 Today I'm getting over my fear of tier makers to bring you the definitive list and ranking of all the murder mystery books I've ever read. And so welcome back to my channel I hope you're all good. Today that's right we are going to tier rank all of the murder mystery books I have ever read. I've put them all into tier maker and we're gonna rank them together. Well today is going to be the best day ever. A lot of you often ask me when I do videos like my top murder mystery books etc but I thought of this murder mystery or this murder mystery or you know ask about all the different ones I've read. So this is the definitive list but before we get into the video I want to say a massive thank you to the sponsor of today's video which is Serious Readers. So Serious Readers make reading lights. This is mine and I love it so much. 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have to rank in this video so first we have get that fire rick signal I'm off so this is the worst get me out of here did not like this next we have I don't remember I don't remember love I don't remember at all I really don't because I know for a long time ago this is one I don't really remember right sorry I don't know her don't have much recollection of reading it it was pretty un unremembrable it's pretty forgettable then we have pushed me up against the wall give me a kiss then I might get excited so this is books that like were fine but just didn't excite me they were boring they didn't have any flavour to them it's mad why is mad on the links on here three times what is going on here everything is duplicated hang on what is going on you can't delete images I have to make a whole new one okay we're back we're back we're back it worked oh my god so pushing me up against the wall is the books that just don't excite me right they're fine they're just not exciting then we have I'm an acquired taste you don't like me acquire some taste these are books that I really enjoy but I can see why people wouldn't because they're an acquired taste you know this this tier isn't necessarily gonna be like the highest rate at the top lowest rate at the bottom it's more vibes you get me also the bin men are outside just as I'm starting to feel like then we have the album's amazing song to song I can't stress it enough this is ones I love I think they're great they're great solid books from beginning to end I really love them and then we have I'm gonna collapse no I don't I feel fine I've struck gold ladies this is the best of the best we've struck gold like top tier amazing great wonderful fantastic amazing great the best the best the best right I'm gonna like try and reserve we struck gold for the top of the top there may be five stars they put in the album's amazing song to song right that is really reserved for the top top of the top okay so let's get going fatal crossing by Tom Hindle I read this earlier this year it was fine I didn't love it I think that's gonna go and push me up against the wall like it just didn't excite me it was fine didn't love it okay now we've got a few te kinsies let's do all these in the order that they came out in so quite life in the country or say hmm this one's tricky because I can see why some people don't love it because it's cozy mysteries it's simple it's like you know just I'm gonna say I'm a quiet taste no I'm gonna say quite life in the country I was amazing song to song then in the market for murder let's find that that's the second one that's my favorite one where is it that's gonna go I feel faint we've struck gold I love in the market for murder that's my favorite in the series then death around the bend I'll put I'm an acquired taste and the picture of murder I'll put acquired taste see I'm being harsh this is like death around the bend I still gave four stars picture of murder was like a 3.5 but um I do love that is my favorite cozy mystery series the next one set in January so I'm very excited to read it in January you know if you like cozy mysteries with like a really lovely duo it's Lady Hardcastle and her made flow and the books are told from flow's perspective and they've been friends for many years they were secret spies together back in the day they're just a comfort route for me I do love them shiver by Ali Reynolds get our fireworks at door I'm off I didn't like it how do you know what's good for me that's my attention I just wasn't a fan of the reveals in this I found the whole thing pretty boring an unwanted guest by Shari Lapina the album's amazing song to song I feel like I didn't I feel like I read this in an era when I was having really good luck with murder mysteries and I didn't appreciate it fully for what it's worth you know and I want to guess it's such a good isolated close circle murder mystery like they're all snowed in at this inn it's so atmospheric I think this would be a great one to read around Christmas time it's my favorite Shari Lapina I've ever read definitely and then though and then back at the Chrissy okay this is where I'm gonna get controversial I don't love and then the Wenan I really don't I've learned that it's just something about the format I don't like because we may see a few other and then the Wenan retellings in this list and I just don't tend to like them why would you say something so controversial yet so brave I don't like scheduled killings I don't like knowing like okay someone's gonna die soon I like the killings to be shocked like I want to be shocked right if I'm not shocked by the murder what's the point what are people