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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Blue Demon
David Hewson · 391 pages
Nic suspects that a politician's murder is connected to a series of twenty-year-old ritualistic killings.
Dregs
Jorn Lier Horst · 310 pages
Chief Inspector William Wisting is an experienced policeman familiar with the dark side of human nature.He lives in challenging times for the Norwegian police force, meeting them with integrity and humanity, and a fragile belief that he can play a part in creating a better world.Dregs begins with a police report giving the place and time of the discovery of a training shoe washed up on the sand, c
Fruits of the Poisonous Tree
Archer Mayor · 290 pages
No. 5 in the Joe Gunther series. The epub version is an amature scan, with errors, but pretty readable. Gail Zigman, town selectwoman and Joe Gunther's companion of many years, is raped, and the detective finds himself caught between the media, local politicians, and a network of well-meaning victims' rights advocates as he tries to put his own feelings aside and follow the trail of evidence.
The Vows of Silence
Susan Hill · 320 pages
It is late October, and the inhabitants of the Cathedral town of Lafferton are getting ready for the Remembrance Day parade. This year will be grander than usual because of a VIP visitor. Leonard Cramm is preparing himself, as he always does; his grandfather was a hero of the First World War, and his father a hero of the Battle of Britain.
Die with Me
Elena Forbes · 350 pages
Somewhere in London, a lonely young woman is reaching out to the wrong man. It's up to Detective Inspector Mark Tartaglia and the rest of the Murder Squad to find her before a killer does. When fourteen-year-old Gemma Kramer's broken body is found on the floor of St. Sebastian's Church, the official ruling is that she jumped to her death from the organ gallery above the altar. But then a witness c
The Good Suicides
Antonio Hill · 373 pages
Dead Senior staff at Alemany Cosmetics come home with a secret after a team-building course in a remote country house. Now they are committing suicide, one by one. Soon, they may all be dead. Each has received a photo from an anonymous sender showing dogs hanging dead from a tree near the farm.
Whisky from Small Glasses
Denzil Meyrick, D.A. Meyrick · 368 pages
A Carrion Death
Michael Stanley · 467 pages
Smashed skull, snapped ribs, and a cloying smell of carrion. Leave the body for the hyenas to devour—no body, no case.But when Kalahari game rangers stumble on a human corpse midmeal, it turns out the murder wasn't perfect after all. Enough evidence is left to suggest foul play. Detective David "Kubu" Bengu of the Botswana Criminal Investigation Department is assigned to the case.The detective's p
Dance of the Bones
J.A. Jance · 355 pages
"J. P. Beaumont and Brandon Walker, two of New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance's most acclaimed series characters, join forces for the first time in one of the most suspenseful works of her career. Prospector Amos Warren and Big Bad John Lassiter, his young protege were as close as father and son until a violent argument tore them apart. The next day, Amos disappeared, never to be seen ag
Dark of the Moon
John Sandford · 392 pages
Virgil Flowers-tall, lean, late thirties, three times divorced, hair way too long for a cop's-had kicked around for a while before joining the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. First, it was the army and the military police, then the police in St. Paul, and finally Lucas Davenport had brought him into the BCA, promising him, "We'll only give you the hard stuff."He'd been doing the hard st
Time to Murder and Create
Lawrence Block · 190 pages
Flynn's In
Gregory McDonald · 201 pages
When it comes to crime, Boston Police Inspector and part-time intelligence agent, Francis Xavier Flynn is no stranger to the bizarre, the perverse, or the ridiculous. But when he is suddenly summoned by Police Commissioner D'Esopo to a secret wilderness compound far outside of their jurisdiction, he is a little surprised to find himself the hostage of a secret club of the nation's most powerful an
Need You Dead
Peter James · 419 pages
Lorna Belling, desperate to escape the marriage from hell, falls for the charms of another man who promises her the earth. But, as Lorna finds, life seldom follows the plans you've made. A chance photograph on a client's mobile phone changes everything for her. When the body of a woman is found in a bath in Brighton, Detective Superintendent Roy Grace is called to the scene. At first it looks an o
The Christmas Mystery
James Patterson, Richard DiLallo · 160 pages
Innocent Monster
Reed Farrel Coleman · 291 pages
Seven years have passed since the brutal murder that tore Moe Prager's family apart, when his estranged daughter Sarah comes to him with a request he cannot refuse. Sashi Bluntstone, an eleven-year-old art prodigy and daughter of Sarah's dearest childhood friend, has been abducted. As Moe stumbles around the fringes of the New York art scene, he discovers that suspects abound beyond the usual pred
Cold Sacrifice
Leigh Russell · 432 pages
"When three dead bodies are discovered in Detective Ian Peterson's hometown of Kent, Ian takes the lead on a complex murder case with few clues"--