Vacation mysteries

Our book club has decided on mysteries about vacations and I need some good suggestions. Thanks.

A Holiday for Murder by Agatha Christie?

Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile and A Caribbean Mystery, also by Agatha Christie, would also probably qualify.

Winter Prey by John Sandford would be a borderline case at least.

Alan Furst

Go to the Stop You're Killing Me web site. They don't have a list of 'vacation books' but if you look in their Location Index I am sure you will find what you are looking for. It is a real good site.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com

Depends on what your book club likes! More thriller-y? More contemporary? More classic?

More thriller.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

for thriller-y there is always Reamde which begins with a gal and her boyfriend on vacation to see her uncle.

Above Suspicion by Helen MacInnes Deep Blue Good-bye by John MacDonald Nemesis would be another Agatha Christie

If I'm remembering correctly, The Dante Game by Jane Langton has sleuth Homer Kelly on a working vacation. I think I did that one with a book group.

Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton is about the murder of a group on a fishing vvacation in Scotland.

Backpack
Tansy is desperate to get away from her media job, her coke habit, her dead mother and her selfish boyfriend. Traveling through Asia, she finds it more smelly than romantic, but she is determined not to give in. Soon she starts to enjoy her journey, until she discovers murder is following her.

Stranded
If no one knows you're missing, how can you be found? The unmissable new novel from the queen of psychological, suspenseful women's fiction. Bruised from the breakdown of her marriage, Esther Lomax needs to get away, and Malaysia's unspoilt shores seem the perfect place. But a day's boat trip takes a desperate turn when Esther and six other holidaymakers are taken to a desert island and their guide does not return. The group have no way of getting back to the mainland and know nothing about each other. As the days pass, tensions erupt, secrets emerge and time increasingly runs out, Esther must ask herself the ultimate question: will she leave the island alive?

Both books by author Emily Barr, who generally writes mysteries with a travel theme. She has written for columns and travel pieces for the Observer and the Guardian for several years so she knows the places she writes about.

Set Sail for Murder, a Henry O mystery, by Carolyn Hart. It's a bit of a cozy, but well-done.

I just finished Murder at the Ocean Forest. It is a murder mystery set in Myrtle Beach, SC. I loved it!

I just finished reading the psychological thriller Some Kind of Peace by Swedish sisters Camilla Grebe and Asa Träff. Grebe is a thriller writer and Träff a psychologist. The scope of their shared knowledge comes across clearly in the novel. The protagonist is a psychologist struggling with her own neurosis. The book is set in an isolated cottage, and the corpse, one of the protagonist's young patients, is found in the waters near the house.

This novel is deliciously creepy because of the way the authors convey the paralyzing anxieties their characters suffer from. But the aspect that makes this a great summer read is that the story begins with the protagonist asking her patients how their summers have been, in order to judge their mental states.

I just finished A Very Private Gentleman by Martin Booth.