Club Verdicts

The first full verdicts are in the sifting room — each one synthesises hundreds of reader reviews before it's published, and we don't rush that. Meanwhile, every book below already carries its cosy-contract dots on our lists.

In the sifting queue

• Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death — M.C. Beaton (1992)
• Magpie Murders — Anthony Horowitz (2016)
• Still Life — Louise Penny (2005)
• The Appeal — Janice Hallett (2021)
• The Cat Who Could Read Backwards — Lilian Jackson Braun (1966)
• The Honjin Murders — Seishi Yokomizo (1946)
• The Innocence of Father Brown — G.K. Chesterton (1911)
• The Maid — Nita Prose (2022)
• The Marlow Murder Club — Robert Thorogood (2021)
• The Murder at the Vicarage — Agatha Christie (1930)
• The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency — Alexander McCall Smith (1998)
• The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman (2020)
• The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax — Dorothy Gilman (1966)
• Tokyo Express — Seichō Matsumoto (1958)
• Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers — Jesse Q. Sutanto (2023)
• Village School — Miss Read (1955)