dying for when the reveal happens at the end it's like oh my god it's so annoying I really didn't like you know the how this was done moment I didn't like that it's gonna go push me up against all gimmick is that I might get excited like I can see why people like it but it didn't do it for me big little lies we struck gold I loved big little lies it's not exactly a murder mystery really this was like really 50-50 but I wanted to put in here anyway because I loved this I read this when I had covid it was the only thing I could do when I had covid was read this book slowly and I just loved the campiness of it I tried to watch the show and I couldn't get into it because the show was like all dark and brooding and we're in a lay down this serious and I'm like no I liked about big little lies how ridiculous it was and how it was all these mums fighting like I love that I love that I can't wait till I have kids and they go to school and I'm gonna be embroidered all the mum drama I'm not gonna be starting it but I'm just like it's fun to watch from afar I'm checking the boy in the red dress I don't remember it wasn't even that long ago I read this this summer I don't this is like a historical murder mystery where it's about a boy in the red dress he's like a drag performer he's accused of a murder mystery and his girlie here is gonna try and save him this was just like I just I don't remember I couldn't really tell you anything that happened in this book dead dead girls by nakisa afia uh I'm I'm gonna say I'm gonna acquire taste I liked it I'm gonna continue on with the series but it was like a debut and there was some like debuiness about it yeah this is another historical murder mystery set in Harlem all these girls are getting killed and our main character takes upon herself to find out what is happening death on and all about eichler christie we struck gold this is one of my favorite eichler christie I read this this year and I really did enjoy it because here's the thing miss agatha had two husbands right the cheating lying scumbag that was mr christie I can't remember you know when he cheated she like had a bit of a breakdown ran away was missing listen we don't we don't recognize him but then she was with this like I think it was like an archaeologist guy and she like traveled the world with him and that's why she has all these like death on the now murder on the orn express like she starts traveling sis starts traveling pro starts going on travels and I love that for her I love that for her death and now I can bodies her freedom for me okay devil and duck what is an interesting one because I really did enjoy it but I think it's going to go in an acquired taste like I gave it five stars this is what I'm saying this is not like although I'm tier ranking it I'm kind of tier ranking it for other people maybe not for myself because I gave it five stars but I can I can understand when people wouldn't like this another historical one this is set on a ship this is another one that's like only it's like not really a murder mystery but I included anyway like this is in my top 10 murder mysteries I think video that I made but I'm putting it here because the ending especially is ridiculous like I couldn't really understand if people wouldn't like it like it's a very unsatisfying ridiculous ending like my mum didn't like it oh a good girl's guide to murder easy we've shot gold the best maybe the best love it my favorite probably my favorite YA murder mystery that I've ever read I love a good girl's guide to murder very nervous for five survived by holly jackson coming out late to this year I'm like rattled I'm nervous about it but I'm excited but it's more thriller so that's what makes me nervous because I just think she did a murder mystery so wow the hongin murders that's amazement song to song I need to continue on with seshi yokinizo's work he's basically the agate christie of japan he has this detective the detective sitting in the hongin murders he's written like I don't know 60 a hundred books I don't know loads and loads of books and detective and they're being translated into English and I have I own two more of them and I think one more has been translated as well than what I own I really loved this it was such an interesting murder mystery it's a locked room murder mystery a husband and wife are murdered on their wedding eve and it's a locked room they were staying in a cabin that was locked on the inside there was been snow overnight and there's been no footprints around the cabin and so it's really like how this is done is crazy it's like a murder mystery of these reveals I never read so I definitely need to read some more of his stuff how we fall apart I read it this year for my book club on patreon I don't remember I think it was fine I was just a bit bored I also remember feeling like it was young YA which I just think is not necessarily a bad thing like I think that should exist I remember saying if I was like reading this when I was 12 I would have eaten it up like I would have been obsessed with the drama in this but it just wasn't for me as an adult in my dreams I hold a knife I've just read and the reading vlog for it is coming this weekend I'm gonna put the album as amazing song to song it's not quite we've struck gold for me you'll see all my thoughts this weekend but it was it was good like I really enjoyed it really enjoyed it marion lane get that fireworks at all I hate her I tell you now this was so disappointing for me I loved the cover of this so much I remember I