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Cover of The Murder House by James Patterson and David EllisThe Murder House
Modern · Fiction, Mystery, Thriller

The Murder House

by James Patterson and David Ellis
2015 · 451 pages · Fiction
Reserve shelf
≈ 11 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day

By the numbers

67.9Must-Read Score
  • Readers68 out of 100 · counts 42%
  • Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%
  • Bestseller28 out of 100 · counts 34% (its stronger lane)
  • Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 10%

Critics and Bestseller are two ways to earn a place: a book's stronger one counts more. Buzz rewards recent bestseller weeks and prizes, so older books start at zero. The parts combine into the Must-Read Score, shown on a scale where the best book we found scores 99 and the last book to make the ranking scores 50.

On our reserve shelf: it doesn't have enough readers yet for us to rank it alongside the Must-Read 50 pool. We check again every month, and it can still turn up in your 50 once you've read most of our ranked books.

Why it made the list

Bestseller
18 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists since 2015

Reads as

Gripping

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