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The Guest List by Lucy Foley

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... the claustrophobic, closed-circle ensemble dynamics at an isolated celebration?

One by One by Ruth Ware

If you loved how a whole wedding party—Jules, Will, Olivia, Johnno, Hannah, Aoife—each brought secrets and motives to that storm-tossed island in The Guest List, you'll click with the stranded tech team in One by One. When an avalanche traps the Snoop start-up crew in a luxury Alpine chalet, every voice (from hard-edged execs to wary staffers like Erin and Danny) adds suspicion and friction. Corporate infighting, a high-stakes buyout vote, and a killer among them turn that cozy lodge into another pressure cooker you can’t look away from.

... the rotating viewpoints that let you piece together the truth from multiple angles?

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

Missing the way The Guest List let you slip inside Jules’s control, Olivia’s shame, Johnno’s guilt, and Hannah’s unease to assemble what really happened on that island? Big Little Lies gives you that same mosaic. Madeline, Celeste, and Jane narrate a glittering coastal community headed for a disastrous school trivia night, while police interview snippets chime in like the wedding speeches that hinted at danger. Those overlapping perspectives steadily sharpen into a single, devastating picture.

... the tense back-and-forth timeline that teases a crime while unraveling the past?

The Night Swim by Megan Goldin

If the structure of The Guest List—flashing between the wedding night’s chaos and the hours leading up to it—kept you riveted, The Night Swim uses a similar pulse. True-crime podcaster Rachel Krall investigates a current assault trial while anonymous letters drag her into an older, buried case in the same beach town. As podcast episodes, courtroom scenes, and the letter-writer’s memories intercut, the past snaps into focus with the same creeping inevitability you felt on Cormorant Island.

... the intimate, locked-room setting where no one can leave and everyone has a secret?

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

Loved that wind-lashed Irish island where the tide, the dark, and a dead generator turned a wedding into a trap? And Then There Were None perfected that intimate menace. Ten guests are lured to a remote island, accused via gramophone of past crimes, and begin to die in ways echoing a nursery rhyme. With the mainland out of reach—just as it was for Jules’s guests—the dread tightens until the final, chilling reveal.

... the rug-pulling reveals and shifting loyalties that upend everything you think you know?

The Kind Worth Killing by Peter Swanson

If the late-game turns in The Guest List—from the true target on the island to what Will and Johnno were hiding—made you gasp, The Kind Worth Killing is built on that thrill. A chance meeting between Ted and the enigmatic Lily Kintner at Heathrow spirals into a murder pact, only for confessions and hidden histories (from Lily’s past to Miranda’s duplicity) to detonate the story, chapter after chapter. Every time you think you’ve got it, it flips—beautifully.

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