bought this I still remember I bought this book for myself as a reward for finishing my documentary like my dissertation for my year three of uni it was like my reward this was like I was so excited for this book no did not like it really didn't like it this is another series I did not continue mid-winter mad about agatha christie um this one's tricky we've got three agatha christies here to chat about I'm gonna go push me up against all I did enjoy this like I read this on christmas day I think last year and it was fun to read on christmas day I would really like to read proro's christmas or there's another like christmas one that has a special edition I'll put them here I would read I don't own any of them but I would like to read one of those to you probably this christmas it's an enjoyable experience but I didn't love this was short stories and I just there was some I preferred more than others you know so it was just fine murder only on express we've struggled absolutely we've struggled I love murder only on express this is the first I think the first murder mystery I really ever read definitely the first agatha christie I've ever read and it's still probably my favorite agatha christie I love it I love it I love it I love it I love it I mean I'm I'm so passionate about it here's the thing I love like some stuff that people would see as boring murder only on express is literally all interviews it's all into like most of the book is him interviewing every person who's been on this train when the murder has been committed and I love that like it's formulaic but I love that because I think it really gives you the reader like the chance to put clues together because you're in the setting and you're just getting interviews and a murder on the express is one of the best reveals ever it's so good miss you're the blue train I don't remember don't remember her or maybe even get that farx dorm off um no I don't remember her this was like a two star for me I did not love this not a happy family by shari lapina this was like another two star I'm gonna say get that farx a dorm off did not enjoy this this is another book club one I don't always have the best luck with book club fix yeah this wasn't it this is probably my least favourite shari lapina I've read the reveals were so predictable I knew who it was the entire book and it's about um this family where the three kids go to visit their parents for dinner and the next morning the parents are found dead so you think one of the kids or one of the kids partners have murdered the parents and it was just obvious who it was the entire time and I just didn't enjoy it one by one by Ruth where it's going straight to the top I don't care I want to fight the battle I want to fight the battle oh yeah I'm gonna fight the battle people did not love this when it came out I love this this is maybe my favorite Ruth where yeah I love one by one I loved it this is another isolated snowed in murder mystery we've got this company called snoop who are there together on this retreat and they start getting killed off one by one I just thought this was a really well done mystery it had a few unique elements to it it has a great chase scene near the end that I felt so tense in and what is really special about this book without spoiling much is that for a good chunk of the book you the audience think you know who's done it right you think it's not like a big like unmask reveal at the end necessarily and how the tension builds in those parts when you think you're pretty sure you know who's done it and the way the tension builds and you feel sick and you're like oh my god like please don't let it be them like it's so so good so yeah Ruth where I disagree with everyone else on that pro investigates I don't remember that I think that might be short stories is it I think that's like because I read the pro series in order I think that's like the third one in the pro series and I think it's your story is I read the audiobook I don't remember a thing about it reckless girls by Rachel Hawkins mmm well silly I was amazing song to song I really I read this this year and I really did enjoy it it's pitched us and then they went on retelling and it's not so I didn't mind it this is about these characters who go to say on this deserted island and death ensues basically bad stuff ensues people being bad ensues this was one of the quickest books I've ever read I think this I it's like 300 pages I read it in like two hours you could not stop me reading it it's such a compulsively readable book so yeah I really enjoyed that sleep by Seattle Taylor I just read it was a three star I'm gonna say push me up against will give me a kiss I might get excited it didn't do what I don't want to guest it and that's what I wanted it to do it's another like at a hotel a group of characters who don't know each other stuck in a storm basically in that ensues and I just like when I've read I wanted guests sleep just can't compare it just couldn't compare you never will be on my level do not compare yourself to me I liked the writing I liked the main character but I just didn't feel like the tension was really there and there wasn't many twists the appeal by Janice Hallett now this is a tricky one because this is a book that I wanted to love so badly that I think when I read it I gave it a 3.5 out of like disappointment that it wasn't the favorite book I've ever read but I did enjoy it so I think I've raised it to a 4 I'm gonna say and I'm a quiet taste so this book is told entirely through emails