Start with The Murder at the Vicarage and A Murder Is Announced, two of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels. At ReadNext, we match mysteries on setting, narrators and how the puzzle is played. If you want more of the snowed-in hotel, read One by One. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel is credited to Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie and was published on September 22, 2026, by Morrow, a HarperCollins imprint. It is set in 1950 at a hotel in the Swiss Alps, where Miss Jane Marple is vacationing when an accident cuts the hotel off from the outside world.
Pick the group that matches the part of Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel you want more of.
Seven Picks Grouped by What You Want More Of
Miss Marple Novels
1. The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie
This is the first novel featuring Miss Marple, set in the village of St Mary Mead. The vicar, Leonard Clement, narrates it, so it has one narrator where Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel uses four. Readers who want more Marple will see her in St Mary Mead, while Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel has her vacationing in a Swiss hotel.
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2. A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie
A notice in the local newspaper announces a murder in advance, and curious villagers gather at Letitia Blacklock’s home. Marple is staying at a spa hotel in a nearby town, as she is in Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, and works with Inspector Craddock of the county police. It is set just after World War II.
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3. Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Heavy snowfall halts a train in a snowdrift, and a murder is discovered aboard. The detective is Hercule Poirot, so the snow comes without Miss Marple. The Boston Globe says Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel borrows the trope of suspects trapped by snow from this book.
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4. The Hunting Party
Lucy Foley
A group of Oxford friends in their thirties gather at a remote hunting lodge in the Scottish Highlands for a New Year’s tradition they began as students. A blizzard cuts the lodge off just after they arrive on December 30th, and one guest is dead by New Year’s Day with a killer among the group. A LitLovers reading guide describes the book as told through multiple narrators, as Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel is.
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5. One by One
Ruth Ware
Employees of Snoop, a music-streaming app, gather at a French Alps ski resort for what is really a meeting about a proposed buyout. A storm and an avalanche cut the group off at a mountain chalet, and co-founder Eva goes missing after a ski outing. Liz and Erin alternate as narrators, the same rotating-voice approach as Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, and Bookreporter calls the book a “locked-room” whodunit.
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6. The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
Four pensioners try to solve the murder of a property developer in Cooper’s Chase, an upmarket retirement village near the fictional seaside village of Fairhaven in Kent. A Guardian review calls it a “cosy crime caper.” The setting is a Kent village, far from the snowbound Swiss hotel of Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.
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7. Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
The book nests a Golden Age-style mystery, written by a fictional author named Alan Conway, inside a story about a publishing editor. Susan Ryeland, a publishing editor, searches for the missing final chapter, and that search becomes an investigation into Conway’s death. Like Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, it is built around a puzzle, but its frame is an editor’s hunt rather than a snowed-in hotel.
Find it on AmazonWhat to Match in Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel
Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel has four traits worth matching: a snowbound hotel, rotating narrators, a Marple who is not always on the page, and a whydunit slant. The snowbound hotel links it to the three snowbound picks. It is set in 1950 at the Grand Alpine Hotel in the Swiss Alps, where an accident cuts the hotel off from the outside world. Kirkus Reviews calls the plot skillfully built and full of clues, so the puzzle is worth matching as closely as the setting.
Four narrators tell the story: Catherine Narracott, Bruno Crane, Sylvia Sinclair and Diana Glass. The Boston Globe notes that because the narrators rotate, Marple “isn’t always on the page,” which “will alarm some Christie purists.”
The Globe also says Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel works best when Foley departs from Christie’s formula, so that it is as much a whydunit as a whodunit. None of the seven picks is described as a whydunit, so none matches that slant.
Which Picks Suit Which Reader
If you want more of Marple, start with The Murder at the Vicarage and then read A Murder Is Announced. A Murder Is Announced also puts Marple in a hotel, as Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel does.
If the snowed-in setting is the draw, choose among the three snowbound picks by the kind of isolation you want. Murder on the Orient Express puts the snow on a halted train, while The Hunting Party and One by One put it around a lodge and a chalet.
If you want a modern setting, The Thursday Murder Club is set in a Kent retirement village, and Magpie Murders moves between a Golden Age-style novel and a publishing editor’s search. If you are still unsure, try the What should I read quiz.
Who These Picks Are Not For
None of the seven picks combines Miss Marple with a snowbound setting. A reader who wants both should read Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel itself.
Readers who need Miss Marple on every page should choose one of the two Marple picks. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel rotates among four narrators, and Murder on the Orient Express is a Poirot novel.
What Would Change Our Answer
The answer changes for a reader who wants the snow without Miss Marple. Murder on the Orient Express keeps the snowdrift and swaps in Hercule Poirot, and One by One keeps the storm with a group of music-app employees.
It changes again for a reader who prefers a modern setting to a snowbound one, who should start with The Thursday Murder Club.
What to Read After These
Reading the Christie picks in publication order runs from The Murder at the Vicarage (20 October 1930) to Murder on the Orient Express (1 January 1934, in the UK) to A Murder Is Announced (June 1950).
For more cozy puzzles, browse the best cozy mystery books. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel is also one of the Goodreads Choice Awards 2026 nominees in Mystery & Thriller. For other mysteries, see the best mystery books for adults or start at Books Like the One You Just Finished.
Pick up The Murder at the Vicarage next, since it is Miss Marple’s first novel.