Berk Worms 2026 - Mystery- Suspense

Welcome to our Berk Worms 🐛 book club. Each month we all aim to read the same book from a particular genre and then meet to discuss it. We also then talk about other books we are reading and sometimes exchange books with one another. All are welcome!

Our book for discussion in June is a Mystery - suspense novel entitled ‘An Unwanted Guest’ by Shari Lapena. This novel is her third novel, published in 2018. Shari Lapena is the internationally bestselling author of the thrillers The Couple Next Door, A Stranger in the House, An Unwanted Guest, Someone We Know, The End of Her, Not a Happy Family and Everyone Here is Lying which have all been Sunday Times and New York Times bestsellers. Her most famous novel is her very successful debut novel: The Couple Next Door. This months novel is available in all formats including Kindle and Audible. It runs at roughly 299 pages.

About the novel for Discussion:

We can't choose the strangers we meet.

As the guests arrive at beautiful, remote Mitchell's Inn, they're all looking forward to a relaxing weekend deep in the forest, miles from anywhere. They watch their fellow guests with interest, from a polite distance.

Usually we can avoid the people who make us nervous, make us afraid.

With a violent storm raging, the group finds itself completely cut off from the outside world. Nobody can get in - or out. And then the first body is found . . . and the horrifying truth comes to light. There's a killer among them - and nowhere to run.

Critical views:

‘Reads like Agatha Christie with a shot of adrenaline.' GILLY MACMILLAN

'Crafted like a vintage Christie and just as tense . . . a smash hit.' HEAT

'Tense. Unpredictable. Unputdownable. Shari Lapena's novels are domestic noir at its finest.' SIMON KERNICK

Reading Ahead:

12 June 2026: Western novel: We are reading Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
14 July: we will be selecting our novel from the genre of

Happy reading, 🐛Cazza