after a murder has happened and you're supposed to be these students who are like are these students I don't know like investigators who are reading through all the emails and trying to figure out who committed the murder the big full bags Christy get a fire exit door well just as I thought trash this is my least favorite ice Christie I gave this one star so this one I will forgive her though because this one was originally a series of like periodicals in a newspaper I don't think it was ever supposed to be a book but then miss Agatha had her like had her break down and she was writing the mystery of the blue train but she wasn't happy with it I think you can see that this was like through a difficult period of her life because I think you can see that it was tough for her and so she she wasn't ready to publish that but she had to publish a book and so then I think it was like her brother-in-law suggested publishing the big four as the next book so yeah I just didn't love this I think that because it was a newspaper like periodical the pacing is off and it's got some bad Christie racism in it all of her books not all of her books some are not as bad as others but when you go into them you have to accept that she's writing in the 1930s but a lot of the ones I've read at least because I've read a lot of her earlier ones you see you see aspects of the time in them but also flawed opinions that she had as an individual and you know I think it's different reading that kind of stuff in an Agatha Christie book versus reading it in a modern day book but I don't believe that she should get off the case you know get off scot-free because oh it was in the past also you know but I do continue to read her stuff because I do love murder mysteries a genre and she you know when you read books you can see that she is the originator of so much but yeah the big four was not for me the broken girls by Simone St James there's we struck gold ladies I loved it we struck oh my god broken girls were so good speculative multiple two murder mysteries that we're trying to solve across different time periods dual timeline that I actually liked great characters oh it was good oh and the guest list we have to put at we've struck gold as well I can't not was one of the first murder mysteries I ever read and I loved it I don't know if I read it for the first time today if I would love it as much you better f***ing take that back right now you better f***ing stop right now I think she just does simple murder mysteries so well she's probably the closest I've read not in terms of writing I don't think she writes like her but I think in terms of like how the murder mystery is framed the closest modern writer to Agatha Christie that I found you know you have these archetypal characters you have like maybe six characters you know that they're your suspects and then you kind of start going about investigating them um so yeah the guest list is a very important one for me the islanders another and then they were non-retelling get that fire except I'm off I did not like it I didn't like it this is like a love island murder mystery so it's like you know the show love island they've gone on that show and then they start getting killed off one by one I hate this one I really did I'm so sorry I feel so bad but I didn't like it the last by Hannah Jameson is the epitome of I'm an acquired taste don't like me acquire some taste like literally the epitome of it I loved it I think I gave it maybe I only gave it a four but it's one of the books I think about the most it's set in the apocalypse a nuclear apocalypse you and like 30 other survivors are in this twist hotel you don't know if any of the rest of the world has survived and a body is found I love the tension that's built up it's a really fun book but the ending is so ridiculous like the ending is not good but it's so bad that I kind of think it's amazing like I kind of think it's genius but I can't understand why people hate that one the maid the maid the maid the maid I gave it four stars I'm gonna say acquired taste yeah it was good this is a book I actually conversely to the last I feel like has gone down a little bit in my ratings um since I've read it it was a very simple murder mystery but I'm not sure in the best way I enjoyed it when I read it but I don't look back on it as like wow that was incredible you know rich loss men let's do the two Thursday murder card books Thursday murder card we struck gold one of my favorite books I read last year one of my favorite books I'm gonna put the second one even though it was five stars I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song because I didn't love it as much as the first one I don't think it's as strong but it is good like I just I do love this series it's just the perfect like modern mainstream cozy mystery I love that we're following elderly characters I love the relationships that are built up alongside the murder mystery I just think it's it's amazing and I'm very excited for that to miss the murder of Roger at Croyd we have a few Agatha Christie's again um murder of Roger at Croyd hmm now here's the thing in terms of like the ending we struck gold one of the most ingenious reveals I think by Agatha Christie again I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song because I think the beginning of the book I found a little bit boring when I read it not boring but like I just didn't love it as much as say murder on the urine express because it is more of like a small town cozy slow mystery and then