Lucy Foley Books in Order

Lucy Foley is the writer who rebuilt the closed-circle murder mystery for the BookTok generation: The Hunting Party (2018/19), The Guest List (2020) - a wedding on a remote Irish island - and The Paris Apartment (2022) each lock a cast into a location, kill someone, and reveal through rotating viewpoints; The Guest List spent a year on the bestseller lists and made her the natural heir the Agatha Christie estate came calling on. That call produced the strangest, most newsworthy item in current crime publishing: Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (September 22, 2026), an estate-authorized new Miss Marple novel, arriving fifty years after Christie's last. This page sequences the whole shelf, historicals through Marple (2015–present).

Where to start

The Guest List (2020) - the signature book and the strongest mystery. The Hunting Party (2018) works just as well for readers who want snow instead of a wedding.

Does the reading order matter?

Two careers. The historicals first - The Book of Lost and Found (2015), The Invitation (2016), Last Letter from Istanbul (2018) - readable in any order, and skipped by plenty of thriller readers who start at The Hunting Party. Then the mysteries, in order for full effect: The Hunting Party (2018), The Guest List (2020), The Paris Apartment (2022), The Midnight Feast (2024) - each standalone, no shared cast, but the craft escalates. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (September 22, 2026) is the Christie-estate Miss Marple novel - a separate lane from her own thrillers, and the newest book.

Which one is the best?

The Guest List (2020), the modern classic of the locked-location mystery; The Paris Apartment (2022), the Paris one everyone quotes; The Midnight Feast (2024), the Dorset manor with the wellness retreat.

Related guides

Readers finishing this shelf usually want the map next door: Miss Marple books in order, Agatha Christie books in order, Richard Osman books in order. Every guide follows the same format — the shelf, the entry point, the honest answer about order.

Make it a project

Pick a session size and let the days accumulate — at the pace our reading speed test measures, most shelves above clear in a few weeks of half-hours. Every guide on the books in order shelf follows this same format, and when a book lands, its 8-question quiz is waiting on the original book quiz.