Dead Until Dark
Charlaine Harris
2001
Books with the “Small Town Secrets” trope
A cozy-looking small town hides dark secrets that eventually come to the surface.
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Setting and place · Small Town Secrets
Books with this trope
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
1926
Still Life
Louise Penny
2005
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
2009
The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
2020
The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood
2021
The Killer Inside Me
Jim Thompson
1952
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
2006
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn
2009
In the Woods
Tana French
2007
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson
1962
Ghost Story
Peter Straub
1979
The Woman in Black
Susan Hill
1983
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
1960
Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman
1995
Hex
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
2013
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
1930
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers
1934
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
2016
The Little Friend
Donna Tartt
2002
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty
2014
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham
2022
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
M. C. Beaton
1992
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones
2021
Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare
2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
2020
The Reformatory
Tananarive Due
2023
The House Next Door
Anne Rivers Siddons
1978
Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens
2018
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett
2020
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Holly Jackson
2019
The Dry
Jane Harper
2016
The Silent Sister
Diane Chamberlain
2014
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Gothic Manor
A story set in a grand old aristocratic house weighed down by buried family secrets, debt and decay.
Windswept Moors
Stories set on wild, foggy moorland where the harsh landscape mirrors the characters' inner storms.
Victorian London Atmosphere
Gas lamps, thick fog, horse-drawn cabs, and the dark alleys of Victorian London.
Boarding School
A closed boarding school where students live together and hide their own secrets.