the ending is amazing but I'm going to put it in the album's amazing song to song murder on the links I don't remember I think I remember really not liking it but I don't remember well enough to say there's a few Agatha Christie's in here I don't know this is the thing I like Christie I either love her or I don't like her the mysterious of her styles are actually put in the one above this is her first book and I think it's really good for her first book like it was literally her first one of those prora as well and I think it is a good stately home murder mystery the Paris apartment by Lucy Foley will put the album's amazing song to song I did give us five stars out of this year I did really enjoy it again I know a lot of people didn't love this but I just think Lucy Foley just gets the vibe that I want I loved the Paris location there is a reveal in this book that is like it's really good that I didn't predict before it got revealed like I had no idea and when it got revealed I was shaking I'm shaking I'm physically shaking so yeah the Paris apartment is a good one the sanatorium by Sarah Pierce I don't remember much I'm gonna say push me up I would say an acquired taste I didn't love this I think I gave it like a 3.54 it's set at this like revamped sanatorium right it's been turned into a hotel and I think this is a great like thrilling murder mystery there's a lot of twists throughout it that really like oh my god like we're really scary almost and really tense but the ending again wasn't great it was to make a point and I just didn't think it paid off seven deaths Evan Hardcastle pushed me up against a wall I didn't love this I much preferred Devil in the Darkwater even though Stuart um Stuart Tarkin's other book Evan Hardcastle was much more popular but I just this one was just like it was a bit too much for me and the I didn't like the ending reveal either um and this is the one where like he's jumping around in people different people's bodies every day he wakes up he relives the day where the murder happens again and I just thought it was a little bit complicated for its own good I feel like Devil in the Darkwater was good complicated good clever this one was a little bit too much I'm gonna put three dahlia's I gave this four stars I just read it so it's a bit more fresh in my memory I'm gonna say the album is amazing song to song I think this is a solid murder mystery it's very fun um I just read it in a vlog where my cats picked what I read for Halloween like this book is very referential to Eichel the Christie and I think it does it very well and I really liked the mystery but it was just a fun book as well it's set at a convention like a super fan convention for this fictitious female murder mystery author from the 1930s I just thought it was a very fun fun book true crime story by Joseph Knox I don't know if it's quite we've struck gold like when I look at the we've struck gold ones I'm gonna put it in the album's amazing song to song I did love this I read it recently I gave it five stars but I feel like it's not quite up there with those like top ones you know like the Devon Darkwater is in my top 10 like that is amongst those but it isn't a quiet taste it goes here so this isn't quite I don't know do I put it in we struck gold no I'm putting in the album's amazing song to song I'm putting in the album's amazing song to song because I would have liked a little bit again a bigger mix of mixed media I don't know I think like interviews they needed to be like a few other stuff there was ints and emails um this is like a mixed media murder mystery about a girl well I guess it isn't really a murder mystery it's a girl who's gone missing but sometimes I allow missing person like the Paris apartment is kind of a missing person murder mystery like they're missing have they been murdered kind of thing you know the wintery can mystery I'm gonna quiet taste I did enjoy this this was a book where I tried to solve it so I read it and like had like a crime board up on my wall and like tried to solve the mysteries I went along and I really loved the experience of that it's the only classic crime book other than i could christie I've ever read and it was a really fun experience to read you know a different a different classic crime book but I guess it wouldn't be for everyone and then woman cabin 10 uh hang on let's put it in the album's amazing song to song I think that's where it deserves to go that's where we're gonna put it because I did I did really really enjoy this this is a very good truth where it's up there again is one of my favorites so there we have it that is my tier ranking of all the murder mystery books ever read this feels pretty right to me like I feel like this this ranking it feels right to me you know I could have a few up top she'll a few down the bottom yeah I hope you enjoyed this video of me tier ranking all the murder mystery books I ever read this is a pretty good place to come if you want murder mystery recommendations I guess again it wasn't like oh the five stars at the top the one stars at the bottom it's also in between there's a few nuances because the last is one that I think about the most devil dark watch I gave five stars you know so thank you so much for watching if you got into the end comment the magnifying glass or knife emoji down below thank you so much for watching make sure you check out series series again and use my code thank you so much for watching and I'll see you very soon in 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