If You Like ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Then Add These To Your TBR
The Hulu series Only Murders in the Building has a wonderful cast and some fun mysteries. Now in its third season, the chemistry between Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short has only gotten stronger. What started out as a murder podcast being dissected has now evolved over time as our detective trio finds new mysteries along the way.
Three strangers — who live in the same New York City apartment building and share an obsession with true crime — suddenly find themselves embroiled in a murder.
If you have enjoyed Only Murders in the Building so far, then you should definitely add the following books to your TBR.
Here are the five books we recommend!
Meet Stephanie Plum, a bounty hunter with an attitude. In Stephanie’s opinion, toxic waste, rabid drivers, armed schizophrenics, and August heat, humidity, and hydrocarbons are all part of the great adventure of living in Jersey.
She’s a product of the “burg”, a blue-collar pocket of Trenton where houses are attached and narrow, cars are American, windows are clean, and (God forbid you should be late) dinner is served at six.
Out of work and out of money, Stephanie blackmails her bail-bondsman cousin Vinnie into giving her a try as an apprehension agent.
A prominent high society matron — who happens to be a fierce supporter of the President and founding member of the POTUSSIES — has gone missing at a swank gala. When the wealthy dowager, Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons, is later found dead in a concrete grave, panic and chaos erupt. The President immediately declares that Kiki Pew was the victim of rampaging immigrant hordes. This, as it turns out, is far from the truth. Meanwhile, a bizarre discovery in the middle of the road brings the First Lady’s motorcade to a grinding halt.
Finlay Donovan is killing it… except, she’s really not. She’s a stressed-out single mom of two and a struggling novelist. FInlay’s life is in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors. When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer and inadvertently accepts an offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet.
Being an undercover poison taster for the rich and famous might sound glamorous, but for Isobel Avery, it means stomaching bad clients and even worse coffee. The one side of the job that lives up to the expectations is the money. Which is just as well for Izzy, since she needs an awful lot of it. Who knew when she made a lifelong commitment to a man that it would be one year living with him and the rest of her life paying for it? But even her scoundrel ex-husband doesn’t look so bad compared to her new client.
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and her aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It’s the biggest job yet for the family wedding business. And nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie’s perfect buttercream flowers.
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