Penny

A body found on Thanksgiving morning in Three Pines -- a village so small it doesn't appear on maps -- brings Chief Inspector Armand Gamache to a community that is not quite what it seems.